Just a week after the release of the Denuvo Anti-Cheat system, id Software has decided to completely remove the controversial system from Doom Eternal. The system was designed to prevent cheating in online games for PC, however, it was met with heavy criticism ever since its integration into the game.
Following the backlash, id Software has said that the next update with remove Denuvo Anti-Cheat from PC. The statement was made by the executive producer Marty Stratton on Reddit.
Despite our best intentions, feedback from players has made it clear that we must re-evaluate our approach to anti-cheat integration. With that, we will be removing the anti-cheat technology from the game in our next PC update. As we examine any future of anti-cheat in DOOM Eternal, at a minimum we must consider giving campaign-only players the ability to play without anti-cheat software installed, as well as ensure the overall timing of any anti-cheat integration better aligns with player expectations around clear initiatives – like ranked or competitive play – where demand for anti-cheat is far greater.
Through our investigation, we discovered and have fixed several crashes in our code related to customizable skins. We were also able to identify and fix a number of other memory-related crashes that should improve overall stability for players. All of these fixes will be in our next PC update. I’d like to note that some of these issues were very difficult to reproduce and we want to thank a number of our community members who worked directly with our engineers to identify and help reproduce these issues.
Stratton also went on to say that the decision to include the anti-cheat system into the game was made by id Software and has nothing to do with their parent company, Bethesda. Stratton also clarifies the performance and stability issues that have popped up by saying that it is unrelated to the release of the update.
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