

After all is said and done, it's always just a matter of time before protection mechanisms get bypassed. Such is the case for Sonic Forces, Injustice 2, Football Manager 2018, Need for Speed Payback and Star Wars Battlefront 2. Perhaps more telling, then, are the other games that make sole use of Denuvo's tech and still haven't been cracked. The company's latest DRM version, launched with Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed origins, has eluded circumvention of its protection mechanisms - though in this case, there's an added layer of security, VMProtect, that works in conjunction with Denuvo's solution to make life harder for would-be crackers. However, news of Denuvo's death were an exaggeration, it would seem. They do not crack Denuvo, they simply keygen it, so Denuvo thinks nothing is wrong on the pirated version." As we covered almost two months ago, piracy scene groups were claiming to have already figured out Denuvo, and hailed their cracking routines as being developing in such a way that (.) Denuvo protected games will continue to get cracked faster and faster." The new methods no longer involve reverse-engineering a game's executable to strip a game of its DRM software now " scene groups have found a way to get past encryption and keygen files in just a day. However, the Austria-based company has developed that which is likely the most successful anti-piracy measure in recent times - despite news of its death. Denuvo may be one of the most controversial DRM systems out there - even though all of them are, in some level.
