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Windows 10 UWP protection may have been cracked, Zoo Tycoon Ultimate AC had five layers of DRM
A crack group released Microsoft Store game Zoo Tycoon Ultimate Animal Collection, a title from the Microsoft's store. They mention that there were five layers of security from the Universal Windows Platform.
DSO Gaming reports Codex has distributed the game online with the note that Zoo Tycoon Ultimate Animal Collection was fitted with MSStore, UWP, EAppX, XBLive and Arxan security. Torrentfreak mentions a quote from cracker Voksi, who claims that the Arxan-drm is comparable to Denuvo and uses virtual machines. EAppX is the name for app encrypted appx packages.
These five layers of DRM were: MSStore, UWP, EAppX, XBLive and Arxan. Whether these layers were used in other UWP games and whether they had any performance impact on them remains a mystery. Right now, pretty much all forms of DRM have been cracked. Microsoft’s UWP was the only one that remained uncrackable but that’s not the case anymore.
It will be interesting to see whether Microsoft will update its UWP protection in order to make it difficult for the hackers/crackers to crack the future games. This is something that Denuvo is currently doing by introducing new versions of its anti-tamper tech as soon as its latest version gets cracked.
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#5522316 Posted on: 02/23/2018 02:57 PM
Just because you use words from a junior college intro to logic class, that doesn’t make your argument any better. You end up just sounding like the comic book guy from the Simpson’s. ( can’t wait to hear you say ad hominem, poisoning the well etc...) In short, no one is impressed, talk normal.
They are companies that are beholden to shareholders they are not the morality police. They don’t share sales data, because it makes no business sense to do so. This is true in almost all businesses not just gaming. They also don’t implement DRM as punishment that’s almost laughable to think to be honest. They implement it because piracy effects sales, period. The music example is pertinent as an example btw and you’d be hard pressed to find a better example of sales effected once it becomes easy to pirate. People will take free over paying any day, the few white knights aside.
Just because you use words from a junior college intro to logic class, that doesn’t make your argument any better. You end up just sounding like the comic book guy from the Simpson’s. ( can’t wait to hear you say ad hominem, poisoning the well etc...) In short, no one is impressed, talk normal.
They are companies that are beholden to shareholders they are not the morality police. They don’t share sales data, because it makes no business sense to do so. This is true in almost all businesses not just gaming. They also don’t implement DRM as punishment that’s almost laughable to think to be honest. They implement it because piracy effects sales, period. The music example is pertinent as an example btw and you’d be hard pressed to find a better example of sales effected once it becomes easy to pirate. People will take free over paying any day, the few white knights aside.
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#5522505 Posted on: 02/24/2018 12:47 AM
Age of Empires Definitive edition just got cracked. Damn.
https://i.imgur.com/rUSkcvE.png
Age of Empires Definitive edition just got cracked. Damn.
https://i.imgur.com/rUSkcvE.png
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#5522536 Posted on: 02/24/2018 03:22 AM
Age of Empires Definitive edition just got cracked. Damn.
https://i.imgur.com/rUSkcvE.png
Is it any different than what I already own? What is changed?
*edit*
Never mind I read the change log on the link you posted xD
It seems the difference is it needs Windows 10 to play.
Age of Empires Definitive edition just got cracked. Damn.
https://i.imgur.com/rUSkcvE.png
Is it any different than what I already own? What is changed?
*edit*
Never mind I read the change log on the link you posted xD
It seems the difference is it needs Windows 10 to play.
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They do as much as they can to protect their products or services. But who is gonna protect customers from their spywarelike or even malwarelike tactics against us for the sake of their legitimacy? Perhaps people should demand anti-drm laws sooner or later.