After a decade? I hope it cost them millions in licensing fees and lost sales.
Only a decade late. :/ The game stuttered constantly on my PC. That experience plus No Man’s Sky months later finally taught me to not preorder games.
I bet it’ll run a tad smoother now, too.
I mean… it’s a Just Cause game. It might somehow run considerably worse for no apparent reason.
What do you mean? Try Just Cause 2, I remember it ran perfect on a very old machine
JC2 crashed a lot
I don’t remember if it was jc2 or 3, but i never made it past the intro and it always crashed after the intro before the safe point. I saw that intro countless times on more than on pc.
Ok, maybe it’s part nostalgia. Ran impressively though
They kept it long. Isn’t it usually a subscription model and thus only used for the first 6 months with the most revenue?
Yes, but it’s common for large companies to forget things are subscriptions and doing all the paperwork and actually getting the guy with the authority to cancel the subscription is hard.
So it’s very profitable to companies to make their service subscription cause they know other companies won’t easily cancel it.
Now this is sad.
Nah, it’s okay when they do this to each other. It’s sad when they fuck with the gamers and other consumers. Everything is a fucking subscription now.
From what I recall that wasn’t the case before, it was one time. Just Cause 3 is 10 years old so maybe the Denuvo subscription didn’t apply.
Ok, so I love JC3. I still play it. I was playing it on Monday in fact. It’s one of those games that I just keep coming back to. I enjoy liberating cities and outposts and whatnot, but it’s the flying that I go back for. I can spend hours listening to music and just flying around. 260 hours on PC alone (I’ve probably played more than that on PS), and I’ve never finished the campaign.
Removing Denuvo is great, and I’m on board… but for the love of all that is good and holy: CLOUD SAVES!!! Having to restart every time I reinstall it is WHY I’ve never finished the campaign.
Wingsuit/grapple/parachute is an incredible movement system that feels challenging and overpowered at the same time.
I still break out jc2 now and then when the urge to tool around Indonesia in a tuktuk gets too much
You delete your saves with the game? But why?
If they are on Linux, Steam automatically deletes the Windows prefix every time you uninstall a game. So any game without cloud saves, has their save games deleted if you don’t back them up separately (e.g. via Ludusavi).
Thats bizarre, you’d think it would set up a persistent saves directory and link them to it.
Ah, Steam proton. They could just point the
drive_c/users/steamuser/<dir>symlinks to $XDG_DATA_HOME instead. But considering that the “use XDG dirs” issue is unanswered for years now…I will be very upsetti spaghetti if my private directories become a dump for game data like they were on Windows.
They are already, Proton has at least My Documents to ~/Documents symlinked. And there’s
.config/unity3d/- DefaultCompany
- Hikkeiru
- Klei
- Ludeon Studios
- Payload
- Squad
- Team Bieno
- Team Niche
- Unknown Vendor (the fuck?)
And some more somewhere else.
Damn, you’re right. I suppose as long as they stay in
~/.configand out of~/DocumentsI’ll be happy. Now that I’m actually looking the only offender there on my filesystem is Kitten Space Agency. It created a~/Documents/My Games/. They should rename it to Kitten Whitespace Agency.
4 is actually pretty fun too. Have you played the DLC with the jetpack and weather weapons?
Yep, played 4. I didn’t think it deserved the hate it got on release, but I do remember thinking it was kinda meh. I played it pretty early on though. Apparently it’s had a lot of work done since then so I should probably give it another go. I think I just like the location of 3 better. Greek island vibes are nicer than a dark jungle/desert/tundra imo.
I’ve also played the DLC, but honestly could take them or leave them. I like the skill involved in staying on the wingsuit, and the jetpack kinda ruins that. As for the mechs, meh. They’re fun, but not really why I’m there.
You might be the first person who liked it. Did you not play 2?
I like 2 more but 3 is also pretty good. I really wish the series found some more unique ways of mixing up the formula because it got stale by 4 and weather control just wasn’t really it for me
Imo 2 was just a little too rough compared to 3. I never finished 2, but I moved right onto 3 when it came out and I had a blast.
Oh man, I replayed it after your comment and JC3 really is so fucking good. I was thinking of 4, which ruined everything
I played through 4 and liked it enough. I skipped literally every cutscene, and it felt like a natural progression of the series (all the weather control crap and crazy mechanics).
Its a bit weird. The game came out 10 years ago, which mean Square paid Denuvo 10 years long. The game was countless times on sale for 3 Euros on Steam: https://steamdb.info/app/225540/
SteamDB lowest recorded price is 2,99€ at -85%
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I have no clue how this paid off.
Contraband was semi-recently cancelled by microsoft. I have no idea how the hell Nordisk Film ended up owning Avalanche, but I wouldn’t be shocked if they were planning to sell off or shutter the studio entirely.
So removing the fraction of a penny that Denuvo Corp get per Just Cause 3 sale probably IS worth it while you are calling security ahead of the mass layoffs.
I actually meant how it paid off to pay for 10 years. Denuvo is quite expensive as far as I know.
Probably a specific contract deal they had with them
That may be it right there
Maybe denuvo was handing out longer deals back then or something
Denuvo is a subscription? They sell licenses to old versions that have been broken for years?
Think it was this game that I went to play a while back and it needed an internet connection to start. So I didn’t play it but instead left the only review that I have ever made on Steam to not recommend it.
This is the game that put me off preordering forever. I got it just as it came out and it was SHIIIIIIIIIIT. After starting the game I would get 15 minutes of “xXBlazeIt420Xx beat your score on (some shit challenge)” scrolling up the side of the screen. I’d understand if it just told me my friends had beaten me, but it felt like telling me the whole world had.
Then there was the memory optimisation… Start a flying challenge, fuck it up, restart… IT TOOK OVER A MINUTE to load back to the start of the challenge.
If that wasn’t enough, the world just felt empty compared to JC2. There were vast areas of nothing but fields between towns and it sucked. I put it down a week after buying and never picked it up again.
Honestly, you dodged a bullet - game is ass, DRM or not
No, it’s fun.
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They were paying for that shit still? And they wonder why they are having financial issues haha
I hope this means they’ll release it on GOG.
