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[LectureMaster]

Let's discuss the point of denuvo and advocate no piracy.

Despite Having Denuvo, Crimson Desert Has Been Cracked, Sort Of

Not everyone is comfortable with using the method, but those who are have been playing the game.

opencritic.com

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In the end, it appears that Pearl Abyss' decision to add Denuvo anti-tampering technology to Crimson Desert just days before its highly-anticipated release was for naught.

Because, even with Denuvo, Crimson Desert has been cracked by pirates. However, its ability to be shared by pirates and downloaded at infinitum isn't as simple as it sounds, at least compared to other cracked video games.

Crimson Desert has become the latest victim of a needless culture war surrounding metacritic scores.

To start, Crimson Desert has been cracked using the Hypervisor method, a new piracy technique that has made the rounds recently, as it's allowed previously locked titles, like Borderlands 4 and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth to become available to pirates.

It's drawn ire for the security vulnerabilities it's opened up to users. However, most seem to be willing to run the risk if it means being able to play the latest title for free. It's worth noting that some of the security risks have been minimized in recent versions, but some aren't totally sold on the give-and-take set-up.

 

[LectureMaster]

 

[Lorianus]

Writer of that article needs to learn what cracked means.

A hypervisor bypass is not a crack.

 

[simpatico]

Devs who use it will continue to spend big money and lose some fringe sales because of it. Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2 did pretty well despite putting out a DRM free version on day 1.

 

[Gaiff]

Writer of that article needs to learn what cracked means.

A hypervisor bypass is not a crack.

Yeah, from what I've seen this is a bypass that involves significant security risks with an hypervisor. It hasn't been "cracked".

 

[LectureMaster]

Devs who use it will continue to spend big money and lose some fringe sales because of it. Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2 did pretty well despite putting out a DRM free version on day 1.

Yeah, and Baldur's Gate 3 too. And those games sold crazy shit number. You just need to be confident if you make a great game and people will support.

 

[Ozzie666]

Reminds me of when Ocean was bragging about it's dongle protection for Robocop 3 and Epic, the investment and thought they put into it. Only to be cracked in the usual record speed before before the delivry trucks delivered it to retail outlets.

 

[Durin]

Might as well remove it at this point then, it's function is dead if people are already sharing it, and likely announcing the removal would get more sales.

 

[The Cockatrice]

It hasn't actually. This new method is some really shady shit compared to the classic "crack". Even if I was a pirate, I would absolutely not recommend anyone dealing with this shit. It could potentially fuck you over, even hardware-wise.

 

[GudOlRub]

Devs who use it will continue to spend big money and lose some fringe sales because of it. Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2 did pretty well despite putting out a DRM free version on day 1.

Which makes you wonder why management decides to put this piece of shit malware that hurts paying customers in games in the first place.

Unless they aren't sure that their game is good enough that people won't pirate it en mass. And I'm not throwing shade at CD in particular. Every software implementing this garbage is fair game to me, even the ones I love.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Might as well remove it at this point then, it's function is dead if people are already sharing it, and likely announcing the removal would get more sales.

They pay an amount for a determined amount of time so it doesn't make sense, there's no money back.

Devs who use it will continue to spend big money and lose some fringe sales because of it. Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2 did pretty well despite putting out a DRM free version on day 1.

Wasn't it like 75k? It's not a large amount in the great scheme of things if they generated 120m in one week.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

With a game like this, who wants to keep up with the cracked patches. Just buy it. Ha!

 

[RafterXL]

Hypervisor isn't "cracked" it's a bullshit, unsafe, workaround that mimics Denuvo, not removes, and that requires you to disable Secure Boot and Digital Signature Enforcement, and also requires you to enable CPU virtualization in your bios, as well as giving the people who created the "hack" kernel level access to your PC. You are a mental midget if you use this stuff, no game is worth that risk.

Might as well remove it at this point then, it's function is dead if people are already sharing it, and likely announcing the removal would get more sales.

They won't because the amount of people willing to deal with the necessary steps compared to a traditional crack is miniscule.

 

[LectureMaster]

EviLore can we update the title to "bypassed" instead of "cracked" based on what folks are explaining here?

 

[yet_another_alt]

The funny thing is Denuvo is still running in the background too so pirates can't even use the better performance excuse.

 

[tkminus]

Denuvo ultimate enemy

 

[Kuranghi]

Downloading and updating pirated games became more of a hassle than just waiting for a sale and purchasing games legimately a long time ago, I don't bother with it anymore.

Now cracks are this kind of bullshit that will get the average users computer compromised in no time, its just not worth it, too much to play and too little time even when you have no job or commitments so just spend your money more wisely and don't give in to fomo.

This game will be heavily deep discounted within 6 months, just get it then if you really don't want to pay much for it. It'll also have had a bunch of patches to make it much better/more fun to play as well. On top of modders doing work the devs don't.

 

[MMaRsu]

Downloading and updating pirated games became more of a hassle than just waiting for a sale and purchasing games legimately a long time ago, I don't bother with it anymore.

Now cracks are this kind of bullshit that will get the average users computer compromised in no time, its just not worth it, too much to play and too little time even when you have no job or commitments so just spend your money more wisely and don't give in to fomo.

This game will be heavily deep discounted within 6 months, just get it then if you really don't want to pay much for it. It'll also have had a bunch of patches to make it much better/more fun to play as well. On top of modders doing work the devs don't.

Thats just these hypervisor cracks which many folks are ignoring because they dont want to put their pc at risk

 

[KyoZz]

Yeah, from what I've seen this is a bypass that involves significant security risks with an hypervisor. It hasn't been "cracked".

And from what I've seen the bypass is way better than it's first release. You now don't need to disable anything.

 

[MMaRsu]

And from what I've seen the bypass is way better than it's first release. You now don't need to disable anything.

The bypass disables it for you.

Do not mess with this shit if you dont know what youre doing

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

if you are going to do this use a burner pc…don't do this crap on a pc you do anything remotely related to personal activities on.

Airgapped is your friend.

 

[KyoZz]

The bypass disables it for you.

Do not mess with this shit if you dont know what youre doing

Oh I don't, I think I stressed the risks enough in my thread about it.

But you only need secure boot off now and you can activate it again right after. It really only need to install the driver.

 

[Superposition]

Denuvo is fucked, but I've heard that Hypervisor technique is quite risky, for now.

 

[Krathoon]

What really causes the problem is when the game gets old and they do not remove the DRM.

I have lots of games from the early 2000s that I have to crack to get them to work now.

 

[Kuranghi]

Thats just these hypervisor cracks which many folks are ignoring because they dont want to put their pc at risk

Last I checked, which was a few years ago tbf, you needed to manually download cracked patches for games still, and these days sometimes you really need patches to not have the game crash, perform like shit or just have features that should've been there at launch.

If theres some auto patcher/downloader for cracked updates then cool, but then thats giving some possibly bad actors access to your PC in a different way than just downloading cracks and also its another thing to install, when I just click on a game and buy it on Steam and then update and de-update as I see fit. Minimal hassle.

I used to pirate games when I could've have easily afforded them because it was as quick or even quicker than downloading (and crucially, verifying) through steam or other storefronts. My experience a few years back trying to pirate Lego Skywalker Saga was not that, I couldn't find the latest patch cracked and the game had a soft lock without it, which happened to me and then I just stopped playing it until it came to PS+.

 

[MMaRsu]

Oh I don't, I think I stressed the risks enough in my thread about it.

But you only need secure boot off now and you can activate it again right after. It really only need to install the driver.

The script for this game does the following:

System Loses:
Kernel isolation
Secure boot trust chain (partially)
Credential protection
Driver enforcement
Exploit mitigations (Meltdown)

I think it does a bit more than just turning off secure boot.

I would advise against using any of these bypasses personally

 

[falconhoof]

Reminds me of when Ocean was bragging about it's dongle protection for Robocop 3 and Epic, the investment and thought they put into it. Only to be cracked in the usual record speed before before the delivry trucks delivered it to retail outlets.

And charged extra (30 quid in the era of 26 quid Ocean games) for the privilege of owning the shittier experience of having to plug a dongle in.

 

[NormalGamer]

Don't know the point of singling out Crimson Desert when this bypasses all Denuvo.

 

[deeptech]

One can't not read this in Bri*ish accent!

As for your question, Denuvo is there to prevent unauthorized changes to the code, and partly also to prevent piracy (when it can). But I assume you knew that already so idk what's to say more.