I mean, it looks like there’s a new, not-crazy (afaik) denuvo cracker in the scene, so a fair amount of shocked is appropriate.
Empress was a reason to buy games instead of pirating them lol
This is an atrociously researched and misinformed article.
The cracked Requiem predictably runs faster, smoother, and uses far fewer resources than the HV version, and presumably by extension, than the full paid-for release.
The author is assuming the comparison to the Hypervisor crack applies to the legitimate version with no basis whatsoever. Voices38 themselves only claimed it runs better than the HV version, giving as reasons that the HV driver is hardcoded for a specific configuration that may not match the actual host (cpu cores, cpu instructions, ram) and can degrade performance. [1]
We can and should hate denuvo but since this crack is just a different kind of bypass (a userspace one) we can’t know how the game would run without it and anything else is pure speculation.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/1sh3kvt/comment/of9zt3s
Sure, it’s poorly researched, but we’ve seen it enough times we can make assumptions. Denuvo has a performance impact. Bypassing it removes that. It’s a relatively safe assumption that this performs better than they standard release of the game.
Companies could spend the extra time and money to build their own cheat and pirate detection system with minimal impact to the players experience. Instead they take the ‘cheaper’ route and contracting out to BS services.
Enough people still buy the game, so why would they?
I will literaly turn my PC into a botnet just to have access to cracked stuff from scum companies. Use all my pc components to mine crypto, I’m yours, just cause more anarchy for me
That’s why i won’t touch any of those Hypervisor workarounds. Cracked games are fine - those don’t have my admin password and are running inside of Wine - but giving some unknown rando low level access to my PC is a big no-no, in addition to me having to install windows again, which will probably never happen for the rest of my life.
I hate DRM, removing it is good, but I also am very concerned this will ruin Resident Evil on Linux.
Resident Evil runs great, even on my 5 year old computer in Linux. All of them do. I never even notice the DRM, it loads fast, plays smooth, nothing for me to do at all, meaning proton is handling it.
Now I assume they will somehow tighten this down and it will make it not work on linux.
I don’t buy or own many AAA games, but the whole series is excellent, I don’t really care who is publishing them, but I am not interested in finding cracked versions and trying to make them work on linux. It just will dead end the game for me.
Division 1 seems to get some freedom to create what they want, but obviously Capcom is just another heavy handed corporate sweatshop, so I have no love for corporation.
somehow tighten this down and it will make it not work on linux.
Unfortunately that’s the push and pull we have. This kind of research will enable more people to play more games, including Linux gamers.
I don’t think it will. It will just make them create another version of control, worse than the last. We already know that many kinds of anti cheat keep linux out already. Denuvo was more or less no big deal, I never even notice it exists. But now it is likely to change and make things shitty again.
Frankly I would rather they have not hacked it.
Hella better headline & reporting. Cheers🍻
