I think EA opting for not having Denuvo poses a much bigger existential risk. If a big player like EA discovers that they’re actually not losing money for skipping DRM and are only getting bad rep for using it, they might consider if it is worth it at all. If a big player like EA goes, so does the rest.

Denuvo has broken their strategy of not interacting with the market at all (they’re not popular after all) due to their controversy actively hurting their sales. If Hypervisor workarounds can help speed it up I’m all for it, but I’m more keeping an eye on what game Denuvo is playing right now.

While I don’t think hypervisors are all that interesting to most people due to their brittle nature and real security risks, I still think there’s a definite blow being dealt to Denuvo even if not a single person actually uses them. The publishers making the decision to pay for Denuvo are still going to see their games being cracked same-day, hypervisor or not, and that probably puts a lot of pressure on their decision to continue paying Denuvo.

The fact that it exists might, even if uncommon. It was already in question for many developers due to the bad press and minimal effect on sales.

That being said, as someone who works in IT, please don’t use a hypervisor to run pirated software if you have absolutely anything important or of note on your computer. You shouldn’t even run your an admin account as your daily driver on Windows. MAYBE if you have a separate computer just for gaming and disconnect it from the internet. Maybe. There are other things to play or pirate though.