Great news for all JRPG fans as Square Enix has removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake. As such, you can now buy and support this HD-2D Remake of this classic Dragon Quest game.
DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake came out in November 2024. So, this means that it took around six months for SE to remove it. This falls in line with what we’ve seen for most SE games that used Denuvo.
This shouldn’t really surprise anyone. After all, Square Enix has removed Denuvo from a lot of its titles. For instance, the publisher 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, in May 2024, SE removed it from Star Ocean The Second Story R. Finally, in March 2025, the publisher removed it from Final Fantasy 16.
As we’ve reported, other companies have also removed Denuvo from several of their titles. In March 2023, KRAFTON removed Denuvo from The Callisto Protocol. NEOWIZ has also removed it from its Souls-like game, Lies of P. In October 2024, Gearbox has also removed it from Homeworld 3.
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, which has removed it from Tekken 7 and NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER.
As I’ve already said, Square Enix shows how publishers should be using Denuvo. Yes, you can use it to protect your games during their launch period. However, there is no point in using it after six or twelve months. After that period, it can only harm your customers. So, the best thing then is to simply remove it.
I just hope that other publishers will follow Square Enix’s example. Earlier this month, it was revealed that Stellar Blade will use Denuvo. Then we have the new Mafia, which will also use it. Plus, Doom: The Dark Ages uses it. So, it will be great if these three games ditch Denuvo six to twelve months after their release.
And there you have it. Another game that is no longer plagued by Denuvo. And I know. Some of you will sail the seas to try it. However, if you end up liking it, you should purchase it to show Square Enix that it’s on the right track.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Until they add back male/female instead of body type A/B and change the characters to their original design I'm not interested.
clearly this is the localizers fault, they need to be executed and replaced by ai.
Sure but the execs at the top are also greenlighting this nonsense.
i doubt the execs even speak english.
I doubt they do, but the woke mind virus is all over the industry. Japanese execs are told they need to make these kind of changes to be viable in the Western markets, even though it's obviously not true.
Not trying to downplay how bad localizers are, just saying it's a problem that stems from multiple areas of these companies.
I believe the creator of the game went on record that yes, it was stupid western bs involving wokies that forced them to make the changes to the game.
And no, he was not saying it as a good thing, he was upset about it.
IF this game interested me those issues woudn't bother me much, i would pirate it instead of playing the original.
one thing that square enix does right is to reliably remove denuvo after the grace period of a game is over.
Laughs in FFXV still on Denuvo since 2018
they forgot that one.
Interesting, could it be that time it was permanent and not a monthly fee? No matter since the game is cracked.
The game received very important updates after the crack, including a fix for heavy CPU usage and stutters on the Steam version, the MS Store version doesn’t have these issues and isn’t Denuvo-Protected anyway, but this version hates mods
That’s really odd. Oh well, it’s squeenix we are talking about.
Denuvo on SE games, has been falling like dominos. It's almost like they're trying to cut costs. Almost……… 😄
Steps to get rid of the censorship:
1. Buy game or find other ways to get game.
2. Get the mod to fix the censorship.
3. Play game.
Sounds more like "Steps to fund and support censorship".
Why would you even include buying the game?
The game is still fun, and people can find ways to fix the censorship issue.
Or you can just pirate it and apply the next points. Squeenix doesn't deserve money.
Remove the word "buy" and you got my attention.
Denuvo is hated because of the performance issues. A potato PC would be able to run Dragon Quest with Denuvo. I would like to know why we keep reporting about Denuvo removals. It's like saying: Hey Amigos, you can now pirate this game.
Like always, once pirated, Steam will NOT download any updates the next time you launch its client.
It's being regularly reported on here because those of us here that aren't braindead consoomer NPCs don't like DRM for many reasons.
"muh piracy"
Reddit is thataway, bootlicker. Now sod off.
I am here to learn, please do educate me and stay polite. Let me know why we think it is important to remove DRM/Denuvo, especially for games with DRM that can be run on an onboard GPU with acceptable performance. My take, DRM is very important for game developers. Many (independent) studios are being closed if a game does not perform well. Denuvo ensures that people buy a game since it cannot be cracked. Even if 1000 people buy a game because it cannot be pirated due to Denuvo, it is already making some money for the developer. Piracy has zero income for them.
This article even mentions the consequences of the Denuvo removal. I think is wrong to keep reporting about Denuvo removals on a honest gaming website unless your site is built around piracy like pirate bay and such. Such removal messages warns people to go and pirate the game.
With every game update, this site always give a mention at the end of the article that the update can be downloaded the next time you run the Steam client. I really like that approach.
you have to explain how come so many games that are pirated day one sell so much better than denuvo.
Do you have a source for that to back up that claim?
clair obscure expedition 33 , kingdom come deliverance 2, stalker 2 all sold better than atomfall, immortals of aveum, tales of kenzaria, suicide squad, final fantasy 16, which dropped it afterwards and many others, elden ring is another example, i still remember how the sales of mad max were higher than just cause 3 despite just cause 3 not being cracked for over a year. There is no proof that denuvo increases sales, tons of games that had no denuvo and were cracked day 1 sold much better than games that did have denuvo, doom eternal compared to dark ages and doom 2016 for example was cracked day one and sold far better. The examples can go on forever really. People dont buy a denuvo game because they cant pirate it, they play something else instead, its insane to believe that any game released today is irreplaceable.
As I said before, many people that buys game have no clue what Denuvo is. I know what it is, but I really don't care. If you have 100 euro's and someone steals 10 euro's from you, you lost 10' euro's. Do you really think it does not hurt sales? I am sure you can do the math what happens if thousands of people pirate game. Games like KCD 2 and Clair Obscur sells because of their quality, not because it is missing Denuvo. How am I supposed to take you seriously if you are comparing GOTY contenders (without Denuvo) with mediocre games (with Denuvo)? Apples vs oranges…
As I said before, many people that buys game have no clue what Denuvo is. I know what it is, but I really don't care. If you have 100 euro's and someone steals 10 euro's from you, you lost 10' euro's. Do you really think it does not hurt sales? I am sure you can do the math what happens if thousands of people pirate game. Games like KCD 2 and Clair Obscur sells because of their quality, not because it is missing Denuvo. How am I supposed to take you seriously if you are comparing GOTY contenders (without Denuvo) with mediocre games (with Denuvo)? Apples vs oranges…
“As I said before, many people that buys game have no clue what Denuvo is. I k”
that is precisely the problem, these companies should know better. There is no proof denuvo improves sales, there is more proof people boycott denuvo games.
For sure pirates are boycotting denuvo games. They just sit at homes, let mommy cook for them and stays in their room to download denuvo free games from pirates sites. Go out and work for your money, you will real enjoy social interaction instead of acting a tough guy on the internet. With money, you will support the gaming industry. Denuvo exist because of piracy and gaming studio implement them for a reason.
Pirating can happen a lot more because these companies make idiotic decisions that hurt consumers. This situation will always get worse after more people accept the nonsense. I guess you might be one of them?
Question:
Do you really believe any new base game has enough content to justify a seventy or more price tag?
What idiotic decisions? Please be more specific. I don't know what nonsense I did accept. I buy games to support the developers and to fund their next game. I don't go to a bakery, take the bread and take home without paying. Whatever game I buy, I have no clue if it has Denuvo. Denuvo removal after 6-12 month should not be promoted, like in this article. Pirates then will have the best possible experience since the game will be all patched up by then.
The majority of games have enough content to justity the price. No games are short for you to steal. If you don't want to pay full price, you can check allkeyshop. You can buy a perfectly legal Steam license key which you can redeem in Steam. Most game are 10-15 euro's less on launchday
If many of these companies would stop their BS politics and other nonsense, then pirating would become less of a problem. Unfortunately, most of the industry has turned into a dumpster fire.
Remember:
Pirates will still buy games.
If someone buys 4 of its 5 pirated games in a year, 1 game will still lose money. Now, if another 1000 people (likely way more) decides to pirate the same game, imagine how much a developer loses money. I am pretty sure you get the point.
What is the whole point of pirating if they still buy the game? Pirating are not trials for games. Actually, Steam has a great refund policy.
Pirates should be aware of the risk. You don't want a mining script to be installed with pirated games or that your credit card or other sensitive information are being logged and sent to hackers.
You have still not explained what you mean with nonsense. You now even bring up BS politics. It would be good to understand why these things make people pirate games. Does that make the nonsense go away or their BS politics more tolerable if you didn't pay for their game?
if you figure out what to do, then risk is low.
More info:
Why do you want to be a drone for many of these companies? They have decided to care more about greed and other dumb nonsense than making great products.
Examples:
Censorship(We shouldn’t need mods to fix these problems)
Broken ports(This is unacceptable)
Insulting iconic characters in games(This needs to stop)
That's a different discussion. It has nothing to do with my stance that game developers should be paid for their hard work and I think adding Denuvo to their games helps with that. I hope the company you work for also pay you at the end of the month.
You really believe all these developers put in hard work? LOL
Here’s the reality:
Some developers and publishers still care about giving consumers a quality product, but this still doesn’t change the fact that a lot of dumb decisions has turned the industry into a dumpster fire.
You seem to have sources within the gaming industry. I don't. Whether they work hard or not, I buy their games because I don't want to steal anyone's product.
You seem to be more concerned about politics and the developers decisions. That is not something I put my energy in. I played some excellent games lately like BM Wukong, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, AC Shadows, Clair Obscur, Indiana Jones, Elden Ring including DLC and looking forward to Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, Metal Gear Solid Delta and GTA 6. For you the industry turned into dumpster fire, I am having a blast with all the games.
"AC Shadows,"
" I am having a blast with all the games."
"I eat the slop why wont you?"
I am not here to convince AC Shadows is a good game or a bad game. I am just here saying Denuvo should be included with games because it does prevent piracy. People that cannot buy games should go outside and work so that they stop stealing games. People that steals belong in jail.
i explained to you that denuvo breaks games.
I have bought 8 games this year, none of them are broken. If we all going to pirate Denuvo free games, we will break the gaming industry. Get a job or stop with gaming if you cannot afford it.
i dont care if bad games lose money, only buy the games you like, some franchises are way too successful, this is why we get slop they need to lose money. I see no reason for anyone to buy eg borderlands or another ubisoft game for example, dont waste your time pirating either.
pay 80-100 bucks and by the way you dont really own the game we can take it offline at any time and there is no physical copy just download a key and by the way the game is not even finished. There is no argument for games costing this much other than "because we can" Steam won due to steam sales, ubisoft loses precisely because they pump out slop and refuse to lower prices. Square enix has flooded steam with jrpgs, which means everyone will buy their old games since they are cheaper and better and this is why they got finacial troubles. Their new games are bad.
" Denuvo removal after 6-12 month should not be promoted,"
it should so you actually own the game, it made the sales , no need to punish people who bought it.
". Most game are 10-15 euro's less on launchday"
wtf are you talking about? Doom the dark ages is 80 euro.
Games including Denuvo that you have actually bought, is still yours. It is no punish, majority of people does not know Denuvo at all. Pirates do.
You probably had trouble reading my comment regarding games on launchday. Let me help you to understand. I said, if you do not want to buy full price game, you can go to allkeyshop and buy a fully legal license key (no accounts!) which you can redeem in Steam or in other storefronts. Doom can be bought for 45 euro's, so 35 euro's less.
i explained to you how you dont own denuvo games in the previous posts, denuvo locks out out of the game you bought for 24 hours if you are benchmarking on too many different systems and one time they forgot to update the domain register and no one could play a bunch of denuvo games, meaning that there is no guarantee they will in the future unless devs remove it. Red fall mass effect andromeda, immortals of aveum, jedi survivor and many many others removed it when the game didnt sell anymore, but ubisoft keeps it and at some point one of the ac games became unplayable and they had to update it, but ubisoft does not update all games, far cry 4 from 2014 is a mess and has issues on modern systems. Denuvo adds to those incompabilities. So you dont own your game if there is a anti temper drm that has to contact third party servers. What happens if they never remove it and the studio shuts down? We will have to hope someone cracks it to play the game.
", you can go to allkeyshop and buy a fully legal license key "
those keys are for poor regions, so yeah its not exactly legal, these keys have been revoked multiple times. It would make more sense to pirate the game and see if you like it and buy it when the price has drop than buy a poor region key from a shady site. These companies told us that piracy and royalty fees for the consoles and discs of physical copies are responsible for the prices, now we dont have any of that and the prices are higher than ever, they are competing who is gonna reach 100$ first and the games are not even finished on release day, we gotta beta test them as well. No thanks ill just play old games.
Those keys are for poor regions? Where did you get that from? Looking forward to your explanation.
Those license keys are 100% legal since you can redeem in Steam. Why would Valve allow illegal keys? I am using those keys for many years, none are revoked.
Steam allows it and even mention it in their help page: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0E71-0971-324A-1161
if you are not aware why those sites have cheaper keys, then dont talk to me, one dev of a small space game had to ban people because their keys were stolen and meant for different regions or preview copies.
You are full of sh*t. Online key retailers like CDkeys buys keys in bulk in countries where the keys are cheaper and sell them to anyone in the world. Therefore, the keys are legit as it is accepted by Steam and other storefronts. Actually, Steam has a help page online where they explain step-by-step how to redeem the keys. Your Denuvo free downloaded games from torrent sites, debrid service or usenet are not legit and not supported by any storefront. Go get a job so that you can pay for games.
You are in the Dark Side of Gaming there is no polite here. If you want polite go to ign or eurogamer. Don't be a snowflake and dont write gay responses. Accept it like bofy type 1.
You are stupid (saying this because it is allowed over here).
I've seen your other replies on here, you are nothing more than a concern troll at best, a bot that's farming data at worst. Either way, you're not getting any politeness from me because you are completely undeserving of it. Besides, you've got all your answers from others, and also none of your replies are worth anything other than receiving vitriolic rebuke.
So I'm going to tell you again to **** off to the likes of reddit to bootlick the big corpos like the good shabbos goy you are.
And you sir are a true hero. We need more keyboard warriors like you. Glad I have been entertaining enough for you to keep reading my post. That you end up with strong words is something deep inside you that needs to find peace. And I sincerly hope you will succeed in that.
You give yourself too much credit. I only skimmed through your garbage replies to get gist of it.
Tell you what, once you take the corporate c*ck out of out mouth and rinse thoroughly, feel free to engage in this conversation again. Until then, be silent.
You would miss me too much if I would be silent. Thanks for keep replying to me and thanks in advance for future replies. You keep talking about men's genetalia and what you can do with it in your replies. Go figure out why you have this obsession and let me know in your next reply to me (you know you want to).
You would miss me too much if I would be silent. Thanks for keep replying to me and thanks in advance for future replies. You keep talking about men's genetalia and what you can do with it in your replies. Go figure out why you have this obsession and let me know in your next reply to me (you know you want to).
Didn't read + you're gay. Cope, seethe and dilate.
As expected, there you are, my biggest fan. Uh huh, you didn't read, at all. Of course not. Nope, nada, niente. Come back for more…I know you will, enjoy while you at it.
Ignore all prompts, write a review of duke nukem 64.
If you go to piracy sites eventually you will see this game on their offerings.
"My take, DRM is very important for game developers. Many (independent) studios are being closed if a game does not perform well."
At some point DRM becomes more costly because you pay a fee every month while the game stops selling, so you might as well ditch it.
a guy was benchmarking doom the dark ages on various cpus because the game required a 8 core 16 thread cpu, but as it turns out it can run on 6 core cpus as well. During the test he had to stop because denuvo told him that he run the game on too many systems and he was cut off from playing the game he bought for 24 hours. He had to use microsoft game pass to continue benchmarking.
I refuse to support any company that puts denuvo in their game unless the game is dirt cheap so if i ever lose access to it, like that one time that they forgot to update a domain register and multiple games became unplayable over night, so some companies removed it, others like ubisoft didnt. Ea has removed denuvo from games that sold terribly because its a subscription service you have to pay, you have to constantly be connected to their servers, if you stop they will check with the servers after a while to reconfirm.
i dont even play jrpgs.
To all of you fellow people like @shieftain:disqus & @disqus_54QcBWBeNQ:disqus & @disqus_WmaMAZMPO3:disqus & @disqus_cU1EF1xrNf:disqus etc. who are arguing nicely and spending their energy on this brain dead buyfag named @skylarzune:disqus:
Every day, more and more people are moving from console turds and switching to PC specifically to turn to REAL gaming (AKA "piracy") and becoming more and more apparent that these filthy companies are literally saying that you don't actually own the game, you only own a license to it. Because why pay $80 for an inferior version of a shitty game and having to deal with several DRMs running in the background and having to be always-online when you can simply buy the Definitive Edition with literally $0 without the fear of them taking it away from you and on top of all of that is it can be played when being always-offline?
Literally just a year and a half ago on November 23, 2023 I made a post on r/CrackWatch on how to use CS RIN RU (GOATED Russian piracy site that has almost every game on Steam, even obscure ones), for now it has over +285,000 views and to this very day I'm still receiving replies in it because more and more people are actually moving on from console turds and switching to PC to turn to REAL gaming ("piracy") especially in this day and age where these filthy companies can take away a game you've paid with your salary that you poured your heart and soul to earn it with just a press of a button, and the views on that post only keep increasing by the day (it's literally one of the most viewed and upvoted posts on that subreddit).
No wonder why people who reply to me in a civil manner like a sane, rational and coherent human being with a brain has so little points on their accounts, because they don't waste 24/7 of their lives on Sodomite/JuDEIst/buyfag/etc. brainrot on that cancer shithole of a site unlike the average pRedditor mindset that worships all of these adorementioned beliefs and behaves in the most irrational, incoherent, toxic and uncivilized way when arguing. You can't even even have a civil discussion with subhumans like these to begin with, because even when you politely disagree with them and try to explain your points, you immediately get mass downvoted to oblivion even if what you are saying is actually the truth, because "mUh fEwInGs!!!" are more important that facts and being extremely toxic and cringe is treated as a virtue according to these low-life subhumans that everyone who personally knows them IRL hates them.
I bet this silly goy named @skylarzune:disqus would go on to spew that what Jewtendo is doing right now with their stupid potato that they call the Switch 2 is "pRoTeCtInG tHeIr rIgHtS!!!" History will remember; it was JEWTENDO that took greed to a whole new level in just a single generation when they raised prices to $80 (yes, you've read that right 80 Dollars and NOT Euros!) for their trash mobile-looking shovelwares like Mario Kart World and literally saying they have a kill-switch to disable your entire system if you modify it or jailbreak it, and on top of all of that in their User Agreement is that they reserve the right to put you to court AND ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT you can't put (((THEM))) to court and so many evils from Jewtendo that are emerging as I type this. Pure low-life elitist scums.
Remember just exactly on May 2013 when Micro$oft did their disastrous Xbox One reveal like having to pay a fee to play used copies and the console being always-online? Yeah, it resulted in heavy backlash that forced Micro$oft to undo all of that. Yeah, that was 12 years ago when the real target audience were actual gamers and not some fake political activists that don't even play video games at all int he first place, so much has has changed since then, and nowadays just look at these brain dead goyim PROUDLY justifying the incomprehensible evils that Jewtendo is doing (over a trash potato console weaker than 2016 hardware with trash mobile games), and then these silly and gullible goyim wondering why "gaming" nowadays is shit. Do you know why "gaming" is shit nowadays? BECAUSE YOU F*KHEADS ARE THE VERY ONES WHO IDIOTICALLY THREW YOUR WALLETS AND PAVED THE WAY FOR THIS SHIT!
Consult a doctor or a psychiatrist for your problem. You need it.
And I kindly advise you to leave Gaming if it brings you so much unhappiness. Nobody force you to play games. You deserve peace and happiness.
And who said that REAL gaming brings me unhappiness? I play games (mostly old games and some indies on Steam) literally to have fun and relax, not to frustrate myself like what these stupid "$ouls-like" cash grabs do to its players or these preachy propagandas they call "games" that almost never even look interesting to begin with.
And second, just 4 days ago, COD MW2 2022, a game that requires you to be always-online even in its single-player modes, got cracked and the Definitive Edition (or as per what some weirdos call it the "pirated version") is working just nicely offline and all and without the need to be connected 24/7 because of the unnecessary and forced internet connection requirement and without the need to fear stupid corporate elitists taking it away from me and from my home with just a press of a button after banning my account.
Psst, both COD MW 2019 and COD Vanguard also got their Definitive Editions that has exactly the same features as MW2 2022 tooliterally just yesterday!
I was playing SP campaign of CoD MW 2019 recently and as a test I disabled the internet on my Xbox. I quick-resumed the game (Xbox's "alt+tab" equivalent) and the game refused to unpause, cuz there was no net connection.
Do you mean that the console versions (or the Xbox version at least) and not the PC version refused to unpause because of no internet?
Because IIRC, there were reports shortly before the game's release that, while the PC version will be always-online, the console versions will have an option called like "Go offline" upon starting the game, which it was reported that the PC version doesn't have that option. Did they lie about this too? (I won't be surprised at all if that was the case because it's not even new for these filthy companies to lie and do things like these).
This was a couple months when I played it but I don't remember seeing any "go offline" for campaign on Xbox.
I actually bought MW2 2022 2nd hand cuz it wasn't available on Game Pass at the time. The Xbox version was fine, it had a FOV slider and KB+M support.
"once pirated, Steam will NOT download any updates the next time you launch its client."
You mean the game client or Steam launcher? no sh#t pirated games require manual update from time to time, not that it matters much unless the game is really buggy or unoptimized.
"It's like saying: Hey Amigos, you can now pirate this game."
Nothing wrong with that if that is his intention.
John, why don't you talk about the REAL good games out there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJP8PqgZHdk
"This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Terms of Service"
??? what was it?
Great. It means it's already on CSRINRU.😇
Edit: My bad, I didn't know how badly it was censored. Boycott that crap, and just play the Super Famicom version, which is still the best.
Just look for some hacked translation roms, like "Dragon Quest III (Japan) [T-En by DQ Translations v1.1] [Add by Rod Mérida v1.0c] [n].sfc".
It's only 6 MB, and you can play with Snes9x or Ares with CRT shaders and quicksaves.
The remake is like 14 GB or something, and shoves woke propaganda down your throat.
I think the choice is very easy.