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Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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Re: Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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Post by c0balt »

h4kunamata wrote: post #16

I find it ironic people mad at Denuvo and yet play games like Battlefield which enforces kernel level spyware nonetheless haha

The main difference that Denuvo does nothing to improve the experience of the end user.

I don't like Anti-Cheat solutions with elevated privileges but they have (at least for some time) reduced the number of Cheaters in games like Valorant or BF, for most users this is at least a somewhat understandable tradeoff. Denuvo on the other hand is DRM and a pure tradeoff in favor of the publisher at the cost of the consumed.

Re: Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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Post by ChoGGi »

jospeh554 wrote: post #18
johng wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. There are a lot of online games I loved playing but the cheating got so bad it made it impossible to play. MW1, MW2, Battlefield, CS, etc... you could see the wallhacks and aimbots taking over every lobby. I eventually stopped playing. I tried using Consoles for online gaming after that but never really got into using joysticks.... still prefer mouse and keyboard. Now I play limited games where the cheating isn…

Im not a big gamer, but playing GTA Online, and getting taken out as soon as you spawn. Or items just spawning in front of you, like ramps. REALLY ruins the experience

Or everyone in the lobby getting nuked over and over.

Or trying to do heists and having a cheater in every session.

I'd like to play the game again but it's just not fun.

Re: Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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Post by [deleted] »

MrDrMcCoy wrote: post #17
cyanydeez wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i think your underwstimating the anticheat value that still exists. many of the online games are trash when theres not strict cheat control.

Run anti-cheat server-side. Give us private servers again. There's no reason we should have to put up with client-side rootkits written by non-kernel-devs to play a game.

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Re: Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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Post by [deleted] »

cyanydeez wrote: post #9
Daedren wrote: post #6

Wonder what will be the consequences of this. I dislike Denuvo for the performance and stability penalties it gives games, but I do wonder if the "security" it gave publishers wasn't a big part of the reason why we've been getting more and more big name games on PC. This isn't about being right or wrong but about what the publishers will do when they see their games are again getting cracked day one, and if it'll be…

i think your underwstimating the anticheat value that still exists. many of the online games are trash when theres not strict cheat control.

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Re: Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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Post by nottorp »

ChoGGi wrote: post #23
nottorp wrote: post #3

Are Denuvo using games marked on Steam these days? I've been getting mostly indies so I feel safe, but maybe I should check...

There's a yellow? box just above payment options that informs you of DRM.

Oh right, it's still there. Nothing on my wish list has it :) I had to go to the store page for NBAsomething to see it.

Re: Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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Post by akimbostrawman »

altairprime wrote: post #10
Daedren wrote: post #6

Wonder what will be the consequences of this. I dislike Denuvo for the performance and stability penalties it gives games, but I do wonder if the "security" it gave publishers wasn't a big part of the reason why we've been getting more and more big name games on PC. This isn't about being right or wrong but about what the publishers will do when they see their games are again getting cracked day one, and if it'll be…

Denuvo’s market is ‘first 90 days’ revenue protection, not lifelong revenue protection. Lots of games using their crap remove it after a few months to shut down the flood of support issues the DRM causes. If only Microsoft hadn’t fucked up so badly with Windows 11 requiring an account, they’d have a way to stop using it altogether.

>Lots of games using their crap remove it after a few months to shut down the flood of support issues the DRM causes.

No, the overwhelming majority of denuvo games released after ~2020 (when they changed there licensing model to SaaS) have it removed after 2-4 years not because of user complaints but because of licensing costs, contracts and compliance.

If anything with many games it is very clear that the developer/publisher do not care for the user, since even when the DRM gets broken and has lost its purposes, many still refuse to remove it and give paying customers the same better non DRM experience as pirates.

>If only Microsoft hadn’t fucked up so badly with Windows 11 requiring an account

I don't understand how that is related at all.

Re: Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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Post by akimbostrawman »

h4kunamata wrote: post #16

I find it ironic people mad at Denuvo and yet play games like Battlefield which enforces kernel level spyware nonetheless haha

There is a user argument for anti cheat as a user = less cheater.

There is no user argument for DRM, if anything there are many against it = higher game price/less money for the actual game and devs, indirect funding of DRM software, worse performance, higher system requirements, worse preservation, worse privacy, longer loading times, online requirements, worse usability, machine activation restriction, bugs...

Re: Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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Post by ranger_danger »

No, it hasn't:

> in late 2025, the MKDev collective and the prolific DenuvOwO came up with a hypervisor-based bypass (HVB) that installs a kernel-level driver to intercept and respond to Denuvo's checks. While that's not an actual crack, it's good enough for piracy work, as the saying goes.

Re: Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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Post by trallnag »

johng wrote: post #13
cyanydeez wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i think your underwstimating the anticheat value that still exists. many of the online games are trash when theres not strict cheat control.

This. There are a lot of online games I loved playing but the cheating got so bad it made it impossible to play. MW1, MW2, Battlefield, CS, etc... you could see the wallhacks and aimbots taking over every lobby. I eventually stopped playing. I tried using Consoles for online gaming after that but never really got into using joysticks.... still prefer mouse and keyboard. Now I play limited games where the cheating isn…

There are still some servers online for games like the first CoD or United Offensive. No hackers as far I can tell anymore. They have all moved on
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