It appears that Denuvo has managed to win the last big battle of 2017. On October 26th, Ubisoft released the latest Assassin’s Creed game that was powered by the latest version of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. And after two whole months, this new version of Denuvo is still safe from crackers and hackers.
Now as we’ve already mentioned, Assassin’s Creed Origins uses two protection systems instead of one. Ubisoft’s open-world game uses VMProtect on top of the latest version of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
However, in November we saw a number of games that only used the latest version of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech and have not been cracked yet. These games are: Sonic Forces, Injustice 2, Football Manager 2018, Need for Speed Payback and Star Wars Battlefront 2.
From the looks of it, this latest version of Denuvo was able to secure the sales of the aforementioned titles in 2017. Ubisoft, EA, SEGA and Warner Bros have not revealed any sales data in order to see whether the lack of a cracked version benefited these PC games.
Some of you may be wondering why this is such a big deal. Well, the reason is simple. Prior to this version, scene groups were cracking all Denuvo-powered games in a matter of hours. FIFA 18, Total War: WARHAMMER 2, South Park Fractured But Whole and Middle-earth: Shadow of War were cracked in just a day.
It’s also worth noting that most of Warner Bros’ titles had major launch issues due to Denuvo. According to reports, PC gamers could not launch/play Batman: Arkham Knight, Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Mad Max as the Denuvo authentication servers were down for almost all Warner Bros’ games. The situation has been resolved and these games are, once again, working fine.
It will be interesting to see whether some publishers, who have stopped using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech, will once again start using it after this big win for Denuvo!
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It also happens that most of these games are trash.
Inb4 someone replies to me that I’m crying sour grapes.
AC Origins turned out to be a surprisingly fun romp around the dessert. The others, yeah not so great.
Yeah, but most AC games are. I just bit the bullet and played it on PS4 so I wouldn’t have to deal with any of that jazz. Got it cheap and sold it for more than I paid for it too, so I got my money’s worth :p
AC: Origins plays fine on my PC and looks great. I can’t complain.
not as much as Sh`tCitizen Scam lol
I don’t mind sour grapes as long as they don’t have seeds in them. Seedless grapes FOUR LYFE!!!
U mean those genetically modified ones, Ok, You’re gonna be dead soon.
Dead or not, IMO it’s just wrong to do this type of changes with LIFE
I remember I was like that too, seedless grapes, watermelon, etc… now I don’t even think about it nor crave it
Swing and a miss.
stfu you pirate
Shhhhh the adults are talking.
All at the expense of paying customers. And we all know crackers will get through eventually.
Cry, baby, cry,
So far its ubisoft who is crying and ea and activision, their games are not selling and you cant blame pirates for it.
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lol just search denuvo pick a random article from the result then pick his regular article see the difference 100+ comments and 1 comments lol
this site is filled with pirate with denial lol
hahahhahahahhahahha lol keep whining f`cking pirate
They protected their game alright, from my money.
+1
They protected their game alright, from my money. nope from peer 2 peer file sharing lol
I haven’t pirated a game in 8-9 years, but nice try troll. You really REALLY need to get a life, mate. Really.
People are playing these none cracked Denuvo games like AC Origins using cheap $3 uplay accounts, so in effect not really protected.
and a 500$ cpu. jesus fck the perfomance on origins.
Get a decent PC and you wouldn’t be b***hing about performance.
i played max settings 1440p and it was running 30-35 fps. That with ryzen 1700 and gtx 970. But it looks amazing so the perfomance for such amazing graphics at max settings 1440p with my pc is ok.
They get money from piracy as well.
How? And don’t say from people that buy the game after stealing it. We all now they don’t.
he is another pirate loser on this site lol
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If find it funny that none of those games has sold well.
how??? where??? at least it is protected form the pirates like you lol
and the sale will be way to less if it wasn’t about the denuvo most of the games are less marketed you lil piece of sh`t or met controversy
this latest version of Denuvo was able to ”SECURE” the ”SALES” of the aforementioned titles in 2017. fixed 😉 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5b9f4073d19672c68c75e07d73325ec4f20988c0e1b8cfa8f035b8ff2da9af0b.jpg
yeah it protected it so well that ppl could not play it when denuvo servers go down ..
+ dont forget the -20% preformance
Witch part is retarded ?
The part where you forgot to block him
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As long as your not using a potato PC AC: Origins performs fine.
-15.35%
Fixed it for you
proof ??? you can’t because you’re another whining pirate loser on this site
he is another whining pirate on this site lol
I thing CPY is working with EA NOW 😛
It will be cracked as any other version
RIF. The article just explained that it hadn’t…
‘Will’
I don’t think their is too much difference from those who pirate and those who buy. There may be a very slight tilt at best for adding this protection. I personally avoid it when I know it is in a game though and I always buy now days. If I don’t want to pay full price I just wait on a sale.
They did an amazing stellar job at making sure I don’t want to buy their games, that’s for sure.
Keep bogging your games down with DRM though, it makes maintaining my backlog a lot easier.
520k people bought this so you’re minority
On pc, on consoles the sales failed to meet expectastions.
Not really. Those sales in comparison to the rest of the gaming community has the sales in the minority. if it was a “must have”, they’d have sold PuB numbers, if not more.
When people want something, and I mean they really want it, they’ll buy it. It’s obvious that not many wanted the game, so it sold as little as it has.
PuB is a outlier. Most AAA don’t sell that many copies.
The older ones have over time.
You also look at games like LoL and FFXIV and WoW to see that those games remain popular and make plenty of money.
520K? What game is that?
origins
It needs more to sell to break even. Denuvo “secured the sales” lul.
Block the troll, my man.
Most of those sales were probably the Console versions. Prove that your figures are for PC sales alone and then we’ll talk, untill that day your words are as empty as Donald J Trumps soul.
you’re confident enough to be open about your stupidity but you don’t even know where to look.
Oh brother… lol Another libtard loser.
or maybe can crack just havnt gotten around to it
Seems like it, cpy doesnt seem to bother even with the old verrsion of denuvo.
“secure the sales of the aforementioned titles”
Shared accounts, simple as that, all GFWL2 (UWP) and Denuvo games are/were piratable and the protection version has nothing to do with it. sure there is no crack for said titles yet but you still can pirate all of them with 0 to 5$.
“secure the sales of the aforementioned titles”
Shared accounts, simple as that, all GFWL2 (UWP) and Denuvo games are/were piratable and the protection version has nothing to do with it. sure there are no cracks for said titles yet but you still can pirate all of them with 0 to 5$.
why?
because they dont sell. They go from failure to failure
i mean i haven’t liked a single game they made or published after bf3 but i’m sure there are many people out there who would go out and buy their games first day and also there are many pirates who can’t wait for their games.
Do we eally need weekly clickbait articles doing PR for Denuvo???? Especially with the one “denuvo negative ” artcicle missing aka how Denuvo blocked 3 x WB games from running just couple days ago
John knows he can milk views from Denuvo articles. He knows that everytime he posts a Denuvo article, Anti DRM, low key pirates, pro DRM guys are gonna have a comment war giving him views and clicks. You can check my post history, I actually called him out a month ago that he was gonna post a Devnuo article about AC: Orgins not being cracked after 2 months LOL.
Look at this article, it adds no new and useful information about Denuvo yet it has 48 comments as of the time am typing this. He knows he can milk $$ out of Denuvo articles.
He’s making a forum for all the sad poor pirates to vent, lol.
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“From the looks of it, this latest version of Denuvo was able to secure the sales of the aforementioned titles in 2017. ”
And the number of pirates who bought these games was?
It’s just odd that Denuvo couldn’t be cracked all of a sudden. I don’t keep up with cracking but I wonder what the hackers that were having so much success cracking Denuvo have to say about this? Has Denuvo been radically changed from the Denuvo that was cracked sometimes in as little as a day? Did some big Publishers find out who the hackers were and put them under legal threats? Or maybe took the cheap way and just paid them to stop cracking Denuvo in their games?
As the EA coroner proclaimed over the dead corpse, “Death by lootbox” greedy slugs…
So you need more views again?
Called it btw guys. But tbf John, if I were in the same position as you I would be doing the same thing. Milking views by posting Denuvo articles. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7f931d2db9879c6925e665d64e1b1385bb7797ffd54537f0d33b58f672b2582d.png
this guy is a loser he know this gets a lot of attention so he keeps posting it just for the sake of it lol a also called it his usual article gets 1-8 comments but these denuvo ones are almost always 100+comments
You’re poking the sleeping bear with these headlines. Seems people just never learn.
He’s intentionally doing it. This article adds nothing new to Denuvo. He knows he’s gonna get views pulling this sh*t off.
“Some of you may be wondering why this is such a big deal.”
Ofc we are. AC:Orgins hasn’t been cracked in 2 months and its apparently your job to announce and remind us of it. And it is also apparently your job to announce that a game is cracked or not. Even though he tried to keep a neutral position in his articles, he is obviously pandering to Pirates/DRM haters.
In all fairness. All games that haven’t been cracked with this latest iteration are either so bad, nobody wants them for free, or they’re so cheap from their hilarious price dumps, that you’re really best off just buying them at that price.
“AAA” gaming, has taken such a colossal nosedive in quality and staying power, that really, nobody gives a crap to crack the latest “straight-to-bargain-bin” pile of schlock.
Meanwhile, the best selling game of the year (again), doesn’t have Denuvo. What a strange coincidence.
DSOGAMING? MORE LIKE DSDGAMING. DARK SIDE OF DENUVO.
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“Secure the sales”. Secure wut? Lootbox paradises NFSP and SWBF4 secured sales alright I guess lol.
hahahahhahhahahhahahahhaha LOL pirates eliminated! future is good we need more power yes hahahhaha
hhahhahahha lol good buy no one care about a pirate loser
of course he need those clicks
they may have protected their games from being cracked, but they lost sales to people like me that don’t want bundled crapware to choke performance and render the games unplayable when(not if) the Denuvo servers go down (as we know now with the WB games what I’m talking about). Sadly I expect Bethesda to rush the latest version of Denuvo and add VMProtect to their future releases which means once again I certainly won’y buy them and many others won’t too.
It’s not the Pirates that hate Denuvo, they revel in the challenge, its the legit customers that get screwed with a bloated version with poor performance that won’t start when the Denuvo servers go down, while the pirates wait a while and have their patience rewarded with a superior version of the game that they don’t even f***ing pay for.
Denuvo doesn’t boost sales, Denuvo costs sales! When will these greedy publishers get that into their thick skulls?!
Nothing is 100% un-crackable, so give it sometime and eventually it will be cracked.
I wouldn’t play any of these games even if I would get an original game for free.
Top games that people really wants to play were cracked and will be cracked.
The only protection that Ubisoft has right now is that now there are less people that can find all their bugs.
People who wants to buy a game, will buy it even if it is cracked.
People who played only the cracked version, most of them will never buy the game.
But the people who used to play a cracked game and then buy it because they really like it, they will not buy it anymore.