Thread 716227341

did denuvo eradicate video game piracy?

>>716227341 (OP)
Best method to fight piracy has proven to be devs making games so shitty, nobody wants to pirate them

>>716227341 (OP)
im not buying either way

i'll just play an old more fun game in the meantime

Her silence is deafeaning...

>>716227387
This, if a game isn't good enough to make some code freak remove denovo, it's not a good game.

They just move up the chain such as buying accounts or stealing credit cards.

>>716227793
EMPRESS, SAVE US

>>716227341 (OP)
denuvo eradicated my willingness to buy new games.
I'll just keep playing old games before I pay for malware.

>>716228935
Same. For how things are going, I don't I'll ever buy a Sega game ever again. I don't mind waiting, but VC4 still have denuvo

>>716227341 (OP)
you can tell it did because pirates have gone from "lololol imagine paying for games" to "w-well I was totally going to buy it but now I won't"

Didn't resident evil 4 remake or something like that get cracked? Seems to me only good games get the cracker attention

Yeah

>>716227341 (OP)
Most games don't use denuvo.

>>716229059
if they weren't going to buy it in either scenario how does denuvo reduce piracy?
fucking retard.

cracking has went the way of the dodo
all the og crackers are in their mid 40-50s now and the reason why they started was for ego and beating other release groups

>>716227341 (OP)
Denuvo and the fact that nobody wants to play chinese games means that Black Folks Wuzkangs will never get cracked.

>>716229014
Valkyria Chronicles 4? That was cracked like 6 years ago.

>>716229265
uh oh piratefag seething

>>716229482
paypig being a stupid fucking retard, as usual.

I see it as a great tip off that the devs know the game is shit.
Saves me the time of even looking into it.

>>716227341 (OP)
Only ching chong ling long plays that shit so no need for crack

>>716229356
Also it has gotten insanely complicated, dealing with VMs and drivers and whatnot

>>716227387
First post? Best post? A match made in heaven.
If a game's entire "hype cycle" only lasts a week and the goldfish-world moves on to the next "thing" immediately, there's no interest in making "the old thing" available to everyone because no one cares anymore.

>>716227387
Second best method is to make good games so they sell well regardless.
But making shit is always easier.

>>716230178
A good game doesn't always sell well, and trash sometimes sells incredibly well.

Who the fuck buys games these days?

>>716227341 (OP)
It honestly did. I don't like Denuvo either but I have to admit that it has completely removed day 1 cracks from warez sites.

Why is Denuvo meant to be so hard to crack?
As I understand, Denuvo games are encrypted, and are decrypted on the fly as you play them. I assume you get the decryption key from the Denuvo servers.
In that case, what's stopping someone from intercepting the decryption key and then just using that without the server check? Or just permanently decrypting the files with that?
There's got to be more to it than that, because then every Denuvo game could probably be cracked pretty easily.

>>716227793
I would rather buy the game than download a crack from a tranny.

>>716233472
Nevermind. I actually read how it's meant to work and apparently it layers basically every anti-tamper, anti-reverse engineering meme technique in the book purely to slow down anyone trying to reverse engineer it.
No wonder it shits up performance.

>>716234012
>I'd rather spend 3x times what a product is worth because my brain is so distracted with thinking about pleasuring cocks.

>>716234263
I buy games because you don't own them when you pirate, but you truly own them on Steam.

AI will save piracy (cope)

>>716227341 (OP)
More like paying people to not crack your stuff killed video game piracy

>>716227341 (OP)
As I download a batch of movies from my to-do list, I ponder the ratio of good games that I can easily acquire to good games that have not been cracked, and I feel fine. My free backlog beckons, leaving little time to consider the fun I'd have to pay for.

>>716231814
>>716234012
Do you have any proof that she's a tranny besides "wimen can't code"?

>>716227387
This is pure unfiltered cope.

Denuvo straight up killed piracy because newer generations are too braindead to learn how to bypass.

>>716235779
>wimen can't code
That is irrefutable, empirical evidence though.

>>716234263
how did you even come up with that faggot

>>716230008
>>716235903
It is in fact true. You got people who would emulate the whole Nintendo Switch console just to play its games on PC, that's a hell of a lot more effort than just making a crack.

>>716227387
fpbp
/thread

>>716227341 (OP)
Still not buying tho. Have fun paying your subscription to denuvo for the rest of time.

>>716227341 (OP)
games people care about get cracked

>>716236673
Persona 5R is not cracked
WuKong Is not cracked
STELLAR BLADE is not cracked
Hell even Project Diva isn't cracked

Stop the fucking cope.

>>716229265
i don't get the argument that "they were gonna pirate it anyway". I have bought tons of denuvo games that I would have otherwise pirated.

>>716236897
No body cares about those shit titles though.

>>716227341 (OP)
Thankfully homebrew is still a thing.

>>716227387
>I-I never wanted it anyway

>>716227341 (OP)
No, I just pirate different games.

>>716236975
See >>716237043

>>716237101
>Persona
Teenagers and manchildren
>Wukong
Cheap Chinese souls rip off
>Steller Blade
Shitty coom bait game
Again, Captain Chud... No one cares about that slop

>>716236975
I would have pirated Stellar blade and waited for a sale. Instead I bought it for 50€ and pirated the DLC.
If I couldn't have pirated the DLC I never would have bought it, though.

>>716229216
The no. of games that use it has gone up considerably. Capcom doesn't release games without it.

denuvo fears the linux dual booter

>>716237435
Capcom's the worst. They use Denuvo and Enigma which combine to make their games stutterfests.
At least they remove denuvo after a year, but enigma is forever.

>>716237541
Why?
Denuvo runs just fine on linooks.

>>716227341 (OP)
Uhh yeah denuvo is bad because 7 years ago re8 had a 10% performance decrease this means denuvo is bad, and it’s not because I’m poor and i want to pirate most games not buying them and the devs not making money of off games i want to play>>716229265
You would need to buy them and denuvo pretty much forces you to buy it, this argument that if you pirate a game you wouldn’t have bought it is so fucking retarded only some esl third worlder think it makes sense>>716229549
Get a job

>>716227341 (OP)
I want a Crack Myth game.

>>716237774
Devs get no royalties from sales even if they don't get laid off as soon as the product is ready and they were already paid for their work

>>716236897
Isn't there a way to play the entirety of Stellar Blade through the demo, or am I thinking about some other game? I know in Dissidia NT's free demo you can just give yourself the full game with a DLC unlocker.

And nothing of value was lost.

>>716227341 (OP)
I don't think people are particularly interested in playing this game

except chinese people I guess

>>716237612
>At least they remove denuvo after a year, but enigma is forever.
I still remember when Denuvo got removed from MHWorld and people were calling me schizos when I was saying that the stutters were gone and that the game started almost instantly.
And then I laughed when Eniggerma was added through an update, and I simply backed up my old version and copied it over when Steam forced that new update on me.

>>716233007
>virtual buttons
fake gamer detected

Still paying for denuvo 3 years after release is bullshit. Like fuck you, you think I'd wait 3 years to pirate a game and then suddenly decide to pay for it?

>>716227341 (OP)
I hope that AI will make it impossible to implement difficult-to-crack "protection".

>>716238153
sega has lifetime protection from them idk why but they are seemingly the only ones who got that deal

>>716238153
Sega must have some special license or something they negotiated from before denuvo became a time limited service. Because they never fucking remove it, but their revenue definitely doesn't justify it for some games.

>>716238298
AI can't even make a CSS userscript, what makes you think it'll be capable of reverse engineering an executable?

>>716227341 (OP)
piracy is different now
you buy a key or a steam acc for a dollar or two instead

>>716235779
The chance of a woman putting enough time into learning how to crack properly, and also write the things present in the NFOs, are astronomically low. There's a reason women don't get into racing or chess.

>>716238420
If AI through some magical means can manifest images without it being able to know what it just did it should be able to get to a point where it can brute-force an exe until no issues are detected.

>>716238515
People said that about streaming services a few years ago. Now it's a worse cesspool than network TV with ads.

I never expected this growing up, but piracy is still the only option that makes sense.

>>716238681
2 more weeks.

>>716237774
devs already made their money while working on the game retard-kun

>>716227387
FPBP. Trannypress BTFO.

Most games don't have Denuvo.
And the rest Denuvo is dropped after a few years.

So no.

>>716239459
Where is Voksi when you need him?

>>716239909
SmEGA keeps that cancer for a long time.

Fuck denuvo and companies that put them on. If i want to play any game that have this shit I just buy steam offline accounts dirty cheap from russians, for like 1 dollar, finish the game and move on with my life.

>>716239125
I just said what I was hoping for, no need to get your panties in a twist.

>>716238681
AI needed millions and millions of pictures to learn how to make similarly looking pictures that still look AI.
If you train some AI with millions upon millions of denuvo executables with their corresponding cracked copies it would most likely be able to crack new ones, and even then there’s no guarantee it wouldn’t fuck up some random bit making it completely unplayable. Good luck trying to find the one flipped bit that makes the program crash.
And even then we don’t have millions of training .exe files with denuvo on it

>>716237043
Correct, I never wanted it. I already have a full week of playing vidya every week so "another distraction" isn't high on my list of needs or wants.
If I cared enough to want to play them, I'd pay for them.

>>716240406
I dunno, you start the bought game and have the AI look at it while you play the game. Then you run a naughty copy and let it compare the way it runs. I am still hopeful it will be achievable. Five years ago I would have found it much more likely to be a thing rather than generating images or music.