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http://www.dsogaming.com/news/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-first-real-crack-is-now-available/
The infamous Denuvo DRM method that's gotten attention over the past few years as "uncrackable" and has caused concerns about CPU overhead and solid state drive damage has finally been cracked. There had previously been "bypasses", ways to fool the license checks and such with an uncracked .exe for games. But a hacking team has managed to actually remove all those check triggers from the .exe of Rise of the Tomb Raider, allowing them to distribute a completely cracked .exe file. And now that they know how to crack Rise of the Tomb Raider, it won't be very hard to crack other Denuvo protected games.
I will of course not link to where you might get the crack, and the news site linked above doesn't allow links to cracks either. I'm against piracy myself and will not be making use of the crack. I just find it interesting that Denuvo has finally been cracked. One might argue that this is shows how pointless DRM protection really is -- but I don't think that's the case. The majority of game sales happen shortly after a game's release, and it's been over half a year since ROTTR's release on PC. If in those six months there were players who wanted the game and would have just pirated it if they could, but ended up buying it since they couldn't, then the DRM partially accomplished its goal. Of course there are people who only cared to get it if they could pirate it so DRM made no difference one way or the other, but who's to say that's all of the people who would have pirated it? In any case, it's cracked now, and Denuvo's star has fallen. Wonder what they'll come up with next.
The infamous Denuvo DRM method that's gotten attention over the past few years as "uncrackable" and has caused concerns about CPU overhead and solid state drive damage has finally been cracked. There had previously been "bypasses", ways to fool the license checks and such with an uncracked .exe for games. But a hacking team has managed to actually remove all those check triggers from the .exe of Rise of the Tomb Raider, allowing them to distribute a completely cracked .exe file. And now that they know how to crack Rise of the Tomb Raider, it won't be very hard to crack other Denuvo protected games.
I will of course not link to where you might get the crack, and the news site linked above doesn't allow links to cracks either. I'm against piracy myself and will not be making use of the crack. I just find it interesting that Denuvo has finally been cracked. One might argue that this is shows how pointless DRM protection really is -- but I don't think that's the case. The majority of game sales happen shortly after a game's release, and it's been over half a year since ROTTR's release on PC. If in those six months there were players who wanted the game and would have just pirated it if they could, but ended up buying it since they couldn't, then the DRM partially accomplished its goal. Of course there are people who only cared to get it if they could pirate it so DRM made no difference one way or the other, but who's to say that's all of the people who would have pirated it? In any case, it's cracked now, and Denuvo's star has fallen. Wonder what they'll come up with next.