Denuvo opens its own Discord server to rehabilitate its image, has to shut it down 2 days later after players flood in to bully it
You know, were I less committed to the noble crusade of videogame journalism, I'd say there's money to be made in a job where you gently cajole widely reviled people and institutions away from any interaction with the public. I bet you could make six figures just telling loathed organisations the real-life equivalent of 'No, they're saying Boo-urns.'
Today's despised company that bafflingly decided to open the door up to unmediated public engagement? Denuvo. Yep, the DRM software that the whole internet is perpetually angry about (and fair enough, at least some of the time) decided that it should clear the air with consumers by opening up its own Discord (via TechRaptor) where curious onlookers could come and ask it questions about DRM tech. There are FAQs about how Denuvo functions, the latest Denuvo news, and, fatally, channels where passersby can ask Denuvo devs questions, chat, and post memes.
5/8Starting today and for the following 2 months, we would like nothing more than to give you a platform to express your queries and receive the answers you have deserved all along. Please, welcome to our Discord server: https://t.co/6OnyS87mbfOctober 15, 2024
No prizes for guessing the result. Two days after throwing its doors wide and with «nearly 2,000 people on the server,» Denuvo sheepishly returned to X to announce that «as you can imagine, the amount of inappropriate content has made moderation quite challenging for our small team, who are doing this alongside our regular day-to-day work. For that reason, we've decided to make some changes to the server, which we'll be implementing over the next few days. Stay tuned!» No one's been able to post on the server for two days at time of writing.
In other words: The entire Discord server has been put into read-only mode until Denuvo can figure out a way to stop it from being flooded with people screaming obscenities at Denuvo. I suspect the worst of the worst has since been scrubbed from the server by mods—there are
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