Now here is a pleasant surprise. Warner Bros and Turtle Rock Studios have just removed the controversial Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Back 4 Blood.
Back 4 Blood is a 4 player co-op shooter that came out in 2021. So, it took almost three years for Warner Bros to remove Denuvo from it. I don’t really know what prompted the publisher to remove it. I mean, this is a really old game. Normally, you’d expect WB to remove it a year after a game’s release. Still, I’m not complaining as it’s a good thing to have fewer games with Denuvo.
For those wondering, Back 4 Blood had a peak of 3700 players in the last 24 hours. Its recent reviews are also Mostly Positive. So, it’s not a “dead” game. In fact, the game has more users than Suicide Squad: KTJL. Imagine that.
To be honest, I was a bit disappointed by Back 4 Blood. It’s not a bad game, but it’s nowhere close to Left 4 Dead. And although it came out three years ago, it’s still priced at 59.99 euros.
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.
Another company that has removed Denuvo from a lot of its PC titles is Square Enix. 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. And, earlier this month, SE also removed Denuvo from Star Ocean The Second Story R.
Stay tuned for more!
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Why did this thing have Denuvo in the first place? It’s a predominantly online game.
So odd.
I know right? So annoying honestly.
they think if they do sh$t like this they’ll appease their dumbas$ shareholders. look at all the stuff we did to prevent people playing our online game.
Online games are the more logical case for this thing rather than offline.
I don’t think that’s how that works. You didn’t need to force it. Forcing is NOT logical. And there is no reason for any game to be always online. There just isn’t. And never will be a reason.
Everything about these people are odd. It’s one giant trail of bad decision after the next. Nothin have to make Sense, just do SOMETHING.
It still shows it has Steam DRM.
Only the Epic Game Store version is now DRM-fee.
Wrong =D
Nothing wrong about it. PCGamingWiki shows it still has Steam’s DRM.
And Steam says it doesnt.
So, you’re wrong =D.
Steam doesn’t say which games use Steam’s DRM. That’s why PCGamingwiki exists. About 96% of games on Steam use Steam DRM.
Wait, i somehow confused that with Denuvo DRM which got removed.
I’m sorry XD.
The overwhelming majority of Steam games use Steam’s DRM, in fact it’s toggled on by default when packaging your game to launch on Steam. It requires a developer to purposely turn it off.
That’s a list of Steam games without DRM. Good job buddy, but that’s still only a tiny percentage of games on Steam. He is still right that almost all games on Steam have some form of DRM.
Official legal court documents show 98% of Steam games contain Steam’s DRM (see image below).
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cc2ae9921799929f776f273b78d891aa7fc8c2391fded4b801bb07f2900f96ac.jpg
Some simple math. (image below)
PCgamingwiki shows out of 41,086 Steam games in their database, only 1,211 are DRM free.
1211 / 41086 * 100
= 2.9% of Steam games are DRM-free
100%-2.9%
= 97.1% of games on Steam contain DRM.
Which is pretty close to the 98% that the court documents showed.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/11bb50fe2c3834b5abe4fa1ae5705a8b9336c58ac205a2f45e535ca8c2dff9ac.jpg
some more maths
97.1% of games on Steam contain DRM
75% of games on Epic Game Store contain DRM
10% of games on Itch contain DRM
less than 1% of games on GOG contain DRM
GameTard is allergic to facts that run counter to his blind Steam worship. I doubt he’s even old enough to remember when PC games came in boxes and you didn’t have to suck the digital d**k. But then cringe a*s teenagers like him have the audacity to call themselves the master race. Pathetic.
1,211 games out of 41,086 isnt most Steam games.
Haha, why are you lying? What’s the benefit here.
https://youtu.be/32n2sre7rIg?si=UchaFPZ8bekEZoz8
https://media1.giphy.com/media/jpytSP7DB10Ft6TH1H/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
I guess this game was… wait for it
Left 4 Dead.
https://youtu.be/mR3jnW2kcUs?si=Iso0aSNLbAdTi7uy
YEAAAHHHHHHH…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4967a943074b915959c1b048c268facd5e06317a98b677f3aef2996cfe40f211.gif
that’s why they have been teetering on bankruptcy for years…. “pay 1 million a year so people cant pirate our game, or dont on a game that hasnt made a million dollars in profit in 5 years.” really makes you think. lm sure the denuvo guy and the guy who kept it on this game so long go to the same synagogue. weird how that works, and its all interconnected and all profits and proceeds go to israel.
I don’t think anyone wants to play Back for turd while while way superior Left for dead 2 exist .
I have so many cool maps made by the community, that I would never, ever, even think about playing a cheap copy of that masterpiece.
Btw, “I hate cheap copies!”
I’d love to see a graph of sales just like we have steam charts for active players, to see how many users buy it in the month after the removal of denuvo.
In this case, i expect pretty much no bump but that would be so cool.
Sh*t game that no one really cares about. People hated it when it came out and it died super quick! Don’t think the pirates will even be bothered to play it.
question did john implement a trigger on certain being censored? if so why? curse words racial slurs…the hilarious word c*nt, and fa**ot.
What are you talking about? We’ve always censored specific words 😛
And that makes you a c**t cryptok**e ni**erfa**ot.
Denuvo gets paid to do nothing at all.