Things are not looking good for Denuvo. A few days ago, we reported about Denuvo 5.2 getting cracked in just five days by a new video-games cracking group. And today, this very same group was able to crack Denuvo 5.3 and Hitman 2 two days prior to its official release.
From the looks of it, this new group – that uses the same name as GOG’s FCKDRM initiative – has cracked the game’s Gold Edition that has been available to those that have pre-ordered the game since Friday. However, the game will officially release to everyone else on November 13th.
As the group noted, Hitman 2 uses Denuvo 5.3. So yeah, it appears that the video-games cracking groups have figured out a way to crack the latest versions of Denuvo in just a matter of hours or days. And that’s a really big blow for the company that has been advertised its anti-tamper tech as the safest way to guarantee the first week sales.
It remains to be seen whether IO Interactive will remove Denuvo. Let’s not forget that the team immediately removed this anti-tamper tech once it acquired the IP rights from Square Enix.
It will also be interesting to see whether this new cracking group will be able to crack all the upcoming games that will be using Denuvo, and what will be Denuvo’s response to this new challenge!
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