Payday 3 developer drops Denuvo from the game after fans request

[John Elden Ring]

Payday 3 is one such game that included Denuvo DRM, much to the dismay of fans, but developer Starbreeze Studios has now confirmed that it has been removed just days before the game is set to release.

"Hello heisters, we want to inform you that Denuvo is no longer in Payday 3," the developer wrote in a post on Steam on Friday. That's pretty much the whole message—short and to the point, and seemingly a win on the good will front, with the Steam post racking up 524 thumbs up on Steam so far and another 10,000 or so on Twitter.

Payday 3 is less than a week away from its September 21 release, and Starbreeze is clearly looking to roll into the launch with an excited community behind it. Two months ago a thread on the r/paydaytheheist subreddit called out the inclusion of Denuvo and the responses were characteristically negative. This afternoon, one of the game's developers responded to that thread to highlight that Denuvo has been removed.

 

[KiryuRealty]

With how lazy Starbreeze can be, my theory is that implementing Denuvo was just more work than they felt like doing.