Flying Wild Hog, developers of the upcoming Shadow Warrior 2, won’t include any anti-piracy DRM in their game “because it makes it worse”.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t believe in DRM, and we don\u2019t like DRM,\u201d two of the developers behind the new game said to Kotaku<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t support piracy, but currently there isn\u2019t a good way to stop it without hurting our customers.”<\/p>\n “Denuvo means we would have to spend money for making a worse version for our legit customers. It\u2019s like this FBI warning screen on legit movies.\u201d<\/p>\n It’s not that Denuvo is resource intensive or directly impacts the playing experience however, rather a case of priorities for the developers.<\/p>\n \u201cAny DRM we would have needs to be implemented and tested.”<\/p>\n \u201cWe prefer to spend resources on making our game the best possible in terms of quality, rather than spending time and money on putting some protection that will not work anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n Even developers are now turning against DRM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":108055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,17017,41,101,14348],"class_list":["post-108051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-denuvo","tag-drm","tag-piracy","tag-shadow-warrior-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108057,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108051\/revisions\/108057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read: Research reveals the best way to stop piracy<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"