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[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is a difficult problem, but there have been a lot of cracked Denuvo games, even in this article, it mentions that about half of the released Denuvo games have been cracked out of a total of 127, that's not a small amount.

It is true though that Denuvo is complex and there's currently only one person who has been doing them for a bit and that person is presenting as very very mentally ill and may also be on a break... it's amazing reading, but it's hard to tell conclusively what's up with Empress.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

The overall goal seems to be to slow down piracy in the initial launch period where they're trying to get critical mass for sales. Eventually it looks like a good number of them get cracked, but by that time it'll probably also be discounted on steam sales