Well well well, look what we’ve got here. It appears that Square Enix has just removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Forspoken. As such, those that boycotted the game can now purchase it. That is of course if anyone is still interested in this title.
Forspoken came out in January 2023 and had numerous stuttering issues, especially on PC systems with 16GB of RAM. As such, it will be interesting to see whether this Denuvo-free version runs better on older PC systems. So, I may test this version on our Intel Core i9 9900K system. That’s not a promise though as we’re currently busy with other upcoming PC games.
It’s also worth noting that Square Enix has improved the game’s performance since January. For instance, its March Update improved performance by 15%. Not only that, but Square Enix has improved the game’s ambient occlusion effects.
Technically speaking, Forspoken is currently in a better state than its launch version. So we can at least congratulate SE for not completely abandoning it. It’s funny really because Square Enix had previously dropped the ball with the PC version of NieR Automata. And NieR Automata is undoubtedly a better game than Forspoken.
Now while the Steam store page still lists Denuvo, we can clearly see that the publisher has removed it. My guess is that SE will update the Steam store page later this week.
Anyway, we’re not really surprised by the removal of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Forspoken. After all, the game flopped so SE is most likely doing its best to boost its sales. Let’s also not forget that Square Enix has removed it from numerous of its games. For example, The Diofield Chronicle, VALKYRIE ELYSIUM and TRIANGLE STRATEGY launched with Denuvo but no longer have it.
Stay tuned for more!
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This SJW garbage still costs 80 eur on Steam lol.
Should be in the fiver bargain bin by now.
What is the target audience? Non binary Jimmy with pink hair shouting nonsense on Twitter won’t buy it and bring you billions you know.
This SJW garbage still costs 80 eur on Steam lol.
Should be in the fiver bargain bin by now.
What is the target audience? Non binary Jimmy with pink hair shouting nonsense on Twitter won’t buy it and bring you billions you know.
What was the point of wasting money on Denuvo to begin with? I doubt anyone would waste their time pirating this trash.
lol🤣, even pirates is trashing this game.
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Haha! Too funny.
Imagine being so brainwashed that you think the biggest problem of wokespoken was its DRM.
Imagine being so brainwashed that you think the biggest problem of wokespoken was its DRM.
I ReMoVeD DeNuvO wItH mY F…..g MinD!
Your welcome
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*you’re. You’re welcome for the correction.
Your welcome
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Name one successful game with a black “trigger” woman! You cant? Well neither can I! Subhuman ghetto scum. NOW Let this be hard lesson for REMEDY and ALAN WAKE 2!
Who hurt you
Found the Klan member.
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Tiny update this morning with no indication as to what changed. Appreciate the info.
On another note, this game has lightening quick / near instantaneous loading on a ho-hum nvme. Finished it and moved it to a sata and the initial load is now mediocre (fast travel isn’t effected as much). Excited to see Direct Storage in more games.
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They should’ve remove this absolute filth of a game instead, for poluting my god given eyes
Game still sucks lol
Just pirate it if you really want to try this sh*t game
Square Enix can now blame pirates for losing this game sells
let the pirates enjoy this dumpster fire
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Cause it’s not even worth pirating
You get a brand new 4090 which costs like 2000 depending where you live. But you have to play forspoken from start to finish and 100% it and the dlc on that 4090 tainting it and risking damaging it since this is something this piece of crap game does apparently and you cant play any other game until you finish forspoken.
Do you accept?
For a 4090 I’d do it, no matter how painful it was. But that’s only because I’m into AI right now, and according to Tom’s Hardware benchmarks the RTX 4090 is roughly 3x faster at Stable Diffusion than my RTX 3070 Ti and I wouldn’t run out of VRAM as easily with 3x as much of it. I’m also really curious to see how much faster AI image/video upscaling that uses Tensor cores instead of CUDA cores will run on an RTX 4090.
wish i had rtx 3070 ti, for starfield everything else looks meh and not needed.
I have a 1440p monitor, and considering what has been said by Todd Howard so far I’m a bit concerned that I might not get very good FPS in Starfield even with an RTX 3070 Ti. Hopefully I’m wrong and turning the settings down will allow me to hit 100+ FPS, but I have my doubts.
yeah you dnt get 100fps on starfield with this.
SE’s reliance on Denuvo makes no sense. They’ve released titles without it and they usually sell better with less customer hostility. I for one refuse to purchase a title I can’t make an offline backup of (you know, in case society collapses or something) and Denuvo makes that impossible. Not to mention the often-times huge performance hits games take that use it.
denuvo reliance in general.
Most Publishers just never learn the simple lesson. Denuvo isn’t going to stop piracy. Piracy has always existed and it always will. In my own experience all the way back to the mid 1980s I was doing it but we didn’t call it pirating back then.
The majority of pirates today can’t afford to buy the games to begin with so when they pirate the game it doesn’t equal a lost sale to Publishers. Some pirate a game to try it out before deciding if it’s worth paying for. Some can afford to buy any games but they pirate it anyway even if it’s worth buying.
The lesson for Publishers to learn is to make a good game. Patch and polish it decently before launch and charge a fair price. That won’t stop piracy but it will make the Publisher a lot of money from sales because they will be offering something that’s worth buying.
Exactly, simple steps.
– Don’t insult your customers, release a bug free well optimized game on release without any 0day patches.
– Release your game on GOG, physical, or Steam.
– Don’t wrap your game in a layer cake of DRM’s or rootkits.
– Don’t require single player games to authenticate back to a remote server (kill switch).
70 bucks for an unoptimized broken buggy unfinished game that plays like all the others and has horrible story. Might as well play the previous version of it instead of the latest reskin since its finished.
Ubisoft response “oh yeah, well the previous version is full price now, also the 70 bucks worth it, because look all the copy pasted crap we copy pasted around…ehmmm put in the game with love and care to justify the 70 bucks.
Most people dont finish games for this reason, boring and repetitive been there done that and as the unfinished broken games that disappoint continues, less people will buy on launch.
Then people wonder why no one is buying new gpus, to play what? Broken unfinished repetitive games you played 100 times over with slightly less crappy shadows and textures?
Cant you see she is BLACK, you fool ??
where can i pirate MS Flightsimulator Premium Deluxe ?
Try Sudan.
I pirate to steal.
I don’t care about denuvo, I steal because I like being a criminal.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
This lad.
Just make sure you don’t report me to the Pakistani authorities, sir
Was about to do it, but I’ll let it pass this time.
This time only, I may add!
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Stop sending me the picture of your crush, I’m not interested.
They only removed Denuvo cause they have to pay to use it, and the game sales clearly are low enough that is no longer sustainable to keep Denuvo.
They couldn’t care less about the gamers, if they didn’t had to pay they would keep Denuvo forever.
That’s not true. SE regularly removes DRM after a year or so even from most big games. They put it on there to give paying customers priority over pirates, but it doesn’t help sales at all – actually, there’s a strong argument to be made that it hurts sales more than helps.
Is clear you don’t know how Denuvo licenses work, they do not remove Denuvo cause they want to.
You are wrong. SE keeps Denuvo in their games as long as they can. For example, they removed this DRM from RotTR 4,5 years after the launch of this game! And they had to do it only because Intel Alder Lake CPUs had problems with old versions of Denuvo (they could not even launch this game). Same goes to SotTR and NieR Replicant.
SE is still keeping Denuvo in LiS 2, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Just Cause 4, Just Cause 3, Mad Max, Deus Ex: MD, The Quiet Man and Final Fantasy XV.
SE is one of the greediest game publishers. They do not care about players at all. RotTR was stuttering like hell, but after Denuvo was removed it now runs perfectly smooth.
P. S. SE even put Denuvo into The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, a free game! It still contains it after 5 years!
Computer “piracy” has existed since the first program that wasn’t shared was shown off.
Warez, that’s warez.
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the gayme released exactly 6 months ago, looks like they only signed a 6 month contract. shows that even the publisher had very little faith in it.
Now they can blame it on piwates at least, lmao.
Gotta love the suits.
Excellent news! The more games lack Denuvo, the happier PC players become.
In this specific case, we, PC gamers, are rooting for the add of yet another DENUVO layer. We actually want it to have 6 DENUVO.
Meaning anyone can now play this game with a simple download , and I still wouldn’t bother wasting my time or eyesight on this woke garbage.
SquareEnix is such a pathetic pile of dog**t.
Will be funny to see them be acquired within the next 18 months, and have their management scratching their heads in befuddlement, of how they got to that point.
Maybe just remove Forspoken! Heyoooohhhhh!!!!
Name one successful game with a black woman! You cant? Well neither can I!
Half-Life 2
She is Asian.
Denimo was useless there anyway, game flopped hard enough, so I doubt many were waiting for pirated copy. Still, I doubt it will boost sales, because danes problem wasn’t DRM, it is just that game is bad. Not bad enough to fall into so bad it’s good category, just boring kind of bad. Like few good things it has just aren’t enough to save it.
nah you can keep denuvo, remove the game though