It's cracked and while they may not have a deal to refund Denuvo if/when it gets cracked within X time, it *is* something they pay monthly for if I'm not mistaken, so once it's cracked it makes sense to drop it.

All in all they may be the best form of DRM yet if companies keep dropping it after a while.

If Dragon Age: Inquisition and Lords of the Fallen are anything to go by, "a while" could mean anything.

Looks like the virus that is Denuvo may be on its last legs.

"Resident Evil 7 – Latest version of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech cracked in less than five days"

Noice! For a moment Denuvo had me worried :D

More refunds by Denuvo :D. Maybe they get bankrupt this time.

One can but hope so ;)

They said they had no contracts requiring that included refunds if it got cracked, that was apparently made-up.

That said, this is not going to endear many future devs into using it.

I can't believe people are actually celebrating when a game gets cracked...

I couldn't give two shits if the game got cracked, but I will celebrate Denuvo & all shitty DRM getting cracked, especially if it'll mean the death of it in the future.

Why?

Warez group: Making games DRM-free before it was cool...

Speaking for myself, I like it because I want the entire industry to become so jaded with expensive DRM that it gets ditched altogether. Then platforms like GOG will become the norm and everyone in the universe will get a puppy that never grows up.

Personally I am always happy when a DRM gets "removed" either because the game is released DRM free or because it's cracked. (And it's even better if the DRM in question is Denuvo).


Also, apart from a couple of exceptions, I usually only buy a game after its DRM has been cracked (or it's available DRM-free of course). I don't care about RE7 but I am impatiently waiting for Tales of Berseria to be cracked so that I can finally buy it.

I don't pirate games nor do I condone or encourage piracy, but I absolutely hate DRM and consider it a great thing whenever it's cracked (or otherwise removed).

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/qr22d/the_drm_monster/

DRM hurts performance, adds another point of failure to potentially cause problems for the user, creates an artificial dependency on getting permission from a third party to play, and otherwise damages the user experience in general. If uncracked and not removed then it also has negative implications for game preservation (especially considering how poorly organised many companies are - especially bigger companies - and consequently how frequent an occurrence it is that source code and the original unprotected executables get lost forever) etc. - imagine if paintings, movies, music etc. were like this, and all "legitimate" copies had a built-in self-destruct tied to their creators that would activate when their creators died/forgot/had an accident/stopped caring?

Speaking of preservation, DRM systems like Denuvo also inhibits any work being done to the game binary itself as it encrypts it, which means any work that involves modifying the executable is almost impossible in its "protected" form, which again could very well screw over preservation efforts as well as prevent certain mods from being possible (such as the script extenders for TES & Bethesda Fallout games).

They can celebrate whenever they want. A cracking of a game is just one, especially when the DRM involved is the so-called unbeatable Denuvo.

There are people who buy their stuff legit and run into the insane problems created by an unnecessary piece of code or software whose sole purpose is to slow down pirates. There's only much you can do against pirates.

Some of these people also stick cracks on their games. The game then runs without the problematic behavior of DRM. It doesn't matter if you'll ever run into it personally, there's always a risk that you'd do, and I'd rather have a playable game rather than be an abiding citizen of game publisher law willing to get a smack from their DRM just because 'it is illegal to crack a game'.

And if the game is no longer for sale and thus cut off from existing ever again because of Denuvo, this cracking means it will always be there in some form or another.