And we all saw that coming. When SEGA announced that Sonic Mania would be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech, a lot of PC gamers got frustrated, especially since this was not indicated on the game’s Steam store page prior to its release. And while SEGA has not removed this anti-tamper tech from its title, pirates have managed to crack the game.
This basically means that the pirated version of Sonic Mania is currently the definitive version. That version packs all the fixes and updates that the official version currently features, allows offline mode, and is not plagued by the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. And that really sucks for all legitimate owners of the game.
Now while Sonic Mania was cracked really fast, it’s not the fastest Denuvo-cracked game. That honour goes to TEKKEN 7 which was cracked in just four days (and to RiME and Resident Evil 7 that were cracked in five days).
In RiME’s case, Tequila Works removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech once the game was cracked. Similarly, id Software, IO Interactive and BioWare removed Denuvo from DOOM, Hitman and Mass Effect: Andromeda.
It will be interesting to see whether SEGA will remove the Denuvo anti-tamper tech now that the game has been cracked. It’s worth pointing out that the Sonic Mania team had no say in the implementation of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
As always, we won’t allow links to pirated content, and those who share such links will most likely get banned.
Oh, and we do have to share this amazing tweet from GOG regarding Sonic Mania’s DRM controversy.
— GOG.COM (@GOGcom) August 30, 2017
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Love Herman Cain.
I really enjoyed Sonic Mania its a blast from the past thats still fun even today.
mimimi f@ck denuvo.
the GoG reaction is priceless
HAHAHA, f u*k Denuvo!!!
Now Sega, be a good chap and remove that DRM, would you?
And put the game on GOG while you’re at it.
doubt it. Sega are greedys fu****
I don’t really see how the DRM helps them at this point if it essentially no longer functions :S Seems like wasted money.
it didn’t cost them a dime, Denuvo is subscribtion based service
and if it gets cracked in less than 3 months
the service is free for that period
so basically it’s up to sega now to remove the malware and gain some positive PR for a change (or what’s left of their PR system)
Yep. I was really looking forward to buying Sonic Mania but that of it having Denuvo, particularly so the deceitful way Sega included it, resulted in me saving my money. If they rid the game of Denuvo then I’ll buy it.
I don’t know if it’s going to be removed anymore, the little trick with the Sonic 1 gift to block refunds suggests they might have more investment in the DRM than we might expect, if they tried to pull that stunt, they had to know it would cause a huge backlash, yet they went with it anyway.
Now I’m wondering if 8 days of ” “protection” ” were worth all the negative press for Sega.
Oh yes it was. Because the game is glitchy and broken!
AHA!
Double tap – because that’s just how SEGA rolls.
Hey! Just to follow up on the Creation Club topic. Some brilliant person has just released a mod on the Nexus that replaces all of the CC’s content files with tiny size empty files thus giving us back our SSD/HDD space. Genius! It’s named Creation Club File Fixer by Just me d00d.
leave it to the modders to fix bugthesda’s bull$hit
Yep. Free mods to fix Paid Mods 2.0! Bethesda have issued the following statement,
“We’re working on solutions that would not require Creation Club archives be part of the game’s patch. We are certainly listening to everything people are saying, and appreciate the constructive feedback, both positive and negative.”
“We’re working on solutions that would not require Creation Club archives”
sounds suspicious to me, in all honestly i’ed disable auto-updating
considering bethesda recent history, lets just say they’re as trustworthy as a trojan
I’m not choosing to try rolling back to an earlier build or to disable auto-updates because doing so may result in missing out on game updates (as opposed to CC content updates) which may subsequently cause problems when certain mods are updated and require the (then) latest version of the game.
Until Bethesda (hopefully) deliver on their stated “solution” to fix this issue then this free mod will do me just fine. If they don’t then this mod will need to be expanded so to overwrite all future new CC content. Either way, Bethesda’s CC can do one!
As for the other problems CC has created then,
– I’ve found a new alternative to ShadowBoost
– there’s already been a mod update to keep Achievements working
– the F4SE issue thankfully don’t affect me because I’ve not installed any mods that require it.
“Bugthesda” thanks for that :*)
Epic.
Latest Steam user review rating for Fallout 4:
Recent user reviews rating: OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE
“18% of the 5306 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive”
And it just keeps dropping 😀
where is the download
You need to infiltrate the darknet and it will be cybertransmitted to your virtual master directory. Make sure the CIA is not watching.
Or the KGB, these days >.<
use veoble torrent engine search
Yes, finally. Now all that is left is for SEGA to remove the DRM from the Steam version.
Because Sonic Mania is amazing and well worth the money… but SEGA had to be stupid.
I do not feel sorry for SEGA at all. #karmabitch
CPY group : Good crackers.
Edit: lol@ people saying this site suport pirates…
it’s better to support pirates than corporate schmucks who couldn’t care less about the consumer
Stop being stupid with Denuvo guys… Editor has the right of protect her games, you prefer Denuvo or Console Exclusive ?? Think of that…
This DRM has a lot of myths, for the CPU and SSD all this myths are false, check by yourself guys !!
And yes i’m not a Denuvo dev, just a legit player who own many games on Steam with this DRM and I never had problem with this DRM, its clearly invisible for the user.
But I can understand that people want a full offline acces on her games, but please for Sonic Mania the day one update allow offline game, you just need ONE connection at the first boot, just ONE !
But if people prefer posting negative review on Steam for a great game just for a DRM… don’t be surprised if Sonic Mania 2 or who knows Sonic Forces ?? becomes exclusive to consoles…
Think by yourself guys and stop hating Denuvo without valid reason…
Sorry if my english is bad, I do my best.
i’ed honestly prefer console exclusives, there i said it!
keep the trash and malware away from PC, hell lets not stop there
all ubisuck, EA, early access, activision games on console
none of that $hit belong on PC anyway
Sonic mania at best, is an arcade game in modern times
but f**k Sega for litterring it with malware, dumb move which does nothing but P*ss off gamers
You understand that denuvo exists due to piracy right? Would you realy prefer to not have any games on pc than to get all of them but with denuvo? You cant be serious. And ubisoft and ea have make some great series like assasin creed dead space and far cry so choose your words carefuly when you talk about developers who have made some games as good as these!
assassin’s creed and EA games are horrible annual garbage that doesn’t belong on PC (hell it’s not even on steam at the first place)
as for PC’s importance, without PC sales many franchises would bit the dust
basically every Battlefield game primarily sold on PC more than consoles
you could argue that single player games have no market on PC
but witcher and metro prove otherwise (and they’re both on GOG and steam)
so i don’t into the console exclusivity when 51% of the developers would rather develop on PC than a staggering, weak consoles that they have to down grade their own games in order to play
I also want to see consoles dissapear as soon as possible. The sooner this happen the better for gaming. Not all ea games are bad. Battlefield are great games as you said and i have played them all except battlefield 1. The first Assasin creed game and Assasin creed 2 epsecialy was very good. The latest two howver not so good. I dont play online at all however i play only single player games. The only games i like and play online are fighters. Evrything else(action adventure fps, tps e.t.c.) i play it once the campgain and never touch online. Consoles are already dying and prrof of this is the low sales of ps4 pro compared to ps4. But high end pc sales like Ryzen 1700 or better and GTX 1080TI are very strongl.
pretty much, consoles will continue to exist but will eventually phase out of production when more than 70% will migrate to PC (give it time, it will happen)
as of right now consoles are basically expensive toys with multiple layers of “micro” payments for basic services
many “peasants” alright bought a PC and are gaming on steam at the moment
while many people think is a good thing, it’s not really good thing
the peasant mentality is still with them, also fanboism and other stupid characteristics that peasants posses
pre-order culture, agreeing with payed mods (see bugthesda’s latest scheme) supporting crude anti-piracy measures (see denuvo)
microtransactions (weather lootboxes or skins that’s still bull$hit in 60$+ games)
though these practices are slowly starting to die
it would take considerable unity within the PC community to completely get rid of them and drive the publishers out of business
with game companies slowly realizing that publishers are cancer, and going with Crowd funding, i see a bright future for single player games
(kingdom come, mount and blade, freedom planet)
though many charlatans abuse the kickstarter system (see mighty no 9, see shenmue)
so everything’s a gamble nowadays…
Regarding the CPU/SSD claims: as far as we know, the claims that Denuvo ruins hardware are false. RiME was a fluke of bad implementation, not a representation of what Denuvo usually does.
Regarding the claim that Denuvo only requires ONE online activation: blatantly false. Denuvo also phones home to renew activation semi-regularly, meaning you’ll be unable to play offline for extended periods of time thanks to Denuvo, and if the authentication servers ever go down or get taken offline — which will inevitably happen someday — your game will quickly become unplayable. This also means that the game won’t get properly preserved, because the legal copies will all be non-functional. Imagine a world that has Sonic 1, 2, 3, Knuckles, and CD, but not Mania. That is what we are headed toward right now, solely because Sega added Denuvo.
Regarding “but if we complain about DRM we won’t get PC ports”: if I’m forced to choose between not playing a game and installing malware on my PC, I’ll go with not playing the game.
Denuvo is anti-consumer. I hate it for good reason, as do many others. It benefits no one, potentially not even Sega — it might have gained them some sales from impatient people but it definitely lost them sales from people who want nothing to do with DRM, such as myself, and it absolutely gained them a mountain of bad PR for a game that’s otherwise quite good. How about you stop asking us to leave Denuvo alone and start telling Sega to leave Denuvo out? It’s for Sega’s own good, and for ours as well.
Because it came with the DRM and the other half that prevented offline play, means I’m not buying into the game until it’s removed, so they have effectively lost a total sale from me and possibly into the future if they keep adding that DRM to other titles.
I’ve definitely lost trust in them with this move, in between that that the fact that people are constantly asking for Yakuza and other games to come to PC, yet Sega ignores all of that and ends up making them exclusive to PS4, which also sends me the message “you don’t matter” to me as a consumer..
I would say the Publisher should spend the money that they spend on DRM on having their Developers make a better game instead. An example is The Witcher 3. No DRM and great sales on PC. Why is that? With no DRM anyone could have pirated it, but yet they had great sales on PC. The answer is simple. Make a great game and PC gamers will buy it. Not all will buy it though. Many, many can’t afford to buy the game in the first place even if the game is great so piracy will still go on.
Denuvo is nothing more than a gimmick anyway to try to grab as many early sales as possible before it’s cracked but here’s the thing……those poor people aren’t going to buy the game anyway. They are just going to wait a little while for it to be cracked.
Let’s be extra clear: there’s definitely a segment of the population that will buy out of impatience because DRM is preventing piracy. That segment is most likely small. There’s also a segment of the population that will not buy, ever, solely because DRM is included. That segment is also small. Including DRM doesn’t net much benefit (if indeed any at all) in terms of sales numbers. It absolutely does net some losses — money spent licensing and implementing the DRM, money spent troubleshooting problems for customers who’ve had their products rendered unplayable by bolted-on DRM, money spent combating bad PR caused by the addition of DRM, etc.
Those who can’t afford the game weren’t going to buy it anyway, so attempting to prevent them from pirating the game isn’t a financial gain. Those who weren’t going to buy in the first place for any reason at all aren’t being convinced to buy because DRM is included — if anything, the DRM is just another reason not to buy! There’s almost no scenario in which one can actually say that DRM made a company more money than it otherwise would have made.
Yes, we all know that there are those who can afford to buy the game but pirate it anyway. I’ve never seen a way to quantify how many though. I’ve never seen a Publisher prove how many of these type of gamers bought the game because they had to and weren’t willing to wait a while for it to get cracked. Does a Publisher make significantly more profit?
We all want better games and for Publishers to profit from making better games so that they can have their Developers make even better games but what is the financial bottom line? Is Denuvo helping them to do that or just making no real difference at the expense of ill-will from their customers.
If it could be proven that Denuvo made significantly more people that could afford to buy the game buy the game because they wouldn’t wait for it to be cracked then I would accept the need for Denuvo but until such time I am against Denuvo.
this, a million times this.
A dev making their game the best it can be and not using that crappy DRM?, you bet I’ll look into buying it.
Oh please, Denuvo only takes away from sales, it doesn’t add to it. Removing Denuvo is the best thing they can do for sales.
This ridiculous argument that without DRM there wouldn’t be PC games is long-dead.
P.S. There’s evidence that indicates bad Denuvo implementations can really f*ck up games, so yeah, the hardware sh*t is false, but the software sh*t is real.
CPY IZ DA BEST!!!!
Denuvo Sucks.
stupid SEGA.. it’s already cracked. i have over 200+ games on steam and they i dont even bother to pirate.. but if i have to i will because of stupid sega.
Now I just have to wait till they fully remove it and then I’ll see into buying it.
i don’t think SEGA will remove it.
I’ve seen other pubs and devs remove it after it being broken, Sega will remove it eventually.
Sega has zero history of removing cracked DRM. Don’t hold your breath.
SEGA was not that other dev. RE7 denuvo also being cracked in less than a week. Did capcom remove denuvo from the game?
The future is not set in stone though. What is there now, will not be there in 100 years.
Godbless CPY
now i can buy the game without downloading the denovu malware
kinda strange how the pirated version is better than the “premium retail” version
r e t a r ds, i hope sega learns a valueable lesson here
good
just came back after 20 mintues of gameplay, i gotta say this game is overhyped
it’s basically just classic sonic… with classic characters… that’s it
the levels are recycled and reshuffled, but largely the same
the soundtrack is also recycled and reshuffled
it’s not worth 20$ imho, freedom planet was 15$ and it was way better
i understand why sega planted Denovu on this game, it’s way over-priced
honestly, go buy FP instead if you haven’t, if you did
buy something else.
I have finished most sonic games expect sonic labyrinth and sonic boom but will play sonic boom when wiiu emulator is released. I finished it with sonic and now iam playing with knuckles. It was good just like the other 2d sonic games.
but it’s nothing special, it’s just classic sonic
it’s not bad, it’s just simply over-hyped
i had more fun playing freedom planet imo
of course is nothing special. It just as good as the previous 2d sonic games. But if you like sonic like me then you will also like it while it is not something special. Cant wait for Sonic forces too. But until then i have Dishonored death of outsider evil within 2 assasin creed origins and wolfestein new colosus to keep me busy!
a$$ creed origins looks medicore at best, if you played Unity you’ed know what to expect from Ubisuck
Dishonored death of the outsider looks palatable but the writing seems really poor for the plot (we’re gonna kill the outsider for lulz)
sonic forces is a generations reskin with an added layer of customization if your Xenoverse (another thing sega keeps stealing from dragon ballz) taste for making your very own furred character
gameplay is identical in every single way to generations
wolfenstien seems legit asf, though i don’t like the bundled liberal propaganda in the game, though it’s not a deal breaker
it would certainly prevent me from fully immersing myself in the game
in all honesty, the most “PC” game of 2018 is probably either Metro or Mount and blade bannerlord if it ever comes
Yes i have played all assasin creed games from 1 till today except the psp exculive one that didnt came to pc and the other one who released on ds. Those are 2017 games not 20018. For 2018 we have far cry 5 metro the star wars game from viscercal and the rumored new tomb raider and batman games but these two are just rumors for now. Call of duty of course and Biomutant Darksiders 3and probably cyberpunk 2077. And maybe other games that are not announced yet.
far cry 4.5, star wars call of dutyfront (with pay2win no lesss)
and bland creed origins (i’ve actually played all of the AC games, even bloodlines (the PSP exclusive)
and i’m pretty much correct when i say this that the series should’ve ended on revelations (in point of fact the whole 2012 end of the world “crisis” was in mind when they made the game, but since the world didn’t end they decided to milk the franchise dry until it’s demise)
as for Cyberpunk, nothing has been revealed so far, so as far as i’m concerned the game’s still in development pre-alpha (nothing is shown, not gameplay, not concept art, nothing, just a teaser)
this year would be good not because of annual crap, but because of games like Metro and RDR2
Presumably one of AiAi, MeeMee, Baby and GonGon.
I was thinking more along the lines of Dr. Bad Boon
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Good. This is what happens when you piss off the pc community.
The fact that it took them longer to implement it than it did for pirates to crack it.
Maybe SEGA Japan has forced SEGA Europe (PC division) to put denuvo.
I’m Spartacus and so’s my wife.
Just said it a couple of days ago but here it goes again 😛
Using Denuvo today = throwing pearls to swine…
The ironic thing is that Bayo and Sonic sold similarly in the first week, but where the Bayo re-release kept selling afterwards to reach ultimately 2.5 times that amount, Sonic’s sales have almost completely stagnated after week 1 despite being a new game.
With DRM Sega has effectively turned the PC market into one resembling consoles, where 90% of lifetime sales are frontloaded.
well, prey sold best on pc. Game was a failure, i dont think piracy is the issue, too many games is the issue. You cant expect all games to sell. Console game sales dont do well.
Won’t buy this game because of Denuvo, even if they remove it, shouldn’t be there in first place