SecuROM and similar was one of several factors that got me to stop buying AAA games, which eventually led to me no longer having computer games as a hobby at all.
Which, really, was a good thing for me personally -- it freed up a lot of time and let me discover other things that I got more value out of.
I tried to read the article but every few paragraphs there is a huge AI-generated image with nonsense text, even the "screenshots" have words bleeding into each other
Probably its like that due to increasing word count lol. And AI generated image is due to maybe unavailability of actual images. Tbh, the basic thing is fine I would say
Denuvo is modern day SecuROM sans a few of it's features. Impacts performance of games too, in some cases, it's pretty adverse
>it caused CD burner malfunctions
>Spore installations damaged burners
Say what? The only thing that comes to mind is burner build to a lowest price point, for example using very flimsy Laser sledge build with assumption drive will only be used for linear writes with minimum amount of seeks
https://goughlui.com/2025/04/20/project-the-24x-dvd-burning-...
Original PlayStation had similar problems with high seek loads https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps1/CD_drive#:~:text=stuttering%20... and was originally build to last 70K seeks with those crappy plastic sleds https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/06/making-crash-ba...
'Kelly asked Andy if he understood correctly that any move forward or backward in a level entailed loading in new data, a CD “hit.” Andy proudly stated that indeed it did. Kelly asked how many of these CD hits Andy thought a gamer that finished Crash would have. Andy did some thinking and off the top of his head said “Roughly 120,000.” Kelly became very silent for a moment and then quietly mumbled “the PlayStation CD drive is ‘rated’ for 70,000.”'
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