The PC version of Persona 5 Royal has been rendered temporarily unplayable in early May due to a major Denuvo server outage.
While a partial workaround allowed fans to circumvent the issue and access the game with some features disabled, this turn of events still angered many Persona 5 Royal players.
The definitive edition of Atlus's 2016 RPG has been a long-time hit among PC gamers, as underlined by the fact that the Steam version of Persona 5 Royal has been consistently averaging thousands of concurrent players since its late 2022 debut.
The game had a significant popularity spike in late April, doubling its daily concurrent player peak to 25,000, after a 60% discount saw it drop to its lowest-ever price of $23.99 on Valve's storefront.
And while tens of thousands of Steam users have been playing Persona 5 Royal on a daily basis ever since, the vast majority of them were forced to stop on Thursday, May 2, when a Denuvo outage stopped their attempts to launch the game.