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I heard about it and went to the store page to check it out. Saw denuvo, and marked the title as ignored. Not even worth pirating at that point, fuck off with that garbage. I own zero games with denuvo and that's not changing. Even if they remove it I'm still not buying it.
I hope piracy ends up beating denuvo so that garbage stops existing, not so I can pirate it.
I hope piracy ends up beating denuvo so that garbage stops existing, not so I can pirate it.
Denuvo used to take months to years to crack. Now Denuvo gets removed from games within days to maybe a week after release. Piracy is winning, alright.
I love to see it, but publishers will still consider this a win for DRM. The vast majority of sales for most games happen in the first few weeks after release, so 13 days without a crack might be considered worth the cost of Denuvo in exec's minds. They'll only panic if it's available on day one, like with that hypervisor bypass that made headlines recently.
Meanwhile in reality, it's these recent bypasses that give people who pirate confidence to say it's gonna be a couple weeks tops so I'm not gonna pay for it
As is the mindset of an acquaintance i have that pirates everything
Pretty sure that HV works on most/all DRM, though? I mean, it can be insanely unsafe on the user's part, and incalculably risky at the very least, but it's still available on day one.
FWIW, said execs certainly show no signs of GAF abt user security, privacy, etc., so there's nothing (yet?) stopping them from further normalizing deep access to end-users' devices... under the PR fraud of "protection" against "hackers".
It doesn't matter if you "bought" their thing, you're still just a product to them. 😶
I think they'd be at least slightly bothered by Hypervisor being day-one, to the best of my knowledge, even if full cracks aren't. For those who're willing, it still allows games to be played at launch. I bet there are some firm words being exchanged in the C-suite recently, trying to pressure Denuvo into "getting it sorted".
I will buy this game when it's on a good sale and doesn't have Denuvo.
Hmm, I guess denuvo's not forever
......... I'll get my coat
Is there a place a person could go to find a list of reliably cracked games we can use? Didn’t realize this was possible if I’m being honest and now I’m worried about getting real cracks versus the reposts with a bunch of malware
There's crackwatch on db0 but I think .world might be defederated from there.
Outside of the fedi, there are the repackers dodi and fitgirl. They just compress someone else's crack for smaller downloads. It's been quite a while, but cs dot rin dot ru used to be the place to go for stuff like denuvo cracks.
It's xrel.to, you can just type what you want to know in the search box and check if it was cracked.
Does this bring us back to 100%?