A couple of days ago, we informed you about a new anti-tamper tech that surfaced, called Valeroa. The first – and so far only – game that is using Valeroa is City Patrol: Police and in just two days crackers were able to crack the game and the anti-tamper tech.
As Valeroa’s developer claimed, the purpose of this new anti-tamper tech is to protect a game during its first days of release. And… well… it partially did manage to protect City Patrol: Police, though it appears to be not as effective as Denuvo is.
To its credit, Valeroa can be described as a more consumer-frinedly anti-tamper tech than Denuvo. It does not affect the performance of a game as only a handful of functions are protected by it, does not require you to have an internet connection, does not not continuously read or write to your hard-drive (so it will not damage them) and does not limit the number of daily installations or changes of hardware.
Now I don’t know if more developers will invest in this new anti-tamper tech or keep using Denuvo. I also don’t know whether the developers behind Valeroa will try and make it harder for crackers or hacking groups to crack their tech via new releases.
Still, this isn’t a really good start for Valeroa so it remains to be seen whether it will attract more developers/publishers or not!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Gaming industry survived perfectly fine for 30+ years with hilariously inept copy protection. When will these suits, get it through thick cement heads, that piracy simply is not a problem worth perpetually combating?
Games were hilariously easy to copy for free for those 30+ years I mentioned, and yet here we are, and the gaming industry has grown to be bigger than ever.
Just give it the f**k up already, and put your attention where it should be. Making good, complete games. The sales WILL come.
Requiescat in pace.
Thank god we live in a world where white hat hackers exist!
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I do understand the need for software protection. But at this point a majority of games get cracked before/on release day/release week. As a developper/publisher, i wonder if they ask themselves if it is realy worth the time and money ?.
Answer :
Je pense qu’ils se fouttent éperdument si ça fonctionne ou non, ils mettent ces protections quasiement par automatisme. 🙁
Valeroa anti-tamper tech? Jesus Fuqing Christs, More DRM… Why on earth did i even bother building/updating a new PC. I have My CPU being shipped to me and now i have a right mind just send back all these parts. I’m so sick and tired of this Sh*t. I hope to God THQ Nordic & Focus Home Interactive buys up more real-estate, because they are all we have left in the Triple-A space of things. God Damn-It Man.
read again the article. you waste time when you comment something that you dont read.
What the actual Fuq are you talking about boy/ have you lost your marbles? Why else would i comment the way i did if i didn’t read the article? Get away from me man and don’t start with your B.S so early in my morning. What thr everlasting fuq would give you th idea that i didn’t read the article? Is your purpose to anger me? Because if so you have my attention. What is the matter with you Boy?
how i said, read the third paragraph, then use your KB & MS 😉
So thats what happens when you spend to much time with denuvo, everything else is a joke.
lol
They should bring back copy protection decoder wheels. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/31134664761420dd07b0dc546b99524ff6d923be838e5d060a842b0bbc95a507.png