Denuvo is said to have launched a campaign of sorts to combat the negative perception of its anti-cheat and anti-piracy software, and with it comes a new interview with Andreas Ullmann, one in which Denuvo’s product manager has called the gaming community—or, more specifically, Steam users—”very toxic, and very hostile” for alleging that the DRM tanks game performance, with some going so far as to say that it can destroy SSDs. Ullmann, who has been with Irdeto since 2014, admits at one point of the interview that Denuvo has had an “effective performance impact” on a “handful of games,” but he considers this to be a “minority,” as the DRM is used to protect as many as 70 games per year. There is no way that a cracked game is faster than the uncracked version, Ullman added.
The cracks, they don’t remove our protection. The cracks still have all our code in and all our code is executed. There is even more code on top of the cracked code – that is executing on top of our code, and causing even more stuff to be executed. So there is technically no way that the cracked version is faster than the uncracked version. That’s simply a technical fact. That’s also because in our Discord, we have attracted quite a few reverse engineers already by now. And they are even arguing against other players posting these comments. They are basically confirming what we are claiming here.