"Death Stranding" finally has a release date this week, and Kojima Productions has announced that it will be climbing and peeing all over post-apocalyptic America on June 2. That's good news. However, the notice added to the Steam page notifying that the PC version uses the Denuvo DRM was less than welcome.

This controversial anti-tampering software, which draws much ire whenever it appears, is not only meant to deter pirates. In fact, historically, the software has not done much to deter piracy. Resident Evil 7 was cracked in less than a week, leading Denuvo to admit that there is no product that cannot be cracked.

Denuvo has been criticized for causing all kinds of problems, especially when it comes to performance: when Devil May Cry 5 was compared to a build without Denuvo, performance improved by an average of 25 percent, and players were able to extract an additional 20 fps from the game. from the game. Capcom eventually removed the DRM.

In other cases, there was little or no impact. For example, when Durante played "Final Fantasy 15," load times increased slightly, but there was no negative impact on in-game performance.

It is not uncommon for publishers and developers to condone and remove Denuvo. Along with "Devil May Cry 5," there was also "Mass Effect: Andromeda, Rime, Life is Strange: Before the Storm," "Rage 2," and many others.

As expected, Steam's forums were already awash with posts on the subject, none of them positive. Thankfully, those unwilling to buy games that use Denuvo can wait a while until Denuvo is removed once it becomes inevitable that "Death Stranding" will be cracked.