Now here is a pleasant surprise. Gearbox has just removed the controversial Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Homeworld 3. Homeworld 3 came out on PC in May 2024. This means that it took Gearbox around five-six months to remove it.
Homeworld 3 currently has Mostly Negative Reviews on Steam. While players have praised its graphics, a lot of them were disappointed by pretty much everything else. So, that does not bode well for the Homeworld fans who haven’t tried it yet.
It’s also worth noting that Gearbox added Denuvo to Homeworld 3 at the last minute. This really pissed off a lot of players. Still, it’s at least good to at least have the game without it.
Gearbox is not the only publisher that has removed Denuvo from its game. Other companies have also removed it from several of theirs. In March 2023, KRAFTON removed Denuvo from The Callisto Protocol. NEOWIZ has also removed it from its Souls-like game, Lies of P.
And that’s not all. Bethesda’s Wolfenstein Youngblood, Ghostwire: Tokyo and Doom Eternal no longer have it. Warner Bros has also removed it from Mortal Kombat 11. Then we have Bandai Namco who has removed it from Tekken 7 and NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER.
Another company that has removed Denuvo from a lot of its PC titles is Square Enix. The Japanese team has removed it from games like The Diofield Chronicle, VALKYRIE ELYSIUM, TRIANGLE STRATEGY, LIVE A LIVE and Forspoken. Moreover, both Octopath Traveler and its sequel no longer use it. And, earlier this month, SE also removed Denuvo from Star Ocean The Second Story R.
All in all, this is great news for PC gamers. Or at least for those who were interested in Homeworld 3. From what I can see on SteamDB, its peak number of concurrent players was 9K. And in the last 24 hours, it had 60 concurrent players. Ouch. So, let’s see whether the removal of Denuvo will boost those numbers. Spoiler alert: it most likely won’t but hey, you never know.
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