Denuvo robs you of ownership and control. Do not give a company money for what is merely a digital rental. Fuck that. The first two in the trilogy did not use it, so adding it to the finale is a thieving scumbag move.

Don’t buy anything that ships with Denuvo. Do not buy it on console instead. Do not buy it at all. Fuck these thieving corporations.

This urge to get the new hotness right away just plays into the hands of these scumbag corporations that want to milk us. The game will be just as good if not better a year from now (or if it winds up sucking you can save your money). There's plenty else to play already, don't let yourself be manipulated.

Do not give any game with AN EMBEDDED KERNAL-LEVEL VIRUS access to your systems nor your money

It’s literally a virus, sold by shithead companies who are too lazy or incapable of making a decent product

Fuck em or steal it

Dont buy denuvo trash

If Steam ever shuts down, an old Reddit post had info about a customer experience message chain where a Valve representive said they had contingency plans if that ever happens.

If there's third-party DRM on top of the regular Steamworks DRM, the game you bought has much worse odds of actually working offline if Valve goes out of business or the devs abandon it. That's why I try to avoid Denuvo.

That being said, I've played Denuvo games on my system and any performance drops have been minimal at best. YMMV on that, but I'm a mid-end gamer at best. A certain athetic woman will provide alternative access to the game if you really want to skip Denuvo, but it should be fine.

But Denuvo is just silly and pointless. It sets out to be an anti-piracy measure, but it's not actually preventing games from being cracked at all. Game studios should prevent piracy by making a high-quality, consumer-friendly product. I would never pirate a GOG game, but I can't say the same for Ubisoft.

Every time the Proton version updates or you change to try a different version, Denuvo registers it as a new PC. And there is a limit how many often you can change in short amount of time (1 hour? 1 day? I don't now), before cooldown sets in. And while there is this cooldown period, you cannot play the game. And in some cases the performance seems to be reduced, but that topic is not very clear. And Denuvo also turn offline games into online requirement, as you cannot play them without active internet connection. I don't know of this is a common issue with Denuvo.

Wait until it got cracked and pirated it

Fuck Denuvo, but ive had absolutely no problems running games that included that piece of malware.

I'm with the others that you should wait, but to actually answer your question, no Denuvo itself isn't a problem and the game will work fine should you get it

I got a free game on Epic at one point that had it. It runs, but changing Proton versions makes it view it as a new machine, and it'll eventually stop you from playing. I think it's time limited, so eventually you can continue.

Basically, you're gambling that the game runs fine with whatever Proton version you start with, or you may be in for a bad time. I don't recommend it.

I played Rebirth on my Fedora PC when it first came out; it was fine*

*: mostly, I think I had to tinker with different versions of proton to get a smooth experience, but I don't remember specifics

Hello OP just wanted to let you know that this is a horrible thread (not your fault) and most of the answers posted contain some level of misinformation. I highly suggest you do your own research.