Did some digging and found two sources on how much Denuvo costs you to implement:
First one's on
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of all places, states that Denuvo charges you 0.50$ per license sold and a monthly fee of 25,000$.
Second one
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, who had to pay a up-front fee of 140,000$ for the 12 months, 2000$ per months after that and an extra 60,000$ if they sold more than 500,000 copies in the first month...
In other words, unless people pay for his patreon in droves, chances are our friend Helius has to fork over a considerable portion of his revenue just to keep his Denuvo sub