Comparative benchmarking Assassin's Creed Mirage showed a 76% increase in minimum fps and an increase in rare events after completely clearing the executable file from Denuvo protection.
Most games make the largest amount during the first week or two, so if it takes longer then that for someone to crack it, then it was probably worth it to the publishers. I don’t follow all the denovo news, so maybe with the new hypervisor stuff this is a moot point, but most games haven’t been cracked immediately.
How has Denuvo even managed to convince the AAA market to purchase it’s products when they are cracked almost immediately anyway?
Most games make the largest amount during the first week or two, so if it takes longer then that for someone to crack it, then it was probably worth it to the publishers. I don’t follow all the denovo news, so maybe with the new hypervisor stuff this is a moot point, but most games haven’t been cracked immediately.
for quite a while it wasn’t
Because not having a DRM solution makes shareholders nervous. So a pointless system that actively makes the game worse, is a positive still.
Always the damn shareholders