Doom removed it after four months. https://kotaku.com/denuvo-explains-why-doom-dropped-their-an... Rime removed it after the DRM was cracked. https://www.pcgamesn.com/rime/rime-denuvo-removal Rage 2 and Hitman 2 also removed it after a while.

Annoying bugs being patched is another reason to buy. Often cannot get the latest version without buying retail.

What’s the benefit for the publisher to do that?

DRM often creates bugs and performance problems for users, so removing it makes users happy.

If they see it’s the cause they can decide. From that i can tell there is very little evidence that Denuvo causes problems if well implemented so i doubt there is much incentive to remove it.

> From that i can tell there is very little evidence that Denuvo causes problems if well implemented so i doubt there is much incentive to remove it.

The game will become unplayable after a decade or so if/when Denuvo decides to shut down it's servers. Lots of MMO's from early 2000's are already in this state. DRM like Denuvo is a disaster for long term preservation of games.

I can take a movie from 1940 and watch it today with minimal effort, but the same can't be said for games. It's already difficult with rapidly shifting computing landscape (eg. try playing NFS Porsche Unleased on a Win10 PC), shit like Denuvo just adds insult to the injury for some hypothetical gain which might not even be real.

> game will become unplayable after a decade or so if/when Denuvo decides to shut down it's servers.

Which is even more of a reason for a publisher not to remove it. Opens the possibility to do re-releases in the future.