It is common apply for PC video games in the present day to launch with Denuvo, a type of DRM designed to cease the unfold of pirated copies of video games, and it is also frequent apply for builders to take away Denuvo a number of months after launch as curiosity (and the chance of piracy) dwindles. Much less frequent is a developer publicly asserting it is eradicating Denuvo from a recreation earlier than it is even out, however that is the shock Starbreeze pulled this Friday.
“Howdy heisters, we wish to inform you that Denuvo is now not in Payday 3,” the developer wrote in a publish on Steam on Friday. That is just about the entire message—brief and to the purpose, and seemingly a win on the great will entrance, with the Steam publish racking up 524 thumbs up on Steam thus far and one other 10,000 or so on Twitter.
Payday 3 is lower than every week away from its September 21 launch, and Starbreeze is clearly seeking to roll into the launch with an excited neighborhood behind it. Two months in the past a thread on the r/paydaytheheist subreddit referred to as out the inclusion of Denuvo and the responses had been characteristically adverse. This afternoon, one of many recreation’s builders responded to that thread to focus on that Denuvo has been eliminated.
Denuvo has lengthy had a fame for hindering efficiency in video games and bloating their executables, although the corporate behind it, Irdeto, insists that is not the case. This summer season it introduced a plan to offer media shops with two variations of video games, one with Denuvo included and one with out, to show it has no affect on efficiency.
Regardless of the outcomes, it probably will not change the opinions of those that dislike DRM for making recreation modding tougher or rendering video games unplayable when authentication servers go down. As Payday 3 followers identified two months in the past, the sport already requires gamers to be on-line and use a Starbreeze account, making Denuvo appear to be an unneeded additional layer of safety.