oh no, anyway

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"bypassing drm" isn't a crime any more than walking past someone on a sidewalk is.

If anyone else got curious: https://www.reddit.com/user/voices38/

So?

Then don't put that fucking malware in games and it won't be bypassed, problem solved.

https://tech4gamers.com/denuvo-destroys-performance-optimization-games/

Honestly, no single malware tanks gaming performance anywhere near the levels that this shit does. It's closer to the characteristics of game cancer.

Its funny how the free market is only good when it benefits capitalists. The moment someone makes them lose money competition is over and its time to sue others

Some people never learn.

Streisand Effect

I like voices38; they allowed me to finish AC Shadows because the story ending is hidden behind DLC

Denuvo has done some homework, though. The filing lists a Discord user ID, a Reddit account and seven Steam profiles that it believes are linked to the cracker.

Denuvo hopes the information linked to these accounts will eventually unmask the cracker. Games have to be bought before they can be cracked, for example, and Steam purchases come with payment details.

I hope this person has good OPSEC.

it is in the USA, unfortunately.

https://www.jurisstate.blog/is-removing-drm-illegal#is-it-illegal-to-remove-drm-for-personal-use

But then, we also treat walking past someone on the sidewalk as a crime here as well, if that someone is a bored or angry cop.

What in the holy dystopia did I just read?

Buy game, and buy ending too? 😭✋

Yup, the story doesn't really finish at the end of the main questline but even the dlc ending felt kinda unfinished.

US has ~0.4 % chance of the person living there.

Gotta leave the door open for even more dlc if the corporate overlords decree it.

they are NOT losing money. I would never buy this garbage to begin with. I'd pirate it to try it, but once I saw how utter shit they are I wouldn't even play the pirated copies.

they are not losing money

In fairness so do most games that launch with planned dlc. And you do get endings for each character that wrap up most plot points in the base game. All the "new" assassin's creed games have done this, you get two or three endings in the base game and the dlcs will wrap up a few remaining threads not covered in the base. Base game endings are left a little open because it's an ongoing game series but they absolutely wrap up the main plot, it's a bit misleading to say the ending is locked behind dlc when it's really just one ancillary plot thread that gets explored and resolved.

Choo choo! Here comes the DLC train! 🚂

I see Denuvo in a game, I don’t buy or even pirate said game.

It's also the same format all the modern AC games have had. And the endings in the base game are fine, open-ended but more or less complete. All the dlc did was bring more context to a side character that wasn't really relevant to the main story.

Isn't one of the mcguffins you're chasing in the dlc? That counts as the actual ending being hidden to me. The rest is just arguments against planned dlc.

They aren't, but they have the understanding of literal children. They can't process the fact that a pirated game isn't a lost sale, because to them every single person on the planet wants what they have to offer, and if they get it any way OTHER than buying it outright at full price, CLEARLY it must be theft and people are targeting them specifically because what they have is so great.

I pirated Minecraft back in the beta days, decided I loved it, and eventually bought it (before notch went full mask off and the sale of mojang) had it not been for TPB, mojang would have had one less sale.

Same for several others. Hilariously, the only time I ever recieved a c&d was for a game I loved and then canceled the online order for when I got the letter two days later. I wanted to buy it, but the letter made up my mind that I was never giving them money again. Fuck em. Dead rising went downhill after the first one anyway so I didn't miss much.

Executives view life as a zero-sum game.

There's macguffins left and right. The dlc in shadows is mostly around one characters past relationship that was tangential but not directly relative to any of the narrative elements in the base game.

In fairness; STFU. Not fully fleshing out a game with planned intent on releasing doc can go to hell. Games were a hell of a lot more engaging when you had to put out effort to unlock characters or skins or weapons instead of buying them, and the end of an RPG wrapped everything up and felt complete.

a Discord user

If it does belong to voices38, then I pray they start a new life.

Games were an order of magnitude smaller scale then. If you don't like sprawling open world narratives with hundreds of hours of quality content and gameplay, don't fuckin play em. Ubisoft and AC deserve shit for their hostile implementation of mtx and always online dumbfuckery. The games themselves are well made and well written. Have legitimate criticism instead of bullshit bandwagoning. The game was complete without the dlc. It was extra story, not main story. Eat my whole asshole. I already said that all games with planned post launch dlc pull this shit because they do, ac isn't fuckin special or worse, arguably they're better because the games are still quality in spite of the corporate fuckery.

That's not the point. They want the real identity so they can charge them and ask for coorporation of the country they are in to extradite to the US

Couldn't Denuvo get a subpoena to have reddit unmask that account?

Lol. Go screw yourself, shill. Some games are bigger than ever, but guess what? So is the number of people purchasing games. 25 years ago a game selling a million copies was a big deal and the biggest game of the year might break 2 million copies. Last year battlefield 6 sold 7 million copies in 3 days and 20 million copies total last year.

For illegal file sharing?? They didn't murder anyone!

For anyone unfamiliar, I strongly recommend Michael Bazzell's book Extreme Privacy for a fantastic entry into this world. It covers much more than your typical OPSEC stuff, but it is thorough, well written, and fun to learn about.

How'd you get to that number?

Total world population - US population over ✊ x pi

Edit: or do you mean the % formula?

Their math is off by an order of magnitude. The US has about 4.25% of the Earth's population, not 0.4%.

Ok didnt want to say this because of spoilers but:

I was talking about the three red boxes; third is in the dlc

They're still only tangentially related to the game's primary revenge narrative. Naoe and Yasuke have complete arcs in the base game. I don't disagree that it's a bullshit business tactic and that shadows is probably the worst ac in that regard, but it does have multiple endings more or less on par with Odyssey or Valhalla in terms of wrapping up loose threads. It's assassin's creed, they all leave dozens of loose threads.

I bet you still get upset about gamergate.

i'll pirate it alright

they don't even know who this person is lmao

not if they know what they are doing. and it looks like they do.

If voices did it right, all Reddit will have is a fake email and an IP that isn't theirs. The IP would be a VPN or a compromised/hacked server. Behind that should be another VPN/hacked server, maybe then over tor, etc, etc, etc.

It's denuvo suing, in a sense if the uncrackable game service they claim is now crackable, they will lose customers

but this is like advertising you are the best and then sue anyone that is better to maintain your position

or from a country that doesn't comply with US requests

unfortunately by this point a lot of the more 'extreme' things are outdated. the first few chapters remain a decent starting point.

There has to be something to unmask first. You don't need to supply personal data for a reddit account do you?

Read about Raymond Griffiths.

Same. Still waiting for Dragon's Dogma 2 to remove Denuvo before I even watch a video of the game.

I suppose not, but they likely want IP addresses or some type of personal identifer. That's also why they want the discord info too

You say that like it's one person. 😏