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posted by n1 on Monday May 29 2017, @10:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the challenge-accepted dept.

Game studios that use digital rights management (DRM) tools tend to defend it to the death, even after it's been cracked. It prevents 'casual' piracy and cheating, they sometimes argue. However, Rime developer Tequila Works is taking a decidedly different approach. It claims that it'll remove Denuvo, the anti-tampering/DRM system on the Windows version of Rime, if someone cracks its island puzzle title. This is an odd promise to make, especially since it amounts to an inadvertent dare -- find a way to break in and the developers will eliminate the need for that crack.

This wouldn't be so unusual a statement if there weren't a history of Denuvo cracks. While it's harder to defeat this code than earlier schemes, it's definitely not impossible. Recent games like Resident Evil 7 and Prey had their Denuvo implementations broken within days of release, while developers have patched it out on titles like Doom and Inside. Tequila Works is aware that cracking is likely more a question of "when" than "if," but it appears to be optimistic about the challenge involved.

Source: ArsTechnica


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday May 30 2017, @01:54AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 30 2017, @01:54AM (#517415) Journal

    It's also:

    • a curse for "professional crackers" - once they crack the DRM, there days they can sell the cracked game are numbered, good luck making a profit the from it, the game will be available without DRM anyway once the game publisher learns about
    • an incentive for the cracking-artists (motivation for cracking just for the sake of art/recognition) - once they can demonstrate the crack is effective, they can contact the game developer and claim "the recognition" without taking the pain of distributing the cracked version (the care for anonymizing a notification is assumed less than the needed care of anonymizing the distribution of the cracked game).
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