The Climb, CryTek's virtual reality climbing game is no longer protected by Denuvo DRM.

CryTek appears to have removed the Denuvo DRM anti-tampering system for The Climb, the Oculus VR-exclusive game in the latest game patch. What this allows is that the generators of mods for video games can access easily and can develop utilities for the game or improve some aspects of this title.

Technologies like Denuvo DRM, which prevent tampering with games, are causing a lot of controversy when developing mods for titles. This has started to be installed in games to avoid piracy and shortly after they are released, they are usually removed (we are talking about six months). Denuvo DRM is the best known and most used protection in the market, which we can see in AAA games such as Rise of the Tomb Raider and Just Cause 3, to independent titles, among many others. Denuvo has struggled due to security flaws, but the technology is still quite effective during the launch of the games, so it continues to be used in new titles.

There are smaller games at an industrial level that have been affected by these security holes, skipping this protection in about six weeks, but of course, even so the period is quite long, exceeding a month, with which income can be generated in a way notorious. Denuvo is working on improving the technology that prevents piracy, generating security patches to close the security holes, so it is increasingly difficult to overcome the DRM technology.

We don't know CryTek's motives for removing Denuvo DRM from its climbing sim, but this could attract more potential players and even create a community of developers creating maps or other things based on this game.

Source: Overclock3D