But many single-player games make lots of money on an ongoing basis by embracing their modding community, updating games to keep them relevant to new buyers, releasing DLC, etc. Online games make their revenue on an ongoing basis, while single-player only games may make the largest chunk at release. First, that revenue claim seems spurious, given how many games make revenue in how many different ways.

Notably, Denuvo’s marketing material now reflects the emphasis on the initial release window, where Denvuo claims its platform can protect a game for 14 days after launch, during which publishers earn “59% of their revenue from their new title.”Īs with all things Denuvo, this claim should be taken with enormous grains of salt for a variety of reasons. So, where are we now? Well, the new status quo appears to be this: Denuvo still advertises both its anti-piracy and anti-cheat platforms as successes while games that use the software are still having them peeled out via patches. The company also announced a pivot to providing anti-cheat software for online games, though publishers began ripping that out of their games at record speed as well. In response, Denuvo began claiming that it’s platform was still a success because it could protect some games for some number of hours at the time of launch and the company apparently believed that really should be good enough. Games started patching Denuvo out of games, which is roughly the equivalent of admitting defeat. Cracking times on games went from months, to weeks, to days, to essentially games being cracked at launch. That era of invincibility soon crumbled completely, with cracking groups eventually figuring out how to get around the DRM. Wed, Jun 9th 2021 08:31pm - Timothy Geignerįor a three year period or so, we had a ton of coverage on Denuvo, a DRM platform once touted as undefeatable.

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