Things are not looking good for Denuvo. A few days ago, we reported about Denuvo 5.2 getting cracked in just five days by a new video-games cracking group. And today, this very same group was able to crack Denuvo 5.3 and Hitman 2 two days prior to its official release.
From the looks of it, this new group – that uses the same name as GOG’s FCKDRM initiative – has cracked the game’s Gold Edition that has been available to those that have pre-ordered the game since Friday. However, the game will officially release to everyone else on November 13th.
As the group noted, Hitman 2 uses Denuvo 5.3. So yeah, it appears that the video-games cracking groups have figured out a way to crack the latest versions of Denuvo in just a matter of hours or days. And that’s a really big blow for the company that has been advertised its anti-tamper tech as the safest way to guarantee the first week sales.
It remains to be seen whether IO Interactive will remove Denuvo. Let’s not forget that the team immediately removed this anti-tamper tech once it acquired the IP rights from Square Enix.
It will also be interesting to see whether this new cracking group will be able to crack all the upcoming games that will be using Denuvo, and what will be Denuvo’s response to this new challenge!
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John, it seems even AC: ODYSSEY has been cracked by CPY..
Odyssey is using an older version of Denuvo and has been protected for more than a week so that’s not big news.
Oh, okay. I thought this game was also using the latest version of Denuvo. Thanks for the clarification.
>Odyssey is using an older version of Denuvo
No it’s not. Denuvo is Denuvo and as soon as a game gets an update, it will have the latest iteration of the DRM. Also the crack isn’t coming from a scene group (who in fact got rid of naming Denuvo versions a long time ago), but a p2p cracker. To no surprise, the pirates can only ‘enjoy’ the first level but the rest of the missions, including the remastered Hitman 1 content, are locked, telling the pirate to purchase it. Other people are speculating that it may be a OS or an update issue, but the fault truly lies in the crack. As I swapped back to the original executable, the game was loading and unlocking stuff just fine.
But Odyssey is a big AAA game and was cracked much faster than Origins.
Not big NEWS ? Are you serious ?
After all, the game is a big major AAA title, and DENUVO is denuvo, regardless of the version used in AC, which makes little sense whatsoever.
It got fully cracked unlike this Hitman 2 game, which only allows us to play the prologue, and you think it’s not news worthy ??
**SIGH***
that one too? Cpy should re-crack resident evil 7, because i refuse to pay 15 bucks for the end of zoe dlc for 1-2 hours of gameplay while not a hero was free and i enjoyed it.
Yup, cpy has cracked odyssey as well.
Pirates playing the game before paying customers because greedy studios release it earlier for $100 buyers, hope people refund this scam crap.
I’d be more readily inclined to lay the blame for said greed at the door of the game’s notoriously greedy anti-consumer publisher Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment rather than the dev’ studio.
And you would be correct. Developers, are merely the tools of the publishers. Publishers front the money, publishers have absolute control.
Except hitman is not under Square Enix anymore.. IO Interactive bought the IP back from them so this is independent HITMAN game that packs the latest denuvo protection lmao. Why ? because they dont believe in their own product. Because honestly, its a copy paste of previous HITMAN so they wanted to protect atleast the launch sales which backfired on them.
Uh… H2 is being published by WB. That’s pretty common knowledge.
My dude, its being published by Warner Bros. They just went from one cruddy publisher to another.
HITMAN 2 is independent, those devs bought the hitman IP back. They are their own “publishers”. Even explains the low PR for this game.
You are not the sharpest tool in the shed are you? – Warner Bros are publishing the game, they have fronted the money to launch it, which means they want money in return, so it’s warner bros decision to implement denuvo in order to “secure launch week sales”.
bow down to might of pirates you paying peasant. pirate master race
it’s funny how you think i give a shet about sony because i talk shet about microshaft, every single xbot i’ve ever seen has low iq, that’s a universal fact and something that all gamers agree on.
The law of diminishing returns.
I called it years ago ^^
And I was there… peeking through your window…
LOL
* Case of missed identities here… I assumed that was a David Hogg meme reference…
Nope.
LEMAYO HERE I COME FORTYSEVEN
Agent 47 is smoking crack now ! lol.
Now let’s see if they remove it prior launch so that i can buy my game without supporting fkin cancer DRMs.
Indeed.
Hitman 2 crack was nuked apparently…
What do you mean by that?
It’s not functional. Sure you can boot into the game, but you’ll be only able to play the first level. The rest remain locked.
Correct.
So i guess its a demo then :p
Pretty much this ^, only the first mission works, hope someone find a workaround, maybe the progress is tied to the online component…
I just started Steam in offline mode all the savegames seem to be in place. The only error I received was that it failed to connect to their servers, but the missions and yada yada were unlocked.
I think the crack only works on windows 10 OS, and not on Windows 7/8.1, as of now ?
I don’t know but plenty of people report issues, mods from CSRIN included apparently, it need a crackfix, that group did a good work with megaman so for sure a crackfix is incoming.
from what i heard same issue with ac origins re crack.
poor hotman devs. they cant catch a break. they dont deserve it. will pirate to play now, will buy to play on realese.
Update. FYI, the Crack isn’t functioning properly. Because some users have been complaining that ONLY the prologue/first level of the game works.
Rest of the missions are locked in red.
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Thanks for the heads-up
The rest of the missions are red because 47 murdered everyone, coating everything in their blood.
Lol. :d
His escapades are seeping into the real world.
Im divided…i hate drm’s but i love IO interactives and the hitman series.
first time i bought hitman reboot, i read that it’s going to have an episodic release so since i hated (and still do) episodic releases and didn’t know what i was getting into, i decided to buy first and second missions/episodes (which just came out) then after the third episode they released a bonus mission that only those who bought the entire game would get, meaning even if you had every single episodes, you wouldn’t get those missions. so i contacted them and they said you have to buy the whole thing again, since my playtime was something like 14 hours i couldn’t refund either. prices in my country are usually higher than american prices (swizerland). that meant spending like 100 dollars (collectively) on a game to get a fcking bonus mission and that was when i told my self i would pirate everything make from now on and so i did. i recommend you do the same, do not have sympathy for those who don’t.
Oh, no.
I think KIM/KKW must be feeling happy now, because this Hitman 2 Crack isn’t functioning properly. Users have told that ONLY the prologue/first level of the game works.
Rest of the missions are locked in red. Goddammit !
But there is still hope I presume, because the same or some other hacking group might crack the full game with time, assuming the anti-tamper is not that hard to circumvent.
The mood of our beloved KKW/KIM is also “locked in red”. Four weeks in every month, in his case.
he’s without a doubt one of the most smart people i’ve ever seen. he owns pc gamers left and right, his superior iq compared to anyone i’ve seen is enough to realize he’s always right.
I think Denuvo is actually one big, weird experimental performance art troupe. There’s no way they’re a legit company. They’ve been trolling game publishers for years on now a level that we’re just now starting to understand.
I dont mind ppls download cracking game if they like it they should buy it but what i hate is hacker in online games but it is funny no body talk about them how they can ruin your gaming experience and those ho hate peoples how download cracking game forget that they cant play mp only sp
Thank you for the news. I went to check on Hitman 7 on WIkipedia and found out that AC Odyssey is cracked too!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I’m so happy and what disgrace. I would never pirate a game and i would never buy another DRM Game again. Square Enix, Capcom, EA, Ubisoft & IOInteractive is all dead to me. I hope they pirate and you never make any money you disrespectful pieces of filth. I’m talking about the pieces of filth that keeps treating paying customers like criminals… You reap what you sow.
Keep Up The Good Work, Ole Johnny Boy.
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serves them right for implementing ?anti consumer DRM
Don’t be angry KIM. No one here likes the Angry KIM persona. No one likes that at all.
Be pleasant at times to compensate for your dogmatic issue stance. Many more people will listen to you that way and I assume that is what you want of course. Fighting piracy.
That is what you want isn’t it?
Please update the post to inform that the FCKDRM “crack” is only the Hitman 2016 exe incorporated into the Hitman 2 release and that only the Hitman 2016 levels are playable and everything past the prologue doesn’t work.
Like I said many times before , not a single DRM can withstand the community for long.
So ??
Literally who?
Piracy or not things are not looking so good for AAA, most AAA games flop these days and thats not because of piracy, just cause 3 was uncracked over a year and it had dissapointing sales. Mafia 3 sold pretty well considering how bad it was and how it was cracked on day one. So many games failed recently on consoles, from prey to sniper ghost warrior 3 to homefront to dishonored 2 to mankind divided even wolfenstein 2 and resident evil 7 didnt sell so well not to mention evil within 2. Seems to me the only company whose games continue to sell is ubisoft propably because people see them as good value-price for the content. Even always online games like battleborn and desinty 2 failed. Also the last final fantasy game, dlcs are canceled.
I agree with some of your thoughts.
No one killed AAA. AAA killed itself.
Got Just Cause 3 Gold Edition for $12 for the Xbox One X and resold it for $5 after finishing it.
Denuvo doesn’t pay!
Assuming, If only the prologue can be played now, so when is the full proper crack coming ?
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After KCD all these AAA games look bland as f**k to me and not even worth pirating (let alone playing)
seems i’ve developed an aversion to console games, i wonder if Metro Exodus is gonna be consolized…
Your tears are delicious, cry more KIM
Last I heard they don’t pay for Denuvo if the game gets cracked right away. I honestly don’t know how Irdeto is making enough money to keep programmers working on new Denuvo versions so frequently.
It’s almost as if anti-consumer practices ( 4 days before release access for Gold Edition owners ) are backfiring…
YoU aNd Me HaVe A wHoLe LoT oF hIsToRy!!! #LikeAPouseyDude
Im taking the piss on you, cuz you sound like a wanna be gangster
yep i realized after but its interesting, at first IO was claiming that they are independent after they bought HITMAN IP off SquareEnix
Great use of resources guys. Totally worth it instead of more QA, more artists, more optimization, better AI or anything else you could have spent the money on.
Publishers using Denuvo Anti Consumer don’t care for their customers and so I don’t care for publishers using it and don’t purchase any games with Denuvo Anti Consumer.
My new strategy now is to purchase steam games with Denuvo Anti Consumer I really want for the Xbox One X instead, finish them and then sell them on the second-hand games market as a punishment.
I did it with Far Cry 5, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Prey, Mad Max and Rise of the Tomb Raider already and because i got some of those as second-hand games already it’s even a double loss for them, because i purchased them as second-hand games and then resold them as second-hand games.
And the best about it is, this punishment is absolutely legal!