Monday, May 18th 2020
Doom Eternal Review-Bombed on Steam After Denuvo Anti-Cheat Inclusion in Update 1
Doom Eternal has been review-bombed over the weekend, as disgruntled players took to Steam to show their thoughts on the the game's Update 1. The issue isn't in the update itself or it changing core gameplay functions; rather, it's based on the inclusion of Denuvo's Anti-cheat mechanism for the multiplayer component of the game, which is also running in the single-player campaign - considered to be the core of any Doom game.
Players are against the inclusion of Denuvo and its monitoring subroutines due to it having a a kernel-level service that monitors gameplay. Gamers are noting performance decreases, framerate drops, crashes, and deleted Saves after the game's latest update. Others are voicing their discontent at the fact that Denuvo has been added post-purchase of the game; players that might not choose to buy the game over that detail have already bought it, and refunds are apparently not being entertained. Doom Eternal's previous 90% user review score on Steam now stand at a measly 50%, which is absolutely undeserving of the game itself. Doom may be Eternal, but its community feedback sure isn't.
Sources:
Tom's Hardware, Doom Eternal @ Steam
Players are against the inclusion of Denuvo and its monitoring subroutines due to it having a a kernel-level service that monitors gameplay. Gamers are noting performance decreases, framerate drops, crashes, and deleted Saves after the game's latest update. Others are voicing their discontent at the fact that Denuvo has been added post-purchase of the game; players that might not choose to buy the game over that detail have already bought it, and refunds are apparently not being entertained. Doom Eternal's previous 90% user review score on Steam now stand at a measly 50%, which is absolutely undeserving of the game itself. Doom may be Eternal, but its community feedback sure isn't.
44 Comments on Doom Eternal Review-Bombed on Steam After Denuvo Anti-Cheat Inclusion in Update 1
It should be added that I've been playing the game strictly as single player since that's what I'm interested in but I get this forced upon me anyway.
It seems this will be the last game I buy from Bethesda, I was already wary of them but made an exception for Doom and id software but clearly it was a mistake.should be "its"
Steam will do what they're good at - remove all the negative feed back and restore the reviews back to showing how positive players are towards the game!
Yeah for Steam for censoring! Yeah!
FYI the review bomb system was put in place due to request by steam users and IMO works pretty dang well.
I got DooM 2016 for fairly cheap and played it a bit just for the SP, they then released all the MP-orientated DLC for free....but I got pissed becuase it was a frickin 70GB download of content I would never use.
Valve, however, will still allow you to ask for a refund, but they will review your petition manually.
In this case they actually updated the game with malware so these are legitimately negative reviews. Alot of which are from people who actually owned the game before the DRM.
That said apparently some people liked it but I don't see the reason for anticheat when there wasn't even a problem on that side and no competitive potential.
Event viewer : Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Only game that does it. searched and some have said to go back to the last NV driver, did that, same issues. Have tried so many things I have lost track and the game isn't worth rebuilding for so.
I have already beaten the game, would still like the ability to play it more, but the creators have trashed the game.
Dear Bethesda,
You wasted your money on Denuvo's crapware and it has earned you the rage and wrath of the community. There are better and much less invasive ways to do anticheat. For example, require the multiplayer client for the game to poll the server for player stats. If the client returns data that is in conflict with what the server data shows, disconnect and kick the player from a match. If it happens more than a certain number of times, then the server can impose a temp restriction and flag the account for manual review. Anticheat does NOT need to run local to the game installation. Full stop.
Installing what is effectively a "root-kit" is un-fraking-acceptable. It's a violation of user rights and a severe security risk. We, the people, will not tolerate this. Do something different and get it right or you can go frak yourselves.
Sincerely,
Conscientious gamers everywhere.
I’ve worried about this for a while with music and movie subscription services. It initially looks like abundance, but then they pull content without notice or, worse, stick you with the remastered versions of ep4-6 Star Wars where Han shoots second and George Lucas’s “bonus” 90s-CGI scenes stick out like a sore thumb.