Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days

• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Very recently - maybe.

  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.

  And what was first?

  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.

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  • tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There was a stint of a year or two where cracks took a little longer

    I guess I must have entered some utopian parallel universe when I clicked into this thread because I see all these people commenting things like this but I look over to the other sites like crackwatch and cs-rin and literally see that there were 3 legitimate denuvo cracks TOTAL between the between empress’s 2023 crashout and voices38’s public 2026 entry. (Dragon’s Dogma 2 was a debug build leak). Or maybe the excitement of the hypervisor bypass got people hallucinating some revisionist history.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s like I said, the biggest opposition to game pirating isn’t the protection Denuvo actually provides but just the lack of interest in people doing the cracking.

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      • tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And those exact same people suddenly gain an interest as soon as denuvo is removed? Get real man.

        any old $2 lock you put on your front door is protecting your home from the 0 people attempting to break and enter.

        “well I wasn’t even trying anyways!” excuse lol

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  • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These days the only thing protecting games from piracy isn’t Denuvo, it’s the lack of interest of scene groups in doing the cracking.

    So Denuvo keeps working then?

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No? Not sure how you got that.

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