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
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?
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.
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).
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 think, that may cause compatibility issues, but having persistent saves would indeed be nice
cause compatibility issues
Nope, they are already symlinks. Wine desktop integration. Proton has a few less. I remember Documents in both.
Thats bizarre, you’d think it would set up a persistent saves directory and link them to it.
I hope this means they’ll release it on GOG.
They kept it long. Isn’t it usually a subscription model and thus only used for the first 6 months with the most revenue?
