Caipirinha Games and Toplitz Productions have released City Patrol: Police and revealed that it is the first game using the new Valeroa anti-tamper tech. Valeroa is described as a protection tool that ensures that the DRM of the store where gamers bought their game cannot be removed from the game.
According to its official FAQ, Valeroa should not affect the performance of a game as only a handful of functions are protected by it.
“Those functions are not processed during gameplay experience. They are processed when the game starts up or loads levels. Game developers can carefully select the functions they wish to protect.”
Valeroa anti-tamper does not require you to have an internet connection, does not not continuously read or write to your hard-drive (so it will not damage them) and does not limit the number of daily installations or changes of hardware.
As for its protection period, the team behind it had this to say:
“Valeroa Anti-Tamper is extremely difficult to crack before and closely after the game release date. The protection becomes a lot easier to crack after a predefined period. We have no problem with organised pirate groups or individuals who crack Valeroa once the protection is weakened. We definitely don’t prosecute people who just play cracked games.”
From the looks of it, and in theory, this appears to be a better anti-tamper tech than Denuvo. Whether developers will drop Denuvo in favour of this new anti-tamper tech remains to be seen.
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What a time we live in when a game has become are tech demo for a DRM.
Sad days upon…–upon those who openly accept what they’re served.
“From the looks of it, and in theory, this appears to be a better anti-tamper tech than Denuvo. Whether developers will drop Denuvo in favour of this new anti-tamper tech remains to be seen”.
But according to the official FAQ, Valeroa isn’t actually a DRM. So can it substitute DENUVO, which in itself is an intrusive DRM ?
According to the company, Valeroa is not a DRM, but a protection for existing DRM’s instead.
They created this tool because existing DRM’s, and even other anti-tamper protections for DRM’s get cracked, and even in an automated fashion. So they are offering an anti-tamper solution for PC based games that has a completely new anti-crack feature.
Denuvo is also not a DRM, it is described as an anti-tamper tech similar to Valeroa
Digital rights management > anti-tamper tech..oh, John please. A protection solution, both secure content from being illegally published/sold on the black market.
And we used to call it Copy Protection.
Different names, same bullshit.
Agreed and agreed.
They can’t stop CPY anyway!
CPY + CODEX FTW!!
These guyz might be super excited that they again have a new challenge at hand…another “problem” to solve!
Sadly, Denuvo is pretty much alive.
Some corrections for you.
The protection becomes a lot easier to crack after a predefined period
Wth that means??
Im not against DRM but Denuvo is just too much. The only doubt is what happens if the store you bought the game, well just disappears? GFWL…
Well, given that this is not as invasive as denuvo I don’t really see a problem with it. And their attitude seems a lot better.
We’ll see.
A lot better? Pfff browse their website for a minute. Used quotes from Ubisoft and other “lie me in the face” phrases. I too don’t see a problem, I often don’t care much about DRMs for the sole reason I don’t play newest games, I have like tens of games I still haven’t touched, like Witcher 3 that sits on the shelf for two years now, not even had time to go on GOG and install it. But keeping yourself silent on the problem isn’t helping either, like in my case. It may not be much for me, however DRMS start from somewhere and plague any kind of media, so it affects your freedom of choice.
Their site is a joke wtf, their are quoting Ubisoft as a reference on PC piracy claiming that and i quote : “PC has 93-95 percent piracy rate.” What’s even more funny is that the quote they are using as a source is from 2012, it’s from the time X360 was still around, you know that console that piracy was available for it’s entire life cycle. Dam that thing was so widespread and so easy that in my country it was way more easy to find a x360 hacked than a normal one.
So let’s use the SteamDB numbers for AC Black Flag that are no way acurate i know, but wtf can i do since they don’t release official numbers for the sales (Hum i wonder why).
Now look it’s on SteamDB that it sold around 1 and 2 million units, remeber this is not acurate and even if it was it would still be missing Uplay only numbers. Ubisoft said on February 10, 2014 that Assassin’s Creed 4 shipped 10M copies furthermore specifing “The game sold 7 million copies on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC and 3 million units on Xbox One and PS4.”
Now assuming that even if the pc sold only 1 million at the time or even less they want me too believe that is only 5% to 7% of the “total costumers” ? Yeah right, nice story.
The site is so weird. The way they phrase things “eventually you can release a weakened version, that can be cracked. As to avoid bad word of mouth on influential forums”
What in the flying phock ? Feels like 10 year olds made this site
Look at the top, focus on header image. For one, the Logo does look effortless. What else remains to discuss? Effortless try from the design department.
The game btw has stolen assets from Crash Time 4.
Like most police simulators?
Never heard of this game until now. It will probably sell poorly; but who/what will they blame if it does when they cant blame pirates?
“Satisfy the piracy communities by offering a weakened version when you
decide to do this. We anticipate on negative comments on influential
communities.”
LOL at the PR guys, did you seriously vomit this fifth grade joke? “Offering weakened version” Weakened? So much controversy in one sentence, astounding.
I don’t know any gif at the moment I can post here, someone please slap the most appropriate facepalm gif image for me.
Because it worked so well for Denuvo…………. right?
Lol cracked 0day