Death Stranding Will Use Denuvo DRM On PC

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Death Stranding is officially coming to PC in June, and now another detail about the PC release has been confirmed. The game's Steam page shows that Death Stranding for PC will use the Denuvo digital-rights-management (DRM) to try to thwart tampering.

By nature of being DRM in the first place, Denuvo is often seen as controversial software in the eyes of PC players. One of the main pieces of criticism of Denuvo is that the anti-piracy software has been shown to impact performance in some cases.

Denuvo the company understands that no DRM product can stop tampering. What Denuvo offers for publishers is a software that protects initial sales. "Games will be cracked at certain points; there is no uncrackable product. But what we do is protect the initial sales," Denuvo's Elmar Fischer told GI.biz in 2018.

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