• Toes♀@ani.social
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    10 months ago

    Very few games with Denuvo ever get cracked

    I was under the impression that all the major Denuvo games got cracked within the year they launched if not the first couple weeks? Maybe there wasn’t the right attention for that game?

    Do you know of a place that tracks that kinda thing? I’m pretty curious now about the statistics of release to cracked.

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      10 months ago

      There is basically only one or two people involved with any sort of denuvo cracking, someone named Empress and another I can’t remember.

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      10 months ago

      There’s an r/crackwatch, but afaik its Denuvo list hasn’t been updated in something like 1.5 years (because there’s been no, or next-to-no, denuvo cracks this whole time)

      For example, in 2021, only 7 games released with Denuvo were cracked (out of an approximate 30). In 2022, only one. There was only one cracker in the world who was any good at breaking Denuvo, and Denuvo hired them, so it just doesn’t happen anymore.

      (Be careful when reading the crackwatch updates, because they mark ‘denovo removed’ the same colour as ‘denuvo cracked’, you have to read the notes)

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          10 months ago

          “Denuvo removed” means, like I said before, the publisher stopped paying the denuvo license and voluntarily removed it from the game themselves.

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        10 months ago

        Hogwarts legacy came out last year with dunovo and Empress cracked it in something like a few weeks. Whoever made that list just stopped updating it.

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          10 months ago

          One success does not put the lie to the idea that there are few successes.

          The most recent update to the list was literally less than 1 hour ago. Of the 229 games that have been released with Denuvo since 2020, <30 of them have been cracked. 119 of them had the Denuvo eventually removed by the publisher.

          Empress was essentially the only person who cracked Denuvo with any regularity, and even they only succeeded at a few games, and only extremely popular ones (because they worked off a donation scheme). I use the past tense, because Empress works for Denuvo now.

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      10 months ago

      We’re talking about a rhythm game with a smaller audience then, say, Binding of Isaac. I’m guessing yeah, it might not be a prime target for cracking.