14 DAY TRIAL // The leader of one of the most prominent PC cracking groups, 3DM announced that they are going to stop their activities for a year to see if anything will happen with the PC sales.
The main reason DRM solutions are implemented is to prevent people from making copies and giving them away. At least this is how thing started. Why should my friend and I enjoy the same game, when we can buy two copies. It sounds like a good business plan, and let's be fair, it's a business and it needs to make money.
This is the rule on the PC, but the same publishers are also selling their games on consoles and players don't have the same restrictions. Sure, there are much more stringent protections in place, and the current generation of consoles has done a really good job at keeping pirates at bay.
Enter Denuvo, stage right
Denuvo is a new software solution that helps publishers keep pirates from copying and distributing their games. The company that makes it says it's not DRM, just an encryption system, but the end result is the same. PC crackers have a hard time cracking the games protected with Denuvo.
The latest Just Cause 3 and The Rise of the Tomb Raider for the PC platform are proof that it works. It hasn't been cracked just yet. The kicker is that if I play Just Cause 3 on PlayStation 4, for example, I can give this copy to my friend and he can play it too. And this copy can go through many hands until I don't know who has it anymore.
3DM is the only cracking group that managed to crack Denuvo for a few games, but they couldn't do it for Just Cause 3 and The Rise of the Tomb Raider. In fact, they had a pretty grim statement a couple of weeks ago when they said that in two years it wouldn't be possible to crack games any longer, due to the Denuvo system. Denuvo just became the uncrackable technology.
Denuvo is not the first software solution that claims this title, and there have been others in the past, but it has the best chance of staying at the top.
Now, according to a report on torrentfreak.com, the same 3DM group announced that it would stop cracking games (not just Denuvo) for a year, to see if there is any noticeable spike in sales. It's not the only group out there, but it's one of the bigger ones.
It remains to be seen of 3DM inactivity will make any kind of difference.