reative00: Just to be clear:

Quote from their community manager:
"Just wanted to pop in and give our official statement about Denuvo.
We are using Denuvo because we want to protect the hard work the developers have put into the game from piracy. Unfortunately we are not in a position where we can release a game without some form of copy protection and Denuvo, being the industry standard, has proven itself to be effective in preventing piracy. We currently don't have any plans to remove Denuvo from MYZ: Road to Eden."

This post was marked by developers as "answer to original topic" (about Denuvo):
"Basically its a harmless software that stops piracy or rather aims to slow down piracy, however tinfoil hat people are convinced its using their $299 walmart pc to mine crypto currency or is collecting infomation on their my little pony fetish to sell to the russians :P
in short the type of people who cry about it are the type of people the game/community is better without."

Then, after some people said "hey, that's pretty fucked up views", they posted this:

“We do not agree with the views that were expressed in the comment that was mistakenly tagged by a dev and we feel it's absolutely not ok to belittle others for an opinion.
We understand that people are concerned about Denuvo and it is your right to discuss and bring up your concerns. We would however appreciate if it was discussed in one thread, rather than creating new ones with the same topic.
And to confirm: we will not remove Denuvo as we want to protect and honor the developers work as much as we can. It is equally your right to decide not to buy the game because of that reason.
Since this is yet again delving into a Denuvo discussion I am closing this thread. You are welcome to continue your concerns or praise for Denuvo in the already existing thread.
Thank you for your understanding.”

At this point, according to crackwatch, the game has been cracked for 41 days. So I guess it's "well we hate the idea of DRM-free games but it's cracked already so let's publish it on GoG and just grab some additional bucks"?

Tarhiel: ...
And hope they will see a reason to release their future works here as well.
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Enebias: The problem with this though is that no matter how well things go, GOG will sell only a marginal quantity of what it could have been if the game had no DRM from the start.
The hard tuth is that the vast majority of gamers does not care about DRM at all, and even many of those who would buy it DRM-free given the chance inevitably "cave in" and decide to suffer the DRM rather than not having the game at all, so lots and lots of potential sales are already vanished.

To prove a game can really do well DRM-free, other day one DRM-free games should be taken as example.
The only major release I know did this is The Witcher 3, so far. A better term of comparison for MYZ might be Larian or Obsidian.

reative00: You're right. I haven't honestly realized that this isn't developer = publisher case. In that situation, I'm gonna buy it just to support the devs; I don't think that "denuvo -> okey, we've realized our mistake, let's go DRM-free" like with RiME is a problem, it's actually fairly happy ending, after all this is the same thing that CDPR did with Witcher 2 (anyone remember infamous threat letters to customers in Germany and their stance on DRM back then?). The issue here was mostly their attitude towards customers; you can say "we understand that some companies prefer to release their games DRM-free, we're not keen on that, thanks for understanding" instead of "u bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists lol".