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Crimson Desert Denuvo Has Been Bypassed

LectureMaster

Or is it just one of Adam's balls in my throat?
Let's discuss the point of denuvo and advocate no piracy.




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.
 
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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.
 
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".
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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