[Stardock Start 10 (2015) V1.0 Pre-Cracked Version
Iberio Ralda
Denuvo Anti-Tamper, or Denuvo, is an anti-tamper technology and digital rights management (DRM) scheme developed by the Austrian company Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH, a company formed through the management buyout (MBO) of Sony DADC DigitalWorks.
Then again: What happens in the future? If Denuvo is based on CPU thumbprint or some other nonsense, then what happens on the new processors of the future? Will the game fail to install? Fail to activate? Fail to run? Impossible to say.
This was always the case.3dm never said that denuvo was impossible,but that it was too labor intensive.Thats why they decided to move on to other things.Spending a month cracking a single game isnt really that enticing.Especially when after that all your efforts will be worthless once denuvo makes a new version.
*Usually this luck involves having someone on the inside who will provide a clean copy.
**Obviously it cannot kill it completely,but it can make it hard enough for most pirates to simply give up,which has been the case with many denuvo protected games already.
By definition, the instructions required to run that application are sat on my hard disk, are decoded by my hardware and the result placed in my RAM and cache lines. I have physical access, so I control everything and can always get the executable result because I already have it.
I had to check the date on this article twice. After reading the comments, I had to check my calendar! Not only is Denuvo thoroughly cracked, they lost their license for the ANTITAMPER tech they were using, and are being Sued!
The current version at least, but the Denuvo developers have been shown to react to holes in their implementation fairly quickly. What we are seeing now is basically the same pattern that has happened before: someone manages to bypass the current iteration, and this can be applied to a raft of games that uses the same version. Then this gets plugged and there is another period of a few months of games being protected. Your classic cat and mouse game.
As I understand it, the reason that Denuvo has had such an impact is twofold. First, the switch to x64 which initially made disassembly difficult. Second, the PC game warez scene was already well in decline before Denuvo came along, to the point that when it emerged, all the top crackers were long gone. The fact that even now there are still only a handful of people even managing to bypass it says a lot. All the old school release groups dissolved/dispersed years ago, and few true successors have emerged to take their place. It was Time more than anything that won a victory the game industry never could.
Once the game DID get cracked, I think Bethesda went and removed Denovu from the game altogether, which is a compromise I can get behind, but not every company is going to do this, and not every game is going to get cracked.
In the case of denuvo,they will.Because its their policy that every game protected by denuvo has to have it removed if the game gets cracked.So even if bethesda didnt want to do this,they had no choice.
My mistake.I was misremembering what they were saying about the deals they made with publishers about refunds if the game gets cracked in a certain time frame.It was that publishers are free to remove denuvo after that,not that they are encouraged.
All of them encumber the work.Some more noticeably than others.Denuvo requires online connection when the game is being installed or patched or when the hardware is being changed.Its not much compared to some other schemes,but still.
Seeing how its relevant only during launch,its not likely.Maybe some games try and reverify the exe in the middle of it,but its not a long or continuous process.Or at least,it shouldnt be.Though I wouldnt be surprised if someone like ubisoft added more verification procedures,which would definitely lead to slowdowns.
According to the grapevine, Denuvo (or this version anyway) had a metric ton of little checks integrated into the files which would have to be rooted out one by one, which would take a massive amount of man-hours. (this might also explain the SSD-murdering complaints)
Unfortunately, the devs implemented the checks badly, and then made way too many of them. Meaning that Denuvo checked things so often that it caused an actual performance drop.
But again, that seemed to be because the devs botched it, not because of Denuvo
I think it was only that one game where the devs did something stupid and caused millions of calls during launch and thousands of calls per sec during gameplay. Other games have not been that zealous yet.
Cellphone companies are actually pretty competitive. There are a lot of companies in the market considering how high the price of entry is. Cable companies are often granted monopolies by municipalities.
Also, having six major players in the market is plenty to keep them competitive. Two players in a market can be competitive. The competitiveness of a market is determined by the willingness of a consumer to switch between options and their drive to maximize their value between the two, not the number of providers. The console market, despite only having three players, was competitive enough for Sony to begin selling at an initial loss.
We're not saying it's not competitive. We're saying that when you have very few producers (like 6), it's an oligopoly, and oligopolies function differently than wide open markets. For starters, they work *very* hard to never compete on price.
Why not $70? Because when the 360 came out, Microsoft decided to edge the price up from $50 to $60, and their competition decided to join them; if they'd gone with $70, their competitors likely would have guessed that was too big a jump, not followed, and Xbox sales would have suffered.
An illustration of how price stickiness prevents prices from declining can be seen in Australia the market prices for games in Australia hovers around $80-100, because in the days of physical media it really did cost more to get a game to that country. With digital distribution, that's no longer an issue but nobody's cutting prices, because they would not sell (enough) additional games if they did.
Two different people look at the same data and come to opposing conclusions that (as luck would have it) match their preconceived notions. The free market is a sham! No! The free market saves all! Unions will save us. No! Unions are a sham!
We have an innate desire to take complex problems and attempt to solve them with simple axioms. If a solution worked in one context, then we are duty-bound to mindlessly advocate for that same solution to all other problems in the same domain!
Well, plus the whole Marketing dilemmas of perceived value per a price point in addition to the Accounting Gross Margin. If virtually all AAA titles are $60 and you run the numbers and calculate you can still make a good profit selling it at $10, should you? Or will potential customers perceive the game to be shovelware?
*Actually, games might be ok because there are plenty of opportunities to read reviews out there that would say that this game is awesome and an incredible value, but plenty of other products will actually sell less if the price is lowered unless there is a considerable amount of public awareness of the product.
Gaming is not really a monopoly but Valve has a near-monopoly on sales of PC games, and Microsoft is trying hard to tie games, gamers and software sales in general to their Windows 10 store and stuff.
I tend to believe the crackers because of how long they have been doing this,and their policy to give out things freely.So if they say denuvo is an encryption method,its almost 100% true that its an encryption method and not anything some redditer may speculate.Unless someone who actually made denuvo says differently,thats what Ill go by.
As for how effective it is,its super effective.Sure,its not perfect,and every denuvo protected game CAN be cracked,but its not that likely that they will.Its a very time consuming job,requiring days,or even months to accomplish.Unless the pirates have someone on the inside(which they often do),or they get lucky and find an exploit in the current version of denuvo that they can use on a whole set of games protected by it,most of them wont even bother trying.But because the program is being regularly updated,chances are the exploits found in one version will soon be removed in the next.In fact,pirates help the company by cracking these games by finding these exploits that were missed so they can be patched.
As for how effective it is:
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not really that effective.
And of the uncracked games 4 of them are online only. I am pretty sure we all know why no one is cracking something like Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul.
Considering that they make a contract with the publishers to refund them if the game gets cracked before a certain time expires(they didnt go into details,but a couple of weeks seems reasonable),thats not much of a gamble for the devs.
Also,you are discounting the fact that its not always denuvo that fails.For example,doom got cracked because someone tampered with the files from the free demo* and incorporated those into the game proper.
Primarily because the people Im responding to keep repeating the same few incorrect things that Ive been hearing for the past two years.And when someone is wrong on the internet,I cannot sleep.But also because denuvo is the first piece of digital protection that I dont feel as intrusive.
Not the only good thing.It also removes the need for always online protection and other intrusive drm schemes.Also,the company that makes it is not a dick corporation like ubisoft,and their policy is to ask the publishers to remove denuvo from all the games that have been cracked(or at least this was the policy some six months ago when I last had interest in it).So yeah,plenty of good things about this one.
But plenty of people have already shown that its not true.Not just denuvo,but gog,stardock and steam as well.Those who dont respect your labor will not respect it no matter what you do,and those who do respect you will do even without some hoop to jump through.
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