This is absolutely unacceptable & disrespectful to PC gamers who have patiently waited for 2 weeks to unlock & play Sonic Mania PC Version via Steam Client, especially for customers who purchased Sonic Mania Collector's Edition (Steam/PC Version) from Amazon, Gamestop, EB Games, Walmart, Target, etc. For instance, players who want to play Sonic Mania PC version via Steam cannot launch the game without internet connection and also requires Steam account to be logged in too which is preposterous & ridiculous! Not only DRM prevents offline players to play the game in offline mode, this can also impact performance of your hardware which means it'd take substantial amount of system resource of SSD/HDD Read & Write cycle, CPU, GPU, RAM usage, etc. If, however, Denuvo Server is on shutdown and/or run into bankruptcy, then this would be very serious problem to consumers. In other words, the game would be unplayable. So therefore, I encourage you guys to send this feedback to Aaron Webber on Twitter, and you can also submit a ticket to SEGA UK Customer Service to give feedback in order to possibly remove Denuvo DRM from Sonic Mania PC Version. Henceforth, let our voices be heard! In the meantime, you can see why vast majority of PC community are extremely pissed off and dissatisfied due to Denuvo DRM implementation.
Aaron Webber's quote from Twitter: https://twitter.com/RubyEclipse/status/902607350866911232
https://twitter.com/RubyEclipse/status/902608083200819200
Christian Whitehead's quote from Twitter: https://twitter.com/CFWhitehead/status/902611292841586689
https://twitter.com/CFWhitehead/status/902573147592900608
Submit ticket & send feedback to Sega UK Customer Service:
https://support.sega.co.uk/hc/en-us/requests/new
Denuvo DRM Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo
Official Denuvo Website:
https://denuvo.com/
*Sonic Mania Fans Mad about DRM*
Courtesy link of The Know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawoBWjBxWs
*WHY FANS ARE FURIOUS WITH SEGA!*
Courtesy link of Pretty Good Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfcX29S3NGI&t=3s
*Could this be THE END of DENUVO!?*
Courtesy link of Pretty Good Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_reYJTbxvI8
SEGA/Denuvo Q&A:
http://www.sega.com/denuvo
*Dunuvo is literally Hitler. Literally.*
Coursey link of The Good Old Gamer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nC2t_8cFRg
Sonic Mania PC Version is now available on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/584400/Sonic_Mania/
Sonic Mania PC Steam Community Forum:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/584400/discussions/
Music: Sonic Mania - Studiopolis Zone Act II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6VSG7rZe0Q
Note: "Denuvo Anti-Tamper, or Denuvo, is an anti-tamper technology and digital rights management (DRM) scheme developed by the Austrian company Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH, a company formed through the management buyout (MBO) of Sony DADC DigitalWorks."
*Official Statement* from Sega Dev (Aug 29th):
"Like you, we've noticed an error in the Steam store not mentioning the DRM for Sonic Mania.
We're fixing that now.
Sonic Mania is intended to be played offline and we're investigating reports on that.
We're also investigating other issues like controller support, these are all PC specific things that Christian and the team have been working on these last few weeks
Please bare with us while we collate and investigate problems that are being brought to our attention"
Source link: http://steamcommunity.com/games/584400/announcements/detail/1448326045461380318
*New update* from Sega Dev (Aug 30th):
Offline bug fix now implemented.
"The offline play bug has now been fixed! Thanks for your patience and let us know if you experience any further problems."
Source link: http://steamcommunity.com/app/584400/discussions/0/1474221865179730527/
*Patch Release (RC 1.03.0831)*
"We've fixed some other bugs including a soft lock issue in No Save mode. It occurred for some users after defeating the Titanic Monarch Zone Act 2 boss if you'd collected all the Chaos Emeralds. Let us know if you encounter any other issues."
Source link: http://steamcommunity.com/app/584400/discussions/0/1474222499228689253/
*Patch 1.03.0919 has arrived for bug fixes!*
https://twitter.com/CFWhitehead/status/912366202185334784
*Patch Release (RC 1.03.0919)*
"Added the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean localization support"
http://steamcommunity.com/app/584400/discussions/0/1496741765142167744/