Final Fantasy XV cracked four days before release - Or the condom Square was gonna put on their game is already broken

[GethN7]

https://gamegeek.gg/26390/final-fantasy-xv-windows-edition-denuvo/

Basically, Steam released the demo of their game on Steam and Origin, and since Denuvo wouldn't play nice with Origin, defeating the copy protection for the Origin demo was child's play, and the demo is merely the game itself with access to content past a certain point disabled by easy to remove game code, meaning crackers were unlocking the full game with no DRM before release.

 

[Near]

> Spend thousands of dollars on DRM
> Demo exe of your own game bypasses it entirely, and pirates get the game a week earlier than legit customers

BRAVO, SE
Stunning and brave.

 

[Hui]

Wow

People want to play this shit?

 

[Sparky Lurker]

Will they release an Anonymous costume DLC in commemoration?

 

[Yellow Yam Scam]

Cool. I'd say the only major downside here is that the game isn't even worth playing for free.

 

[GethN7]

These guys are laughing their asses off as Square right now.

https://crackwatch.com/game/final-fantasy-xv

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Whoops! You should actually use DRM that actually works with Origin, or better yet, interweave the code through out the entire game.

 

[Cubanodun]

Denuvo is a joke it still kill performance and make games run like ass, for those that are cheapskates or condemned to third ass world countries like me, wait until the Repack is released, Square has a bad reputation of putting shitload of crap in their games for no reason, for example Nier Automata size is almost like 40 gb on Steam IIRC, when the pirates looked the files they noticed that the reason was that the videos were encoded in a insanely high bitrate, after all the videos were recoded the game size was reduced to a mere 11 GB

 

[H4nzn0]

Imagine it's just a bunch of malware instead of FFXV.

EDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch...used_ffxv_demo_exe_as_a_crack_for_the_origin/

Seems like it's legit. GG Square Enix.

 

[GethN7]

Imagine it's just a bunch of malware instead of FFXV.

Nah, it's the official demo they cracked, which is actually the full game with some code blocks to prevent play past a certain point.

They literally shipped the full game with a crappy padlock on most of the content.

 

[RG 448]

meaning crackers were unlocking the full game with no DRM before release.

Did we really need to bring race into this? I’m sure the Final Fantasy fanbase is at least reasonably diverse.

 

[It's HK-47]

Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Battlefront, Titan Fall, Crysis, Dead Space, of all the preorder outfits they could have offered people, they slapped some Sims Llama nonsense on there, and in return, completely shafted Square and caused their game to get broken open a week in advance.

Gotta' hand it to you, EA, when you mess up, you really go all in.

 

[Slamerella]

Denuvo is a joke it still kill performance and make games run like ass, for those that are cheapskates or condemned to third ass world countries like me, wait until the Repack is released, Square has a bad reputation of putting shitload of crap in their games for no reason, for example Nier Automata size is almost like 40 gb on Steam IIRC, when the pirates look at it at the files they noticed that the reason was that the videos were encoded in a insanely high bitrate, after all the videos were recoded the game size was reduced to a mere 11 GB

I could've sworn I posted it but I guess not.
I was gonna say that Denuvo managed to fuck up Puyo Puyo tetris on launch. Missing textures, messed with netcoding, and weird framerate stutters in animations.
I should mention. The game is like, 99% textures.

 

[Dandelo]

might as well make a salt thread for steam too

 

[Desire Lines]

Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Battlefront, Titan Fall, Crysis, Dead Space, of all the preorder outfits they could have offered people, they slapped some Sims Llama nonsense on there, and in return, completely shafted Square and caused their game to get broken open a week in advance.

Gotta' hand it to you, EA, when you mess up, you really go all in.

Those costumes look like they came straight from Spy Kids

christ they look so bad

 

[Spicy Hog]

I pre ordered this because I was pretty excited to play a not shitty version of the game after beating in on ps4 and wanted some sick ass mods to play with. Fuckin denuvo just has to get in the way of that though, way to ruin the fun.

 

[Lackadaisy]

Wow

People want to play this shit?

You shut your whore mouth. This game is hardcore. You play as a boy band who kills shit and drive around in a sweetass car.

 

[Robotron]

Might as well not even have Denuvo at this point, the game is already cracked and in the hands of the pirates.

 

[tarni]

You shut your whore mouth. This game is hardcore. You play as a boy band who kills shit and drive around in a sweetass car.

Yeah, I'll be getting it. Gives me 90s nostalgia

 

[Room312]

I enjoyed the PS4 version, but I'm curious to see if modders will restore any of the massive amount of cut content.