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EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 23 hours agoIt does not. Denuvo is often cracked within hours.
And, I repeat, piracy is the cause of Denuvo.
It’s also often the cause of piracy. If your two options are 1. Spend a bunch of money for a worse experience or 2. Spend 0 money for a better experience, there’s no practical reason to choose option 1.
Viceversa@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Very recently - maybe.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
No for several years now. There was a stint of a year or two where cracks took a little longer, but truth be told that was around when COVID happened and there were just fewer big ticket games for people to put effort into it. These days the only o thing protecting games from piracy isn’t Denuvo, it’s the lack of interest of scene groups in doing the cracking.
For an increasing number of people, Denuvo. With the hardware crisis and all, people aren’t upgrading hardware as much as they used to. People have to do more with less. Games with Denuvo removed run better on the same hardware, so people who have had no financial interest in pirating have turned to it as a means of making their games run better.
We’ve seen this all before with streaming. When Netflix got big, tv/movie piracy nearly died out because it was so convenient to pay for streaming.