Thursday, December 6th 2018
Denuvo Falls Again: Just Cause 4 Cracked in One Day
Denuvo's protection has rapidly deteriorated in the amount of time it actually is able to protect games' first sales period, which is always argued as the most important in the shelf life for any given game launch. While the first Denuvo-protected games lasted weeks and sometimes even months before ever being cracked, the latest releases have seen rapid-fire hits from pirates.
These outcomes must seriously hamper developers' expectations on Denuvo's ability to keep their games protected. Either all developers try and move towards an always-online game system (such as Destiny 2 and some other games), or it seems that both relatively old players (Denuvo) and newcomers (Valeroa) will see their marketing departments having to contort into increasingly impossible shapes to sell their product. Read our own impressions on just Cause 4 here.
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DSOGaming
These outcomes must seriously hamper developers' expectations on Denuvo's ability to keep their games protected. Either all developers try and move towards an always-online game system (such as Destiny 2 and some other games), or it seems that both relatively old players (Denuvo) and newcomers (Valeroa) will see their marketing departments having to contort into increasingly impossible shapes to sell their product. Read our own impressions on just Cause 4 here.
17 Comments on Denuvo Falls Again: Just Cause 4 Cracked in One Day
My guess is unstable overclocks and or denuvo impacting performance.
In the old days, one of the biggest reasons to have a pirated game was so you and a friend or a family member could play it across LAN. These days not so much... even Call of duty has dropped the LAN option as did EA with Battlefield a long long time ago.
And at the same time... there are some publishers that do not deserve a single cent or dime of our money. If the publishers milk and take advantage of their customers/players by milking them like cash cows with microtransactions and loot boxes like Blizzard and EA then you can be sure the last thing id be worried about is them and their profits... This is even if i can be arsed to download a pirated version of their games and 100% of the time its a no. their games arent worth wasting my bandwidth on.
But he warned me about the gold and resources grind, while totally ok in general, and less than 3 hours in, I personally decided on using on a "trainer"(single player cheat)
Now those thingies tend to massively screw stuff up.
I might have used a "different" copy of the game to play around with that, I might have experienced a better performance for my (arguably slow) system (ryzen 1200, slow ram, gtx 750ti).
Ok seriously, the performance increase was absolutely brutal, especially actually getting started was so much faster.
I dont hop games really and the reason being my €-budget, but i can already see myself joining that GOG-front if budget-plans change or just spending elsewhere entirely.