Denuvo moderators have had to temporarily suspend a recently-opened Discord server created to answer community questions, and I’m pretty sure you can guess the reason for that suspension.
A couple of days ago, Denuvo announced that it was opening a new Discord server to, ahem, serve as a “platform” for users to express their queries and “receive the answers [they] have deserved all along”.
The server featured a mixture of preset FAQs collated from “dozens of users” and “hundreds of…messages” with the ability to ask your own questions directly, with a real member of the Denuvo team stepping up to answer those questions.
In a move that will surprise precisely nobody who’s familiar with Denuvo’s reputation online, however, the DRM maker has now paused the sending of messages on said Discord server.
Upon its opening, it seems that the Discord server was flooded with “nearly 2,000 people”, many of whom wanted to ask Denuvo questions. Some, however, just wanted to express their hatred of Denuvo, and others likely just wanted to post memes or jokes.
Disappointingly but predictably, Denuvo points to the “amount of inappropriate content” received on the server as one of the reasons for the pausing of messages; the DRM maker says its “small team” has found moderation of these messages “quite challenging”.
It’s for this reason that “changes” to the server are coming. They’ll be implemented across the next few days, although Denuvo doesn’t say exactly what those changes are yet. I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see.
Honestly, I’m a little surprised Denuvo itself doesn’t seem to have seen this response coming.
It’s fair to say Denuvo is probably one of the most hated entities in gaming; players hate it, yes, but it’s also been blamed by developers for causing technical issues, so I can’t think Denuvo doesn’t know its reputation.
Either way, right now, you can’t ask Denuvo questions via the aforementioned Discord server, but you can still join it if you want to see what prompted the suspension or prepare for the next round of questioning.
