Things are definitely not looking good for all publishers using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Yesterday we informed you about Total War: WARHAMMER 2 getting cracked in due time. And today, another Denuvo-powered game has been cracked in record time, and that’s no other than EA Sports’ latest soccer, FIFA 18.
As with Total War: WARHAMMER 2, FIFA 18 is among the fastest Denuvo-powered games that have been cracked. In fact, it’s been less than a day, something that should worry publishers we are using Denuvo in order to keep their games protected for at least the first couple of days (or for their first week).
As always, we won’t allow links to the pirated version, and we do not condone or support piracy. If you are interested in it, we strongly suggest buying it.
Electronic Arts has removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Mass Effect: Andromeda so it will be interesting to see whether it will also remove it from FIFA 18.
What also has become crystal clear – with these two releases – is that the latest version of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech is simply unable to protect the games that are using it. Not only that, but publishers are losing money as a respectable amount of PC gamers are boycotting games that use the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
Whether this will be the end of Denuvo or whether it will force the company to issue a new version that has not been cracked yet remains to be seen!
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STEAMPUNKS ON FIRE!
Also bought Cuphead today, what a wonderful but brutal game!
You’re telling me. The tutorial took me an hour.
You should consider becoming a games journalist.
that is amazing to see this kind of news
This is the best Fifa I have ever played EA are finally getting there.
didnt u like fifa 17
Not very much no, it had too many issues.
Fifa 18 = Fifa 17 + patches + updted squads + balance + tweaks
Thats all 😉
Fifa 18 = Fifa 17 = Fifa 16 = Fifa 15 = Fifa 14 =Fifa 13=Fifa 12 =Fifa 11=Fifa 10=Fifa 09 =Fifa 08=Fifa 07=Fifa 06=Fifa 05=Fifa 04=Fifa 03=Fifa 02=Fifa 01=Fifa 2000=Fifa 98 etc.
For someone that didnt buy the last 10 games, its actually not a bad deal ;p
I disagree, this is a vast improvement it is better in every area. I have had a lot of fun with this years game and that’s been a long time coming.
The player movement and shooting feels fantastic, I actually prefer this years Fifa to PES and that’s a first for me.
your iq is very low your opinion doesn’t matter.
Lol and more insightful thoughts from dagoat. Oh well I’ll add you to my blocked list and never have to read your moronic nonsense again bye.
Time for Denuvo to close down for good
Nice pic Kurumi
Thanks
Press S to spit on its grave.
It is pointless to implement denuvo in next AAA titles.
Newer version will be cracked too,piracy never gonna end.They should focus on quality and spend 1k$ on something better atleast.
planning to buy the game but wow steampunks strike again!i save the money lol
Publishers aren’t losing money, piracy leads to a 27% increase in game sales vs games that aren’t pirated.
it might be true but not for EA, no one likes them, no one wants to support them.
False. Just look at sales of every EA game…
I’ll like nobody supports EA games, but that’s a gaming utopia
no one wants to support them, they buy their games because they have to, how do you play battlefield online without paying?their other games are failure too, anything that doesn’t focus on online mode for EA is a failure. you’re a dumb shill or something?
It’s simple. Just don’t buy Battlefield. I’ll like to play the new Metroid, but I won’t because I refuse to support that new Nintendo policy of paid difficulty modes so I made the little sacrifice of not playing a videogame I like.
If you don’t like certain publishers just don’t buy their games, it’s the only thing we, the users, can do to change certain publishers “behaviours”. If they don’t sell games the’ll be forced to change.
So, people who don’t want to support certain publishers/developers and buy their games are the dumbs here. Thanks to them publisers won’t change.
i just commented on why no one is buying EA games to some very low iq person you can read that, every proof on the internet confirms no one wants to buy EA games, i explained why no one wants to buy their games on PC in my other comment but in case of consoles, it’s simple, console players don’t have a choice, if they want a game they have to buy it legitimately meaning they are forced to support a garbage developer, people buying EA games doesn’t mean people want to support EA even though not many people buy their games
But there is a choice, if you don’t want to support certain developers, just don’t buy their games. It doesn’t matter if it’s PC or console. I’ve told you already, I’m not going to buy the new Metroid (it’s a consola game, can you believe it?) because I don’t want to pay for a “very hard” difficulty, the sound test and an image gallery, that kind of content should be free.
The only way to change the consumer-publisher relationship is not giving money to the greedy publishers. If they want money they should put some effort into their products.
listen, some people go out 6 in the morning for work and come back 9pm, you are either tired or bored or horni, if you’re into games you want to relax and play games that you like, no one cares who’s making the game, that’s majority of people, i myself bought every single battlefield game that came out sine 1942 but i promise you if there’s ever a way around not paying or playing a pirated version i will do that
Then if you buy their games you can’t complain.
why? do you not complain about rotten food, broken car or anything that you pay for?
Of course I complain, but If a brand make low quality stuff I stop buying products of that brand and search for another one
tell me where i can get the better battlefield then
What do you want a multiplayer shooter a WW game or what? There are tons of better shooters than Battlefield. Arma, Unreal Tournament, Planetside II, Counter Strike, Team Fortress II… Even Devil Daggers is better than Battlefield
i like battlefield, find me a new battlefield, when you want to buy yogurt you buy yogurt not pickle not apple not anything else
do you know how ridiculously dumb your suggestions sound like? first of all you can’t tell me what game is good and what isn’t, that’s my taste, arma and team fortress for example are utter garbage and i’d rather never play any game ever again instead of playing those games, second of all the fact that you think games like unreal tournament and devil daggers are comparable to battlefield let alone being better proves that your credibility is lower than a meth addict who lives under a bridge.
First, I didn’t know what you wanted, so I said a few multiplayer shooters.
Second, you are the one who talk like an addict. You complaint about how bad EA is but still want to play its games. It like complaining how drugs ruined your life and then go and buy drugs. If you want to improve your situation you need to put some effort into it, I’m just telling you there are better alternatives
No offense intended but that’s pretty naive. There are a few vociferous haters of EA but the majority will buy EA published games. And yes, I dislike EA : )
you’re dumb then.
well, the sales have been dropping for years.
Nope.
Revenue:
2013 3.80 Billion dollars
2014 3.58 Billion dollars
2015 4.52 Billion dollars
2016 4.37 Billion dollars
2017 4.81 Billion dollars
Copy/paste the below into your browser for the info. I would link it but this site sends any comments with links to moderation.
marketwatch./investing.stock/ea/financials
I think that EA has been very bad for gaming considering their history
for the last 10 years or so but people buy the games they publish
anyway.
Nope.
Revenue: From marketwatch if you want to Google
2013 3.80 Billion dollars
2014 3.58 Billion dollars
2015 4.52 Billion dollars
2016 4.37 Billion dollars
2017 4.81 Billion dollars
I think that EA has been very bad for gaming considering their history
for the last 10 years or so but people buy the games they publish
anyway.
that’s some dumb analysis, all EA games force you to buy them one way or another and there are no proof of their sales other than their low player counts compared to garbage games on steam, i’ll give you an instance, battlefield series force you to buy them legitimately by removing any lan or skirmish/single player modes and compared to some popular indie games that sell around 400k to 500k (within a week or two) battlefield have lower players count, if you compare sold units and player base of other games that follow a similar statistic you’ll realize even though battlefield forces everyone to buy them legitimately they still suck at selling
Well seeing as Fifa, Battlefield and Battlefront are 3 of the largest selling game series it would appear you are talking nonsense yet again.
well if you were not so thick to realize all these game force you to buy them legitimately you’d also realize how low your iq was sine you were born.
Really that’s it? oh the irony.
I’ve said this before, Denovu doesn’t cost anything to the publisher
it’s a subscribtion based, and if it gets pirated the service is free for a 3 month period
weather EA removes it afterwards that remains to be seen..
still… you cut the head of the serpent another will rise in it’s place
i’ed rather see Denovu alive.. but barely.
who knows, publishers might finally realize that Anti-piracy measures are pointless
that or they’ll double down on them.. take your pick
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Denuvo is dead I hope they never use it again.
It’s good that denuvo is used. That way we know which games we should not buy.
Brazzers.
IF Denuvo refund the develepers if the game is broken in the first 3 months, how the hell this company is still functioning? I mean, it has been more than a year that a game remain protected longer than 3 months…
Denuvo will adapt. You bet your butt they are working on a new build or a new way to secure new titles. Obviously the crackers and hackers will punch through it like they did the first time with Denuvo. Its a cat and mouse game and always will be. Each side will adapt and move forward.
If Denuvo can do what they did before where it was literally impossible to crack a Denuvo game for awhile in the beginning and then when the crackers eventually started cracking the games it was slow, REALLY slow and now we are up to the point where the crackers can crack the Denuvo game within hours or a day. Denuvo only has to secure a title for a week or so anyway as that is the primary selling stage for profits (from what I have read anyway) for a game. Though I am sure they would like the title secure for as long as possible, lol.
I am also concerned about what happens eventually down the line when these crackers and hackers just break everything like Denvo and whatnot? What will developers do then to secure their titles? How far will these companies go to protect their games and other media and how much will it inconvenience the legitimate people who buy the media? I think these are the important questions. Will they make some kind of online only constant crazy check weird system where you need to input an authentication code or something from a smartphone to use a game? Or something just batcrap crazy like that? How far will these game companies go? Or will they just scrap any kind of security for their media after realizing they are just wasting large amounts of money on pointless security that doesn’t even work?
I personally don’t pirate anything. I don’t feel the need when I can go buy it and support the people who made that piece of content possible. I also have nothing against people who do pirate. People have lots of reasons to pirate and I don’t care why they do. I do find this subject very interesting and am kinda scared about what game companies will do down the road with regards to attempting to secure their content.
Wasn’t it just last year when some big hacker group said they were really struggling with cracking Denuvo and they were taking a year off to figure out how to do it? Now it’s commonplace for Denuvo to be cracked. I’m sure Denuvo will evolve and will continue in the foreseeable future and other DRM gimmicks will take the stage as well.
What else might Publishers push towards? The worst imo would be always online with part of the code necessary to run the game being held on the server side so that it would take a few minutes depending on your internet speed to download the code and start a game each time you wanted to play it and you might be also at the mercy of the server to keep and manage your savegames. After a couple of years when the game loses popularity the Publishers might pull the plug on the server as a waste of money to maintain and then that’s the end of playing the game for legitimate customers. Basically instead of buying the right to play a game whenever you want to you would be “renting” the game for a couple of years.
That would be worse than Denuvo for me because I still go back and replay games that are 10 to 20 years old on occasion just because they are still fun for me.
+1 to you for the batcrap crazy use. I still use the phrase batsh*t crazy at times : )
you talking about 3dm, 3dm was more of a localizing group in china, now that china’s middle class can buy games they no longer crack them. They simply wanted their site to go legal so they stopped. They couldnt crack it though.
Yeah I think you have your finger on the pulse there.
Firstly, if there is a code, it will be cracked. Bergofsky principle or something like that. Anyway, my point is that some clever cracker or hacker will always break through these crappy attempts to hold our paid-for games hostage even if just to prove that it can be done. Publishers realise this, and frankly I legitimately share Frank’s fear of the fact that they will go even more overboard with protecting their IP’s just out of frustration.
Secondly, yes, I think it will be virtually impossible to play anything without a high speed internet connection in the future. If they cannot protect their code on local machines, perhaps they will try to protect it on their own servers and thereby forcing even single player campains to always online.
Either way, the legal, paying customers will, once again, be the only real losers as it has always been. The multi-billion dollar publisher and the pirates playing their free games are the winners. The question is, should we keep pirating to the point where we start wearing parrots on our shoulders and watch some publishers go down in flames for their DRM stubborness? Or is the solution actually to… you know… BUY games in the hope that greater financial success for these greedy demons would stop them being so an*l about their stuff that they wouldn’t mind loosing a few hundred thousand dollars to the jolly rogers club anymore?
IMHO the solution is to wait for sales and to avoid early purchases. It is kind of a middle ground in that some games end up costing the same price as a cuppacino, so even the pirates cannot claim poverty, and the developers still get financial compensation for their hard work at least. I know that some older games have horrid DRM schemes and that it can be quite some time before they receive the 80% off sticker, but my point is that hopefully publishers might patch it out or discard it alltogether when they have assurance of decent long-term sales. Think about it…
I think the end is nigh for Denuvo.
The hackers have figured out how Denuvo sets it’s hooks into a game. Denuvo itself that is pretty much ironclad, but the parts of the code that the DRM+Denuvo hook into are apparantly quite vulnerable and the hackers seem to be getting faster and faster at finding them and patching them out thus bypassing Denuvo+DRM.
Considering that it is difficult for them to change that in such a way that hackers cannot adapt (as demonstrated with the current version that was just as weak if not weaker than the prior version) i see little way for them to effectively fix this rather big hole.
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