“Denuvo – an industry cancer”: DOOM Eternal drowned in negative reviews on Steam after the first update

Shooter yesterday Doom eternalcreated by the studio id Softwarereceived a fresh update. Besides new content, the project also had added anti-cheating protection Denuvo anti-cheat. However popular release soon Bethesda literally drowned in negative assessments at the site Steam.

The reason for this reaction was a whole bunch of problems that users had to face after installing the patch. As it turned out, a number of players Doom eternal now does not start in principle (this question was especially acute for those who prefer to use Linux ). Other reviews mention significantly fallen performance, graphic errors and even critical failures that are “hang up“the whole system.

A lot of criticism was directed and detached towards the system Denuvo anti-cheat. Despite the developers’ statements about the transparency of their program, some players put this into serious doubt, since the add-in directly interacts with the OS kernel, and it is quite a difficult task to monitor all its processes. Separate complaints mention that various anti-virus software even defines Denuvo Anti-Cheat as a trojan, after which it either blocks its work, or tries to completely remove, which makes it impossible to further launch DOOM Eternal.

Gamers write that Bethesda “shot herself in the knee” by contacting Denuvo. Many people think that no anti-cheat soft game was needed at all, since multiplayer is unpopular. At the same time, the rest of the audience who enjoys the single now has problems. The chart below shows a sharp increase in negative reviews after the update:

To the accumulated complaints, the publisher in the person of Bethesda softworks has not yet reacted.

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