They're explicitly not sending out review codes until launch suggesting that it's likely a bad game, but also means they're likely just going to try and make their money with unrefundable day 1 sales on Playstation/Xbox store
Denuvo must be the smartest company out there for constantly tricking this chunk head big game developers into thinking it's doing something, and totally does not hurt sales.
Frankly I don't think it hurts sales, but I don't think it helps them either. I wouldn't be surprised if it has literally no impact on top-line revenue. That said, I agree with you that Denuvo is very successful at convincing game publishers that it does something and taking in massive licensing revenues.
IDK, I won't buy games with Denuvo and have bought thousands of games. It probably hurts sales a little bit because of people like me, but not a huge amount (so far anyways, that might change as backlash grows and there are more people like me).
Well there wasn't review copies so it didn't get reported on ahead of time that it didn't have it, right? Or did people who pre-order see it didn't have it? I dunno, I never pre-order.