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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
&gt; There are a lot of people on this sub who do not know how much denuvo has stopped the pirating of games. 

Stopping pirating doesn't mean people are buying it though. There's tons of pirates (Like me, in the past) who just...won't play it. There's too many other games out there to play. If I'm going to pirate a game because of Denuvo, but I can't BECAUSE OF Denuvo, that doesn't mean I'm just going to give in and buy it.

Denuvo may have slowed piracy for some games, but that doesn't translate to an increase of sales. And in that regard, Denuvo is just a waste of money because for the publishers/devs to implement
gpt
Denuvo isn't meant to increase sales as a whole. It's meant to stop people getting access to  a pirated copy of a game when the price of the game is at its highest. Selling a game for £60 on launch is a lot more useful to them in terms of profit and stats than how much they sell it for half price next year. Most games have their highest official player count in the first few months and where most of their profitable sales come from.