[sbarre]

Yeah it's not uncommon to see Denuvo patched out of a game title once the initial sales window has passed..

I wonder if that's because they want to avoid these kinds of future incompatiblities with the underlying OS as it evolves.

[transcriptase]

IIRC Denuvo costs a fortune to keep in a game, since it’s a subscription model. Once sales sufficiently taper off there’s not much sense in paying for it anymore.

[everyone]

Some games have had it for an extremely long time. and some publishers never remove it (Eg. Sega). In some cases I guess they got a lifetime deal with an older version of Denuvo, but other cases are sus. I wonder is it for money laundering purposes.

Theres a list of every game that currently has denuvo here... https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/p9ak4n/crack_wa...

[evilkorn]

I think the dev pays for the service window and after the Denuvo contact is up they update the game without it.

[SchemaLoad]

Not a horrible system. Protects the initial sales spike from piracy, but doesn't obstruct long term archival or playability after the servers go down.