Denuvo will lock you out of games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck if you keep changing Proton versions

Honestly, I've been pirating games that I own on Steam for awhile now.

It's so fucking annoying to launch a game on Steam, only to have to sit through some update that didn't get triggered for some stupid reason.

Hogwarts Legacy was literally the last Denuvo game to get a crack. Otherwise you just wait until the denuvo license expires, then get it.

Denuvo cracks are extremely rare though. Gone are the glory days of CPY and Empress.

Because Denuvo games take a long time to crack, and only a few people can do it reliably? There are games released as far back as 2018 that still haven’t been cracked.

Because early Denuvo cracks tend to not work correctly, and often require you to do stupid shit like set your OS's year to 2015 or something like that just for the game to boot.

I rather just wait a year or two for either a proper crack, or for the developer to decide to remove the DRM themselves, a la Capcom. Especially it's a single player game, cause there's no need to worry about the player population dying down by the time a crack comes out. And you also get to reap the benefits of having bugfixes available since the game has been out for awhile.