Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time released on the PC yesterday and a lot of PC gamers were frustrated by its always-online DRM. After all, this is a single-player game and there is currently no way to play it offline. Well, that’s for all legitimate owners as the game has been cracked in just a day.
What this basically means is that pirates can now enjoy the game in offline mode, something that is not possible for legitimate owners. In short, the pirated version appears to be the definitive one right now. Well, that is until Activision releases a new patch in order to address some of the game’s bugs.
What’s also frustrating here is that Activision has not announced any plans for an official Offline Mode. Again, this is inexcusable for a single-player game. As we wrote in our previous article, Activision most likely forced its always-online DRM in order to prevent piracy. However, this did not stop the scene groups from cracking the game in record time.
Ultimately, Activision is currently hurting only the legitimate owners of Crash Bandicoot 4 with this always-online DRM.
Our PC Performance Analysis for Crash Bandicoot 4 will go live later this weekend, so stay tuned for more!
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Virgin unreal engine 4 full of bugs and exploits
CoD: MW and Cold War : Oh F^ck.
COD best DRM is their bloated HD size.
I think the only reason they never got cracked is the huge disk size requirements for a 4 hours long single player
It’s news like this that warms my heart
In the words of my illustrious friend, “Excellent News! – Robo-Fernando 🙂
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Tencent has a 5% investment stake in Activision Blizzard so he won’t be celebrating this game having been cracked!
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No, it’s Terrible news!
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Eu fico muito triste com uma noticia dessas.
Cheers from Brazil
Good news.
Always online for SP is pure stupidity.
Thank you for letting us know, John.
But how is this news? Excellent or not?
“Ultimately, Activision is currently hurting only the legitimate owners of Crash Bandicoot 4 with this always-online DRM.”
Ultimately, Activision doesn’t give a f**k.
You are a man of just the right words. Thank you, for always keeping to the point. Couldn’t have said it better man, just awesome.
What is worth note game loads faster 😉
another one bites the dust
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My favourite movie from the past 41 years!
Haha, I love this. Golden man, thanks.
only one dude is actually giving denuvo a run for its money, kinda sad if he “disappears”
There will always be another.
whats sad is that more scene groups dont pummel denuvo, codex, conspiracy and baldman all gave up.
Good news, there’s no excuse for a SP game to need online to play, may as well go full online pass for $10/mo. This is rentware at ownership prices. Wish empress would do yakuza LAD though.
blizzard did the same sh*t with diablo 3.
Classic Activision.
Highly doubt people care about the crack to play offline. Its more like the pirates are happy they can play it now.
exactly, it is like the Crash Brandicoot N’sane Trilogy game: was on Steam and did not require always on DRM, yet people felt the need to crack it. People love to find excuses
If it have DRM, it needs to be cracked, no excuses.
I pirate games but I wouldn’t play it even if you paid me.
I woudn’t expect much for a ActiBlizzard coomsoomer, their sucess with Diablo 3 and others speak for themselves.
Uhm, you are wrong & Full of pi$$. People give 100% care when it comes to preserving their games. Only a dumba$$ buys an always-online single player game. We’re you dropped as an adult on your head?
Virgin unreal engine 4 is full of bugs and exploits
don’t cre about this game but I am happy to see this cuz FAQ DRM
Best news of 2021 so far.
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so much for all time online drm XD serves you right
N. Sane Trilogy was Steam game with classic Steam Stub DRM 😉
That’s not the game that was cracked, Crash 4 was the one that was cracked
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Crack Bandicoot
Haha, you couldn’t resist could you? ???
Haha, you couldn’t resist could you? ???
Good news, but what about COD MW? Not that i care about that bloated game.
So is the game any good?
Of course, its freaking Crash Bandicoot man.
Thanks to EMPRESS Crash 4 is no longer a product with expiration date.
EMPRESS she cracked this, just like DENUVO V10
Is Empress transgender? Highly doubt a legit woman is in the cracking business. Same for fitgirl repacker.
There are no women on the internet.
now that’s smart right there.
“There are no women on tech”.
Fixed, most women on tech are “women” or PR girls.
She is pretty transphobic, so most likely not.
So it is probably a male impersonating a woman, so there’s that.
because why? there is a lot of women in IT…
most ppl from scene that may have idea who epress is refer to her as she.
Fitgirl is female just not the one from pictures on her site, thats some French actress.
So do you have positive ID on the real identity behind Empress or Fitgirl or are just talking out of your a$$? I’m just saying the odds of these people being real female are low(not zero) while the odds of them being male (trans or not) are high. Heck even the feminists agree since they always b*tch about how STEM jobs are mostly white males.
EMPRESS*
empress is the only one who cracks games these days.
Which DLC is this, the one you play as Chris Redfield?
Frikking love that Empress dude – we all knew he is a HE dont we 😀
Best of news. To hell with all scumbags using DRM!
Oh and for any pc gamer not know this – Crackwatch on Reddit is the best 😉
better not misgender the goddess of cracking.
Can we stop saying legit owners can’t play offline when they can get the crack themselves?
Legit owners only lose out on the time needed to hunt for communities they’re not already part of to find the modded files needed to play their game offline.
Good job EMPRESS , f*k Activision and their exclusive online DRM for PC only
Following my boooo about it being always online now all i can say is:
BOOM
nice! time to play now!
how? Oh well it doesnt matter, crack modern wafare, unlike cold war that game’s singleplayer worth’s a damn, still not as good as the old ones.
Waiting for Audrey Tautou to post the repack… ?
Cucktivision is bad company now. Their past COD games always sell millions even though its only have steam drm. Now they getting paranoid and decided to go full online only…smh
…and that’s why in couple of years(even present)most of AAA titles like God of war,uncharted,the last of us etc will/possibly don’t get a PC release and stay on console platform.Sad but true…piracy.I know that online drm for SP is shieet but…we PC gamers deserve some AAA(console) games on PC,better perfomance, higher graphics, true 4K,mods etc…we get AAA console games only after few years when the hype is already almost dead(Horizon zero dawn,days gone etc).Sad.
Nope, I disagree/
No matter how much piracy there is, Sony will make huge profits if they ever fully come to PC.
The success of Horizon and Death Stranding is proof of this.
Why do you think Sega released all its Yakuza games on PC? They definitely saw an increase in profits.
Maybe,but still i don’t think we will see biggest exclusive Sony games on PC(it will be nice tough).
Yakuza is not much on my taste.
I wished back in the day for Uncharted series,Heavenly sword,Shadow of Colossus,god of war series,Killzone series,Infamous,ninja Gaiden etc to be released on PC.
If they will release God of War 2018 and Ragnarok,Forbidden west,Ratchet&Clank on PC will be pirated heavily but also will sell.
Look at Rockstar with Gta console exclusive(timed) even Read dead redemption 2(yet red dead redemption 1 is not on PC)…and they still sell/sold,but is rockstar not Ubisoft/EA/Activision.
Let’s hope that PC will be an option for future games,i started gaming with console(Sega megadrive 2) now i’m gaming on Console as well,using PC for mods,adobe and ableton live.Only if Gpu’s were cheaper or more affordable and not a new gpu every year like smartphones.
I remember old GPU series like gtx 8000 series or 9000,when you bought one and lasted for at least 5 years,now from gtx 750ti(2013) to rtx 3080(2020), in 7 years already 5 generations.They could make a powerfull gpu but also they need to sell so…
Youd have to pay me to play this sh*t.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
I mean… So sad innit?!
this is what they deserve