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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

What on earth are you talking about? You’re all tied up in knots. I’m not talking about any non-Denuvo games.

every single denuvo game with millions in sales gets left alone for years

I mean if you ignore the ones that don’t, then sure. Most recently RE Requiem just came out and is a AAA hit with millions of sales, has Denuvo, and has already been cracked. That doesn’t sound like it was “left alone for years” to me.

[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And the near 3 year long blackout period between empress and voices? Everyone lost "interest" simultaneously for multiple years? They got bored or something? And even now voices38 is the only one "interested" in denuvo?Everyone else is just not "interested"?

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

2 year*.

Everyone lost "interest" simultaneously for multiple years? They got bored or something?

Who is this “everyone” you speak of? You realize pirate scene groups are very niche groups of people right?

I mean yes, people who are not in pirate scene groups are largely so because they’re not interested in being so. I’m not interested, and I’m not in one. I’m not sure what it is that you’re implying is keeping people out of these groups besides a lack of interest. Do you think doing a thankless job like that is fun? I don’t think it would be.

[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Who is this “everyone” you speak of? You realize pirate scene groups are very niche groups of people right?

There were no denuvo cracks in that period, and according to you it was only because they're not interested in doing it. Then it must mean nobody was interested no? Otherwise there would have been a crack out in that time?

Do you think doing a thankless job like that is fun? I don’t think it would be.

Other games get cracked day 0 even though it's equally thankless. That obviously isn't the distinguishing factor.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There were several Denuvo cracks in that period actually, just not as many.

Other games get cracked day 0 even though it's equally thankless. That obviously isn't the distinguishing factor.

Denuvo games also get cracked day 0. Not sure what your point is, or at this point if you even have one.

At the end of the day, what I said was correct. There was a period of time where we had less cracks, and now it’s ramping back up again. There doesn’t seem to be anything about Denuvo that stops its games from being cracked fairly quickly other than a lack of people to do the cracking.

These are all verifiably correct and factual statements. Whatever it is you’re whinging and whining about… I don’t know what to tell you.

[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough man. I see what you're saying.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s funny we were just talking about this 4 days ago, because as of today the big news is a new hypervisor-based method of circumventing Denuvo was reported and now zero games are uncracked.

[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm aware. I'm of the very reasonable opinion that all legitimate cracks must run in all the environments that the original program runs in (including compatibility layers). I think we just have different viewpoints of what "a little longer" is and what "crack" is, and that's fine.