SEGA has revealed – via their official Steam store pages – that both Total War: THREE KINGDOMS and Team Sonic Racing will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. This is a big surprise since SEGA had removed Denuvo from Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami and Sonic Mania, and has recently released Yakuza Kiwami 2 without that controversial anti-tamper tech.
It’s really disappointing witnessing SEGA taking one step backwards regarding the DRM implementation in its titles. Still, we should note that pretty much all the latest Total War games use Denuvo so we don’t know whether its inclusion was made by the developers themselves or whether it was forced by the publisher.
Team Sonic Racing is currently scheduled for a May 21st release, whereas Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is planned for a May 23rd release.
SEGA has already provided us with a review code for this new Total War game so expect our PC Performance Analysis to go live prior to the game’s release.
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Yakuza Kiwami did not launch with Denuvo.
and sold poorly
yakuza 0 200-500k
Kiwami 50-100k
Kiwami 2 20-50K
yeah it sold realy great you should inform urself
What’s the source of these numbers?
Denuvo is necessary evil, because some entitled children who think they can just download everything for free.
Sure, pirates are the entitled children, not the Devs that make a bad game and complain that is not selling like is a masterpiece.
Remember he’s a Tencent shill so clearly has mental health issues.
Do unto others, before they do unto you. This entire industry is a blood sucking mess. You wanna bend over and take it in the a** from corps, instead of standing up for youself? Be my guest.
Your hilarious whining is changing noone’s opinion on this topic. It is nice to see you people whine though. Makes my day, so please, don’t ever stop.
I agree with you.If anyone made a game he will protect his asset by any means necessary!
Because Sonic is their mascot so its need proper protection even though people tired with Sonic…
FCK DRM
yakuza kiwami 2 didn’t use Denuvo but yeah Sega will use Denuvo whenever they can.
FCK DRM
This is news to ……… who exactly? It’s Sega. Of course it’s using Denuvo.
This is right up there with “Brace Yourselves, SquareEnix to use Denuvo in Upcoming Game”
(gasp) The shock.
At least its not Epic Games Store Exclusive. Now imagine a game being Epic Games Store Exclusive, Online Only and having Denuvo all at the same time as well as Loot-Boxes and Micro-Transactions.
For those that don’t know sega has a signed exclusivity deal with valve, so it’s impossible till that expires to see any Sega games on shity epic store( or any other good store aka gog).
Link?
yeah, purnhubdotcom.
This never happened.
LOL (puking in a pool emoji)
SEGA must want Sonic Racing to be as well received as the Sonic The Hedgehog movie trailer! *
* by the actual consumer, not the whinging anti-consumer crybaby activist ‘journalists’
It is natural that SEGA wants to protect their best selling IPs from pirate kids.
while pirates won’t get denuvo version.. i think it’s a good time for pirate rising..
Lest we forget Rome 2. Ships. Through. Solid. Ground. And the enemy literally running 1 foot in front of your dudes then spinning around and running away.
And not one person cared because it’s irrelevant. Denuvo does not affect performance, period, unless there’s a glitch causing Denuvo to go crazy. Do all the fake analyses you want on games like RE2 etc.,it doesn’t change that. Don’t forget to ignore the known fact that REnet caused massive stuttering and frame drop issues with RE2 so the very fact that the pirated version is the pirated version automatically meant it ran better – it had nothing whatsoever to do with Denuvo.