Middle-earth: Shadow of War has just been released and as we’ve already reported, it uses the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. And as you may have guessed, the game has been cracked in just a day. Shadow of War follows Total War: WARHAMMER 2 and FIFA 18; two games that were also cracked one day after their release.
To be honest, we are really wondering whether it’s worth using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Denuvo was meant to protect the games for at least a respectable number of days after their official launch. However, all the three latest games using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech have been cracked in record time.
At this point, publishers are simply shooting themselves in their feet as there are gamers that boycott all games that are using the Denuvo tech. And since this tech is unable to protect – and guarantee – the first week sales, it’s entirely worthless. So yeah, publishers using Denuvo are simply losing money right now.
For what is worth, and even though these games have already been cracked as we mentioned, both Total War: WARHAMMER 2 and FIFA 18 are still using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Hell, even Sonic Mania still uses it.
We also don’t know whether Warner Bros and Monolith will remove it in order to win the PC crowd.
As always, we won’t allow links to Shadow of War cracks or to torrents. Those who attempt something like that will be banned.
Stay tuned for our PC Performance Analysis article!
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Nice. Death to DENUVO.
smh, muslims.
Wtf??
He’s gone back to trolling, it would seem.
trolling is a sin against christ and it’s teachings, i haven’t sinned since my puberty.
Agreed.
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Good job pirates aNd CODEX for cracking the game.
CODEX? Not CPY or STP?
What a tweest!
Also f*ck this game, it deserves it.
Yea, CODEX.
codex learned to crack denuvo?
wow
I pre-ordered this game. But I can only be HAPPY about these news!!!! Death to this cancer that is Denuvo!
Pure irony, the only cancer here is you with your pre-ordering BS.
Not everyone is as rich as you and can afford to pay extra money after pre-ordering period is over.
Are you stupid? Games can only get cheaper the older they get. Pre-ordering doesn’t give you any special bargains.
My bad, I shouldn’t have tried to reason with trolls like yourself in the first place.
Trollololol
you argue that preordering is cheaeper and you call him a troll.
Yes, troll is what you call someone that’s not even remotely interested in discussing a subject. And yes, pre-ordering in retail was cheaper. Prices in retail have increased since the game released. They’ll decrease again eventually, but one decides when and for how much it’s appropriate to buy any given game.
Just for info: atm, in retail you get prices little below ~40€ for standard edition. In pre-order stage, same retailers were selling the standard edition below 30€. If you really want to have the game on your library since day 1, you’d be stupid not to take the advantage of pre-ordering the game. It’s pure math made by someone that has to spend his hard earned money instead of asking mom and dad for it or just pirating the game.
well not everywhere in the world is like stores near your neighborhood, what you said about “”pre-ordering = cheaper”” doesn’t make sense for everybody else here
If I bought the game now in the same store where I bought it a week ago, I’d spend extra 10€. And no, I’m not talking about local stores. It’s always been about retailer websites that sell region-global Steam keys. It’s just a matter of trusting the website or not, but that falls to everyone’s judgement.
ok so you are using the work “retail” wrongly here retail is different from entail
Ok thanks for correcting me then. For my defense, when I buy a key from those “entail” websites, in Steam’s key activation window it generally appears “Name of the game – Retail”. And to be honest, I wasn’t expecting the discussion would revolve around this subject, because that wasn’t definitely my intention in the first place.
this will either make publishers stop using denuvo or denuvo guys will up their game up, either way its gonna be interesting
They tried that already, repeatedly. As a result, first they cracked Denuvo 2015, then it was Denuvo 2016’s turn & now it’s Denuvo 2017 getting rekt.
Even if they actually go for Denuvo 2018, it doesn’t matter. By this point in time, the software has been fundamentally compromised to the point that in order to make the “protection” window long-term once more they’d have to invest serious time & money into the actual development, as they did the first time around.
Which, of course, would once more prove to ultimately be all but pointless, so why bother. Sure, they may yet try that regardless, absolutely, but I doubt it.
remember the uncrackable drm… lol we actually believed that back then.
Well, other than me ;P
I don’t think Denuvo can up their game without completely redesigning their architecture…which takes time! Anything on the existing design will be cracked within hours by all talented crackers out there, since they now have learned how Denuvo works!
what i dont get is why cpy doesnt re crack watchdogs 2 like he did with arkham knight and rise of the tomb raider. Seems weird to me.
Probably hasn’t gotten around to it yet.
I agree, I really can’t see them stopping 🙁 even if to me it is pointless and a waste of money and time.
I really think it’s all about the CYA (Cover Your A$$) mindset these sh*ts have ingrained into them so badly, so that when some board member asks about piracy, they point to Denuvo & say “we’re doing all we can :D”
Nice, this is the most logical thing I have heard anyone say in a long time in regards to DRM.
[ sigh ] maybe one day we won’t have to put up with DRM, just imagine if your whole Steam library was like GOG and you actually owned the games 🙁 . Or if every game was on GOG! That be something.
Good to hear. If there is a game that deserves to be pirated into oblivion, it’s this pile of dogs**t.
it’s a repetitive garbage, no one cares, no one plays it.
As I write this, this game has 40k concurrent players just on steam. So the statement “no one plays it” is wrong
you shouldn’t take everything literally, you seem to be suffering from severe autism.
Called it!
LMFAO! So predictable!
Denuvo, get REKT. Also, WB, you get rekt too.
Can’t wait to download it
Its not my fault its their fault putting microtransactions so every 60$ game that have microtransactions = no buy= pirate it
Seriously. I haven’t pirated a game in years tbh. But this one definitely ain’t getting my money. I didn’t buy quite a few games because of Denuvo, but this one I actually want to play as I loved the first
Excellent.
If these pieces of sh*t are okay with exploiting us with this anti-consumer bullsh*t, they’re going to have to be okay with piracy as a consequence.
RIP DENUVO
Time To crack Windows Store Games : FORZA 7, GOW 4…
You can’t crack Windows Store games – they are protected by DRM built in Windows 10 kernel. No single UWP game was ever cracked. Windows kernel is protected by UEFI hardware. You need motherboard without UEFI to modify system kernel.
Denuvo protection is part of game files (exe) so it is easy to change or remove
UWP protection is part of Windows kernel so you need modify whole system
Shadow of War was released on both Steam (Denuvo) and Windows Store (UWP). Only Steam version was cracked because it is much easier.
Ayy it’s the UWP/Windows 10 fanboy, your comment history is hilarious – UWP is cancerous, get over it.
“UWP is cancerous” – because you can’t pirate it? LOL
No single UWP game was ever cracked. Its kernel level protection. Much stronger than Denuvo
Nope.
cant say it increases sales.
Mate, it’s uncrackable but it’s bypassable.
I hope that if STP+CPY+CODEX+BALDMAN+Reloaded work on the WINDOWS DRM then we can win this war.
Who the hell would pirate sh*t like fifa . Or forza “the racing game where u need lootbox for driving in night” ? Or the 15 game of HALO
There is no original game on UWP what i would play for free .
well, phantom dust.
“UWP is cancerous” – because you can’t pirate it? LOL”
that was hilarious. I dont read your every post spectro, but I will upvote that one, because as I can see most peoole on this site cant stand hearing facts from you.
“because as I can see most peoole on this site cant stand hearing facts from you.”
He is a microsoft shill we dont want microsoft shills. UWP is cancerous because its designed in such way that you dont have access to the game but ms does. No mods.
Thanks for the explanation. Well personally I dont have any experience with UWP games, but no mods support is indeed really big restriction and I didnt know about that.
UWP support mods if game developers want it and add some own mod system. Any game can read additional files and use them.
UWP only protect game files against unwanted modifications,
“Unwanted modifications” in this case being anything the publisher doesn’t want you to do though, which is against the historical creed of the PC system.
GTA Open wouldn’t exist on UWP, for example, because the arrogant sh*t in charge of Rockstar hates modding, which as a consequence would deny us all the opportunity to play unofficial GTA content.
All because of one spiteful pr*ck. Great, huh?
Since you don’t read all of his his posts I will condense his contributions down for you……Sp4ctr0 offers no balance in his opinions. He never mentions the bad side to anything MS promotes and only regurgitates the few things they do get right over and over and over.
The goofball was probably on PC gaming sites 7 years ago saying GFWL was the best thing ever.
“Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb!” -Kamina, Gurren Lagann
Please please, do yourself a favour and kill yourself by drinking some bleach. 😀
Check’s in the mail, as usual.
“You can’t crack”
Yet!!!
Stop spreading nonsense… You clearly have zero knowledge about UWP.
He’s being fed marketing bullet points by Microsoft, he doesn’t need to know anything else as far as he’s concerned.
“You can’t crack Windows Store games – they are protected by DRM built in Windows 10 kernel. No single UWP game was ever cracked.”
Just an example: FH3 and its DLCs freely available….
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Wrong… Forza Horizon 3 was released WITHOUT DRM by accident few month ago (january 4 2017). Crackers don’t crack it.
BTW. You stole game without performance fixes. Your pirated version is from January 4 and performance fixes was released 5 month later. Now I know why you think that Forza have bad performance 🙂
Since october 2016 ?
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And what about Quantum Break ?
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Forza Motorsport 7
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HAH!
K
now remove it and i’ll get the game when it’s 30-40$.
K by.
Im curious to know how sales for Witcher 3 were vs those that pirated it. If no Denuvo actually helped the game sell more or were pirates going to pirate it anyway
Quality dude,its more than a game.many pirated it,still they supported the Devs by buying it even after completing the game and Of course sell helped boost the number up.
Assumptions….
its weird, even mafia 3 has sold very well, that game did not use denuvo and was meh. Seems there are in fact people who dont like denuvo and boycott it.
Well, what can I say…..
….. Except, I f*cking love being right 😀
i don’t remember you being right for once in my life.
Then you should take better care of yourself, premature dementia is a serious condition, not to ever be taken lightly.
And you are right again, Sir! 🙂
BUT THIS GAME WILL NEVER BE CRACKED…..lol
Game looks exactly like previous part, but performance is much worse. Duderandom84 on Youtube has shared comparison and 1080ti is the only nvidia card that can deliver rock solid 60fps in 1440p, while vega 64 is even faster than 1080gtx with current drivers.
The game looks considerably better than the first one.
I have 60 fps in 5120×2880 using SLI Tis.
A single card gets 60 fps in 4K.
I have 33 fps average maxed 1440p with 4k textures looks much better than previous but at that time i had 1080p monitor with gtx 970
lol
Ahahahahahaha i’m so happy! I hope this game flop so hard for the bull*** put in!
65k concurrent on steam…wont flop
Just one more proof that piracy has no big impact on sales…..
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided had 50K concurrent players on steam on launch, and that game DID flop commercially.
yes, according to SE standards.
And their standards are perfectly legitimate! It barely sold half as much as Human Revolution, brah.
I guess you’ve forgotten about For Honor. Went from 100k concurrent to a ghost town in a mere 2 weeks.
Rub even more sand into WB’s face by not even bothering to pirate this dumpster fire.
I’m with you on that one, if I wanna grind through games I play JRPGs.
Adding grind just to sell crates is a spit in the face, hopefully cheat engine tables will start roaming around to remove the grind.
But still, I’m not going to bother to download this game from warez, leave alone buy it.
Its a good day. Yarrrrrrr
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AHAHAHHAHAHAH! 😀
It’s like a 100 gb download though.
LOL i just googled it to find out who cracked it and apparently some repacker is repacking it to 24gb
that’d be damn impressive because the lowest i’ve seen it go to is 41 gb.
Oh nice, they cracked Batman: Middle Earth Edition
good investment WB
I am a steam boy and refuse pirated games and I hate those kind of DRM..
So I hope they wont waste my horse power build with this chit anymore!
Go crackers!
Lol i was saying “matter of days” get rekt denuvo and wb
Got me for pre ordering arkham “broken” knight and never releasing injustice 2 on pc and now micro transaction in a single player game…well you aint getting my hard earned cash greedy corporate bastards
We’ll get Injustice 2 eventually, but yeah, agreed regardless.
?f course we will but many people say we will get it only on february however amazon leak says 2017 so we might get it november or december. we will see. question is why wb didnt pay qloc to do it same time with console version.
Gonna download this crap (not gonna bother installing it) from a crap server and im uploading it on a good high speed one. Just for the faq to wb. Not only for the dumb decision of using denuvo… because the total greedy command to implement a pay to win system and loot boxes.
Wow so hard core.
you know what pisses me off? The entire game is a grindfest. SOOOOOO they made a grindfest to sell lootboxes.
They faquing created a multiplayer mode just to add this gambling stuff. Its hilarious
I am out of the loop what happens with these loot boxes?
I wanted to play this game I finished the first one. I hope they drop the intrusive Denuvo support.
Publishers right now
“Hello darkness my old friend”
Well WB, so much for your protected game and I’m hoping the loot boxes in single player games thing flops as well. Also…….
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Oh what a shame. LMAO
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dd3f27766747a6fca0d4a5f0f6ea72d68e1714378538ced5f70a10b5d7356263.gif One day?! Hilarious!
Soon on Wikipedia.
Denuvo was a anti-temper to protect games from day one crack developed by sony and Ubisoft.The last game to use this technology was “shadow of war:Microtransaction”??.
Hahaha Denuvo got assimilated again :D. Nice to see Codex have the know how now.
What a fall from grace. The “Shadow of” franchise crashes and burns in two games. And Mordor was such an awesome game. I hope this loot box crap leads to an industry crash.
and it sold. Thats my point, what are you on about?
Denuvo…More like DeNOvo. *grabs coat*
This day just got a lot better.
Also perhaps more interesting is that they have a trainer with the skidrow version that gives free loot crates.
The fact that these publishers still aren’t removing it essentially means that if you buy their games, you can only play them as long as Denuvo’s servers are up, which probably won’t be very long at this rate.
And despite this, there’s people dumb enough to defend it. It’s both sad and scary.
The microtransactions in Middle-Earth: Shadow of War have attracted the pirates attention. A single-player game doesn’t need these if the gameplay isn’t affected, but in Shadow of War, these microtransactions affect the endgame gameplay.
I wouldn’t even pirate it.
The pirates removed the copy protection? TRIGGERED!
They mention this site in Eurogamer.
Congrats ??????
What, did you really expect critics to have their balls when it came time to actually review the product? They’ll always slam something if they think it’ll get them extra hits, but at the end of the day they’ll always pander with the review, it’s why they’re choking to death on their own patheticness.
Metacritic User Reviews are slamming this to hell across all platforms, though & I expect the Steam rating will drop some.
Buy, review & refund is a common enough practice on Steam, much to the chagrin of certain developers who’d rather that not be the case.
It’s been done before, they just need a big enough controversy. I guess WB avoided the major wave by announcing the loot boxes in advance instead of trying to hide them, though.
Oh, well.
this lootbox plagued POS isn’t even pirate worthy
they already ruined it with the design alone