Russian crackers claim to have cracked Denuvo V3

[Master Disaster]

A step by step instructional video has surfaced in Russia showing users how to install and crack Rise Of The Tomb Raider some 6 months after its initial release, if this turns out to be true it will be the first time a Denuvo V3 protected game has been cracked and would mark a significant victory for the pirates as it would allow for many AAA titles from the last 18 months to finally get releases.

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Rise of the Tomb Raider [official site] might finally be cracked six months after its release. A step-by-step video showing a cracked copy of Rise of the Tomb Raider surfaced in Russia last week. It raises the question of whether or not pirates will finally be able to defeat Denuvo’s DRM security – protection so tough that some crackers said they were giving up. The crack has yet to be replicated, though, and it’s unlikely to happen any time soon.

Denuvo have released a statement saying they have yet to verify these claims but have always sold their product on being "hard to crack" and not "uncrackable".

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Denuvo say they can’t verify if the crack is real as there are no available to test, but they don’t seem to be too stressed about the whole ordeal. The DRM company told Eurogamer “only public available cracks are relevant as they harm the content owners business.” In fact, they seem to be perfectly satisfied with Rise of the Tomb Raider’s protection.

 

“The general positioning of our product is ‘hard to crack’ and not ‘uncrackable’. For us it is important to secure the initial sales window of games, which worked out well on all the recent titles,” they confidently pointed out to PCGamesN.

Its very likely that if this turns out to be true Denvuo will simply release a new version as they did when V2 got cracked and the whole cat and mouse game will start again

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It’s doubtful that this marks the end of Denuvo’s impressive record against PC gaming piracy. Where games were once cracked sometimes weeks before they were released, big titles like Just Cause 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition have gone months post-launch without a pirated version. Pirates will always be out there on the high seas of the interwebs doing their thing, but they’re still struggling with breaking down Denuvo’s defenses. It’s possible they could find a more efficient solution in the future, yet it’s likely Denuvo is preparing for that reality. The technology is designed to evolve alongside any new methods devised to break through the DRM.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/07/07/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-drm-allegedly-cracked/

 

It had to happen eventually tbh, V3 had an amazing run with a fairly long list of protected titles that still don't have any form of pirate "release", that list is...

 

Anno 2205	Ubisoft	Blue Byte	2015-11-03	[24][25]
Star Wars Battlefront	Electronic Arts	EA DICE	2015-11-17	[26]
Just Cause 3	Square Enix	Avalanche Studios	2015-12-01	[27]
Rise of the Tomb Raider	Square Enix	Crystal Dynamics	2016-01-28	[28]
Unravel	Electronic Arts	Coldwood Interactive	2016-02-09	[29]
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2	Electronic Arts	PopCap Games	2016-02-23	[30]
Far Cry Primal	Ubisoft	Ubisoft Montreal	2016-03-01	[31]
Hitman	Square Enix	IO Interactive	2016-03-11	[32]
Need for Speed	Electronic Arts	Ghost Games	2016-03-15	[33]
Eve: Gunjack	CCP Games	CCP Games	2016-03-28	[34]
ADR1FT	505 Games	Three One Zero	2016-03-29	[35]
The Climb	Crytek	Crytek	2016-04-28	[36]
DOOM	Bethesda Softworks	id Software	2016-05-13	[37]
Homefront: The Revolution	Deep Silver	Dambuster Studios	2016-05-17	[38]
Total War: Warhammer	SEGA	Creative Assembly	2016-05-24	[39]
Edge of Nowhere	Insomniac Games	Insomniac Games	2016-06-06	[40]
Mirror's Edge Catalyst	Electronic Arts	EA Digital Illusions CE	2016-06-07	[41]
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter	Bigben Interactive	Frogwares	2016-06-10	[42]
Taken from Wikipedia I guess its now just a waiting game to see if this turns out to be true or just another russian fake.

[thekeemo]

Back on topic they have not released anything so fake until then

[KE2012]

Aaaand back on topic,  this is good news for people like me who are skint as can be,  but I bet all the big companies already have the hounds ready to pounce.  

[raphidy]

So this means, V3 is cracked and all games on it would have a pirated copy online. Then the patch V4 comes up and would block everything again. So only new games with V4 would be protected for another...18 months? Looks like DRM business is really good. I wonder if they give free updates to the publishers.

[Master Disaster]

9 minutes ago, raphidy said:

So this means, V3 is cracked and all games on it would have a pirated copy online. Then the patch V4 comes up and would block everything again. So only new games with V4 would be protected for another...18 months? Looks like DRM business is really good. I wonder if they give free updates to the publishers.

Pretty much yeah, that's exactly what happened when V2 got cracked, Denuvo rolled out V3 and carried on selling it to everyone. There was a crossover period where a few games that came out after V3 still used V2 as they were obviously to far into development to change to V3 and there were a few games which got backported to V3 even after being cracked with the original V2.

[samcool55]

In soviet russia, denuvo cracks you.

 

I'll show myself out...

 

Anyway it would be nice tho, no i do not promote piracy but drm is complete BS and i absolutely hate it. Especially on older unknown titles it can be terrible especially on a newer OS and just completely bricks the OS, i'm looking at you securom.

[jaggysnake57]

would be intresting to see sales figures of all these games after they get cracked......imagine what would happen if there was a sales boost!

[Gullerback]

apparently refusing to release anything to see "denuvos reaction"  Which immediately triggered my Bullsh** meter.

[Misanthrope]

Hmm, piracy its still a thing?

 

I'm sorry I am founding it hard to care over the vision of these 210 games on my Steam account.

[alexyy]

Pretty sure the exploit requires you to purchase and refund the game to get a valid ticket, so no not cracked just a niche bypass. 

[Prysin]

53 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Hmm, piracy its still a thing?

 

I'm sorry I am founding it hard to care over the vision of these 210 games on my Steam account.

of whom 209 were from fraudulent G2A keys?

[CTR640]

I removed Just Cause 3 beause it was running like shit despite having an i7-4770, GTX780 and 16GB RAM.

I wonder if Dendumbo has something to do with the performance but lesson learned,

I'll never ever buy a game with Dendumbo with it anymore.

[Misanthrope]

33 minutes ago, Prysin said:

of whom 209 were from fraudulent G2A keys?

Nah, not 1 of them. Between Steam, humble bundle and other legit stores it's easy enough to eventually find a really good price.

[dimitriianghelov]

 

32 minutes ago, Prysin said:

of whom 209 were from fraudulent G2A keys?

if devs didn't sell their game codes to nvidia/amd at 50c/$ guys like G2A wouldn't be so profitable

[Doobeedoo]

Cat and mouse game indeed. Nothing is unbreakable, though it can take time. Still, if so, quite interesting it has been done.

[Prysin]

7 hours ago, dimitriianghelov said:

 

if devs didn't sell their game codes to nvidia/amd at 50c/$ guys like G2A wouldn't be so profitable

actually, thats not the main reason game kes get stolen.

"hackers" go onto the dark web and buys stolen credit cards.

They go buy a game on steam or directly from the developer with the stolen card.

Since its not THEIR money, they buy shitloads of these games on someone elses card.

Then they try to use "cash back" to cancel the purchases they made. As they now have the game code, it doesnt matter.

They then go to G2A, sell games at half price, collect money, then steal all the money on the credit card.

[UnknownEngineer]

8 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

Nah, not 1 of them. Between Steam, humble bundle and other legit stores it's easy enough to eventually find a really good price.

GoG and Green Man Gaming are my go to places. Just got Doom and Wolfenstein The New Order for ~36€. I wouldn't consider that a bad deal.

[dimitriianghelov]

5 hours ago, Prysin said:

actually, thats not the main reason game kes get stolen.

"hackers" go onto the dark web and buys stolen credit cards.

They go buy a game on steam or directly from the developer with the stolen card.

Since its not THEIR money, they buy shitloads of these games on someone elses card.

Then they try to use "cash back" to cancel the purchases they made. As they now have the game code, it doesnt matter.

They then go to G2A, sell games at half price, collect money, then steal all the money on the credit card.

 

nah i think it was some 4chan guy stealing credit cards and selling games on G2A (they can't even cash for 14 days)

[Prysin]

35 minutes ago, dimitriianghelov said:

 

nah i think it was some 4chan guy stealing credit cards and selling games on G2A (they can't even cash for 14 days)

[Derangel]

23 hours ago, CTR640 said:

I removed Just Cause 3 beause it was running like shit despite having an i7-4770, GTX780 and 16GB RAM.

I wonder if Dendumbo has something to do with the performance but lesson learned,

I'll never ever buy a game with Dendumbo with it anymore.

 

There has yet to be any proven relationship between Denuvo and performance issues. Some speculation and some correlation with some titles, but never anything really valid. There are games with Denuvo that perform like shit and games with it that are just fine. Like every single game ever made it all comes down to the people working on it and if they can make a good PC version of a game.

[Sauron]

Even if it's not true it's just a matter of time. DRM only hurts the paying customer.

[Energycore]

Look at that pretty list of games I will never play

[SteveGrabowski0]

3 hours ago, Sauron said:

Even if it's not true it's just a matter of time. DRM only hurts the paying customer.

It seems to be hurting pirates a lot more. Most AAA games released since December are still uncracked.

[suicidalfranco]

finally, what took them so long?!

[laminutederire]

8 hours ago, Arokhantos said:

Can we stop cracking games for now just to proof that sales do not go up, hopefully sooner rather then later so all game devs realize that even with the best protection against piracy, their sales won't increase, perhaps they will finally spend more time on making a great game instead, that is worth buying rather.

Actually no they need to protect their games. I know a bunch of guys who seriously can't buy a game, its against their education and they don't play cs go because they'd have to pay it 5€, when they have 2000€ laptops etc.

It's not a question of money, but a question of habit and philosophy. And frankly those people deserve not to play games if they don't want to pay for them, that's an important lesson which our societies need.