• TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Thankfully there is a very simple, no-effort solution to this: Don’t play their trash.

    I already don’t play their excruciatingly mediocre games and this just reinforces my avoidance is justified.

    Also good gods they’ve been milking this tired franchise for almost 2 decades now.

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        27 days ago

        Thanks to denuvo and there currently not being any active group capable of cracking denuvo, it’s not a guarantee the game will be cracked. Assassin‘s creed mirage took until last month, over a year after release, for a pirated copy to be available and it uses a debug executable, which may not become available for any other games or at least not in a timely manner. It might not be possible to play those games without the BS. Or on Linux, if it doesn’t run without kernel access for RAM monitoring

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          26 days ago

          Denuvo works on a subscription basis. Sooner or later, they’re going to decide it’s not worth paying for anymore and the game will be available to pirate. Waiting a year is nothing.

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            26 days ago

            Well, they haven’t so far removed denuvo from a single game, even those that have been cracked already. Ubisoft is big enough, that they might have their very own deal with Denuvo

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            26 days ago

            From what I understand, she received flak for her anti trans views and decided to call it quits. She is Russian, so maybe she was drafted into the war effort as a hacker, or mosy likely she got paid off by these companies.

            Most crackers are in countries where extradition for this would be difficult even with solid evidence. Companies have changed tactic to just paying them off so they just don’t do it, or so the rumor mill says. 200k a year to a handful of people is a drop in the bucket for the denuvo cartel.

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        26 days ago

        Denuvo is used by these companies because it’s shockingly effective. IIRC it has yet to be cracked on any game.

        Games that end up being available on the high seas have generally stopped paying for the Denuvo license.