How Denuvo Helps Game Studios Win the Fight Against Piracy

[Quy4]

Certainly! Here's a shortened version that still highlights the key benefits of Denuvo for games and gaming:

🎮 Why Denuvo Can Be Good for Games

Denuvo is a widely used anti-tamper and DRM solution designed to protect games from piracy, especially during their most critical sales period. Here's how it helps:

🛡️ 1. Protects Launch Sales

The first few days after release are when most sales happen. Denuvo helps delay cracks, preserving full-price revenue during this vital window.

🔐 2. Advanced Security

It makes reverse-engineering and tampering much harder by adding layers of encryption and runtime checks, protecting both the game and any proprietary code.

💼 3. Flexible Use for Developers

Studios can license Denuvo for just the launch period and remove it later, allowing for strong early protection without long-term impact.

🌍 4. Reduces Piracy Globally

In regions with high piracy rates, Denuvo makes illegal copies harder to access, encouraging legitimate purchases and supporting fair pricing models.

🧩 5. Helps Stop Cheats and Hacks

For online games, Denuvo can protect against early exploits and tampering, supporting a more secure and fair multiplayer experience.

✅ Summary

Denuvo helps developers protect their work and secure launch revenues, making it a valuable tool—especially when used strategically and temporarily.

Design is very human, please trust and consume the next denuvo product.

[Heinz]

6. Bricks the game in the future when the DRM servers shut down.

[Pheace]

Originally posted by Heinz:

6. Bricks the game in the future when the DRM servers shut down.

Luckily new games are trending towards removing it after a period of time.

Originally posted by Quy4:

🧩 5. Helps Stop Cheats and Hacks

For online games, Denuvo can protect against early exploits and tampering, supporting a more secure and fair multiplayer experience.

Kinda seems to be missing the distinction between Denuvo Anti-Cheat and Denuvo Anti-Tamper

[Majestic]

I wonder how many people in this discussion are actual people, and how many are just ChatGPT/Grok drones gaslighting everyone.

[LuX]

FAck denuvo, it's a totally invasive anti-consumer tool. I was planning on buying the Steam license, but now I'm not going to. I'll play this game if it's ever free of all this garbage.

[Lydhe]

In the end, I’m not going to buy it right away. I’ll wait and see how things go in 6 months or a year, hoping they remove that crappy protection that does more harm than good to consumers... like some publishers have done with some of their games. (like Visions of Mana)

[UnholyDentist]

Denuvo is a malware and it drags down performance simply due to its inherent design. The way it works is by having thousands to millions of checks to see if the game is running on the same system as the one the Denuvo ticket is registered on and it contacts Denuvo server. This is adding up to the micro stutters constantly in open world games. In older denuvo versions there were checks in loading screens but now there are thousands to millions of checks as you explore an open world. This obviously makes it very hard to crack but also ruins performance. Bad implementation of Denuvo can lead to disasters performance to such a degree the developers themselves take it out, this is what happened to rage 2, the game was unplayable with Denuvo so they removed it.

Then you have that time that Denuvo forgot to update the domain register they used for their server checks and multiple games became unplayable as the game could not reach the servers to get a response, this led to multiple games removing Denuvo on the spot, one of them was ace combat. So what happens if Denuvo shuts down? Do your games become unplayable? Who is gonna remove Denuvo of a game that flopped and the studio shut down? Its hard to crack to crackers wont be able to do it either, we are talking about old games disappearing completely, not being sold anywhere and no one can play it. There is a reason why games like Mass Effect Andromeda and Forspoken and Jedi Survivor removed it and its not just because those games failed despite the Denuvo protection that suppose to protect them from pirates. There are countless examples of games with no Denuvo cracked day one selling really well and games with Denuvo flopping and no one remembering them and in many cases Denuvo was never removed. EA also removed Denuvo from that wild hearts game as well as Jedi Survivor and Mass Effect Andromeda, but all the other games still have it. Code Vein removed it recently which proves that there is some form of a subscription service evolved and they don't want to pay for it forever. Then you got Ubisoft that never removes it and adds vm protect on top of it, which is like running the game on a virtual machine, like emulation, no wonder games run so bad these days, when your CPU has to calculate so many things and the executable size is nearly one Gigabyte it's not surprising. All that is going to your ram by the way, which also raises safety concerns to you system.

They come out on the defense now after years of no Denuvo cracks is because AAA games are flopping miserably and everyone buys indie games, so they want to get indies on their side since AAA is collapsing.

Denuvo is the worst thing to have happen to PC gaming since it harms performance, mod support, preservation and backwards compatibility. Same company who made SecuROM by the way. Which destroyed PCs.

[Dr. Kel]

4. You can't encourage legitimate purchase because i literally can't buy it

[Tarotsu]

Originally posted by Pheace:

Originally posted by Heinz:

6. Bricks the game in the future when the DRM servers shut down.

Luckily new games are trending towards removing it after a period of time.

Games published by Sega still have it after some years and it's unclear when they'll remove it. Frontier Developments (Planet Zoo, Planet Coaster) use Denuvo like it's going out of style and have no intention of ever removing it.

My problem with Denuvo is the forced online checks and how it affects handhelds like the Steam Deck.

[Dr. Kel]

Originally posted by Tarotsu:

Originally posted by Pheace:

Luckily new games are trending towards removing it after a period of time.

Games published by Sega still have it after some years and it's unclear when they'll remove it. Frontier Developments (Planet Zoo, Planet Coaster) use Denuvo like it's going out of style and have no intention of ever removing it.

My problem with Denuvo is the forced online checks and how it affects handhelds like the Steam Deck.

Sonic Forces (2017 god forgotten game) still have denuvo, this is crazy

[UnholyDentist]

Originally posted by Infiresu:

Originally posted by Tarotsu:

Games published by Sega still have it after some years and it's unclear when they'll remove it. Frontier Developments (Planet Zoo, Planet Coaster) use Denuvo like it's going out of style and have no intention of ever removing it.

My problem with Denuvo is the forced online checks and how it affects handhelds like the Steam Deck.

Sonic Forces (2017 god forgotten game) still have denuvo, this is crazy

That's probably forgotten by the developer and the management has no idea they are paying Denuvo subscription.

[mackerel]

bro made a ChatGPT joke and made it really obvious with that first and last line, but it still went over people's heads haha

7. Denuvo adds RAM to your computer
Studies have proven that not only does Denuvo not hinder game performance, it has significant benefits to overall PC performance, mental health and genital girth.

8. Supporting Denuvo to make game devs rich and great again
Although customers pay extra to offset Denuvo's monthly fees instead of paying the devs, it protects the devs from losing their jobs due to rampant piracy - preventing cases like the collapse of Fromsoft and CD Projekt Red.

[Pheace]

Originally posted by Infiresu:

Sonic Forces (2017 god forgotten game) still have denuvo, this is crazy

I did say 'new games'

[Dusk of Oolacile]

Stop buying 80€ games and stop buying 10k€ graphics cards. You gigacorporation simps are the ones ruining the industry.

[BEEP!]

Originally posted by Infiresu:

Originally posted by Tarotsu:

Games published by Sega still have it after some years and it's unclear when they'll remove it. Frontier Developments (Planet Zoo, Planet Coaster) use Denuvo like it's going out of style and have no intention of ever removing it.

My problem with Denuvo is the forced online checks and how it affects handhelds like the Steam Deck.

Sonic Forces (2017 god forgotten game) still have denuvo, this is crazy

Old outdated versions of Denuvo end up going free once they get cracked it's apart of there agreement so some studios use older versions of it for free and risk crackers not bothering to crack it since it's still a massive hassle when a game does a update.

[Majestic]

Originally posted by mackerel:

bro made a ChatGPT joke and made it really obvious with that first and last line, but it still went over people's heads haha

Actually I did notice it, see my first comment. And if you know its a chatGPT rollout, why respond to it anyway.