Our reader ‘Rocky45’ has shared with us the EULA (END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT) for Dragon Age: Inquisition, in which EA makes it pretty clear that Bioware’s RPG is protected by Denuvo’s latest DRM system.
As the game’s EULA reads:
“The PC version of this Software uses Origin Online Activation and Sony DADC Austria AG’s Denuvo content protection technology.”
So far, there are two games using this protection and those two have not been cracked yet.
FIFA 15 enjoys more than one month of being uncracked, whereas Lords of the Fallen enters its third week.
A lot of gamers blamed – a while back – Lords of the Fallen’s DRM for the game’s performance and stability issues. For what is worth, however, we did not experience any such issues in FIFA 15. Given the fact that they use the same DRM, one would expect to witness the very same performance and stability issues. That wasn’t the case, so let’s wait and see how this latest game that is powered by this DRM will perform on the PC.
Dragon Age: Inquisition releases on November 21st!
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I’m sorry but Lords of the Fallen was cracked
has it?
I dont know, i dont care about any of those 3 games but all this talk about denuvo being the new big thing that cant be cracked had be searching for info on wtf this thing does.
I gone into their site and i found this
http://www.denuvo.com/#page-3
so fiffa has been cracked.
Fifa 14 was cracked, Fifa 15 wasn’t and it has the updated Denuvo so its probably going to take another 60 days to crack.
No its not
lol what a moron, stop spreading false information, it was never cracked.
No it hasn’t.
So does this run like crap or not?
most likely yes
Please God. Don’t let this be the one thing that ruins this games launch.
usually people saying this because wanted crack version and play for free..
nope, most people saying this because they paid 50 or 60$ for a game and can’t play the damn thing
stupid assumption. is a fact that drm slowdown games.
this is basicly what i said, which part of my comment is stupid ?
Nah people are hoping this won’t turn out to be very unstable like EA other DRM heavy game, SimCity 2013. Man was it bad for the first couple weeks. I promised myself to never pre-order a game again unless I’ve tried it first and know what I’m getting.
No, we just want to NOT be treated like criminals when we purchase a game. On a platform like Origin or Steam that are ALREADY DRM themselves.
i hope not
runs on battlefield engine
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Dragon-Age-Inquisition-PC-236767/Specials/Technik-Test-1142136/
It’s taxing to be sure
To be clear, Denuvo is not DRM in the sense the DRM stands for Digital Rights Management (or Dogs Reading Magazines, or whatever you prefer). There is nothing in the Denuvo stuff that has to do with accounts or release date checking, or ownership or anything like that. It is not SecuROM. It is not Steamworks. It is not Safedisc, or any of the other DRM solutions that have been in the past. Origin is the DRM for Dragon Age: Inquisition in the exact same manner and settings as it was in Mass Effect 3. Nothing has changed here.
so wtf it does?
Denuvo is anti-tamper on the executable. This has nothing to do with mods or attempts to change textures or anything like that. Trying to hack the executable to cheat in multiplayer? This is what we are talking about.
I hope bethesda doesnt use it then or things like 4gb exes will be impossible.
Didnt skyrim use like 2gb?
yet it uses the same engine with the same issues as oblviion. Thats bethesda.
Skyrim is in the creation engine while Oblivion was gamebryo. Bethesda is also pro-modding for their games, so the likelyhood of them doing that is minimal.
Actually it doesn’t only run in multiplayer. It is single player and does affect mods that may work with the .exe, it will kill off interesting mods and leave the boring ones, but I guess you’re okay with that.
Wait.. what? so basically you cheat in multiplayer like you did in ME3, is that it? How si that related to DRM or piracy..?
Personally i’d download it (pirate it if you must) to see if my PC can run it, and if I can, I’d buy it for the multiplayer. I wish they just released a demo. Sigh
Fifa 15 already bin cracked lol. What a waste of time, all the money they spend on this stuff is ridiculous because it will always be cracked
Fifa hasnt been cracked, please go away with the trolling…
You’re really persistent dude. No crack exist as of now.
Hmm, i thought it might take longer
No it hasn’t
Fifa 15 is not cracked. That is false for now. It will take half a year to crack this DRM.
The *only* reason why this new DRM took so much times to be cracked is because warez groups aren’t particularly interested in FIFA or Lords of the Fallen. Both games seem to have been cracked by now, though.
But Dragon Age Inquisition is a big title. I wouldn’t be surprised if it were cracked in the first week.
Also, once these groups know how to crack Denuvo, they’ll be able to do so faster and more efficiently with every new title. It won’t take long for it to go the same way that all other DRM mechanisms go.
ok seriously has lords of the fallen been cracked or not? I need to know so see wherever the dissapointing sales happen with or without the crack.
Still not cracked, same with fifa 15. The game that was cracked was fifa 14 and it took 46 days, and denuvo has since been updated.
Denovo will not be absolute DRM anyway, ’cause destroying things a lot simplier that creating them.
if its good copy protection the company will modify it to fix however it was cracked. I bet their are still starforce games that are not fully cracked
This is not confirmed!
it’s confirmed, preload is up they checked the exe
well at least origin has their “Great Game gurantee”
if the game crashes and locks you have 24hr’s to get your money back, as much as I dislike Origin, and praise GMG and G2A, Origin’s gurantee is just awesome, I would have returned so many games after the first session, but i’m stuck with it cuz i didn’t buy it through Origin.
it take 2 days for me to download Dragon Age (downloading now), how can i refund it ? i actually don’t want to do that just want to know.
PS: i didn’t buy it from Origin either, boughit it through 3rd party two month ago.
Preloads have already started on Origin, that and get a bigger pipe :0
:)) big pipes are so expensive in here.
yeah but i don’t have my Key yet, i’m downloading it right now from torrent, without key i can’t preload from origin, with key i still can’t download big files from origin, it loops my download 2 or 3 times, so a 25gb game becomes 50gb or more 😀
Actually, it’s 24 hours _after_ you start playing the game. Download time doesn’t count
https://www.origin.com/en-us/great-game-guarantee
Fifa 15 hasnt been cracked successfully, http://www.taringa.net/comunidades/fifa-12/8985221/Bar-Continua-la-Espera-del-crack-FIFA15.html#pagina-80
Look at this 4000 commentaries and thousand of people waiting for the crack. LOL, the poverty!!!
Totally agree!!
I think all of protection can be broken but honestly I so happy this two games: Lords of the Fallen and FIFA 15 is not uncraced yet. So maybe Dragon Age will be uncraced longer.
why so much news for a Protection ? if it doesn’t broke the game then it’s fine, on the other hand, if it stop people from modding the game then it is cancer.
free marketing for denuvo and casuing paranoia and panic amongs people causing once again free promo for both games and the ex-securom people who crated this “not DRM” as they said but its pretty much “DRM condom” on top of actual DRM
I can only laugh at naive people thinking this is a factor at all.
A certain team managed to emulate the syncrosoft protection for steinbergs cubase. I think it was circa 2007, 2009 maybe? Turns out, besides the need for a proprietary usb dongle, as much as 25% of the program code was copy protection related. They still managed to do it, even having to deal with a hardware/software combination and people thinking it would be uncrackable.
As I see it it’s more about how many groups and how much these groups are interested in cracking a certain program than it is about the quality of the protection.
Are you from 2009 .?
Please. If piracy would be such a deal on PC then Steam would never be so successful and valve that rich.
Piracy and Steam aren’t exclusive. People who are legitimate customers buy from Steam etc.; while those who pirate, simply pirate. Some do both. All types exist on PC.
I keep saying this, pc piracy is a few thousands on indie games and hundrends of thousands on AAA, not milions as people make it to be. Pc piracy is weaker than ever thanks to steam, large game sizes that are constantly patched and online features.
DSO have no issues with Denuvo? Could be DSO review code does not have Denuvo? So it’s from Sony huh? They wanted so much to kill PC gaming. I hope Sony just go dead one day.
How is this related to Sony wanting to kill PC gaming, in any way? While DRM isn’t good, DRM isn’t killing PC gaming, and it never have been, not even when it a f’ing mess.
” DRM isn’t killing PC gaming,”
Where where you 4 years ago?
In 2010? Eh, I think I was playing some Star Craft 2, a little Civilization 5, some bad Company 2, New Vegas, Mass Effect 2, Metro 2033, Just Cause 2, Napoleon Total War, DoW2: Chaos Rising, I think I jumped into some Dragon Age: Awaking as well as ARMA 2 OA.
And you?
i was pointing out things like spore, install limits and always online drm.
he sould’ve said last decade not 4years ago.
some DRMs made some games unplayable or worst before than it’s crack version at least on launch:
– most of the GFWL games
– GTA 4
– Darkspore (i paid for that, never worked for me, and they no longer support that game – i paid less than 20$ but for nothing)
– SimCity (unplayable at launch)
– Diablo 3 (unplayable at launch)
– Anno 2070 (unplayable till they removed that Always online crap)
– Assassin’s Creed 2
– Might & Magic Heroes VI
– Splinter Cell: CT
and many more. only legit buyers suffered from those games and only because of their DRMs
Yeah i hope sony dies a bankrupt detah.
Meanwhile the game has already leaked for consoles.
This is great. If this dmr or whatever it may be is non-crackable its over all better for the pc community. Less pirates more games that are better optimized and the PC market will get a little more respect from the big publishers.
not really. only good side is they can’t blame piracy but after that they will continue to release those half finished games. assassin’s creed unity is not optimized for console either and they are not hacked, some publishers mask their games with always online and call them mmos, day one patches etc…
Whats so great about it. It tends to make games unplayable even if you
buy it. Never mind putting it on a title like DA:Inquisition. This will
only feul the people cracking the games in the first place to get it
done. Fifa 15 and Lords of the Fallen were not major releases and so
were effectively ignored. Once Dragon Age gets cracked the others will
most likely follow.
Denuvo will not stop piracy nor even slow it down.
What I am tired of is companies punishing those of us that actually support them with this crap in the first place.
well denuvo kinda has slowed it down.
Not agree at all my friend, Less pirates mean or leads to the ends of PC Games. pirated games moves the industry (Website, Blogs, YouTube… everything is not 100% Genuine as you think) and if you don’t understand this… Nothing to do!
At the same time we don’t know nothing about Skidrow, Reloded, Codex… Who are they really? did anyone ask this question… who release all this stuff Movies, Music, Software…
that’s bullshit, half their player base are from the people who pirate the games. If anything it helps with the promotion of their games. For that matter, half the PC gaming community pirates their games. It only adds to their popularity.
Ever wondered how microsoft was so popular (still is)? bill gates himself basically said it’s because pirating of a superior software package (windows) created a virtual monopoly, since free indie games can’t compete with a equally free, but much more developed product.
yeah, piracy helps EA. Big time
Half the community? Where did you learn this?
“Less pirates more games that are better optimized and the PC market will get a little more respect from the big publishers.”
Lol no the exact opposite, means no demos, means more people will use their money to buy the biggest AAA games and not give indies and smaller studios a chance.
the first time I played DAO it was pirated, been my favorite franchise ever since. Because of it, i bought DAO with all its dlc, DA2 with all its dlc and now I bought DAI. If i have never pirated it i would never have bought it because it is hard to know if the game is actually good by gameplay videos, screenshots and the like and i think we need more demos on the pc. so we pirate it, play it and if it is good we buy it. pirate actually help the game industries. that is my opinion anyway.
I personally don’t care about DRM on pc games but if this DRM ruins my game experience thats something i don’t want too happen.
I bought the game but my disc reader is broken . I was hoping that I wouldn’t need the CD and register-download online . Is this possible ?
Use the Cd Key that came with your game and activate the game. Maybe?
Ahhh , yes that was my intention , however I read somewhere that the CD might be a requirement , so I wanted to make sure . Anyway , i guess its not
Well i think you can download the game from the Origin Client like steam does. Thats what i do i just activate the game on steam and download it from the Steam Client i don’t know if it works for Origin. The disc is just to save time to download the game.
Why you want more games start using this new protection?
so what FIFA 14 used it and it was cracked the only thing this DRM does is delaying the inevitable for a month or two or three in case of FIFA 13 but at what cost all FIFA games that used it are buggy as $hit
ah great, This game has banned in India 1 day ago and now DRM. where did I left my gun?
eroorrrssss for 60 bucks 😀 yeah
rune my day
this DRM will be broken, and soon like all the others. The release groups are going to rise to the challenge and really all DRM hurts is the consumers, either through poor performance and/or stability issues or Draconian controls on there consumers.
I was actually on the fence of buying this, bioware before in the past released very high quality games. However, the last DA2 was really bad after the EA merger and this DRM i can not find any creditable techinical information what it does, and fear from sonys past DRM (which they were sued from the US government) they are not disclosing the full picture of how this works and if we are giving up our privacy data (which is far more valuable) in order to play there stupid game. The fact is the online play is a reason enough why people who pirate who liked the game would buy it. EA ruined bioware along time ago, especially with all these “in game exclusive items” and microtranscations. What ever happened to NWN or BG which you bought the game and played it? Tired of buying an incomplete product at launch, EA’s greed is sickening, DRM final nail in the coffin why im not a fan of bioware games anymore.
i totally agree with you!!!… i always arrange my to try a game before a buy and dev could not say they losing money with me…just look at my steam game list: more than 150 game ive bought since i got steam….and you cant ALL of what i try and like i buy in (on pc) and if (on console) i dont like it enouph i rent it for a week and forget about it…(and trust me developper wont make money with renting ther game for console…what give them money is sale!!! the only one i buy before before try is rome total war 2 (pre-order) and what a dissapointment…60$ dolar for that crap!!! NEVER PRE-ORDER AGAIN!!! event with all the patch now and mod it is better but waiting 4 month to be able to play correctly is really not good!!! (early access and kickstarter, beta and alpha are another thing but this was a full release game…) even after trying The Forest alpha (v0.4) and see the way the developpers was working, there good comunication with the comunity ect i decide to buy the early access and did not regret it!!!! and company want us to stick to reviews to make a choice…i said ok but just look a assassin creed unity reviews at the moment (48% of 3000 positive review!!!!!) do you really want to spend 70$ for it??? and of course they was some game that add not good reviews but i still like them personally…and maybe after trying it even if they add lots of bad reviews if FOR YOU it work great and YOU enjoy it….you wont regret to buy it at full price!!!
ps i said trying…that not meen necessarily pirate version…it could be a friend past you is copy ect….
Maybe, but I’m not holding my breath.
Denuno hasn’t been cracked yet, and I suspect it going to be a while before it is, by then these particular games will be lost in the shuffle as the pirates move on to whats new and shiny.
See how dumb you are ? Its been hacked already
I just cracked DA:I. So easy. Denovu uses code 56 encrypt C I bypassed it by changing some code in the exe. I am uploading in an hour
@Crackhead
So you are saying you cracked the DRM for the game. Does that mean once you install that version, Origin will recognize it and will allow auto patching and updates, just as if you had entered in a valid code?
I’m asking out of curiosity as I already paid for my pre-order. I just haven’t used a crack in at least a decade and wonder how it works now. Or if this is something else entirely.
you cracked my a*s!!!
btw this is how it work: (quote from denuvo official site)
“A Digital Rights Management (DRM) system binds the game to a legitimate user account and allows the game to be played whenever and wherever the consumer wants to download and execute the game. Anti-Tamper stops the reverse engineering and debugging of the DRM solution, but has no effect or limitation on the legitimate consumer. Anti-Tamper is completely transparent to legitimate game buyers and does not in any way impose activation limits, install drivers, or require a gamer to be “always on.””
so in other words it is not a drm (protection like steam…securom…but it block the access to extrac the exe file to remove the drm from it…steam and origin are a easy drm to remove (with the right knowledge of course) by modifing the game file (.exe and .dll) so for exemple
drm are like the key of a car that when inserted (at the right place lol) and turn it create the contact of the wired that start the engine….the crack is like opening the trap under the steering and directly taking the 2 wire can manualy creating the contact (no need of the key!!!) (useful when you loose your key LOL)
now denuvo work in a way that prevent you to open that trap to acess the wired
Exactly what I did. Already preordered Witcher 3, and I NEVER did that before.
“We’ll put our money into Witcher 3 and buy it directly from GoG”
nice move. i don’t care my PC can run wintcher 3 or not, i just pre ordered it because of it’s devs
People use pirated games because they can’t buy the original because in aome region the game price is just too expensive because of the exchange rate maybe 60 to 70 dollar is normal for a tripel A game in the US but outside of the us it is just too expensive. For example the price for an original game in indonesia is worth 600.000 to 700.000 rupiah and that is concidered expensive.
So the game is not sold in my country and i can’t torrent it either… this is f’ing great..
lol
This whole DRM tug of war reminds me of a quote from 3:10 to Yuma.
Ben Wade: “[Looking at the armored stagecoach wreckage] You all spared no expense this time, (Byron). I gotta say, though, it’s probably cheaper just to let me rob the damn thing.”
i find it hilarious how so many people are complaining about the drm just because they are poor and cant afford a game
On a side note, and for the sake of the argument, let’s say the game gets cracked. What I am interested in is loading my saves from keep. Would it be possible to buy the game through Origin, import the save file on my PC, and then through the money back guarantee that Origin has, get my 60 euros back. (you fuckity fuck mother fuckers, 60 euro does not equal 60 dollars you motherfucking fucks, and the game was also 50 euros just a few days before, and why does PC have a 3 day later release date? I hope you fucking end up bankrupt you mothefuckeking moneygrabing fucks from EA, /rant over). There could also be some good guy who simply shares his save, or more people and then have a webpage like masseffectsaves.com is.
Crackers will not be able to crack this DRM until 2016 or later.
good thing I’ not buying this til next year
great, thanks.
Anyone know if this game is good or not? Any complains about the DRM?
Honestly I don’t have any problems with DRM. On my Nvidia graphics GT755M everything looks great. For me this game is very good: FIFA 15 and Lords iof the Fallen is worth to buy it and play a lot of hours:D
i don’t have anything with drm’s or denuvo..
but developers would better release demo’s of their games.. to see if it would run on your pc.. to see if you like-it.. etc..
like unity.. a piece of crap game.. i wouldn’t buy it.. it runs like s*it..
so.. if bioware wont release a demo for inquisition.. i don’t buy it..
and at some point in time.. denuvo will be defeated!
Almost one month is after Lords of the Fallen and more than month after FIFA 15 review and it is still not uncraced. Great information. For me this DRM can be future for PC games. I hope the will upgrade this DRM and it will be harder and harder to crash it.
Well starforce took 1 year well this can be cracked i bet not soon enough.
Honestly I hope all of new game will used DRM and piracy will be lowest on PC. If game will be still uncraced then producers can create more games:)
Yes i agree more money better quality games less jobs lost.It was Splinter Cell Chaos Theory the one who took 1 year to crack. The same thing happen to Securom.
So if it slows your game down and causes high CPU usage you’re fine with those consequences too? They actually won’t help with more or better looking games as once they know they don’t have to fear pirates they will feel they can get lazy.
I wish someone with some knowledge and experience in this stuff would at least put out an idea of whether or not it can eventually be cracked. So far it seems like a no.
Cracked today. Next.
dragon age inquisition has been cracked by 3dm on 14th December which has same denuvo protection that fifa15, lord of the fallen have
There are no working cracks, denuvo has beaten all crackers, no more free games, just have to wait 2 years after release when games go down to $5.