GameRager: [...]
2. And they could've gotten such from such copies as well as one somehow leaked by the devs accidentally....i.e. both ideas are equally plausible without insider knowledge on the matter.
amok: in any case it is a moot point, as it means it was not Denuvo that was cracked.
Thank you for providing a source, though PC Gamer is not exactly on my respected list.
Bethesda have actually done this before, with Skyrim. Skyrim was actually for a short while executable without the steam client.
Makes you wonder if this (Rage2) was an experiment.
Whatever the real reason is, it will provide proof to some that DRM may not be what it says on paper.
My opinion, DRM may be being tested for not actually providing any benefit but merely introducing a hefty overhead.