Yep. the origin preload was the full game + high res textures. It just lacked the exe.
Also out of the 64gb big high res texture pack only 15gb are textures. Other stuff is cutscenes.
didnt expect anything different. same thing happened with shadow of war. 4k encoding isnt cheap, space wise.
They should have offered video files and textures separately tbh. All the clients the game is on have this option. Too bad steam doesn't have the preload for them.
Didn't preorders only start on Feb 1st? The EULA only got posted on the 22nd of Feb which people assumed had no Denuvo because it wasn't mentioned, but that still wasn't confirmed and SE had a history of releasing games with it so it was entirley possible the EULA would get updated closer to release, and the free demo just without Denuvo came on 26th of Feb, and Denuvo only got added to the EULA yesterday.
People in the thread decided it would be best to make a separate thread about it since it was different news than denuvo being included in FFXV.
SE patched the origin preload it only works with the files released by 3DM now, it's also not just the demo exe they modified it and wrote a loader to launch it, ppl are up to chapter 5 now from what i read without any issues so far.
Even the Main menu now doesn't say Demo anymore:
(not my screen)
Btw the 4K pack is about 50GB of movie files with 15GB actual assets.
They had a bit of a history it seems, but for Final Fantasy they only had one of the many with denuvo, including The World of Final Fantasy. They also showed that FFXII would have Denuvo before you could buy it, but failed to show FFXV would as well.
The whole point is to show how utterly useless DRM has been in this situation, and it's only going to serve to annoy and impede upon legitimate customers, while pirates don't have to deal with the extra baggage.
The point once again is that the only ones Denuvo inconviniences here are the actual paying customers. Pirates can play the game already for free.
The version that was "cracked" didn't actually have Denuvo. SE just basically put a DRM free version of the game on Origin and the hackers used the preload files.
No, the other way round - pirates wouldn't have been able to play it already if the demo did have Denuvo, but SE and Origin made mistakes here. SE forgot to put Denuvo on the demo, whose .exe file could then be used for this "crack" together with the preloadable game data from the Origin store that for whatever reason hadn't been encrypted on there. Now that the game has already been pirated Denuvo will have no use anymore and only disadvantages, so it might as well be removed from the full game.
Technically all you are promoting is a DRM-free executable that the demo came with. No cracking. Not that there's anything wrong with cracks, as they let you actually play your game instead of making your game depend on a shitty online server activation.
Read the thread because the OP is not really clear about this point. Game got cracked and people are now playing it ahead of release because of SE's fuckup and because the Origin version in particular didn't have Denuvo. Let that sink in.
I think Carlius may ok outside of the denuvo subject. The posts by Carlius seem suspect at times, but maybe in fun, to get light reactions, or sarcasm.
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No more demos, no more anything without sticking Denuvo on it. The lesson learned.
Good for you, enjoy the expiration date of your game.
Or maybe no more demos and no more decent PC ports period. It's also a possibility, sadly.
