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[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's an r/crackwatch, with a pinned list of Denuvo games.

For example, in 2021, only 7 games released with Denuvo were cracked (out of an approximate 30). In 2022, only one. There was only one cracker in the world who was any good at breaking Denuvo, and Denuvo hired them, so it almost never happens anymore.

~~(Be careful when reading the crackwatch updates, because they mark 'denovo removed' the same colour as 'denuvo cracked', you have to read the notes)~~ My mistake, they stopped doing this a little while ago.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

Hogwarts legacy came out last year with dunovo and Empress cracked it in something like a few weeks. Whoever made that list just stopped updating it.

[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One success does not put the lie to the idea that there are few successes.

The most recent update to the list was literally less than 1 hour ago. Of the 229 games that have been released with Denuvo since 2020, <30 of them have been cracked. 119 of them had the Denuvo eventually removed by the publisher.

Empress was essentially the only person who cracked Denuvo with any regularity, and even they only succeeded at a few games, and only extremely popular ones (because they worked off a donation scheme). I use the past tense, because Empress works for Denuvo now.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Wait, what's the dif between denuvo removed and cracked?

[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 11 months ago

"Denuvo removed" means, like I said before, the publisher stopped paying the denuvo license and voluntarily removed it from the game themselves.

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