This week, members of the CrackWatch community declared “the year of the Linux desktop” after a new Linux-based method emerged that can launch an increasing number of Denuvo-protected games without triggering the DRM.
Useful quote for people like me that had zero idea what Denuvo was.
Does denuvo do that it claims it does? More sales due to less pirating?
I would wager companies lose more money using it than the sales lost due to pirating.
Didn’t buy the 2nd Doom (2016) due to Denuvo. I enjoyed the first (modern) Doom and apprecitated how well it ran but I’ve not looked back to see if it was removed (too late now, my standards are even higher now).
Not to mention pirates do increase game visibility, which is free advertising. And pirates play games that they wouldn’t otherwise buy.
Small percentage, sure. But it’s a factor.
They’re not denuvo games but I tried CO:E33 and BG3 because they were big and popular. I eventually bought both. I would have never tried or bought them otherwise, the price tag was just too great to bother.
It’s very difficult to prove either way. There’s also the factor of making a big deal of removing Denuvo post release; if sales were lost due to its inclusion, does it fully recoup those? Does it actually result in more total sales?
Whether it actually causes measurably more sales, my thoughts are that if paying customers are treated worse than pirates, then piracy is justified, so including Denuvo inherently justifies pirating the game to me.
This so-called article contains absolutely no information to support the headline. It’s worthless garbage.
do we have more technical information on how this works? this article is pretty light on that
You can check it from the source themselves
