"Denuvo-protected games will continue to get cracked faster and faster," piracy group says
A scene member who goes by the moniker Voksi told us that “[piracy] scene groups have found a way to get past [Denuvo’s] encryption and keygen files in just a day. They do not crack Denuvo, they simply keygen it, so Denuvo thinks nothing is wrong on the pirated version.” What that means is groups have found a means to replicate Denuvo-sanctioned keys for games, which can be churned out within hours of the game’s release, with little opportunity for Denuvo to fight back.
Despite its period of unparalleled success 18 months ago, Denuvo is facing obsolescence if it cannot dramatically change its approach to protection, which is why Ubisoft brought in a second level of protection intended to defend Denuvo itself with Assassin’s Creed Origins. The mod team on the Crackwatch subreddit told us that “we would say that the scene groups have figured out Denuvo and that their incremental patches might only distract them for a few days until they worked around those as well. In that case, unless there’s fundamental change in the way Denuvo works, which is not going to happen anytime soon, given that it took Denuvo months to upgrade from version three to version four, Denuvo protected games will continue to get cracked faster and faster.”
We reached out to Denuvo multiple times for comment on this story, but received no response. We also contacted representatives from Monolith, Bethesda, Creative Assembly, High Voltage, Respawn, Io Interactive, and Neopica, but they either did not respond, or declined to comment.
