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Denuvo Suffers Another Blow as NieR:Automata Gets Cracked

Davidios | 05/08/2017

Cracker group BALDMAN has just breached the Denuvo anti-tamper technology used by Square Enix to protect PlatinumGames‘ excellent NieR:Automata. The open world action RPG enjoyed almost two months of non-cracked time, and during that period it sold more than three hundred thousand copies on Steam. Hopefully gamers who still wish to acquire the Japanese masterpiece will opt for the Steam/retail way instead of donning the old eyepatch and peg leg.

Square Enix is a company prone to putting their games on sale after three months or so have passed since their release, so here at Gaming on PC we’d like to urge PC enthusiasts to wait for a discount instead of downloading NieR:Automata illegally. We know that many people abhor the concept of DRM, and that Denuvo has been a thorn on some gamers’ side ever since it was first unveiled, but pirating a game doesn’t send the right message to the publishers, and it just tells them that they must find a better DRM solution to protect their interests, even if it negatively affects their legitimate consumers.

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G0tRektZ
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Patzl said:

omg how many games are going to get cracked now... sad for the game

As long as the internet exists, there's going to be this person that would be able to crack the game
Piracy can't really be stopped but it can be curbed :)

Zupe00
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Interstellar

I'm surprised it lasted 2 months actually, probably long enough for them to make most of their initial release sales.  I'm not a fan of DRM, but as long as people pirate games, I doubt we'll see it go away any time soon.

Sulimen
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Ah it reminds me of denuvo saying some time ago with the "End of piracy, we will not be cracked". Whoops ?

 

I'm not a fan of piracy, especially against Indie Devs. Couldn't care less about big publishers, since their sales are most likely insignificant from piracy, and they almost always exaggerate their claims against piracy.

Most piracy cases happens in countries with a low minimum wage income that can't cover buying a $60 game. So they pirate it, if they can't, they pirate something else. If not, they will play free to play games or they wait until a very nice discount of an old game. So either way you won't suddenly get people to buy more copies just because they installed an anti piracy program.

With that said, i honestly think that the best thing that helped against piracy so far is Steam. Because it's a safe and simple platform that discounts their games very often, and people who used to pirate games, are not doing it anymore due to the convenient and affordable prices that steam has.

It's foolish to come with the Witcher 3 argument by saying "Witcher 3 had no DRM and it was pirated, but it sold really well" and of course i agree, if a game is good then it will sell regardless of pirates. But i can guarantee you that most big publishers will not follow Witcher 3's practices because they put greed over quality, and they will always blame anything but themselves when they make these half assed downgraded AAA craps.

Durga_Durga
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G0tRektZ said:
Patzl said:

omg how many games are going to get cracked now... sad for the game

As long as the internet exists, there's going to be this person that would be able to crack the game
Piracy can't really be stopped but it can be curbed :)

Agreed!

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