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Their priority? Continue to try and solve the issue of Denuvo anti-piracy protection, the paid-for program that massive titles like Borderlands 4, Stellar Blade and Assassin’s Creed Shadows all implement to keep their titles out of the hands of bad actors, even if it impacts paying customers’ ability to play on PC.
After managing to break through on Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, prolific member of the piracy community, voices38, said in a post that their “toolset is maturing,” meaning they’re getting ever closer to breaking through more titles.
“The progress to more modern Denuvo is steady,” they wrote.
As one commenter thanked them for their efforts, letting them know it was OK if they didn’t manage to break modern Denuvo, the pirate had one last note for those who follow their work:
“I will do it,” they wrote. “It is a matter of time.”
There s Been Significant Process When It Comes To Previously Un-Crackable Games
For one reason or another, there’s been some rather major progress on the piracy front with games that otherwise wouldn’t have been cracked, largely due to Denuvo or some other form of anti-piracy.
For instance, one researcher who’s done extensive work on Denuvo managed to crack Black Myth: Wukong, though the game was ultimately not dumped for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to the fact that the person has been operating with their real name.
Before that, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, an Ubisoft game, was cracked by voice38 earlier in the year, and while the game won’t set the world on fire, it was another sign that major progress was being made in being able to potentially unlock massive titles that have yet to end their Denuvo subscriptions.
Finally, multiple Call of Duty games had their campaigns cracked, with pirates being able to bypass whatever DRM protections existed along with online requirements. Those games, in particular, were the culmination of years of work.
Which is to say, pirates are inching ever closer to being able to have whatever game they want the moment it’s released, and unless things are silently being worked on in the background, things are about to get real messy.
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