A lot of PC gamers have been wondering why game developers wait for a whole year before removing the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from their cracked games. And today, we may finally have an answer to that question. According to some leaked documents, most game developers are paying Denuvo/Irdeto a one-year fee for using this anti-tamper tech.
In case you weren’t aware of, ransomware gang “Egregor” leaked data it has obtained from the internal networks of Crytek in October 2020. These documents leaked Crysis 2 Remastered and Crysis 3 Remastered. They also leaked Crytek’s future development plans. And, according to these documents, Crytek has paid €140000 for using Denuvo in Crysis Remasted for one year.
According to the agreement between Denuvo and Crytek, the fee would be lowered to €126000 in case the game came out prior to its initial release date. That initial release date was March 31st, 2021.
After the initial 12 months, Crytek must pay €2000 for each and every month. Crytek must also pay €60000 extra fee for products that receive over 500000 unique activations in 30 days.
Additionally, Crytek will have to pay €10000 extra fee for each storefront. Thus, if Crysis Remastered on Steam has Denuvo, Crytek will have to pay that additional amount of money.
What we also find interesting here is the extensive “piracy” support that Denuvo offers. According to the documents, Denuvo scans for piracy releases and informs the developers/publishers. Moreover, it provides manual piracy monitoring. Not only that, but it provides manual profiling of the game for performance uncritical functions (when using this anti-tamper tech).
Lastly, these leaked documents confirm, once again, Crysis 2 Remastered. According to them, Crysis 2 Remastered will also use Denuvo, and will be timed-exclusive on Epic Games Store.
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what a waste.
Morons,invest this money on improving the game quality and your game will sell well enough.
imbeciles
Better if they gave that money to some charity,but then again the world we live in today…ohhh man everything is upside down
LOL epic fail r.i.p. crytek!
A polis dev could make a better game than what crytec made in his entire existencie
Crytek didn’t do games but tech demos pretty much. Maybe on first Far Cry I would give them the benefit of the doubt.
probably spent more on denuvo then the game sold. what a fail. there has to be some sort of agreement where if it gets cracked fast they get a refund or something. Can’t see many devs thinking this is a great investment since it’s always cracked pretty fast
It was repeatedly stated there isn’t a refund option available.
Guess it all depends on the contract, cause we know some companies remove DENUVO after the game is cracked.
But Crycrycrycrytek is too stupid to make a decent deal, so I guess they’ll pay it forever.
Releasing not on steam, but on epic games and paying for denuvo ??? Did they actually expect players ?????
It’s all Epics money, neither party gives a sh*t if there’s real people buying and playing it.
Cryrek get’s Epics money and Epic get’s another game on their platform to fill it out.
I’m all for EGS taking big losses, maybe then they will stop with this bullshit anti-consumer crap if they keep taking large losses.
so they pay more than what they would have lost on this garbage
stupidity on a high level
They paid more than they have earned from the sells.
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Your profile pic says it all.
LMAO
Excellent news! Good job at taking Crytek money Denuvo!
And they won’t get the money back as well – tools.
idiots
Pretty good deal for Epic. I understand Crytek’s decision, it’s all about financials in this world.
I bought Crysis Remastered on EGS and I’m interested in revisiting C2 and C3. Those games should be easier to remaster, the codebase is more modern. No reason not to start from the PC version.
Crysis PC and consoles were very different branches back in the day, that’s not the case for the next ones.
Is this a BS festival ?
all is tweets are fcking r3tard3d
LMAOOO
Hey John you forgot to mention the game has already been cracked just after a month, so money well spent.
*Remastered
“”What we also find interesting here is the extensive “piracy” support that Denuvo offers. According to the documents, Denuvo scans for piracy releases and informs the developers/publishers.””
Meaning the staff at Denuvo check reddit/crackwatch once a day, then charge extra for that support!
LOL
Lmao how hard is it to check if the game is cracked or not?
I think what they really meant by “scanning” is they DDOS Crackwatch. they’re the most obvious suspect.
What’s the point of informing the devs/publisher? To laugh at them that the game has been cracked? Lol!
Probably to renew the DRM loicense. That’s why some games misteriously ditch Denuvo when still uncracked.
There’s some nice things happening here…
Lots of people won’t buy because of DENUVO and those who do can suffer from bad performance.
We all know that piracy will never be a problem in the matter of sales, those who are used to pirate, won’t buy it anyway, even if it costs 2 shillings.
With that in mind, they have keep buyers away, they lost money paying this shiet and, that’s the best part, the game was pirated a month after release.
I mean, how can a company this size be so stupid?
Now it makes sense that they’re broke af.
One thing i still wanted to check is Epic check.
My thoughts exactly
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So much money for ugly remaster, if its remake then its understandable but this…
They can use that money for improving the remaster quality…smh
They can’t, it the remaster of the console version from 2011, it cannot be improved
Well, if Crytek is THAT stupid and lazy in choosing how to go about remastering Crysis, of course it “cannot be improved”. If this remaster was a passion project that would make both gamers and Crytek themselves happy, they wouldn’t turn it into a quick and lazy cashgrab that was launched at the time when the PS4/XB1/Switch install base is at its peak numbers and the PS5/XSX&S are coming out. When you see a game company going for a low effort cash grab you gotta call it out.
It has nothing to do with lazyness. Crysis 360 was more multithreaded and modern than the old CryEngine 2 branch.
Makes total sense actually.
Yet Crysis Remastered still has problems with running on today’s 4+ core CPUs. Where is your God now?
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/crysis-remastered-suffers-from-single-threaded-cpu-issues-just-like-the-original-game/
Can you imagine someone running fanboy damage control for a broke a*s, B-tier developer like Crytek?
he is a contrarian idiot
BAAHAHAHAHA. Imagine paying that much money for a game whose superior version has long since been cracked. Some real intellectual behemoths over at Crytek.
They don’t care about PC game sales AT ALL. They have a combined 200 million+ 8th gen console player install base.
PC gamers are not even the second priority for Crytek, hence Epic Chyna store and wasting money on denuvo. They know most PC gamers can see through their bullshit and thus prey on those casual PC gamers who’ve heard about Crysis but are not knowledgeable enough not to fall for this scam.
And yet every attemp they made to enter the console market has failed and Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 sold as much as the first despite being multiplat.
Meamwhile they’re still afloat thanks to Hunted Showdowm getting some decent popularity from mouth to mouth and internet reviews.
And what do the people in this company do?
Port the game to consoles and downgrade the PC version to keep parity and then produce this Remaster monstrosity, why the f*k would Crysis 2 and 3 even need a Remaster?
They still good and what they lack is in gameplay and ambition.
if the games already cr*cked before one year, did they get all their money back ? You know Crysis Remastered already being cr*cked in what 2- 3 month. If there is no money back guarantee, its understandable why they still using it now
Money well spent.
Epic, make piracy great again.
It’s amazing that Crytek has remained and hasn’t gone bankrupt for a long time now. They’ve already closed a lot of their studios and several times failed to pay their employees for months in the past.
I think it will happen in near future.
Turkish guys know how to do the bees nees after all it seems.
I can’t say I’ve ever heard of the word “knees” being slept without an n before..
Was the turkish twist on dat.
Please someone put fire at Crytek trash studio…
LMAO go eat sh*t and die you f*cking rotten piece of trash
Yeah sure, you subhuman miscariage! You wanna meet up ? I’ll burrie you alive
Wow your brain is really THAT damaged! Man… just KYS the way YOU want!
What’s is the point of all this remasters that no one ask for?! specially for a good looking games like Crysis. For f*k sake Crytek work on something new or just die.
“What’s is the point of all this remasters that no one ask for?”
Easy $$$
But who buy this s**t?! people complain everywhere.
Can’t answer that since i’m not the target audience.
Imagine not using that money to improve the game and HUNT as well https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/02e846e8378be54084497224b0300cf23b0eb18a716a0f989d82a9d75e4ec710.png
“After the initial 12 months, Crytek must pay €2000 for each and every month. Crytek must also pay €60000 extra fee for products that receive over 500000 unique activations in 30 days.
Additionally, Crytek will have to pay €10000 extra fee for each storefront. Thus, if Crysis Remastered on Steam has Denuvo, Crytek will have to pay that additional amount of money.”
lol no wonder some studios remove it, but makes no sense others keep it
What i don’t understand is why put DRM on a game that can be already played, there is nothing in this remaster that merit choosing it over the old release.
FYI: 140,000 Euro equals 166,359.20 US Dollars.
Someone posted earlier here that it was cracked in a month? Wow.
Turks are human trash and like getting it from behind.
It is proven that Denuvo can impact a game’s performance.
It is proven pirates will wait for a cracked version or not buy at all.
So all Denuvo really does is make a worse version for actual buying customers and it actually encourages pirating more than hold it back. Crytek is so out of touch.
I paid for it, it was on sales last month, played 15 minutes and refunded it… It’s not a good remastered and it changed to much of the original Crysis experience…
And there’s Denuvo on it when the original Crysis is on GOG.
Makes you wonder if these companies have a clause in their contracts to get money back if the game gets cracked within a certain time frame. I think this game rates that for sure since the game was cracked well within a months time. Plus, I’m all for EGS taking big time loses. The more the merrier.