Latest Denuvo Protections Seems to Hold and hasn’t been cracked

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/29/2017 09:40 AM | source: | 72 comment(s)

Did you guys notice anything with the latest game releases? Yep, the latest version of Denuvo seems to hold as it has not yet been cracked, companies like EA and Ubisoft, therefore, will continue to use it into 2018, after Denuvo got a lot of scrutinies this year.

For example, Ubisoft released the latest Assassin’s Creed Origins back in October, which has the latest version of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. And after two whole months, this new version of Denuvo is still safe from crackers and hackers. Ubi actually uses another layer of protection, VMProtect on top of the latest version of the Denuvo. While that created a lot of buzz on the web over CPU load etc, it does seem to work.

Other games with the protection are Sonic Forces, Injustice 2, Football Manager 2018, Need for Speed Payback and Star Wars Battlefront 2, all of them have not been cracked it seems. Ubisoft, EA, SEGA and Warner Bros have not revealed any sales data in order to see whether the lack of a cracked version benefited these PC games.

In the past, within hours games got cracked. It'll be interesting to see how this is going to develop into the year 2018.

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eTheBlack
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#5505276 Posted on: 12/29/2017 10:51 AM

FYI, Origins also have VMProtect on top of Denuvo. So even if 4.7 version of Denuvo gets cracked, Origins probably won't be yet.

RealNC
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#5505288 Posted on: 12/29/2017 11:46 AM

The only acceptable forms of DRM are those that can be cracked. I have some Starforce protected games on DVD from way before 2010, and none of them work anymore. Try using the Splinter Cell Chaos Theory or Colin McRae 2005 DVDs today. They're just worthless $60 coasters now. If it wasn't for cracks, I couldn't play these games anymore. The cracked versions on the other hand work perfectly fine on modern Windows.

Seriously, fk "uncrackable DRM." I don't want to buy games with a built-in expiration date anymore. GOG does really seem to be the most reasonable source to buy games from now.

fOrTy_7
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#5505293 Posted on: 12/29/2017 12:08 PM

Soon we will need DPU (DRM processing unit) in our PCs.

Hopefully, if this time comes some greedy company will buy them out and the technology will die like PPU (physics processing unit).

I mean how many DRM systems on top of each other do we really need?

If you buy Ubisoft game on Steam you'll get: Steam -> Uplay -> Denuvo -> VMProtect -> always online.

I refuse to buy games that run on Virtual Machine and force you to be always online (apart from your ISP, there are often problems with backend servers).

RedSquirrel
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#5505298 Posted on: 12/29/2017 12:33 PM

No, because they are not worth pirating :/

Certainly not worth building a £1000+ gaming rig for.

Vipu2
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#5505299 Posted on: 12/29/2017 12:35 PM

Just wait until some good games worth cracking comes with the new Denuvo and it will be gone in no time.

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