Denuvo Suffers Another Blow as NieR:Automata Gets Cracked

omg how many games are going to get cracked now... sad for the game

Patzl said:

omg how many games are going to get cracked now... sad for the game

As long as the internet exists, there's going to be this person that would be able to crack the game
Piracy can't really be stopped but it can be curbed :)

I'm surprised it lasted 2 months actually, probably long enough for them to make most of their initial release sales.  I'm not a fan of DRM, but as long as people pirate games, I doubt we'll see it go away any time soon.

Ah it reminds me of denuvo saying some time ago with the "End of piracy, we will not be cracked". Whoops ?

I'm not a fan of piracy, especially against Indie Devs. Couldn't care less about big publishers, since their sales are most likely insignificant from piracy, and they almost always exaggerate their claims against piracy.

Most piracy cases happens in countries with a low minimum wage income that can't cover buying a $60 game. So they pirate it, if they can't, they pirate something else. If not, they will play free to play games or they wait until a very nice discount of an old game. So either way you won't suddenly get people to buy more copies just because they installed an anti piracy program.

With that said, i honestly think that the best thing that helped against piracy so far is Steam. Because it's a safe and simple platform that discounts their games very often, and people who used to pirate games, are not doing it anymore due to the convenient and affordable prices that steam has.

It's foolish to come with the Witcher 3 argument by saying "Witcher 3 had no DRM and it was pirated, but it sold really well" and of course i agree, if a game is good then it will sell regardless of pirates. But i can guarantee you that most big publishers will not follow Witcher 3's practices because they put greed over quality, and they will always blame anything but themselves when they make these half assed downgraded AAA craps.

G0tRektZ said:

Patzl said:

omg how many games are going to get cracked now... sad for the game

As long as the internet exists, there's going to be this person that would be able to crack the game
Piracy can't really be stopped but it can be curbed :)

Agreed!

Ouch! :)

Well, it should have done what it was expected to (protect the initial sales), I just hope it will now get patched out of the game.

They got their initial sales for 2 months.  Their goal has been accomplished. 

Crap... I thought Denuvo was the shield for the copyright, but even this shield which had been considered as the invincible Aegis was once cracked and is down again...

omg how many games are going to get cracked now... sad for the game