It appears that more and more developers and publishers are removing Denuvo from their older games. Earlier this week, Square Enix removed Denuvo from Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider. One day later, Bandai Namco removed Denuvo from Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. And today, Square Enix and Crytek removed this controversial anti-tamper tech from NieR Replicant Remaster and Crysis Remastered.
NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139… came out on PC on April 23rd, 2021. So it basically took Square Enix almost six months in order to remove it. On the other hand, Crysis Remastered came out on Epic Games Store on September 18th, 2020. If I remember correctly, its Steam version did not feature Denuvo. As such, it took Crytek a year (and a couple of months) in order to remove it.
It will be interesting to see if there are any performance improvements in Crysis Remastered now that Denuvo is no longer available. Let’s not forget that Crysis Remastered is mostly using one CPU core/thread. So yeah, a comparison between these two versions will be really interesting.
Let’s hope that even more publishers and developers will start removing Denuvo from their older games!
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Those patches for all 3 Tomb Raider games were rolled back, so technically they didn’t remove it.
ahahhahaahhaha they trolling empress, dude was like “here is 500 bucks crack shadow of the tomb raider after doom eternal dlc” and then he was like “nah i changed my mind its gonna get updated again, crack nier instead” and now they removed the drm…i wonder if bethesda removes the drm from doom eternal next.
LOL.
People paid 500 bucks for these cracks, the guy who paid 500 for battlefront 2 said he did it because “it has good offline stuff and we never know if the game is taken offline, if cracked it stays available forever” lol thats not true, emrpess bypass cracks dont work on all systems they check what os and hardware is used to make sure the serial number is the same as the one it was activated. So in the future they be incompatible. LOL.
Denuvo is as funny as it is awful. Some people wasted 500 bucks on a crack that many people wont be able to use and it might become worthless in the future. LOL. Oh well they make empress rich i guess.
500 USD wont make you rich exactly.
those are the top donors there are more who give small donations.
EMPRESS (and irdeto) are going out of business
Far from it, there’s still games that haven’t been cracked for over 2 years.
Like Handball.
A man with a grudge
someday
TencentEpic isn’t, and their online services replaced Denuvo in the newer Tomb Raider trilogy. For AAA games, it’s out of the frying pan and into the fire.EMPRESS (and irdeto) are going out of business
Excellent!
I wonder if these are related to Intel Alder Lake having possible issues with Denuvo and so they’re removing the DRM from games that have had them for some time instead of working around those Alder Lake issues whenever those processors hit retail?
Bob and vageene go back & eat curry
Pure coincidence.
Sometime in 2019-2020 denuvo changed how they offer the product to make more money by charging (bi-)annually for the service, instead of requiring the publisher make a one time payment to have the DRM on the game forever.
The denuvo contract Crytek signed back before November 2020 had such fees (for each Crysis Demaster game):
– €140 000 for the first 12 months of “protection”, €126 000 before March 31, 2021;
– €2 000 for every month after the initial 12 months;
– €60 000 extra fee for products that receive over 500 000 unique activations in 30 days;
– €0,40 per unique activation on WeGame platform;
– €10 000 extra fee for each storefront (digital distribution service) the product gets put on.
Since none of the previously mentioned info is public, you can be certain that denuvo attempts to fxck AAA publishers even harder. So in the end you have situations where the publishers go for the cheapest solution by only using denuvo for 6 months up to 1 year.
So, why did Square Enix and Crytek remove denuvo from their recent games? Simple – the 6 month/1 year contracts run out and they don’t want to be billed again. Funnily enough Crytek already mentions that Crysis 2 and 3 Demasters will not have denuvo DRM once they launch on Steam.
So it was a garbage a*s idea to begin with?!?
When Denuvo came out people were saying this would be the end of cracking games and piracy. Well, we see how that turned out. So, yes Denuvo is garbage. I don’t think there will ever be a DRM that can’t be gotten around.
Meanwhile over at Ubisoft, they be like pfft Nope
Ubi soft be more like… “Let’s add more drm!”.
Ubi soft games would perform so much better if they didn’t use Denuvo, VM Protect and on top of that the Uplay DRM AND either steams basic DRM or Epic’s basic DRM.
So any ubi game from roughly the last 5 years or so is running at least 2 major DRM systems, 1 middle grade (Uplay), and 1 minor for a total of 4 systems of DRM per game.
It’s no wonder FC5 ran at 4k80 but FC New Dawn ran at 4k50 even though they were literally the same game from a rendering perspective with some color changes to plants.
Must be some damn fine colors to eat an extra 30fps.
“Let’s hope that even more publishers and developers will start removing Denuvo from their older games!” – but not ubicrap.
The CEO of Ubisoft said back in 2012 that 95% of PC gamers were pirates and that’s why they load their games up with DRM. Ubisoft never mentions that they make hundreds of millions of dollars from PC gamers year after year except in their Financial Statements. What the heck do they want? Billions of dollars from PC gamers every year?
The updates to all three Tomb Raider reboot games have been reverted:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/203160/discussions/0/3111416678613474661/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/391220/discussions/0/4580716151549921865/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/750920/discussions/0/5221353200106354770/
Note that the October 18th update to Tomb Raider (2013) didn’t have anything to do with Denuvo Anti-Tamper.
There also appears to be a number of people upset about the addition of Epic Online Services in the Tomb Raider reboot games on Steam. The comments on the Steam discussions I linked are filled with complaints about it, as are the announcements for the patches.
NO ! is that real? il erase the game from my account!
The October 18th patch was reverted, so you don’t have to worry about it for the moment. You can also prevent the games from upgrading again by selecting a beta version of a build that doesn’t include Epic Online Services.
Note that the Epic Online Services which was part of the patch was entirely optional, and you could still play the game without it. They claim it was only to make it easier to invite friends to the multiplayer component of the games (oddly SOTTR doesn’t have multiplayer) via their Epic account rather than a Steam account, presumably in prelude for Epic Launcher support for the games.
that is straight idiocy, so for some games you need cross store play but for some reason this one not??? straight fraud with spyware injection!
even so if it get withing the game again i will erase all tomb games from my steam account and rebuy on gog don´t give a damn , rather have nothing than being exposed to the epic spyfraud .
Good for you. Duuuuuumb…
idiooooooot fraud suppooooorter!!!!!
So damn stupid….
stupid? a game from 2013 getting injected with the epic spyfraud just to sneak and steal user info, you call me stupid ? it people like you that allow this behavior to happen
someone else up voted you comment , you and that person are what i call fraud delusionists
HA!! Three months later. Sorry people. They don’t care if you play their game.
“Fraud delusionists…”.
You’re all over this article spewing your rhetoric, so delusion on up.
3 months later because im not glued to the social bs,like you delusionist
I would seriously consider boycotting Denuvo games in this situation, which may not work with new CPUs in the near future. And for sure Ubicrap will not remove Denuvo DRM from its productions.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-alder-lake-cpus-may-not-work-with-older-games
I see. Tomb raider games. Now these two. Clearly because of Alder Lake + DRM saga.
Yeah, that makes sense, I just realised it and looking for it, not many PC gaming centric site made a news of it though
I wonder why they did it. [Mod Edit: English please]
I definitely need to test crysis remastered because it ran horribly for me regardless of settings. Last time I played was about 4 months ago at the time I had…
I7 5820k (6 cores @4.6ghz)
32 gigs ddr4 quad channel
2080ti ftw3 ultra.
Now I have..
Ryzen 5800x (8 cores @ 4.4ghz)
32 gigs ddr4 dual channel (CL15)
2080ti ftw3 ultra.
So I’ve got a significantly newer CPU, faster ram with better timings (significantly better timings) but the same GPU.
Even with DLSS 2 in basically any mode I’d always below 60fps. I could change resolution, disable ray tracing, lower settings… It didn’t matter. Even a clean install of Win10 (not a reset) didn’t help.
Crysis 2 & 3 remaster’s run fantastic though. 4k60 with max settings and RT.
Both the Tomb Raider games would also run at 4k60 maxed out but I had to shut off RT in Shadow unless I used DLSS. Im curious to see any potential gains in either TR (not counting DLSS) but I expect them to run basically the same.
Crysis remastered on the other hand… If it doesn’t run better now then I’m just giving up on it.