Denuvo is a DRM and big cancer for PC video games. Denuvo is bad for many reasons, for one it requires periodic online connection which is bad if your internet goes down which is basically money down the drain since you now cannot play it even though online dependency is not needed for single player games and is anti game preservation because of this. Denuvo requires tokens in order for restricted games to work and these tokens upload someone's computer username. cpu identifiers, OS identifiers, to denuvo servers. It is basically a form of spyware. Another reason why is that it limits the amount of operating systems it can be played on which can effect how many versions of proton compatibility layer can be used if playing a game made for windows on GNU/Linux. If it is installed on too many operating systems or you use too many proton versions for a game, you will get locked out of your game. It will also make game performance worse due to using many different forms obfuscation that is embedded into the game executable such as encryption, unique hardware based code paths, and virtualization. But because of this, it does make games difficult to crack. There have been games that have been cracked or had a denuvo-free version accidentally released or in the case of Metaphor Rephantazio had a demo that didn't include denuvo and drm got bypassed because of it, but game publishers still keep denvuo anyway because they are run by suits and captalists that are paranoid of piracy even if the game already got pirated. This punishes paying customers who legitimaley bought the game since they are restricted by the DRM. DO NOT ever buy a game with denuvo in it because it gets rid of game ownership and preservation of a game.
Denuvo increases the file size of the exe file of the game it is being laced onto. A game called Hifi Rush had denuvo removed recently and the exe file size went down from ~300 mb to ~20 kb source. And the file size of the demo of metaphor refantazio increased from ~40 mb to 400 mb source.
There have been times when denuvo activation servers have gone down. Here were two events where that happened, one in 2021 and one in 2024 with people not being able to play a game called Persona 5
The denuvo CEO said one time that it is hard for a gamer to see the benefit of denuvo. The developers of a Korean gooner game called Stellar Blade said that denuvo somehow improves the performance of the game. Denuvo open a discord server which got raided because almost no one likes denuvo. If you go on steam forums and complain about denuvo, they do shortcut thinking and will say along the line of how you just want to pirate the game and how the game company that is implementing denuvo into their game will go bankrupt despite how many games without drm sell very well.
There are retards who defend denuvo and corporate simps on steam forums saying that these game companies need to protect their "property". Well, intellectual "property" and digital software is not the same as physical property. When you sell a tangible item, you are giving up property like an apple to receive money for that apple and now the apple is now the customer's property. With having denuvo in the game, it is like having someone watch over your purchase of an apple to make sure you are not using it in the way the merchant wants or else they will take away the apple from you.
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