Capcom has released an update that removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy came out on PC on January 25th, meaning that it took Capcom around six months to remove it.
As with most of its latest PC releases, Capcom has replaced Denuvo with the Enigma Protector. Now I know that some may be put off by it. But hey, at least Enigma is not as intrusive as Denuvo.
In this trilogy, players will join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Capcom is no stranger to the removal of Denuvo from its PC releases. The team has already removed it from Resident Evil 2 Remake, Resident Evil 3 Remake, Devil May Cry 5 and Monster Hunter World no longer have it.
It’s also worth noting that other companies have also removed Denuvo from their games. In March 2023, KRAFTON removed Denuvo from The Callisto Protocol. NEOWIZ has also removed it from its Souls-like game, Lies of P. And, earlier this year, EA removed the controversial anti-tamper tech from One Way Out.
And that’s not all. Bethesda’s Wolfenstein Youngblood, Ghostwire: Tokyo and Doom Eternal no longer have it. Warner Bros has also removed it from Mortal Kombat 11. Then we have Bandai Namco who has removed it from Tekken 7 and NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER.
Another company that has removed Denuvo from a lot of its PC titles is Square Enix. The Japanese team has removed it from games like The Diofield Chronicle, VALKYRIE ELYSIUM, TRIANGLE STRATEGY, LIVE A LIVE and Forspoken. Moreover, both Octopath Traveler and its sequel no longer use it. And, earlier this month, SE also removed Denuvo from Star Ocean The Second Story R.
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It still uses Steam's DRM wrapper too.
Capcom uses 3 DRM:
Steam DRM + Denuvo + Enigma
They're as paranoid as Sega and Square, stuffing every game with DRM.
When Japanese gaming executives visit other countries, they take pepperspray with them, put on an mask, and wrap themselves in bubblewrap, just to be safe. It's a scary world out there without your Engrish sidekick translater.
Lol, pointless, wrong and very biased statement, it's like the Japanese devs are the only ones stuffing their games with DRM, as if Ubi, EA and Activision suddenly became angels.
At least CAPCOM always remove Denuvo after some time, Ubisoft never EVER removed Denuvo from any of their games, both EA and Ubi force you to use their sh*t launchers and Activision is forcing permanent online connection to play their SP games, there is not a single Japanese publisher that does that.
Japanse developers disproportionaly use DRM and Denuvo. Data from PCGamingwiki shows this.
The biggest Japanese developers by revenue on PC are: Capcom, Sega, Square, Bandai Namco and Konami. They all use Denuvo.
That's why new Japanese games are never available on GOG.
Baldur's Gate 3 released DRM-free on day 1 on GOG. Square or Sega would never in a million years release a new Final Fantasy or Sonic game DRM-free day 1 on GOG.
In fact there are 0 Final Fantasy or Sonic games on GOG, because Jpanese developers refuse to make them DRM-free. The first Sonic game, now a 34 years old game, still uses Steam DRM. Even though the Sonic game ROM is put on every $50 Chinese handheld and Sega has long lost the rights on that game in most jurisdictions, Sega continues to stuff old games with DRM.
Capcom also retroactively adds DRM to old games on Steam with patches, something I have never seen any Western developer do:
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"Capcom also retroactively adds DRM to old games on Steam with patches, something I have never seen any Western developer do"
Try to play any 'old' ubisoft game through their launcher, you'll be asked to type your password to boot the game, every single f time. Had to pir@te black flag recently instead of playing the one I bought from their sh1tty launcher years ago
“The biggest Japanese developers by revenue on PC are: Capcom, Sega, Square, Bandai Namco and Konami. They all use Denuvo”
You forgot Bandai NAMCO, and also forgot EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Deep Silver…
And mostly, never forget that western publishers are far bigger users of microtransactions than Japanese ones.
“Square or Sega would never in a million years release a new Final Fantasy or Sonic game DRM-free day 1 on GOG.”
“That’s why new Japanese games are never available on GOG.”
You live in a cave bro ? With the exception of CDPR, there is not a single western AAA publisher who put their games day-one on GOG, WTF are you smoking ? Baldur’s Gate isn’t an AAA game
“Capcom also retroactively adds DRM to old games on Steam with patches, something I have never seen any Western developer do”
Recently, Bethesda added Denuvo through a patch to Ghostwire Tokyo, and while Japanese have a record of Denuvo removal on plenty of their games, in the west Ubisoft is know to never been able to remove it from any of their games, no even once, and while CAPCOM added a DRM that prevents modding, Take2 literally sued people over mods.
“Japanse developers disproportionaly use DRM and Denuvo”
Say that to Ubisoft and EA who use Denuvo + VM Protect + Their own launcher, Activision that block their SP games to online authentification + their own fcking launcher, Rockstar who use Arxan and custom triggers + you guessed it, their own fcking launcher, and let’s never forget how they butchered the whole PC gaming scene in the 2000s with Tages, SecuROM, StarForce and Solidshield, with games still carrying these cancers to this day forcing you to use pirated copies, the cherry being Rockstar using a cracked exe for their Steam release of Manhunt because the DRM they implemented made the game unplayable on modern systems.
Seriously stop relying on geography to blame people, we can all agree that most AAA publishers are horrible companies, but blaming Japanese companies alone as if western ones were innocent is delusional AF
90% of games coming out of Japan nowadays are mobile gacha garbage, they all force an online connection.
PC gaming in Japan barely exists, that's why Japanese games always have terrible mouse and keyboard support. PC use in general barely exists in Japan, our company had to literally use an online Fax service solution for our division in Japan, because the Japanese division said they could not get their workers to understand how to use enterprise email software.
Is quite clear you biased, Japan is among the eSports biggest markets, people downright sleep in Internet Cafes there to have access to computers 24/7.
If the Japanese companies didn't care about PCs, they wouldn't release the games on PC for starters, not to mention mouse and keyboard issues? What are you, stuck in 2006?
There not a single CAPCOM game that isn't playable with mouse and keyboard.