Resident Evil 7 ditches Denuvo two years after release

Resident Evil 7 launched with the controversial piracy protection of Denuvo. Now, the DRM layer has been removed. The change quietly hit the Steam release last night, and is part of a growing trend for studios to remove Denuvo in the months and years after launch. Capcom hasn’t provided a reason for the change, but if the DRM was holding you back from the series’ soft reboot, now you’ve got no reason to stay away. This comes just over two years after RE7 originally launched. Its DRM protection was cracked in record time, just a week after release, which led to some predicting a swift end for Denuvo’s anti-piracy efforts. Of course, that didn’t happen, and more recent Denuvo releases have taken anywhere from days to months for scene groups to crack. Denuvo workarounds are still a matter of ‘when,’ not ‘if,’ though the protection layer is continuing to do its job in terms of stopping piracy during biggest sales period immediately after launch. Capcom has similarly removed Denuvo from other Steam releases at various time frames - Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite ditched the DRM a year after release, and Mega Man 11 only hosted the protection for one month.

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