video game piracy just died with a whimper, didn’t it?

Nobody cares about that game outside of china btw.
>goes back to playing purchased indiegames with a backlog

>>717060789 (OP)
it'll get cracked eventually. until then, just buy it. poorfag.

>>717060895
by who? there’s no cracker left

>>717061549
Me

>>717060789 (OP)
I'm still waiting for a resurgence as the internet becomes more heavily restricted and censored. Surely that will create some sort of backlash and motivate new people

This game was so heavily astroturfed but this shows how many people actually care about this piece of bugman shit

>>717061549
Empress is still around, isn't she?

>>717061624
Lol, lmao.

>>717060789 (OP)
>even pirates don't want bugslop

Isnt it interesting how only chineseslop doesn't get cracked
Makes you think

>>717061624
if this game couldn’t do it, nothing will

>>717061883
not a single denuvo game got cracked in at least 2 years retard

>>717060789 (OP)
>a couple games are not cracked
>oh noes piracy is le dead

>>717061791
>she

K

Got a question for yall have any of you bought a game on steam went offline, completed it, than refund it on another device? It should work in theory...

>financially able buy a $5000 PC capable of running modern games
>doesnt have enough money to buy $70 games
The PCtard paradox.

>>717062409
I can resell my GPU. I can't resell the game because fucking jews

>>717062409
No game is worth more than $9 anon

>>717061791
he's been AWOL for years now, at this point we can safely say he'll never return to game cracking

>>717062409
99% of pc gamers are poorfags using toasters with much lower performance than consoles

>>717061791
Keep baiting and goading people along to "donating" on their telegram that they're making a "Return" and gonna teach people how to crack denuvo, truth is they've said multiple times things have gotten so hard that the juice isn't worth the squeeze and they don't make enough money from donations or bounties to justify the hours they have to spend to crack stuff.
So, they just don't, they get the donations for other shit instead, and don't bother cracking cause why would you

>>717062409
>paying for free games

>>717063352
>they

>>717062409
My pc cost 250

>>717061549
If it's Denuvo, the game will eventually stop being defended by it since it's got an annual subscription type cost to be defended by it, so it's a matter of waiting.

>>717063413
They're not a female, and I certainly don't claim them as a male, they're a disgusting thing in between, undeserving of the masculine title.

>>717060789 (OP)
thank goodness that denuvo uses subscription service that gets exponentially more expensive after the initial contract expires.
Waitfags never lose.

>>717063416
>>717063567
That's just cope, look at ubisoft/ea/sega/frontier developments and possibly others. They rarely if ever remove it.

>>717061791
>she

>>717062409
>AAAIIEEEEEEE why are these GPU prices going up (I'll keep buying them no matter how overpriced they get)
>AAAIIEEEEEEE why aren't devs making the types of games I want (even if they did I wouldn't buy them anyway)
PC master race faggots are the biggest retards you will ever see.

>>717064073
They really are. They slurp up awful ports too like good goys

>>717063762
Early denuvo titles still have it as part of grandfathering.
Other titles keep it because companies pay for support for x period, typically a year.
MOST relevant games that aren't live service yoink it after a year.

>>717061549
that's racist

At this point it's easier to just steal $70 from some random shop than to pirate the game

>>717062409
hardware is actuallyreal. software is not. why pay for a download if you can avoid it?

>>717060789 (OP)
>piracy died
all the call of duty campaigns and zombie modes got cracked, all within a year or so.

>>717066791
That was a specific exploit. The denuvo on those games wasn't cracked.

>>717066912
you wouldn't believe how hard they hacked into the mainframe for these cracks

>>717061549
Especially here.

I can wait a little longer for soulslike #94847627. No one gets infinite Denuvo licences anymore

>>717066912
CoD games don't even have denuvo. They have some kind of custom always online DRM. Shit like that would have been cracked in days back in the day. Today's top "cracker" groups (Rune, Tenoke) are fucked if cracking involves anything more complicated than copypasting the goldberg steam emu.

>>717064073
This is the kind of wild one to me.
The people I see bitch the most about how devs aren't making real games anymore and all their favourite genres are dead are also the same ones that openly brag about pirating everything. Like no shit they aren't going to keep making games that don't make any money.

i want these faggot nigger publishers to stop putting denuvo on their games so i can buy them. not so i can pirate them, so i can fucking BUY them.
i'm not buying a game that requires periodic internet checks to play. the vast majority of other games on steam and on consoles work offline indefinitely once installed. i'm not paying for a game i can merely borrow for 2 week intervals and have taken away if my hardware changes.

>>717064748
SEGA keeps Denuvo on every game forever no matter what

>>717061791
That retard can't crack modern denuvo.

>>717063416
A little tip to help you meet reality one day: You have absolutely no idea what the contacts between 2 companies you aren't a part of look like.
I don't know why you don't know that.

>>717060789 (OP)
Piracy of movies and music went down a lot because of netflix and spotify.
Gamepass is hugely popular now, and SKG will only accelerate the shift of gaming from owning individual games into subscription service.
Enjoy owning even less and be happy. Thanks ross.

>>717060789 (OP)
Kinda-sorta, Denuvo bought out the people who cooperated and the corporations raided the people who didn't. If you didn't know, Denuvo is made almost entirely by former crackers which is why their DRM implementations get increasingly more complex to crack. Fortunately for you, Denuvo is a subscription service so if they don't continue to pay the game will eventually get uncracked.

But if it doesn't have Denuvo, it's far more easy to crack. For instance if a game's released on Steam with no DRM, there are "emulators" out there that'll basically let you share the game's files with others and that'll be sufficient to let you play the game. Or, if it's on GOG, download and share in most cases.

I can understand playing pirated console games because you're not risking anything by dropping a rom file into an emulator. And you know the roms are clean when they've been dumped by multiple people with the same checksums.
But playing pirated PC games is so retarded. You don't know what could be hidden in that .exe file you need to run to play the game.

>>717072315
if it makes you feel better you're not the only tech illiterate zoomer around

people sure forgot this game exists after the marketing campaign ended

>>717072401
this is what no crack does to your game

>>717072401
A large part of the hype around that game was Chinese nationalism, which is something you feel heavily on the English-speaking internet because both Canada and Australia are Chinese colonies.

>>717072565
If only, they still pay tribute to the crown, it's the britcucks who are trying to control the internet

>>717060789 (OP)
>Find algorithms to crack this shitty encryption
>Refuse to share them
>Refuse to use them unless paid (defeating the point of piracy)
>Since their business model literally makes no fucking sense nothing gets cracked

Even if you had them, imagine spending 26 dollars on your monthly electric bill (and more in most places) to run your computer at max for 2 weeks for some shit game.

>>717060789 (OP)
Luckily game devs have compensated and made AAA games so shit that you don't even want to pirate them

>>717072761
I don't know how anyone could still get excited for more unreal engine shovelware

>>717070930
This is some dunning-kreuger ass post. Like someone who doesn't know shit and has fucking nothing to provide to the conversation but thinks, "I'm more mature and intelligent than everyone else." So you roll with that.
Someone straight up leaked some docs which lay it all out, how it works, the pricing, etcetera.

>>717072401
Chinks stopped shilling the game once they're no longer being paid to do so

>>717061791
Remember when /v/ simped over this insane schizo because people tried to add a culture war angle to this? Dude is fucking insane, I'm not trusting anything that fucker puts out

>>717060789 (OP)
>implying anyone gives a fuck about Chink-Souls: Ape Escape edition
I pirated all of the RE and SH de-makes just fine, saving myself 100s of bucks + the biggest buyer's remorse I would have ever gotten.

surely there must be so kind of sanctuary where denuvo games are being shared right...

>>717072364
How does being sceptical make me a tech illiterate zoomer?

>>717060789 (OP)
Denuvo won. It's that simple.

>>717073271
not real cracks, no. thirdies will often charge each other small amounts of money to lend accounts or family share to play denuvo games one person bought, but there is no secret cabal making actual cracks of denuvo games.

>>717060789 (OP)
when are they going to fucking remove it saar

>>717060789 (OP)
Only the good games get cracked.

>>717073182
>heh I don't want to play that
Don't want to play Yakuza either? LJ isn't cracked for 4 years now.

>>717060789 (OP)
>roll slop
it's free on youtube

>>717060895
why would you buy it then download a cracked version?

>>717062935
because fucking bearded child groom scammer and (you) accepting his scam

>>717073936
okay, what was the last denuvo game to get cracked?

>>717060789 (OP)
What about any game that doesn't use denuvo?

>>717079420
arxan, enigma, and VMprotect without denuvo seem to still get cracked. games released on steam and EGS without third-party DRM essentially crack themselves. games with always-online DRM aren't usually cracked unless it's done very simply and with no other DRM, like most EGS games that have used it.

>>717073389
because if you knew anything about pc piracy you wouldn't make such a dumb statement

There's not a single denuvo game worth pirating.

>>717079614
So piracy definitely isn't "dead", it's more that denuvo specifically is a massive pain in the ass to crack.

>>717062409
If it isn't good I won't pay. Unlike consolefags who have to cope with sunken cost fallacy I can pirate a game and have an unbiased opinion on it.

>>717079739
yeah, but most AAA games use denuvo, and not being able to pirate new AAA games is as good as "piracy just died with a whimper" for casuals.

>>717060789 (OP)
mostly Chinese bought this game and not westerners, so the interest is not big from the western side to crack it

>>717061549
Fucking hate crackers honestly. They came up with this Denuvo shit. "Boohoo we're going extinct" you deserve it faggots.

>>717072761
>that one person could totally crack games if he wanted to
>but nobody else can
Why would somebody believe something like this?

>>717079678
PC piracy is all about having to TRUST that the popular websites are offering clean games that don't have anything malicious hidden inside the game executable file.
Also, it's always funny to see asshat larpers like you who cannot ever give any examples to sustain their claims.

>>717079327
Exactly.

>>717080768
Spoken like a true retard. Let me guess, you couldn't get passed the ads and downloaded the wrong zip? It's not hard bro, not even a little bit. I've been pirating for at least the last 11 of 12 years and not once has it ever given me a virus. This is from multiple different torrent sites and just basic hosting sites as well. Its ok to be tech illiterate, just don't spazz out when someone who knows what they're talking about tells you how it is

>>717073389
>>717080768
You are a tech illiterate zoomer because you clearly lack experience in the topic you are lecturing others about.

>>717060789 (OP)
Sure did! One single tranny being the only person-adjacent in the world who could crack memenuvo pretty much guaranteed this would happen. Sure is odd how online game cheats are even more prolific than ever though, huh

>>717079739
Piracy is a dead as a scene. No group gives enough of a shit about one upping protection software. Piracy is still alive in a sense that pretty much anything without denuvo will be put online day zero, problem is nobody really care that much for shit without denuvo as almost every major publisher just slaps it for a year at the very least.

>>717060789 (OP)
more like nobody cares about that astroturfed chinkslop

>>717081083
>>717081137
See? Just proving what I said.
You had to trust the .exe files haven't been tampered with.
And the other guy can't form any argument other than "y-you don't know shit!". Zero examples.

>>717062409
they simply don't deserve that money
I will never purchase a game for more than $30
I will never purchase a game that works like shit on recommended specs
I will never purchase a game that has denuvo or any other garbage DRM

>>717060895
>>717062409
its not about being poor, its about the loop holes denuvo forces on you when you buy the game, for example you have to be online to play the game, its malware, it makes the game run like shit. the list goes on. also any previous cracker that now works for denuvo is a bitch made faggot

>>717060789 (OP)

>>717063473
I would suggest that the most neutral term is "it".

The thing about Denuvo is that almost all the shit with isn't worth playing so nobody even bothers.
It takes one actual autist to get mad to crak it in less than a week. But they see the turds that are released by AAA and laugh

I like how the monke is doing the “its over” face

>>717085806
Everyone jerked the fuck out of P5 yet nobody cracked it. Hell Football Manager autist that was cracking it every year is MIA for like 2 already.

>>717079327
Aren't nu-CoDs Denuvo? They all got bypassed recently

You can get Denuvo games for free another way though, and I don't mean jeetshit like account sharing

>>717081454
This to be honest. As soon as crackers gave up on cracking Denuvo their spirit was broken. They know they failed, they'll never live it down

>>717085806
Stop repeating this cope, it's copypasted like 20 times in this thread and it's always just sad and pathetic

>>717086480 see >>717066912

>>717086660
It is imperative to repeat that FACT with conviction. If we stopped, the consequences could be dire

>>717060789 (OP)
>scroll through list of denuvo games
>not a single good game
i'll go back to not caring

>>717079327
RE4?

‘tis only in these cursed modern tides that some landlubbers be tryin’ t’ strike back—names like Denuvo and other devil’s-code DRM be raisin’ their ugly sails. But har har, it only be castin’ its black mark on ‘bout 5% o’ them big shiny AAA treasures. The rest—aye, a grand 99.99% o’ games—still be out there, ripe for the plunderin’, just waitin’ t’ be hoisted from the depths o’ the net!

>>717062409
once I have current-year top end hardware I stop working until that is no longer the case, during those downtime periods without income I can't be spending money on games

>people pretending Wukong wasn't a good game
???

18 days until they remove denuvo. There's no reason to pay for more months. Also, you can just buy steam accounts.

>>717060789 (OP)
based wukang, the first and best chinese representation in modern video gaming
the gweilo will finally fear and respect the strong Han as the cultural powerhouse we are

>>717072942
Have you seen denuvo removed from a game?
Which companies did it?

>>717087778
The combat is mid though, for a game that is on the longer side, that's a bit disappointing.
You pretty much fight the same way the whole game. It's sad because there were some cool bosses.

>>717082561
Based.

>>717060789 (OP)
??? It got cracked on release

>>717088895
nta but yeah

>re village
>dmc 5
>doom eternal
>lies if p
>jedi survivor
>Nier automata

>>717061981
There is nothing special about that game, its Nier Automata but with worse story and even more eye candy
That's all