Reddit user alias PM__YOUR_BALLS that November 5th Steam client became 333 MB less than before. “Slimming” is the result of the removal of the Denuvo anti-piracy mechanism.
The elimination of the Austrian copy protection was tracked thanks to , which committed changes to the game's file system. In particular, the Octopath Traveler executable file has been modified.
Square Enix is in no hurry to update the product page on Steam - at the time of publication of the material, it still says that Octopath Traveler uses an anti-piracy mechanism.
The deletion of Denuvo is likely related to the September hack of the PC version of Octopath Traveler. Through the efforts of the hacker group CODEX, the project ended up on torrent trackers.
Как , without Denuvo on board, the Octopath Traveler starts noticeably faster, but the performance remains the same. The community believes that the Austrian defense slows down the game, however .
Octopath Traveler was released on PC in June 2019, almost a year after its release on the Nintendo Switch. In addition to the presence of Denuvo in the game, users were disappointed by the price - in Russia, jRPG is sold for 4499 rubles.
Source: 3dnews.ru