Hacker DenuvOwO released a working bypass for the Denuvo Hypervisor protection for LEGO Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight just hours before the game's early access launch.
    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
      172·
      18 hours ago

      That was my reaction too!

      I don’t understand the temptation of the studio to pay for Denuvo. Are they worried evil Linux users like me will cheat at some kind of tournament?

      And I was probably going to buy this one, but not if it ships with Denuvo.

      • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
        16·
        9 hours ago

        The idiot MBAs running companies think that piracy is lost sales and they probably get bamboozled by a Denuvo salesman’s pitch.

        • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zipEnglish
          14·
          17 hours ago

          “Your game could get downloaded 1,000,000x on a piracy platform, at $60 a pop, that’s $60M in lost revenue. Pay us $30M and we will prevent this - a bargain.”

          Reality, none of those pirates would have paid full price for your game, and it’ll get cracked anyways - you just made it worse for paying customers and deterred anyone who doesn’t want to voluntarily install a rootkit virus on their computer.

    • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
      14·
      19 hours ago

      It’s the hypervisor bypass method, not a proper crack. As far as I’m aware, voices is the only person doing proper cracks.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        11·
        20 hours ago

        I don’t know, I haven’t been following because I don’t trust that style of denuvo cracking just yet personally. Anyway, that’s why I was asking.