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Ah, Denuvo; the anti-tamper tech that a lot of gamers hate. And while some people may claim that this attitude comes from the fact that the games powered by it are hard to crack, the latest triple-A game powered by it, PREY, has already been cracked.
While it did not break the record for the fastest Denuvo-powered game cracked, it’s a real surprise that the latest, and more powerful, version of the Denuvo is unable to protect these games for more than ten days.
For what it’s worth, Resident Evil VII remains the fastest cracked Denuvo-powered game as it was cracked in just five days, while Mass Effect: Andromeda is close to PREY as it was cracked in ten – more or less – days.
Source: Dark Side of Gaming
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More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 3, Informative) by looorg on Friday May 19 2017, @08:51AM
I'm not sure one should say it's pointless due to a couple of titles being cracked in a week or two. Prey and Mass Effect Andromeda being the two in question. In the same time frame (as in a fairly new title) there are still uncracked games such as For Honor, Sniper Elite 4, Bulletstorm, Warhammer 40k Dawn of War III. You can look up the list at the Denuvo wikipedia page and there is a list of games protected with release date and crack date. There is a fair amount of games now that are going on a year or two years that remain uncracked, Total War Warhammer as an example. Even for some popular games it has been taking over 100+ days for a crack to appear. That might not entirely be based on the strength of the protection tho, a lot of might also now have to do with the titles just being old and the scene might not care for a crack for a game like FIFA 16 when FIFA 17 is already available.
Then there is the whole debate if it's, or they are, a (real) crack or not. As in have the protection been removed (and broken) or has it just been deactivated or is it stuck in some virtualmachineemulation loop or wrapper and can't get out. Was the protection cracked or did they just find some fault in the implementation or is it some other kind of bug. One train of thought would be that if it was a real crack they would just release the entire backlog -- the product is utterly defeated and there is no hope or use left, at the same time it could be counterproductive to do so since every crack they make is, probably, analyzed by Denvuo to identify the flaw and method to once again strengthen their product. But there are, as noted, options available so to speak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo [wikipedia.org]