What the hell happened here

*waves*

Why don't you watch the video? Use your brain.

if the first two minutes, the introdution, is full of lies and misunderstandings deliverd by a fraud, then watching the rest is a rather pointless waste of time.

why dont you just tell me what the "evidence" that the heart is simething more than a muscle pumping blood is?

Heh, this thing is getting wilder and wilder.

So following the "totally reasonable" ban screenshotted in https://www.gog.com/forum/general/looks_like_capcom_is_adding_drm_to_older_games/post133 I opened a ticket with Steam support because, quite frankly, the shameless removal of any pertinent information really pissed me off.

Fuckers are not just dumping Russian shadyware into everyone's old games, Steam itself doesn't even bother ensuring there's any kind of notification or it either for existing customers or people considering new purchases.

Got a reply from one of Steam's moderators (original might have been Capcom person) that it was "very legal, very cool." See attached.

The kicker - when I replied thanking him for clarifying Steams official corporate policy toward adding Russian shadyware into their customer's purchases, the mod deleted his original response and closed the ticket. After being informed I took a screenshot of his response.

Do these people even Internet?

I wanted to ask about what exactly about the whole post he thought was legitimately "offtopic" and "pointless," in a thread literally discussing addition of Russian Enigma Protector to older games long past their date of purchase, but why bother at this point.

This shit should get some serious oversight from applicable governments, but I'm not holding my breath. Sent a bunch of advisories out, got not a single acknowledgement - which is hardly surprising for our "pay to play" "government" system.

Still, this is literally one-step-away-from Russian cyberattack in the making, and being done with intentional supression of any kind of information about it.

Frankly, I hope some Kremlindrone pushes that button. Would be a much needed practical lesson for everyone involved.

Kinda boring : furthermore it's like butchering the game (for some classes) ... but yes it's "playable" without the pawn system since you get more xp alone. But not my cup of tea.

IF only the devs would have designed some bots of each class if the pawns system no more working for some reasons at least it wouldn't have punished some classes.

in other hand the pawns behaviour could be really annoying ...

Really wish I had known about this Enigma shit before I installed the Game Pass version of MH: Rise. Anyone know what shit needs to be deleted/may be hiding once it's uninstalled?

It's absolutely playable without the pawn system. I personally never used it, and never planned to do it. I would like to see posters here stop looking down on people that do not use that stupid system in their game.

For their information, I own the game both on Steam and GOG, and as I said, I never used the pawn system and never intend to use it either. So there is no difference between the Steam or GOG version in my case, and I am positively sure that's the case with a lot of people that own the game here.

Anyway - I hate DRM with a passion, because I already lost a number of games I payed hard cash for to that garbage system. I sure as hell not going to buy Dragon's Dogma 2, unless it's deep, deep at the bottom of the bargain bin, or if there is an "alternative" version available that I can use to protect my investment.

I just hate to pay money for stuff that is going to be taken away from me within a few years. The moment they flip the Denuvo kill switch in that game, you have a inert blob of data sitting on your hard drive. A product you payed money for, but is then completely inert and useless. And don't say that will never happen, because it WILL happen. It's just a question of time. Some time in the future that game you payed money for will stop working. And there is absolutely nothing you can do about that. Oh - And you won't get your money back of course...

So yeah - I am afraid Capcom is firm on my "no buy unless bottom barrel price", I am not going to give much (if any) money for products that are defective by nature (Denuvo is a kill switch that effectively can and will make the product defective).

I don't say it's not playable : it's just boring !

I think the game was built with the online pawns system.
The problem is : you don't get Rift Crystals

I don't really understand why Capcom doesn't fix what's broken (they still continue to get money from this game i suppose ...) : the version on GOG is just an inferior version, even if you can play without the pawns system as intended.

And the worst GOG is lying on the gamecard : yeah the MP portion is "supposed" to work :-/
This is just dishonest to sell a product without mention regarding this.

Usually a game with feature(s) no more available / no more working is (are) mentioned ... ie : "Mordheim: City of the Damned"

- It's working on Steam / consoles but the GOG version has this feature broken : people may don't like it / use it, i respect that : but lying is not acceptable !

Capcom is a shady company i not surprised on their move regarding the DRM (not even sure it's legal)

There is a tool I believe that you can edit the levels and skills of each Pawn so you should have no problem playing the game offline. (can't remember the name of the tool but I believe if you google it you will find it.)

Are you referring to this one ?

Pawn Manager 0.1.3
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma/mods/640

Found those 2 others
3xDAsav (this one is the closest i think but not certain due to the online server synch requirement)
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma/mods/531

Tutorial On Modifying Offline Pawn
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma/mods/684
Need of the arc tool (just in case if it's not included with the game .... can't tell since the version i played was the Playstation one)

Yes I was referring to Pawn manager 0.1.3

Thanks.