What is it with companies ditching Denuvo? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by sir_pronoun@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've been reading the same thing a couple of times lately, company x removes Denuvo from game y.

What is happening? Are we returning to a state of innocence and purity?

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[-] andrew_s@piefed.social 108 points 8 months ago

It's usually just because they have to pay an on-going licence fee to keep using it, and after a certain amount of time, the revenue that a particular game is expected to bring in isn't worth the fee.

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