A few hours ago, Tango Gameworks released the Spider’s Thread Free Update for Ghostwire: Tokyo. And, according to some changes to the game’s executable file, users assumed that Bethesda has added Denuvo to the game. And yes, we can now confirm that the game indeed uses the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
In order to find out whether the game uses Denuvo, we simply used MSConfig in order to change the number of CPU cores our AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D uses.
Like with all Denuvo games, after five CPU changes, you’ll get the following authentication error message. So yes, the game now uses Denuvo, there is no doubt about that.
Ghostwire: Tokyo launched a year ago, so it feels a bit weird adding Denuvo to such an old game. My guess is that Tango Gameworks may be working on an expansion, which kind of explains why Bethesda added Denuvo to it.
Anyway, Bethesda should at least add Denuvo to the game’s Steam store page.
Ironically, a couple of days ago, Capcom removed Denuvo from Resident Evil Village. Earlier this year, Square Enix also removed the anti-tamper tech from TRIANGLE STRATEGY, VALKYRIE ELYSIUM and The Diofield Chronicle. 2K Games has also removed it from The Quarry.
Stay tuned for more!
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Thank you for letting us know, John.
I was the one who told John about this
Thank you for letting us know, Roy.
Your welcome
thank you for letting us know, roy.
Lame addition to a lame game !
It’s a 10 hours long game.
Why add Denuvo to a game when you can buy a cd key for 15 quid.
So they can remove it and become good guys!
What a backward decision from bethesda when their game also in GamePass already.
Why do y’all keep talking about gamepass? UWP is the worse DRM there is. Y’all like owning nothing and being happy that bad?..
i’m a game collector but I gotta be honest: these modern AAA titles aren’t worth owning anymore.
yes, that’s why I am playing old games on emulator these days
Same here, I just buy emulator devices (Anbernic, Retroid) and don’t bother with modern AAA and all their bullshit microtransactions anymore.
As that POS Soros said – you will own nothing, and be happy about it!
Only way to be happy, is when garbage like him – Globalist Pigs – are wiped from the earth!
All I need is 2k people and could behead those fools and take back the world in one sweep. That is all we need. But can’t even get 15 people to stand for something. It’s depressing bro.
Well said and totaly agree buddy. Really depressing. But hey, atleast we are 3 now as my sisters son wisely said: If I ony had a pistol and was near one of these paedohiles scum…! So lets hops more will wake up, but time is ticking!
I get what you mean. But really outside of games you own on places like GOG you don’t actually OWN them.
As for gamepass. It’s $10 a month. I use it because MS owns a lot of big studios now and I know those game will be there day 1 and stay on Gamepass because MS owns them. Also nice way to check out games. Like atomic heart. Downloaded it on gamepass pc, didn’t care for it, uninstalled it. Also got to play Plague Tale (the sequel) for $10 instead of $60 which was cool.
Throwing in EA Play in with Gamepass PC is a nice bonus as well.
likely done to push people to the Xbox version of the game since they get more money there and does not have to pay steam their 30% likely a Microsoft decision as if Bethesda would do anything without approval from their great Overlords.
No, that sounds dumb, why would they shoo consumers away? If they are so stingy about steam cut they would remove the game entirely.
W….why??
seems like bethesda has made a deal with that company
seems like bethesda has made a deal with that company
you mean , since they have bought by Microsoft ,they don’t have any afraid to wasting money on DRM on a year old game since there is no more financial risk of their company
Thanks for confirmation John
The discussion should be interesting on this. Because there are people that own it from the start that will come out and speak against it being added in, let’s see how they are gonna call those people pirates anyways. Because we all know that’s the going argument, I you are against DRM you are a pirate and wasn’t going to buy/support those helpless developers. Then once you type the word piracy on a steam forum, BLOCKED!
No wonder why mikami left. It’s now waiting to be owned and controlled by Microsoft corpos instead of making games with freedom. Rip Evil within 3.
Hate to break it to you, this was always Zenimax making the decisions. They have done nothing here that they’ve never done or worse before. Zenimax was always a Bethesda problem. Being owned by Microsoft doesn’t change any of that.
I think they ditched Evil Within 3 for this game.
Their last game have some teaser for it. So not entirely confirmed but might be possible
I’m fine with denuvo.being added as long as they remove it a year later tops. Better if you want to pirate it as well as the first version released will be fully patched already.
No point in playing games on day one these days.
someone ask a question on reddit
Ques: Has this happened before?
Ans:Yes, this happenned before!
Denuvo has been added to Might & Magic Heroes VII in the Trial by Fire expansion.
And also Anno 2205 in the Tundra expansion.
These have never been cracked.
also, If the base game is already not good enough, do you think , gamer is gonna spend money on this just had to deal with DRM on their PC ? of course not it will only increase piracy , where they will try to the game first to test the game performance on their pc then they will decided buy the game.
true day one releases are messed up and you never know if you can play those games with drm in the future many such cases. But they dont care, this is a consumerist “buy now and throw away” disposable stuff.
Why tho?
Those who wanted have already pirated this piece of crap.
adding turd to turd is bethesda moto
bethrsda had The Elder Scrolls before fallout 3
They did add new story content in the latest update
We should treat this parasiteware Denuvo as bad as Tik Tok
Screw Bethesda, Denuvo and Irdeto
wtf? This company keeps going to sht, bet the next game is gonna be a mmo looter shooter.
Localized trash anyway.
REALITY CHECK
The miniscule number of people who “cancel” a game because it has Denuvo doesn’t keep developers from using it because it doesn’t really affect sales all that much. You can bet your azz they have already run the numbers and found the number of thefts it prevents far exceeds the number of Cancel Culture folks not buying the game …..
The part I find most hilarious about all of this is that it’s the ones that whine and cry about Cancel Culture on the Left doing the exact same thing they complain about with things they don’t like ……
Meanwhile those of us in the middle are thinking …. Y’all are just opposite sides of the same bad penny and there ain’t a nickel’s worth of difference between you
Lol, you are one who need reality check first, this game was released a year ago, without any DRM, so it was cracked one after a year later they added DRM in recent update to protect DLC content which makes no god damn sense because DRM was meant to protect initial sells on first week of the game not adding after a year of lanch where marketing is already cool down same for game hype and reviews those who has played the game has already said this game is not enough, it’s boring open world instead of explore the world you have to clear the map, the story is also pretty mid nothing will hook in this game after DRM after a year of release is punishment for legit costumers and fans who have bought the game and support the developers, this situation is just another level of stupidity where pirated base game is superior version than legit version with DRM which you can’t play offline if your internet got turn off by state, you can’t play this game on offline where you have to verify yourself first which require internet connection not every places have perfect internet, adding DRM Without fix affected performance badly with shutter now they have to released patch and devs have to do overtime work to update to make the suitable for DRM malware version now enjoy losing since nobody ever play this game after adding this DRM update most of us gamer will touch this game..
When ritardation and fvcking over the conuuuumers meet at a bar.
the stupidest move ever made by a publisher in years , even EA wouldn’t do such dumb thing , Bethesda , get your brain check , you certainly have a tumor !