{"id":113475,"date":"2016-12-08T13:33:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T11:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113475"},"modified":"2016-12-08T13:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T11:34:49","slug":"denuvo-drm-being-patched-out-of-older-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/113475-denuvo-drm-being-patched-out-of-older-games","title":{"rendered":"Denuvo DRM being patched out of older games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest DOOM patch removes the Denuvo anti-piracy measure from the game&#8217;s files.<\/p>\n<p>The patch titled &#8220;DOOM\u2019s Free Update 5&#8221; includes new\u00a0 multiplayer and Snapmap modes as well as a double-XP period.<\/p>\n<p>This makes DOOM the second game in as many months to remove the anti-tamper feature, as last month it was patched out of indie game &#8220;Inside&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear at this point if the developers are deliberately patching Denuvo out of their games or simply due to contracts running their course.<\/p>\n<p>Others <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=1323084\" target=\"_blank\">point <\/a><\/strong>to the\u00a0 initial launch window coming to an end, meaning the game has already sold the majority of possible copies and that piracy is no longer a major concern.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/102523-how-pirates-are-winning-the-war-against-denuvo.html\" target=\"_blank\">How pirates are winning the war against Denuvo<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial Denuvo DRM is being patched out of older games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":99712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,17017,41],"class_list":["post-113475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-denuvo","tag-drm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}