The only excuse for them not removing it from these old, long since cracked, games is laziness and apathy. I just uninstalled it and didn"t buy the next one when they switched from TAGES to Denuvo even though I hadn"t realized it was a problem for me yet fail on me in something like seven years since I came back to Steam. Sure, it"s usually nor counting God Eater months between Denuvo related failures, but considering I"ve never had a game without Denuvo or TAGES, Anno 2070 has failed on me twice since I bought it, but 1404 was my favorite anyway so.
I really don"t have an issue with them trying to delay piracy, I think it sucks and people need to pay for the games they enjoy to encourage more like them to be made, but never removing it no matter how long since the game was cracked is a big problem for me. Mad Max and Arkham Knight still have it in there though, just like Rise of the Tomb Raider and Tales of Berseria or God Eater, despite all of these games having been cracked and pirated freely for at least the last year. If they used it to delay piracy, then patched it out because some of us have issues with it locking us out of our games, I"d have no problem with Denuvo. See, that"s my problem with it right there. Originally posted by :Highly unlikely to be removed even when it"s finally cracked in a couple of days. Because next time you may be on the receiving end of the issue. And just because it only affects a minority doesn"t mean that it still isn"t a problem. When people are having their CPU"s damaged by DRM there is a problem. And even tho I am normally not affected by it and don"t notice it myself, I can still see how ridicilous it is getting.
Overzealous anti piracy is definetly a big problem. People have actually had their PC damaged as a result.
But then there"s cases where they literally stack piracy protection software on top of each other which can literally ruin your PC, which is precisely what happened with AC: Origins. Seen a message like this once, when I attempted to play Sonic Mania on my laptop I mainly use my desktop to play games while the home electrity was manually shut down for my home"s oven to be worked on since it broke down. Originally posted by :I played MANY games that use Denuvo, and I have found NO issue with it. I played MANY games that use Denuvo, and I have found NO issue with it.