Some other uncracked games like Mortal Kombat 11 and The Division 2 will probably never be cracked, not because they can't be, but because their online connectivity renders a crack especially difficult or pointless. Of this year's Denuvo releases tracked on Crackwatch, there are a rare few that remain uncracked, like Anno 1800 (a month old). But looking at other Denuvo games released this year, the DRM doesn't seem to be holding up as well as it did in the past, even without slip-ups like Bethesda's.
Access to a clean executable seemingly made it trivial to release a crack that bypassed Rage 2's online check-in at launch.Ĭrackers didn't even have to wade into Denuvo's code to pirate Rage 2, and it's sadly common for games that don't have strong copy protection to be cracked on release day, according to CrackWatch. That strange oversight (or choice) on Bethesda's part gave crackers a way in. exe on the Bethesda Launcher did not contain the DRM. According to posts on the CrackWatch subreddit, while the Steam version of Rage 2 shipped with Denuvo, the. In this case, a weakness in Denuvo's security wasn't actually to blame.
But with Bethesda's Rage 2 defanged of its DRM in less than 24 hours, that promise isn't holding up well in 2019. Last year, Denuvo argued that cracking and pirating games is inevitable, and its main goal "is to protect initial sales" before cracks are released.
Rage 2 is the second Denuvo game to get a zero day crack this year, and others have been cracked within days.ĭenuvo is an unpopular DRM solution that's nevertheless still used by a large number of PC game publishers, including Ubisoft, Sega, Square Enix, and others. Denuvo DRM cracks seem to be happening faster and faster