>anything covered by Denuvo is unavailable even years later.
That sounds like a marketing claim. There's a bunch of denuvo-protected games that have been cracked. As far as I am aware, although I am not completely up to date, there are more denuvo-protected games that have been cracked than not.
For awhile I feel like there were monthly headlines along the lines of "Denuvo cracked within hours of game release" (e.g. https://www.techspot.com/news/71543-denuvo-protected-games-n...).
(I agree that Denuvo is generally effective for its goals, especially at game launch when it is most valuable. It's just not infallible, by any stretch.)
The vast majority of Denuvo games are no longer cracked. There's a list of cracked/uncracked Denuvo games here: https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/p9ak4n/crack_wa...
I think some of the recent 'cracks' were mostly errors by the developers, allowing the demo of a game to load the full data files or shipping an unprotected EXE on accident somewhere (sometimes they leave a debug EXE lying around).
Well you need to update, there no one right now actually cracking denuvo
Most "cracked" denuvo games are games cracked AFTER denuvo was removed by the publisher in an update (usually 6 months after release)
Just look at the Yakuza/Like a Dragon games
>there no one right now actually cracking denuvo
The claim was that games protected by denuvo are uncracked years later.
What is happening right now is important and interesting, too, but not the claim the person I replied to made.
"anything covered by Denuvo is unavailable even years later" just isn't true. And that's what I was replying to.
One example is anno 1800. Games where the profit model is continually selling dlc (as opposed to making most of their money on day 1) will likely continue to pay for denuvo.
I thought EMPRESS (the only one that was able to consistently put out cracks and only for some games) retired. So there's literally no one who's cracking any recent games, which is all that matters for publishers.
>no one who's cracking any recent games, which is all that matters for publishers.
Sure!
That wasn't the claim made by the person I replied to. They said "anything covered by Denuvo is unavailable even years later." which isn't true. That's what my comment is about.
by my best count there are ~80 uncracked and ~190 cracked denuvo games. Demo bypassess etc count as uncracked. Further ~130 games had Denuvo removed after release.