Square Enix has just removed Denuvo from the remake of Star Ocean The Second Story, Star Ocean The Second Story R. Star Ocean The Second Story R came out on PC in November 2023, meaning that it took around five/six months in order to remove it.
The removal of Denuvo shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, Square Enix has done this for a lot of its games. 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.
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.
Capcom is also another publisher that has removed Denuvo from its older titles. For instance, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Resident Evil 3 Remake, Devil May Cry 5 and Monster Hunter World no longer have it.
So, great news I guess for those who wanted to play this science fantasy RPG. Currently, the game has Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews on Steam. So, hopefully, it has sold well.
Speaking of SE, the team will, most likely, release later this year Final Fantasy XVI on PC. And, you can bet your ass it will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. In fact, FF XV still uses it. Final Fantasy XV came out in March 2018, and it will not receive any new DLCs. So, I don’t know why Square Enix has kept Denuvo in it.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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Given SE’s recent financials, I have a feeling they may be “removing Denuvo” on a few other games of theirs in the near future too. 😆😅
Don’t worry, the ethics department staffed with westoid pozcucks will not be defunded.
Priorities.
To be honest Japanese publishers should entirely abandon denuvo and their games would still sell well. Hitting a big blow to the doomed western publishers into the grave already.
It still uses Steam’s DRM.
Shame it was not released on Epic Game Store or GoG.
gog maybe. not epic
I had to go and download it right away then.
Just kidding.
Sorry for asking but what the hell is Denuvo? Not something thats widely known so im assuming its a pc thing but if it is then I wish the editor would have clarified what it is in the article for non-pc gamers
Oh you are new here. 🙂 Denuvo is DRM and is hated (mostly because they can’t pirate those games). The impact on games with it is either not much or can be bad on some.
The cycle here is; trash on anything with Denuvo, instantly post when it is removed so it can be pirated.
He even has 20+ hot links to all his shout outs on Denuvo.