As confirmed by a recent update to the game's Steam page, Crimson Desert will feature Denuvo. The controversial anti-piracy tech always keeps PC gamers on edge about performance, but Pearl Abyss says you shouldn't worry too much if you were happy with how the game looked in previews. That early version had already implemented Denuvo DRM.
"The benchmark videos and performance specs we released were all created with the exact same implementation of denuvo that is in the launch build," a Pearl Abyss representative told writer Paul Tassi. "This includes the performance videos by Digital Foundry. It's important that reviewers and benchmarkers' experience with the game is ultimately representative of the final consumer's experience."
