No More Pirate Games in Two Years, Cracking Group Warns

[shamu726]

The founder of notorious Chinese cracking forum 3DM is warning that given the current state of anti-piracy technology, in two years there might be no more pirate games to play. The claims come after attempts to breach the Denuvo security protecting Just Cause 3 pushed the group's cracking expert to breaking point.

 

Piracy can never be stopped. Piracy will always be around. Where there’s a will to break copy protection, there’s a way. These are all comments regularly heard in piracy circles and to date, they’ve largely been proven accurate.

 

But while trying to protect movies and music using technological measures is by now almost a lost cause, the same cannot be said about video games. While copying a title was a trivial process several years ago, in many cases more and more roadblocks are now being put in pirates’ way.

 

In the past most games would be playable for free before their official debut but increasingly pirates are being made to wait for big titles to have their protection defeated, or ‘cracked’ as it’s more commonly known. In fact, aside from many dozens of dedicated piracy forums, there’s even an entire sub-Reddit community dedicated to providing the status of cracks.

 

One of the hottest topics involves the Avalanche Studios/Square Enix title Just Cause 3. Released on December 1, 2015 and despite massive demand, the game has still not been cracked. The problem appears to lie with the robustness of the technology protecting the game.

 

 

Just Cause 3 uses the latest iteration of Denuvo, an anti-tamper technology developed by Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH. While its secrets are best known to its creators, Denuvo is a secondary encryption system which protects existing and underlying DRM products.

 

In 2014 the product made the headlines after successfully protecting Dragon Age: Inquisition for almost a month, a very respectable time in cracking circles.

 

In the end it was Chinese cracking group 3DM that brought down that instance of Denuvo but the Germany-based company continued to tweak and achieved increasing protection periods on recent games in the FIFA series. FIFA 16 is currently Denuvo protected and that game still hasn’t been cracked, despite being released in September.

 

But Just Cause 3 is the current hot potato and despite having released an endless supply of cracks for other titles (and having had success against Denuvo in the past), the cracks (excuse the pun) are beginning to show at 3DM.

 

In a posting on her blog, 3DM forum founder ‘Bird Sister’ (also known as Phoenix) has revealed the frustrations being experienced with Just Cause 3.

 

“Recently, many people have asked about cracks for ‘Just Cause 3′, so here is a centralized answer to this question. The last stage is too difficult and Jun [cracking guy] nearly gave up, but last Wednesday I encouraged him to continue,” Bird Sister explains.

 

 

While games pirates everywhere will be willing Jun on to complete what 3DM ultimately believe will be an achievable task, Bird Sister isn’t optimistic about the future. In fact, she paints somewhat of a doomsday scenario.

 

“I still believe that this game can be compromised. But according to current trends in the development of encryption technology, in two years time I’m afraid there will be no free games to play in the world,” she adds.

 

While Denuvo is no doubt proving a difficult nut to crack, two years is an awful long time in technology and things are always prone to change. Furthermore, Denuvo is only used on a limited number of gaming titles, reportedly due to its relative expense.

 

But what is difficult to deny here is the window of opportunity provided by the Denuvo system. Hardcore gamers are notoriously impatient which almost certainly means that one, two or three months of waiting for a crack is coming up for a quarter of a year late to the game. Another three months after that and many gamers will be looking forward to FIFA 17 and Just Cause 4, leaving pirates in their wake.

 

Nevertheless, the seemingly uncrackable always seem to fall, eventually. During the past few days it was revealed that the PS4 has been compromised to run Linux. While not to the level of playing full-blown pirate games yet, that might lie around the corner. Exactly when, no one seems to know, but most gamers won’t have the patience to wait.

 

 

 

 

 

Source: TorrentFreak

[Akaneharuka]

There are some vocabulary 「Well done is better than well said」 you know ?

 

[knowledge-Spammer]

Nevertheless, the seemingly uncrackable always seem to fall

[namek]

45 minutes ago, knowledge said:

Nevertheless, the seemingly uncrackable always seem to fall

And they fail the fastest.

[Archaven]

i have games on origins and steam that uses denuvo. i'm not sure if impact any of the game performances. but it doesnt seem to impact me in anyway. still it's kind of bad that there's no way to test a game before buying anymore.

[WALLONN7]

It reminds me of Symantec's small talk about the end of antivirus... Same bullshit...

[Akaneharuka]

They spend more money to increase the game protection more than make the better game quality

 

that why new game nowadays have more bug  

[Karlston]

Back in the late 70's I said "if it's done in code, it can be broken". Still rings true.

[Reefa]

I am very happy with my Emulator's and roms..Old skool rules..

[GRiM]

Yeah it's over because some low quality p2p group says so!   lmao.

 

[eddman]

As if 3DM is a proper cracking group. Their "cracks" either don't work on all windows versions, or don't support all the game's features, or stop working at a certain level in the game, or something else; and it takes them countless updates to make them "work".

 

CPY circumvented the earlier versions of denuvo just fine and their cracks work. They haven't managed to do the same for the newer versions, but let's wait a bit longer before panicking.

[VileTouch]

what's the point of implementing a convoluted DRM if it's going to make the game unplayable for everyone? specially those who pay

it's going to be cracked either way, and the people willing to crack it suffer less grievance than the paying customers.

 

 

[info999]

someone should end this DENUVO, imagine it's used by viruses or malwares, nobody would be able to destroy them 

 

[go0gle]

In my opinion it would be the greatest thing since we start using computers if games/movies will be uncrackable, because far less people will use/buy it.

Don´t you guys realize that all games and movies affects the way how we thinking? We are brainwashed all the way, even threw games and movies and almost all of you will denay that. There is so much violence in movies and games that it should be forbidden. But we "need" to mess and compete with each other and will be stay blind to see the truth. Games affects our subconsciously in that way that we think the violence is normal or acceptable and it is acceptable to kill other living beings on earth to achieve our ego goals in the name of the prosperous life for ourselves.

Beside that we spent many hours to play games/watching movies instead to use that time and educate us and each other with knowledge which our manipulated schools will never teach us.

It is the REAL knowledge witch is the power and no one can take that from you !

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=player_embedded&v=SkLt9OXFQ0M

 

[KXR75]

[Sylence]

They said that for themselves, Just cause 3 will be cracked in few months, just like Battlefield 4. 3DM cracks are shit anyway, they're not real cracks, just temporary solutions to bypass game's protection. real cracks come from Codex, Reloaded, Skidrow, now let's hear from them.

 

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackStatus/comments/3uzjnd/crack_status_just_cause_3/

[SnakeMasteR]

On 6.1.2016 at 7:40 PM, Akaneharuka said:

They spend more money to increase the game protection more than make the better game quality

 

that why new game nowadays have more bug  

 

That's the easy explanation. Earlier games had a tiny scale compared to games released nowadays, with fastillion more lines of code. Of course it's a lot easier to dig into 1.000 lines of code, while 1.000.000.000 is a different dimension.

 

Spoiler

 

 

[Ripdevil]

Concerning Denuvo: (successfully cracked games with denuvo)

 

Dragon.Age.Inquisition.Deluxe.Edition-CPY (Origin + Denuvo + custom)
FIFA.15.Ultimate.Team.Edition-CPY (Origin + Denuvo + custom)
Battlefield.Hardline.Crackfix-CPY (Origin + Denuvo)
Batman.Arkham.Knight-CPY (Steam + Denuvo)
Lords.Of.The.Fallen-CPY (Steam + Denuvo)

 

Tales.of.Zestiria.INTERNAL-RELOADED („Enjoy this nice game with Securom/“Denuvo“ fully removed.“)
(this quality crack with fully rebuilt code is only for friends and family ! the rest can wait for some lame api hooking method !)

 

Let's see what the scene in future provides!   (btw. great job Conspiracy and Reloaded)

Petition: Eliminate DENUVO Anti-Tamper Technology!

https://www.change.org/p/denuvo-software-solutions-gmbh-games-publishers-ea-games-square-enix-warner-bros-eliminate-denuvo-anti-tamper-technology?recruiter=460459390&utm_source=share_for_starters&utm_medium=copyLink

 

Greets,
Ripdevil

[Archaven]

6 hours ago, saeed_dc said:

They said that for themselves, Just cause 3 will be cracked in few months, just like Battlefield 4. 3DM cracks are shit anyway, they're not real cracks, just temporary solutions to bypass game's protection. real cracks come from Codex, Reloaded, Skidrow, now let's hear from them.

 

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackStatus/comments/3uzjnd/crack_status_just_cause_3/

 

heard that denuvo team are from ex-cracker members. well if industry well-paying them, why would they want to release cracks anymore? i guess it's all about the money.

[Sylence]

52 minutes ago, Archaven said:

 

heard that denuvo team are from ex-cracker members. well if industry well-paying them, why would they want to release cracks anymore? i guess it's all about the money.

 

Yes that's true all about the money, maybe they're in 2 teams now, some of them make cracks and the others, anti-cracks

[davmil]

All this effort to steal someone's work saves you how much?  $30-40?  Just pay the toll and drive down the road.  You'd expect the same of others.

[Ryrynz]

7 hours ago, davmil said:

All this effort to steal someone's work saves you how much?  $30-40?  Just pay the toll and drive down the road.  You'd expect the same of others.

Not even that. Play the game.. finish it and sell it. If you bought a game for say $50 chances are you could sell it for $35-40 or so after finishing it..
$10 for dozens of hours of gameplay generally? Sounds like a deal.. If you're doing it via Steam or GOG or whatever then it'll cost you what you pay for it.

People only pirate cos it's there.. if they make it too hard to crack then people just won't bother doing it.. So yeah many games might never see the cracked light of day.

Probably a good thing in many ways.. I'm not going to lament when it happens.. But I'll enjoy free games while it lasts...

[ugurano]

no demo more, that why pirateting

[DKT27]

On 9/1/2016 at 7:21 AM, davmil said:

All this effort to steal someone's work saves you how much?  $30-40?  Just pay the toll and drive down the road.  You'd expect the same of others.

 

On 9/1/2016 at 3:02 PM, Ryrynz said:

Not even that. Play the game.. finish it and sell it. If you bought a game for say $50 chances are you could sell it for $35-40 or so after finishing it..
$10 for dozens of hours of gameplay generally? Sounds like a deal.. If you're doing it via Steam or GOG or whatever then it'll cost you what you pay for it.

People only pirate cos it's there.. if they make it too hard to crack then people just won't bother doing it.. So yeah many games might never see the cracked light of day.

Probably a good thing in many ways.. I'm not going to lament when it happens.. But I'll enjoy free games while it lasts...

 

While the rule for buy it if you like it stays, you guys have no idea how it feels in living in developing countries, I can never afford to buy a $40-50 game or let alone $60 FO4, whether it has 4 hours gameplay or 40 hours. It's not like I do not buy games, but can never afford these expensive ones.

[Stag]

My computer is not for gaming. Keep the movies coming.