Borderlands 3 Launches with Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM
The upcoming Epic Games title is one of dozens of games being released this year with the controversial anti-piracy support.
The announcement, which was spotted by eagle-eyed Reddit users, was made in an update to the game’s official Epic Games Store page.
Denuvo protection aims to prevent the unauthorised distribution of games, and has been used in South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Total War: Warhammer 2 and FIFA 18, among others. But it’s not foolproof. Each of those games was cracked within hours of their respective launches. Likewise, Devil May Cry 5, Metro Exodus, Resident Evil 2, Far Cry New Dawn, Football Manager 2019 and Soul Calibur 6, were each cracked within the first week of their release this year.
In 2018, DRM developer Denuvo Software Solutions filed a lawsuit against a Bulgarian hacker, who had cracked a number of Denuvo-protected games. The hacker, known by his online alias Voksi, was later arrested.
Denuvo has developed something of an infamous reputation among gamers over the years. This method of DRM requires that users have an internet connection, for one. But more significantly it seems to affect game performance. In 2017, Voksi said that the anti-piracy measures taken for the PC release of Assassin’s Creed: Origins were hogging CPU resources. Origins used two layers of DRM: Denuvo, as well as additional DRM called VMProtect. While this made Denuvo extremely hard to bypass, it came at a cost of roughly 30-40% of CPU power. Ubisoft denied that the DRM tech was to blame for high CPU usage.
Borderlands 3 launches September 13 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2019/08/15/borderlands-3-launches-denuvo-drm/
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naterocks500Posted:
Rui It will get to the point where they will make their games require a login to their server to have access to their games in the future, I believe personally you don't get the same buzz of the game as you would if you bought it.
That will be met with fierce backlash and you know it, then the backpedaling would happen.
OGTrey079Posted:
naterocks500 It's almost like they're expecting a lot of people to want to pirate this game? I wonder why....?
I was Fr thinking like why would people buy a single player game on epic lol
RuiPosted:
It will get to the point where they will make their games require a login to their server to have access to their games in the future, I believe personally you don't get the same buzz of the game as you would if you bought it.
naterocks500Posted:
It's almost like they're expecting a lot of people to want to pirate this game? I wonder why....?
VHzPosted:
Yeah this won't stop it being cracked. If they made the game require internet or Epic's Servers to play then that would resolve it. But thats not gonna happen let's be real.
MDAPosted:
There's always going to be cracked version of games.. at least they're trying to prevent it!
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