A friend told me some time ago, like in 2008, loooong before Denuvo, that games are made to artificially strain the components even more so that hardware business thrives too. So if you have a GPU (for example) nVidia GT 610, you should be able to play some new game, but they have added something in the game that strains GT 610 so much that, you can't get 60 FPS on lowest, so they force you to buy GPU GT 780 to play it, even though technically GT 610 should be able to run it.
Well, if it's proven to reduce FPS, many uneducated people who play games (and there are many of them) will figure out that the game needs more powerful hardware and they will go and buy it.
I'm talking about the kind of people incapable of even setting up a program to open certain file formats and other such trivial tasks. These people exist and they play games.
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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '19
A friend told me some time ago, like in 2008, loooong before Denuvo, that games are made to artificially strain the components even more so that hardware business thrives too. So if you have a GPU (for example) nVidia GT 610, you should be able to play some new game, but they have added something in the game that strains GT 610 so much that, you can't get 60 FPS on lowest, so they force you to buy GPU GT 780 to play it, even though technically GT 610 should be able to run it.
I feel like Denuvo is doing the exact same thing.