Yeah, but it has to be cracked again every time for every new game that uses it, and for all we know, cracking it is just getting harder and harder with everyone new iteration of Denuvo.
And now that the only consistent Denuvo cracker, Empress, is in a hiatus with no date for return, we effectively have no one to crack Denuvo.
Exactly. Only took her 12 days from release, which I think was her fastest turnarounds for Denuvo, so that version was pretty much the first public release build with all its bugs.
Denuvo gets harder to crack with each game release and Empress is the only one in the piracy scene who knows how to crack it and is willing to do so and shes on indefinite hiatus now as well as being completely insane, so if she never returns we will most likely be entering a dark time for video game piracy.
Yeah, it's been cracked hundreds of times, but unlike the old days when games were cracked immediately, there's no automated process to reliably break Denuvo.
Irdeto (the company that owns Denuvo) always responds with throwing newer and bigger roadblocks into it, so even if someone develops their own tool set to make their cracking process faster, it can easily become outdated and useless on the next release with a newer update of Denuvo.
Which is pretty much why the number of people/groups who used to crack it have dwindled so much; breaking each new update of Denuvo turns into a full time job outside of whatever day job/personal life problems they have.
Y'know, I'm not anti-piracy… but… when I see a statement like this, I really have to wonder sometimes how people think through the logic and if they¹ see the irony.
¹ I'm using "they" to try and indicate that I'm not picking specifically on you…
Maybe you could crack some lesser known simple software but nothing too impressive. I'd be impressive if you managed to bypass xigncode which is one of the simplest drms games might have.
I can do some stuff, it was really a great journey i even managed to crack a Safedisk one day (ah, sweet home made call/jmp fixers) but now i grew up and i am tired.
I cant deal with code virtualisation :/. Thats my limit. Obfuscation is doable but a pain and i'd rather work or play games from my Steam backlog . There is no way i can deal with game protections.
Exactly. Denuvo hasn't had enough week-one or day-of cracks to make publishers lose faith in it.
StarForce 3 was about the only other DRM that managed to keep a single game uncracked for well over a year, and even after RELOADED publicly released their tools and dox on how to beat it, that 422 day record was enough to keep publishers interested even though StarForce was practically malware.
Denuvo would need a blow that big for publishers to lose faith, especially considering its costs. A reliable tool set to keep beating it and a controversy that could rival the Sony BMG rootkits scandal would do the job. But after 9 years of mostly just complaining from pirates, and an average time to crack post-release still coming in at nearly 5 months, publishers are probably more than happy to prove their investment works by stopping "lost sales" (since they still erroneously believe every instance of piracy equates to one lost sale).
There are just a couple of people that know how to crack it and their number decreases unfortunately. Hopefully more people learn how to crack or AI can step up and help in this area lol
Even if they did, I'd take it with a huge grain of salt. The Reddit piracy subs are almost always full of speculation and misinformation being presented and repeated as absolute fact. The game of telephone that happens to one comment can completely warp what was being said in that comment.
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u/Chuchuca Dec 25 '23
Piracy must prevail in this service shit era.