As long as you’re a gamer, you’ve probably heard of Denuvo’s game anti-interference technology. Denuvo is an Austrian software solutions company that was acquired by the Dutch information security company Irdeto in 2018, but before that, Denuvo’s encryption technology has been around for a long time. It is widely used by many game manufacturers in their own games. Its purpose is to prevent piracy, or delay the appearance of game piracy as much as possible, so as not to hurt real income. Therefore, it often a hot topic on game forums to address the battle between the team and Denuvo topic.
Although Denuvo’s encryption technology is not easy to break, for ordinary players, the most immediate effect is to damage the game experience. A recent example is “Evil Castle 8 Village”. Some PC version players found that when the game When the main character wants to use a weapon, there is often a lagging situation, but there is no such problem on the console version. After the cracking team removed Denuvo, although there is no noticeable increase in the frame rate, the lagging situation is also gone.
Even, due to the use of Denuvo encrypted games, the whole process of authentication and decoding needs to be done online, and the game may not even be able to be opened due to network domain or server problems. these situations are common, and players just laugh at themselves. victim”.
Last year, the Denuvo team set their sights on the Nintendo Switch platform, claiming to prevent Switch games from running on PC platforms and emulators, to ensure that players who want to play certain games can only play through the Switch console. recently, Denuvo released a free e-book, basically around related topics, the title of the book is “Game Simulation Threats for Developers: Are you worried enough?” Device technology has become a profitable industry, and it has even led to a decrease in the profits of both pirates and developers, forming an economic threat that not only violates the intellectual property rights of developers, but also damage brand reputation. The Tao’s only solution is Denuvo’s anti-interference technology for games. The company tweeted the following:https://twitter.com/gamingatdenuvo/status/1640700602874224641?s=20
As soon as this move came out, netizens on Twitter could not sit still, and complained under the team’s Twitter tweet:
“Denuvo is the culprit that encourages piracy, because the game is smoother without Denuvo!”
“You are the virus in the game industry”
“The emulator can really make sure that when the disc or console has reached the end of its life, we can still relive those classic games.”
“Thank you for the free e-book, have you considered deleting your account, your company should never exist”
“Typical fear habits”
“I’ll download your free e-book, print it, and wipe my ass with it.”
In fact, looking now, it seems that the author has not seen a more positive message…
