{"id":406833,"date":"2025-11-01T19:43:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/drm-denuvo-offline-games-steam"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:43:53","slug":"dozens-of-games-were-unplayable-at-the-weekend-thanks-to-a-fault-with-denuvo-drm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dozens-of-games-were-unplayable-at-the-weekend-thanks-to-a-fault-with-denuvo-drm\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of games were unplayable at the weekend thanks to a fault with Denuvo DRM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dozens-of-games-were-unplayable-at-the-weekend-thanks-to-a-fault-with-denuvo-drm.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend just gone (October 6-November 8), dozens of games were unplayable on PC thanks to a <strong>Denuvo<\/strong> domain going offline. The outage affected single-player and multiplayer games, and suffice to say people are not happy.<\/p>\n<p>If you tried to boot up a game that uses Denuvo DRM over the weekend (one of which may have been the recently-released Guardians of the Galaxy from Square Enix, for example) you may have noticed that the game would not run. Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/denuvo-servers-potentially-down-having-issues-causing-issues-for-games.511281\/\">Resetera<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/1088850\/discussions\/0\/3158706376165117539\">Steam<\/a> communities had various threads talking about the issue, with both parts of the gaming community lameting &ndash; once again &ndash; that Denuvo was spoiling their good time.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;A Denuvo domain was unreachable yesterday afternoon CET,&#8221; said the company in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/a-great-day-for-drm-as-denuvo-lapse-renders-tons-of-games-temporarily-unplayable\/\">PC Gamer<\/a>, seemingly confirming domain woes were behind the outage (but only issuing the statement once the problem was sorted).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/drm-denuvo-offline-games-steam\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/drm-denuvo-offline-games-steam\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend just gone (October 6-November 8), dozens of games were unplayable on PC thanks to a Denuvo domain going offline. The outage affected single-player and multiplayer games, and suffice to say people are not happy. If you tried to boot up a game that uses Denuvo DRM over the weekend (one of which may have been the recently-released Guardians of the Galaxy from Square Enix, for example) you may have noticed that the game would not run. Both Resetera and Steam communities had various threads talking about the issue, with both parts of the gaming community lameting &ndash; once again &ndash; that Denuvo was spoiling their good time. &#8220;A Denuvo domain was unreachable yesterday afternoon CET,&#8221; said the company in a statement to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dozens-of-games-were-unplayable-at-the-weekend-thanks-to-a-fault-with-denuvo-drm\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3162,3526,4639,59,156],"class_list":["post-406833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-denuvo","tag-drm","tag-guardians-of-the-galaxy","tag-pc","tag-steam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dozens of games were unplayable at the weekend thanks to a fault with Denuvo DRM | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Over the weekend just gone (October 6-November 8), dozens of games were unplayable on PC thanks to a Denuvo domain going offline. 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