No Man’s Sky faced criticism on launch as well, but has since remedied several concerns with subsequent updates.
Although developer SEGA has since apologized, it was reported earlier that 'Sonic Mania' was shipped for PC with Denuvo as its DRM, requiring players to be online so they can run the game. Fan outrage definitely could have been worse though, as happened recently with Dota 2 and angry Half-Life fans. 'Sonic Mania' is the latest video game to make use of the controversial digital rights management (DRM) service Denuvo, and fans arent thrilled. While Denuvo DRM wasn’t actually to blame, the quick response from developers put out the fire before it got too overblown. As a precaution, Sega prompted players to report any further issues should they they arrive.
Shortly after the above acknowledgement, a patch was released for Sonic Mania that removed the always-online requirement.
Perhaps DRM was to be included in a previous build of the game, but the feature is now being referred to as a “bug” that they are working to fix as soon as possible. PC Version of Shenmue 1 and 2 was released without it, recently Yakuza 0 has had Denuvo removed out of it in the Steam beta, and now this I guess Shenmue and Yakuza and stuff gave them some useful data towards whether or not they should be using it. Refunds cant be issued via the standard Steam methods, since the date of purchase was marked by the gift of Sonic 1. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. Pretty much everyone had sufficient CPU overhead to run the game, it isn't very demanding. Now with Sonic Mania, that means the game will use more CPU power, but you will probably not see a performance impact. Release the game with unannounced DRM two weeks later. No, but the fact that Denuvo runs the entire game in an obfuscated virtual machine does.
Give Sonic 1 as a 'gesture of good will' to people who pre-ordered. It was revealed that an always online Sonic Mania DRM wasn’t intended to be a part of the game, the always-online feature having been included without Sega’s knowledge. List Sonic Mania on PC to be released at the same time as the other versions. So unwanted was the perceived Sonic Mania DRM, that upset fans began leaving extremely negative reviews on both Steam and across social media.Īs fans had probably hoped, Sega was quick to respond to the backlash by releasing a statement on Facebook. It wasn’t gameplay or visuals that were to blame, but the title’s always-online requirement that had users of the platform fuming. Now that the game has finally dropped, PC players have been less than pleased with the result. Fans of Sega’s speedy blue hedgehog have been anticipating the release of Sonic Mania since it’s announcement last year, while others have been waiting much longer for a throwback return.