Deep Silver and Starbreeze have just announced that they have removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from PAYDAY 3. PAYDAY 3 currently has its open-beta phase and apparently, a lot of players complained about its presence. And, instead of ignoring them, Deep Silver and Starbreeze decided to do the right thing and remove it.
Hello heisters,
We want to inform you that Denuvo is no longer in PAYDAY 3.
We look forward to seeing you in New York City!
Happy heisting! 👊😎 pic.twitter.com/729ezTJm6K
— PAYDAY 3 (@PAYDAYGame) September 15, 2023
PAYDAY 3 is the much anticipated sequel to one of the most popular co-op shooters ever. In PAYDAY 3 the choice is put in the hands of the players, deciding how to tackle the heist, whether you sneak or go in guns blazing, whether you let your hostages go or keep them around as pawns, whether you go at it alone or bring friends. The choices are endless and in your hands, they will vastly change how the game plays.
Deep Silver will release this new PAYDAY game on September 21st. At launch, the game will be using Unreal Engine 4. However, after the game comes out, Starbreeze plans to upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.
From what we know, Deep Silver is not one of the publishers that remove this controversial anti-tamper tech from their older titles. For instance, Dead Island 2 still uses Denuvo. So, the fact that they have removed Denuvo from PAYDAY 3 is a bit surprising. On the other hand, PAYDAY 3 is mainly an online game, so it made no sense to use Denuvo in the first place.
The publishers that usually remove Denuvo from their older games are Bethesda, Warner Bros, Capcom, Bandai Namco, and Square Enix.
For instance, SE has removed Denuvo from  The Diofield Chronicle, VALKYRIE ELYSIUM, TRIANGLE STRATEGY and Forspoken. Moreover, both Octopath Traveler and its sequel no longer use it.
On the other hand, Capcom has removed Denuvo from  Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin and Resident Evil Village. Bethesda has removed the anti-tamper tech from Wolfenstein Youngblood, Doom Eternal. Warner Bros has also removed it from Mortal Kombat 11. And then we have Bandai Namco who has removed it from Tekken 7 and NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER.
Stay tuned for more!
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Developers wouldn’t be putting Denuvo in their games if channels like Fitgirl didn’t put a pirated copy on his site 5 minutes after release, with millions of illegal downloads.
The biggest threat to platforms like GoG is not denuvo, it’s the pirate channels.
I loathe denuvo, but I loathe the pirates even more who cause denuvo to be in games.
Developers wouldn’t be putting Denuvo in their games if a channel like Fitgirl didn’t put a pirated copy on his site 5 minutes after release, with millions of illegal torrent downloads.
The biggest threat to platforms like GoG is not denuvo, it’s the pirate channels. The more people pirate games, the less developers are willing to go without DRM protection.
I loathe denuvo, but I loathe the pirates even more who cause denuvo to be in games.
I could educate a guess that without websites like that, people who bought games would remain largely the same. It’s wierd but piracy doesn’t really hurt sales: the people who pir8 software wouldn’t have bought said software in the first place for various reasons, mostly economical ones.
If i don’t see the game on that site it does not exists for me, aka any hope of getting a peny from me is null.
The biggests threat to developers and gamers is sheeple like you.
I dont blame all people who pirate games at the continuing trend on console prices coming to pc i worked all my life untill i was 45 and now due to health stuck on benifits.
I have 40 grands worth of games just on steam and many more on origin uplay gog and i could get most pucheses with cd keys for around 25 quid and bought one a week now in looking at one every couple months.
I wont buy a game with Denuvo as i like to test a game before i buy so any game that has it misses out on a sale and i do keep some games i like witch i normaly would buy if i could afford to and quite oftern do when thay come down in price.
Looks like you don’t like commas or full stops either.
The biggest threat to publisher is diversity hiring, woke agenda, and sh*ty port/plot..
If you make a bad game, doesnt matter whether it has drm or not, people will stay away from it….
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BG3 called your BS. Shush.
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Whoa! First time I’ve seen Denuvo removed on backlash, and even more so before release. They probably saw the review bombing coming on Steam and hurting their release window sales. Noice decision anyways.
And let me guess, zero difference in performance.
Tried Payday 3 beta. What an absolute dogsht boring af, life wasting piece of a game made for braindeads. No atmosphere, graphics look terrible, bullet sponge enemies and you running around and killing police for like for 25 minutes. Dead Space sci-fi story sounds more realistic than this pathetic pos 😅
sounds like the perfect slop for e-celebs and their maggot audience
It was 8 month old build for serverslam purpose only
Time to educate drones again:
1. People that pirate games will still buy games.
2. An always-online connection in a Pay Day game is stupid.
3. Denuvo will cause extra headaches to gamers.
4. Poorly optimized games at launch should never be defended.
Denuvo wont be defeated by sellout crackers and bulgarian ’empress” troons, Denuvo will crumble under its own weight. This tech 100% f*cks with performance, and as the games get more and more demanding, so will the Denuvo tax increase. These greedy Irdeto f*cks sponsored by even more greedy Sony, are simply not smart enough to invent an anti-temper tech with zero footprint. All they can do is codemonkey more and more triggers into the game and ask an astronomical cut for their useless service.
lmao, are they kind of encouraging people to pirate the game with that tweet.