“We are taking it out”Īmplitude co-founder and CCO Romain de Waubert de Genlis replied to the thread on Thursday, July 15, with a surprising announcement: the fan wouldn't have to wait 'some months' to see Denuvo removed.

I understand how important it is for sales to protect the game around release, but PLEASE Amplitude, PLEASE consider to remove Denuvo after some months!' This request lines up with other game publishers' decisions to remove Denuvo protections after a PC game's launch window has passed. This prompted a post titled 'The day Amplitude broke my heart' on Amplitude's official forum, with a fan declaring their love of prior Amplitude strategy games and then expressing their disappointment that Humankind had a Denuvo tag on its Steam page.Īfter pointing to their disagreement with Denuvo's practices, including the block of offline-only gameplay, the fan offered a reasonably levelheaded plea: 'To be fair, I totally understand why Denuvo was chosen (probably by Sega). This week, that debate gets worse for the makers of Denuvo: a video game developer has made the rare move of abandoning the DRM platform for its upcoming game's PC version-and it squarely blames Denuvo-related performance issues for the decision.Īmplitude Studios, a French studio known for PC-exclusive 4X strategy games, had previously announced that its next game, Humankind, would ship with a Denuvo implementation in August 2021. Denuvo-related game tests in the wild have ranged from inconclusive to damning. For years, PC gamers have wondered out loud whether antipiracy solutions like Denuvo get in the way of game performance, since the solutions tend to operate in the background in search of piracy-related flags.

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