Concerns as famous as they are damaging
Waiting for the release of Crimson DesertPC gamers clearly weren’t eager to hear about DRM protection again. Although it is supposed to fight against piracy, it often happens that this role is mainly to the detriment of a big thorn in the side disrupting the performance of the game.
Learn just a week before release, the Pearl Abyss game will finally activate Denuvo protection is therefore probably not the most favorable decision for its image. The development team may specify that there will be no repercussions on the configurations required to run the game, but doubt arises among the public who, more than ever, will have to judge on the basis of evidence.
And so that there is no jealousy, the teeth also have something to grind among the PS5 public. Physical copies of Crimson Desert have obviously circulated sufficiently in advance to put their finger on a still unpleasant problem: an internet connection appears to be required to launch the game for the first time.
Through supporting images on social networks, we see that apart from the Blu-Ray containing 77.03 GB of data, a mandatory patch of 48.23 GB is necessary to complete the installation. Understand that without installing this patch, launching the game seems impossible. The surprise is not necessarily there, we want to say.
Of course, once it is installed, you can go offline and restart the game and then enjoy it without this constraint remaining. But at a time of Switch 2 Game Key Cards (which didn’t invent anything) and the progressive discredit of the physical market, this is yet another sigh.
Crimson Desert is expected on March 19 on PC (via Steam), PS5 and Xbox Series.