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I imagine that if some Denuvo servers enter legacy status at some point they'll be removed entirely.

Yeah it's not uncommon to see Denuvo patched out of a game title once the initial sales window has passed..

I wonder if that's because they want to avoid these kinds of future incompatiblities with the underlying OS as it evolves.

IIRC Denuvo costs a fortune to keep in a game, since it’s a subscription model. Once sales sufficiently taper off there’s not much sense in paying for it anymore.

Some games have had it for an extremely long time. and some publishers never remove it (Eg. Sega). In some cases I guess they got a lifetime deal with an older version of Denuvo, but other cases are sus. I wonder is it for money laundering purposes.

Theres a list of every game that currently has denuvo here... https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/p9ak4n/crack_wa...

I think the dev pays for the service window and after the Denuvo contact is up they update the game without it.

Not a horrible system. Protects the initial sales spike from piracy, but doesn't obstruct long term archival or playability after the servers go down.

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