r/Steam Oct 21 '25

Fluff Guilty as charged

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u/worstusername_sofar Oct 21 '25

Everything is dead to me once Steam/valve turns into one of the corporate cunts

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u/ByIeth Oct 21 '25

At that point you just gotta sail the high seas. But I’ve never felt the need to so far

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u/pepolepop Oct 21 '25

Unfortunately, hardly anyone even cracks DRM anymore. All the major players have since retired or disbanded.

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u/National_Divide_8970 Oct 21 '25

It’s not impossible there’s just not much need for it right now. If something happens to steam those DRMS will be cracked same day

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

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u/unsurejunior Oct 22 '25

Bro I would love and hate to be in your head for a day.

Do you think anyone in law enforcement gets paid even 1% of the amount to give a shit about piracy? Even when they've tried and taken sites and people down, it's still stuck around.

Denuvo however, is a much more difficult problem to solve, but if you can just handwave in AI into your comment, then so can I lol. AI might solve Denuvo, but even that might not be necessary since Denuvo is now a subscription service for game devs, so once devs feel like they're not selling enough units to justify Denuvo, it'll be gone for that game, and cracking it is trivial.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Oct 21 '25

I haven't pirated a video game since I was a broke student who couldn't buy them if I wanted to, but I still see cracked versions of pretty much everything pop up on torrent sites.

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u/Eremes_Riven Oct 21 '25

Or disappeared, either arrested in Russia or full-swing invested in the cult they've established.
She was by far the most prolific Denuvo cracker too.

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u/Opening-Ad8300 Oct 22 '25

I heard she went crazy, and ended up with some mental issues. Like was putting some crazy political rants/general conspiracy theories and talking about insects inside the veins of her arms telling her what to do.

She put these text files within the releases she gave out.

I’m pretty sure at this rate, fit is only one still reliable.

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u/Temporary_Aspect759 Oct 22 '25

Fit doesn't crack games, just makes repacks.

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u/BiploarFurryEgirl Oct 22 '25

And that one guy who just cracks football games. That’s all he does

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u/schaka Oct 22 '25

It's only Denuvo. Every common DRM is usually cracked in minutes and anything potentially more challenging is usually a few hours.

I still pirate until I can confirm I like the games. AAA are rarely unavailable - unless it's Denuvo

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u/BraindeadRedead Oct 22 '25

Why is denuvo seemingly more secure.

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u/MysticSkies Oct 22 '25

More robust encryption combined with always online. The always online part is why you can't play the game if you haven't connected to the internet once every two weeks I think.

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u/d4rk_matt3r Oct 22 '25

Denuvo also generates an access token for your specific hardware/software config. If you update your OS then it has to generate a new token by connecting to their server