Why Some Developers Don't Want to Release Denuvo After Game Breaks?

Despite being hacked many times, Denuvo arguably successful in dealing with pirated gamers. Holding a game for weeks or months is sometimes enough to make pirated gamers impatient and forced to buy the original version in order to play the game they’ve been waiting for. However, this strong protection comes with its own risks. Denuvo affects game performance, maybe it only reduces performance by 1-3 FPS, but every PC gamer knows that each FPS means a lot to everyone. playability a game. There are other risks that Denuvo can pose, but that will be a topic for another time.

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When a protected game has been hacked by the cracker team, it might be a reasonable move to release Denuvo in the original version. Some developers such as Id Software and Playdead agreed to this by removing the anti-tamper protection after the game was hacked. But several other companies such as Ubisoft and Square Enix seem reluctant to release this anti-tamper protection even though the free version has been circulating widely on the internet. Why is that? The company did not provide an official statement on this issue but the reason can be easily guessed why, and youtuber Overlord Gaming explained this explanation in detail.

If you don’t have time to watch the entire video or there are other problems, then I will briefly explain here.

DLC and updates

The hacking of a game seems to be a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence for games protected by Denuvo. With very few teams that can hijack them and slowly disappearing one by one, each cracker only takes their time to hijack one game once and move on to pirating another game. This is used by publishers to at least protect existing updates or DLC for the game.

Maybe there are rare occurrences where pirated gamers buy games just because the game has just been updated. But surely there will be some who will buy the game complete with the latest updates and all the DLC just so there is a reason to buy the game, especially during the Steam Sale discount. This is a small trick from the publisher to continue to attract players to at least buy even though they have pirated the game.

Too bad it’s been paid

Overlord gaming had time to quote one impersonator Denuvo customers to talk about the pricing of their protection services. From the discussion, it was found that developers have 2 payment options for their services, the “package” system or the per-copy system. The “package” system is as follows:

AAA games (500k copies and above): €100,000
AA games (less than 500k copies): €50,000
Indie games (under 100,000 copies): €10,000

The credibility of the information above is still a big question mark, but what is certain is that publishers spend money on this service. And it will just be wasted if the money is not used properly even though the money is like pocket money for big companies like Square Enix or Ubisoft.

Back to the first point, seeing that the game still has post-launch content to be released, they used the opportunity to make the latest version of the game not fall into the hands of pirates. If you look back at the games that have been released from Denuvo, all of these games are games that no longer have single-player content post-launch. Doom, Hitman GOTY, Inside, Rime, Sherlock Holmes etc. are games that have released their Denuvo protection because all of these games have no plans to release single-player content. post launch. Unlike Shadow of War, Watch Dogs 2, Sonic Mania, Resident Evil 7 and Final Fantasy XV which have a lot of content post-launch after the game is hacked.