Ubisoft just added Denuvo to Assassins Creed Mirage via a day-1 patch a few minutes ago. AFTER all the major reviews went online.

Wait, but they already launched it without Denuvo. So pirates can easily crack the launch version without it, and only paying customers need to deal with the antipiracy bullshit? Nice, they took a pro-piracy hyperbole and made it actually real.

Ubisoft does the Ubisoft thing - nothing new under the sun.

Refund, refund, refund. The only single thing they will ever care about is the $.

At this point if you're NOT waiting a year to play games you're a fool and a moron.

I think anyone who reviewed it should publish a secondary videos explaining this.

This seems like it's legitimately false advertising

If Denuvo's claim that their DRM has no negative performance impact were true, then why Ubisoft pull this shenanigan (adding Denuvo DRM just hours before release)? Ubisoft must've know their game run better without Denuvo so they want the reviewers to play the drmless version.

Offering a specific version of the product for reviewers to write about that buying customers won't get? fry-im-shocked.gif

The sad part is that tomorrow they could release "Assasins Creed: Reflection". And people would make the exact same mistake all over.

You know Ubisoft has a shit reputation. You know Bethesda is famous for broken, buggy, glitchy games. You know Blizzard Activision isn't the same as old Blizzard. Don't you guys have phones?

I didn't buy this game. I didn't buy Starfield, and I didn't buy Diablo IV.

Anyone not blinded by hype could see this coming to all those games from a paid pre-alpha deluxe collectors gold season battle pass track booster mile away.

Why the hell would they add the DRM after release when the game is already cracked before the DRM was added? I can never understand this logic.

Ubisoft making themselves an even more loveable company...

Reviewers should subtract points from the rating of every new Ubisoft game, for the real potential of something like this happening after the review.

On another note this will make for an easy comparison of Denuvo ridden game vs Denuvo removed. The Day 1 Patch bringing some Fixes and Performance gains would muddy the results a bit but I think it's still a good idea to have a test like that. If the rumors/speculation about Denuvos performance impact are true I doubt even a Day 1 Patch would manage to balance out the performance difference.

Well, they've accidentally made a really easy workaround, then. Just download the day one depot and you can play without Denuvo.

It's simple. Stop buying crap products!

Hope people demand refunds over it.

Well I know what game I'm not buying. This should just fuel the pirate ships I'd think.

That's a brand new way to fuck users' ass. Very impressed.

ELI5?

It was the same with lies of P.. I think it's becoming a trend and someone needs to stop it, it's false advertising. None of the reviews are credible, they're not reviewing the same game

I… but… that… that isn’t how this works…

You’re putting the cat outside after it already ate the canary.

Early adopters pay more for less anyway and they will remove Denuvo after a few months, because it's a subscription service. Never understood the hurry of the crack groups.

Wouldn't buy from there crap launcher anyway.

Yeah I will never not dislike Ubisoft games on principle

Fuck Ubisoft

Hardly anyone is streaming it. It's the same cringy dialogue with the same boring game as its predecessors. I haven't seen anything in any of the streams that would change my mind.

It’s Ubisoft, who would be surprised? Pirates get a better experience than paying customers and it’s been that way for over a decade

Ubisoft is pretty much the most evil gaming company so this is not surprising at all.

So even if they had sold it on Steam, this was likely not going to work on Steam Deck? Doesn't this denuvo kind of stuff cause issues?

And people wonder why pirates still exist

What is the point of that, do they have a contract with denuvo stating that they must apply it or are they just stupid or something?

Somebody ELI5 this for me

We're still playing Tower Climbing simulators?