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I love to see it, but publishers will still consider this a win for DRM. The vast majority of sales for most games happen in the first few weeks after release, so 13 days without a crack might be considered worth the cost of Denuvo in exec's minds. They'll only panic if it's available on day one, like with that hypervisor bypass that made headlines recently.
Meanwhile in reality, it's these recent bypasses that give people who pirate confidence to say it's gonna be a couple weeks tops so I'm not gonna pay for it
As is the mindset of an acquaintance i have that pirates everything
Pretty sure that HV works on most/all DRM, though? I mean, it can be insanely unsafe on the user's part, and incalculably risky at the very least, but it's still available on day one.
FWIW, said execs certainly show no signs of GAF abt user security, privacy, etc., so there's nothing (yet?) stopping them from further normalizing deep access to end-users' devices... under the PR fraud of "protection" against "hackers".
It doesn't matter if you "bought" their thing, you're still just a product to them. 😶
I think they'd be at least slightly bothered by Hypervisor being day-one, to the best of my knowledge, even if full cracks aren't. For those who're willing, it still allows games to be played at launch. I bet there are some firm words being exchanged in the C-suite recently, trying to pressure Denuvo into "getting it sorted".