Man, what a trainwreck. Yesterday, we informed about the inclusion of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech in Final Fantasy XV. However, it appears that the game has already been cracked, four whole days prior to its official release.
Chinese group 3DM has used Final Fantasy XV’s demo executable file, a file that does not contain the Denuvo anti-tamper tech, in order to crack the game. This, however, would not be possible if it wasn’t for Origin. Unlike Steam, Origin made available for pre-load an unencrypted version of the whole game. 3DM got that unencrypted version and cracked the game via the demo file.
According to early reports, the first three Chapters work fine (and some players have been able to reach even the ninth Chapter without any issues). The size is also around 150GB with the HD 4K Resolution Textures, suggesting that this is the real deal. So yeah, this is undoubtedly bad news for Square Enix.
On the other hand, the good news is that – solely for performance purposes – we will be able to test and see whether the Denuvo-free version of Final Fantasy XV runs better than the launch version. In short, we’ll finally have an open-world game, a game that does indeed stress modern-day CPUs, and see whether Denuvo brings any additional performance hit.
As always, we won’t allow links or torrents to this version of Final Fantasy XV, and those that will share such links will be banned.
Final Fantasy XV releases on the PC on March 6th!
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Whole lotta good Denuvo did ya. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/62122305fd04ad6fa70dc1b748e9fb452e9e68089af30835164992d7fe8f4e34.jpg
Watch them keep Denuvo anyway, despite there being literally zero reason not to remove it.
Arkham Knight all over again. Performs worse than the cracked version and they still won’t remove it.
Their Mentality: “B-b-but then Jhonny NoName who has zero hacking skills, can’t Google anything, and doesn’t know what torrents are would be able to make a copy for his friend!”
Yes, unfortunately that’s probably true considering the stubbornness of many other major publishers like Konami, Sega, and even S-E’s other PC titles never removing it despite all of them being cracked.
Yeah, I have no doubt they will.
FFXV’s Denuvo isn’t cracked : “Chinese group 3DM has used Final Fantasy XV’s demo executable file, a
file that does not contain the Denuvo anti-tamper tech, in order to
crack the game”. So for Konami the only ones to blame are SE and maybe Origin, not their protection.
lol
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Omfg lol
Won’t be buying it anyway because the demo was complete rubbish, 150Gb of rubbish so I saved myself a lot of time and SSD space.
“This, however, would not be possible if it wasn’t for Origin. ”
figures, the Origin version did not mention the technology. so i guess this means Steam is to blame for this?
How on earth did you come to that conclusion? The crack was possible because origin allowed people to pre-load the full game completely unencrypted and they used the demo exe (without denuvo) to mash the two halves together.
Origin version has it too then i guess, it’s not mentioned though on the store page. ….well anyways what a quick solution, right before the game even launches. not even a week spent. they could just remove it now that a solution has been exposed.
even tho its funny that ea somehow unintentionally messed up, i do fear that square might reconsider future pc ports of ff7 remake or kh3 totally out of the question, after spending so much time preparing for the launch of their biggest game ever on pc, only to be done like this, and keep in mind this is the same square who said that tomb raiders 3.4 million was a failure, news of this will spread, people are going for cheaper option after all.
QQ it’s still a one and a half year old game that isn’t even releasing with all of the DLC. If they considered this a priority they would have put it out sooner. They’re just trying to even out their bottom line and will likely do the same with FF7 some years after it has been out on PS4 or simply not at all since it is a PS4 exclusive anyway. It will have simply little or nothing to do with the performance of this game though PC isn’t much of a priority for this company.
wait they dont release it with all the dlc? LOL
If I am not mistaking those arrive as DLC later you just get it for free later. I recall reading that somewhere anyway.
It comes with ALL the DLC that’s been created to this point. They’re planning more single-player content in the future and obviously that isn’t included in the game yet.
Regardless of what vocal teens scream about on youtube and sponsored game sites saying PC gamers pirate everything (we don’t) and the poor publishers are losing billions (they aren’t) and we should feel blessed when a console game hits PC (doesn’t matter; we own all the consoles too) – PC gaming is a massive, thriving market full of money to make. This is why MS just talked about “owning PCs” as well (puke). A ton of cash here. Prior to this year, Ubisoft ranted about PC users being pirates and scum – and now they are sucking up to PC as the best place to play and they sell each and every one of their PIRATED games on PC!
Shareholders are not going to pass up on that juicy cash.
It’s true that Publishers are making huge profits from us and PC gaming revenue continues to increase year after year. If the toll miners are taking on gaming GPUs continues year after year though it could bring the growth of PC gaming to a standstill but we’ll cross that bridge if it comes.
Ubisoft is comical. One day they call 95% of PC gamers pirates. Then 8 months later they say they want to work more closely with us to give us what we want. I can’t take anything they say seriously anymore.
And yet, every single GPU manufacturer is saying that Gamers are the mine driving force behind their products. Miners aren’t going to stop growth, if anything they will just unload their old cards onto used sales and it will continue to grow, the companies will adapt and start pushing out more hardware once more RAM manufacturers supply them with RAM. It’s going to continue onward, and grow even faster.
pc gamers dont just lap up whatever game devs put out there. Console gamers dont have a choice, their selection of games are limited… some few thousand games vs x million games on pc NOT including backwards compatibility and emulation.
tldr.
Console=no choice, buy whatever is sold.
PC too much choice, and so devs struggle to offload their garbage onto a smarter market.
I would start buying games again if they got proper physical releases. I refuse to give my money to a company and get nothing in return, and it is quite unsettling how more and more people are alright with doing that. it’s like Valve brainwashed them.
Well if they remove Denuvo now I would still buy the game at least lol. I don’t really pirate games anymore i’m a responsible adult. ^_^
Yeah was going to get it at launch, but said screw it because of Denuvo. I’d get it if they removed it.
i dont have 150gb. So ill wait.
It’s only 150GB with the 4K textures, general size is around 100GB but preload, people are saying it’s around 75GB.
So if you download a free game, you’re not a responsible adult, gotcha.
Logic – you’re not doing it right. If you download a game that is free, you’re not pirating it…
As long as I don’t lose my “Responsible Adult” title, that’s all I care about…
A person without means may have to take measures to take what others have worked hard to produce. A responsible person with means compensates those for their hard work or chooses to life live without it..
Think I saw that on a drinks coaster once, and it meant the same thing to me then, as it does now. Nothing.
Yea basically yes. Because you know it’s stealing a product. Unless you live in a developing country where a lot of games just simply aren’t being sold so getting them pirated in the only way. But if you don’t and you’re holding down a full time job. Then you can afford to buy your games. Being able to afford your hobby is the definition of being an adult.
“Being able to afford your hobby is the definition of being an adult.”
Thanks for the chuckle ?
I live in a mud hut in Africa, dial-up 56k modem.
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Gross.
This is what you get when you deceive customers
I figured the game would get cracked quickly…….but damn!
Couldn’t happen to a better turd of a company. Burn SE.
thos reminds me of a riddle from batman.
A horse has a rope tied to it’s leg, but he’s drinking water from a river 100 feet away from the fence. How come?
Nobody tied the rope’s other end.
Or he gnawed of the leg tied to the fence and hobbled over to the river.
Denuvo-cracked versions based on my experience in AC Origins,Tomb Raider 2 & DX Mankind Divided is around 10 FPS faster than original on Sapphire R9 290 4GB
It does affect performance
Cute. Cracking the game doesn’t remove or alter Denuvo in any way. Nice try, but please don’t spread misinformation.
So much BS from the ignorant.
Yeah, you people should stop embarrassing yourselves.
I said if you don’t understand English that” it is my experience ”
in the Denuvo version i used lower graphic options to achieve the same frames
whenever i would launch the cracked version it is always apparent that it runs faster and smoother
again,THATS MY EXPERIENCE
benchmarking tools for games don’t always reflect real gameplay
That’s interesting because circumventing Denuvo doesn’t change the fact that it’s still running in the background, the crack is simply fooling Denuvo into thinking it’s a legit copy.
Good thing that we can soon test FFXV vs FFXV+Denuvo to see if there’s a performance hit.
technically it is not the same
-3DM managed to crack a game because of square enix making a demo without denuvo and origin preloading the whole game.
HAHAHAHHHAAHAH
-Square enix will not remove the drm despite its been cracked. They gonna update it on every patch
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Its like the world is run by people who wear their pants on their heads and dance around making monkey noises
Squenix: I’M NOT OWNED, I’M NOT OWNED
Good, I refuse to give my money to a company and get nothing in return.
I have no desire to play this game but I will be pirating just so I can help seed.
tell yourself whatever justifiy the action ..
I bought over 10 proper physical copies last year on PC, so I’m obviously willing to pay.
You brainwashed Valve drones are ridiculous.
The idea is that it’s not because you’re not robbing the first 3 banks you come accross that it gives you the right to rob the fourth one.
You should get his point now.
I’m not robbing them of anything, and if I were going to give them my money I wouldn’t get anything in return, so they are the ones robbing you.
Publishers and developers crossed a fine line when they decided to start using digital distribution.
It is not because you have nothing physical that there no value and you have something, the right to play the game (wether you like it or not/wether it works good or not). That’s how it works.
If i were to follow your logic (maybe i didn’t get you right), if i’m going to pay someone to give me advice but i have nothing tangible in my hands it means he robbed me ? Digital rights are a thing as far as i know.
The right to play the game? You mean that “right” that can be unilaterally revoked at any time for any or even no reason at all, as stated in the license agreement? Yeah, so much for your right to play the game lol
Do you mind finding that line and pasting it here to back that argument ? Also, prove that this line is from the FFXV license agreement. I’m quite curious here.
It’s in literally every EULA of every software ever written not to mention it’s also in Steam EULA. Section 7.
NEITHER VALVE NOR ITS AFFILIATES GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS, ERROR-FREE, VIRUS-FREE OR SECURE OPERATION AND ACCESS TO STEAM, THE CONTENT AND SERVICES, YOUR ACCOUNT AND/OR YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS(S) OR ANY INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NEITHER VALVE, ITS LICENSORS, NOR THEIR AFFILIATES, NOR ANY OF VALVE’S SERVICE PROVIDERS, SHALL BE LIABLE IN ANY WAY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE STEAM, YOUR ACCOUNT, YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS AND THE CONTENT AND SERVICES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES. IN NO EVENT WILL VALVE BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH STEAM, THE CONTENT AND SERVICES, THE SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND ANY INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, OR THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE CONTENT AND SERVICES, SUBSCRIPTIONS OR ANY INFORMATION, EVEN IN THE EVENT OF VALVE’S OR ITS AFFILIATES’ FAULT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR BREACH OF VALVE’S WARRANTY AND EVEN IF IT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THESE LIMITATIONS AND LIABILITY EXCLUSIONS APPLY EVEN IF ANY REMEDY FAILS TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE RECOMPENSE.
Oh my this is quite stupid. I always believed we should be able to play our games the way we want, how we want and when we want. Even though this could be seen as a reason for someone to pirate a game, it is not right to steal someone’s product.
Sorry for caps I copy pasted it directly from Steam and it was all in caps. AndI’m lazy.
With a proper physical copy, even if the license is revoked, its still yours unless they raid your house and take it.
i bought 4 copies of the game and have been playing the pirated version. All good nig**r, when you dont have money and are poor like you, piracy is the way to go. i mean, 10 games you bought? WOW!!!!!!!!!
I’m fairly well off thanks to piracy. Saved thousands of dollars last year by pirating, and I’ll save thousands more this year.
I only play on PC you brainwashed Valve drone.
You get the game.
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when u see the profile pic :)))
I was ready to buy it and double dip because i already got the ps4 version…and then they added denuvo so piracy it is
Why even bother when the game will be cracked four days before release. Lol
Beyond being a laughing stock to a small corner of the internet, how is this bad for SE? Piracy doesn’t particularly affect software sales.
if it didn’t denuvo wouldn’t exist.
Publishers believe that piracy affects sales. Denuvo caters to that belief. It doesn’t necessarily mean that piracy actually has a negative impact to software sales.
“As always, we won’t allow links or torrents to this version of Final Fantasy XV, and those that will share such links will be banned.”
So whats the point to inform pirates that pirated version is now available? Looks like you inform about denuvo just for clicks, as PC oriented site it should be in your interest to mantain good PC sales.
There’s so much fail in your comment.
Not only that. There are people like me who will NOT pirate it and will NOT buy it either. Not playing rubbish games these these, only the real stuff. More time for my useful hobbies.
Actually it does, for most people here Denuvo getting cracked is pron.
There whip their c*ck out and start stroking.
LOL
Respect from the heart for this comment…
Most of his audiences here are pirates. You can see his hypocrisy at full force when he announces nude mods, and links it…..
You don’t need to go to forums to get news on latest cracks. DSOGaming has got you covered man!
“Looks like you inform about denuvo just for clicks”
He does obviously.
Your personal obsession continues!
Okay, first of all, I’m NOT taking anybody’s side, but I think to some extent what “codyzz’ just wrote, seems to be correct in my opinion as well ?
I’m slowly starting to see this trend here on DSOG. Earlier I thought that KKW guy was just spreading misinformation about Denuvo.
Don’t get me wrong though, as I have full respect for JOHN, but is it really necessary to post new articles on CRACK/Denuvo news, as well as Nude Mods on top of that ?
If YES, then I stand corrected. Because according to me, such topics don’t fall under the usual gaming category, imo. I think from this perspective.
Your point is also correct with regards to “personal obsession” though.
John does a wonderful job with this site in all aspects of what topics are covered, in my opinion. Weirdos like Kim Kardashian West and codyzz1234 are both personally obsessed with John and what he does.
It’s amazing how patient John has been with KKW. It’s one thing to hate PC gamers and call all of us pirates on occasion but that guy has run it in the ground and then on top of that calling him a pedo. I still don’t know how he made a connection between piracy and pedo but whatever. On any other site KKW would have been IP banned for that nonsense.
I like this site the way it is pretty much. I don’t get all of my news here but I do read the comments and have gotten to a point where I recognize the ones that have a good bit of gaming experience and knowledge so I take their opinion into consideration.
100% agreed. An IP ban would be more than warranted given that KKW existed here before under a different user account before that was banned. I ‘get’ that John is dutifully abiding by the ‘no censorship’ wishes of the majority membership for one year as of the time of the most recent site poll but KKW has obviously gone many steps too far. I doubt that anybody sensible here would argue that KKW isn’t wholly deserving of a ban.
Denuvo articles are like pron here.
Once a new one comes out, everyone starts stroking their d*cks.
“but is it really necessary to post new articles on CRACK/Denuvo news”
If thats what put food on his table then yes OLOL.
He should link us cracks though rather than keep this bullsh*t. “We do condone piracy nor condemn it”
Because it’s relevant to PC gaming as DRM in general, just because you’re against DRM doesn’t make you a pirate, John obviously knowns that his audience is anti DRM, that’s why he does articles on it. Why can’t people on this site understand he is just reporting news that might me popular, if it’s not than he generally doesn’t report it.
I’m so close to cracking his pedo ring. I can feel it.
Justice served!
I love it. Denuvo has gone from “OMG this new DRM could be the end of piracy forever!!!” to a complete and total joke. The sad thing is, considering S-E has still not removed it from any of their other games, I highly doubt they will remove it from this either even though pirates are now playing the game 4 days BEFORE legitimate users can.
When will this garbage Denuvo DIE already? It’s clear publishers aren’t going to wise up about removing it, so now our only hope is that enough see it as too useless to bother including with their products and just stop using it in future products.
well, you can say what you want, fact is ac origins took months to crack, injustice 2 isnt cracked 2 and plenty of other games that havent been cracked are still out there waiting. FFXV got bypassed because the demo .exe did not contain denuvo and if it owuld have, it would have been a completely different story. Lets not forget origin releasing the full game without the .exe. So no, DENUVO isnt dead, UBISOFT has managed to hold piracy for 3 months and the game sold over 500k copies on PC alone with denuvo.
Denuvo works, in some cases like this one, its clear that its not the best solution, but 3DM was helped in this regard because they took the wrong steps along the path.
Seriously, nobody should worry, the optimization seems to be decent and the gameplay is ok-ish, it will sell well on PC.
lol, I did not see this coming.
It’s an old practice, which is why it’s utterly embarrassing that S-E actually screwed up in this way.
Excellent news
Hoping for a repack because i really don’t need 5 languages installed.
You can get 4TB SSD’s now for only £1500 LOL
I’ve seen some for $600
I don’t really care if they remove Denuvo, I can use the crack on a paid for copy, just as easily as the pirates. If I even decide to buy it.
When will these idiot publishers realise DRM, and especially Denuvo costs them sales.
Pirates simply don’t buy games, they avidly wait for crack releases, just like paying customers wait for games to release, but never buy uncracked games.
DRM only puts paying customers off buying the games, it never forces pirates to buy them.
Indeed as an ex pirate, that never bought any games, I switched to a paying customer, due to modding, giving my games the value for money, they often lack without modders.
I still use cracks on games I own, to remove the DRM, and/or stupid store clients like Steam, Origin, and Uplay.
Thankfully GOG Galaxy is optional, and they provide the offline installers I want.
So now over 300 (2/3 of Total) of my games are GOG releases DRM, and Store client free.
Maybe someday all of them will be on GOG, and I’ll no longer need to crack the games I’ve already bought. Not holding my breath though.
Karma is a b!tch, innit?
-3DM managed to crack a game because of square enix making a demo without denuvo and origin preloading the whole game.HAHAHAHHHAAHAH-Square enix will not remove the drm despite its been cracked. They gonna update it on every patchHAHAHAHAHAHAIts like the world is run by people who wear their pants on their heads and dance around making monkey noises
DRM altogether have to die. It’s just useless at this point… I believe denuvo has kept a couple of game off the torrents for a limited time but did it help the game’s sales ? I do not know. Is it worth money wise ? Nowadays any game that has the denuvo tag on it has a bad press so, as a publisher, not sure i’d go the drm route.
But i’m just a peasant not some big meth head ceo of whatever corp likes denvo
and yet again denuvo will punish the real consumers not the pirates.
Huh, impressive I suppose.
Not gonna do that though. I only pirate when no demo and well … FFXV has one. And I liked it.
Why is FFXV on Origins though? Are any other FF games on there?
They should’ve wait for it, because next time the companies will find even more weirder way to lock down games.
it is the windows edition version not origin
and it is the complete game
Oh no this is far worse. EA is distributing it though Origin. They simply provide access to the CDN and database end for developers to upload. This is 100% on the developer or publisher for uploading non-encrypted files.
I think denuvo is not only a protection, but a logger of info…
Leave it to the Chinese. Wouldn’t this kinda be a “Chinese Knockoff”? Regardless, it is sad everyone says that Denuvo destroys a games performance. There are DRMs in place for the software companies to have the illusion it will stop the piracy. Ya know an illusion like that of voting in the US actually works for the people.
There is Denuvo on Star Ocean:TLH 4K HD on Steam and I notice zero problems. So I do not understand the hate on Denuvo. I think in general people hate DRM because it had a bad start and bad rap… However they have made it less intrusive to the system over the years.. BTW DRM used to be on the game install/play discs in the mid to late 90s. Like SecuROM and SafeDisc and of course they were cracked. Spore has seen a lot of backlash where people were pirating the game. However it does NOT compare to the HATE Denuvo has. And I do not understand this hate. Maybe one game had issues with it and that is where it came from, however the DRM devs do fix things like that … eventually…
I think this is a combo of hate on DRM and a minority voice whining about something they do not know anything about and because on a game it took the CPU to 100% that means there is a bug somewhere since it does not affect everyone. I know DRM is pointless, especially when it is cracked BEFORE the game comes out. (All because Square did not think about the possibility of this happening with the DEMO of the game)
DRM is always cracked and there always will be Pirates. Just ask Microsoft who though that DRM would decrease piracy of their products. Boy were they wrong! It did not even make a dent in fact it made it WORSE. There was scuttlebutt going around (maybe to deter) that EA/ORIGINs version had its own DRM on top of Denuvo on the game but this looks like it is untrue. 2 DRMS on a game would cause a performance hit because it has to do its thing twice and some DRMS do not work with with others…
There was issues with the Original DRM not being removed on a Steam game and it caused issues. No it was not Denuvo.. Just most of this is hate on DRM in general. People are so entitled that “If I buy a song or game it should be mine to do as I please.” however what they do not get is they buy a License to use it how they fit and it can be REVOKED any time if you are doing some shenanigans that they do not like. Look at the terms of the license on FF XV.
Haha, lulul
Where’s that f*ckboi KKW at?