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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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(Score: 1) by radu on Friday May 19 2017, @08:57AM (1 child)
I only bought one game, "Rocksmith" a few years ago. This one already has "DRM" built in the USB guitar cable, but for some reason it had Steam too.
Probably it checks in, and requires Internet connection
Yes, Steam did that. Then it auto-updates (Steam, not the game). This takes like forever. Then it restarts (Steam) and checks for an update again. After that, it loads advertising. Many megabytes of it. After loading advertising, it displays it in a way so it's difficult to find the "just play the game I installed, please" button. Then sometimes it starts the game, other times it starts some random error (online connection error XYZ, cable not recognized, wrong password, please update your user profile, etc).
It's been *years* since that experience and I still haven't forgotten it. The cracked version I eventually downloaded just played the game. You can't play the game without the cable. Why Steam?
My guess is because nowadays everyone wants to spy on you. Different than Google and Facebook, they also want your money. Similar to Microsoft.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 19 2017, @09:38AM
I have not bought ANY games for my PC - for the exact reasons you cited. I know money-across-the-counter is a one-way trip. As far as I am concerned, if someone wants to protect their right to control it after I buy it, I also protect my right NOT to buy.
I actually spent REAL EARNED MONEY for an Electronic Arts game for a Commodore64 many years ago - and I got so pissed at it hammering away at the disk drive, pounding its head against the stop over and over and over again. That is when I became familiar with Digital Rights Management. They had the right to tear up my stuff, and thought that would make me receptive to their business model? How about my sending THEM my service bill for realignment services to my disk drive?
Oh, didn't you read the EULA? We have the RIGHT to tear up your stuff. We are a Business... we expect you to honor OUR rights, but we are at liberty to trample all over YOUR rights. Because we say so. In the EULA. Congress Agrees!
Guess what....
feelings DRM ( bangs head ){
--respect for copyright ;
--respect for Congress ;
return disgust; }
I had to learn how to do what I had to do to keep my disk drive intact.
I have had a sore spot with this ever since.