Denuvo mostly works. Allegedly they have a custom approach to each new game, so cracks can take months to appear, with some unpopular games never having been cracked at all. The price is lowered performance, of course.
> Allegedly they have a custom approach to each new game, so cracks can take months to appear, with some unpopular games never having been cracked at all
From what I hear, it's cracked in a matter of days or weeks. I haven't checked whether this is true or not, so I can't say you are wrong about some (most?) cracks taking months.
Looking at the previous two years of uncracked Denuvo and only selecting games that seem notable:
Dragon's Dogma 2 (2024)
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (2024)
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024)
Street Fighter 6 (2023)
Hi-Fi Rush (2023)
Dead Space (2023)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023)
Persona 5 Tactica (2023)
EA Sports FC 24 (2023)
NBA 2K24 (2023)
Assassin's Creed Mirage (2023)
Atomic Heart (2023)
Lost Judgment (2022)
Sonic Frontiers (2022)
Sonic Origins (2022)
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (2022)
Persona 5 Royal (2022)
Sniper Elite 5 (2022)
Marvel's Midnight Suns (2022)
Total War: Warhammer III (2022)
Going back further there's more high profile games that were never cracked. The system seems to work as intended in some cases.
> Allegedly they have a custom approach to each new game, so cracks can take months to appear
It's because it's tedious to crack it, it's not really a rocket science, they just generate new VM for the binary so you can't automate it, they inject A LOT of code paths which you need to manually follow and change. That's the only reason why games stay uncracked for months. It's a war of attrition.
> with some unpopular games never having been cracked at all
That's not exactly true actually, you need to pay for Denuvo license every year, that's why after some months or a few years it's removed from most of the games.
ParetoOptimal|1 year ago
Not for users: https://gamerant.com/denuvo-outage-servers-down-persona-5-ro...
> Allegedly they have a custom approach to each new game, so cracks can take months to appear, with some unpopular games never having been cracked at all
From what I hear, it's cracked in a matter of days or weeks. I haven't checked whether this is true or not, so I can't say you are wrong about some (most?) cracks taking months.
crtasm|1 year ago
lossolo|1 year ago
It's because it's tedious to crack it, it's not really a rocket science, they just generate new VM for the binary so you can't automate it, they inject A LOT of code paths which you need to manually follow and change. That's the only reason why games stay uncracked for months. It's a war of attrition.
> with some unpopular games never having been cracked at all
That's not exactly true actually, you need to pay for Denuvo license every year, that's why after some months or a few years it's removed from most of the games.
free_bip|1 year ago