balls of snow
Member
She's one those autistic savant I once heard about. Genius at what she does, absolute nutter at everything else. God giveth, and taketh away.
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Famous Cracker Empress Declares War To Warner Bros, Capcom & Denuvo In Its Latest Release
Thebonehead
Banned
Wait, you just described Reeeee
crackajack
Member
If you don't like a product dont buy it and dont pirate it, i.e. just ignore it.
The entitlement of some people is mindboggling. The product does not have to be like you want it to be, but you can chose to support it or not. "Or not" includes not dealing with it at all, but that would be too hard for self righteous people.
The entitlement of some people is mindboggling. The product does not have to be like you want it to be, but you can chose to support it or not. "Or not" includes not dealing with it at all, but that would be too hard for self righteous people.
VN1X
Banned
Ah so she's French?
nkarafo
Member
Buying the game and being able to remove it's DRM is also an option.
This was an entertaining read.Empress is known to be the only one still cracking games using the ill-famed Denuvo protection on PC.
She is the only one able to crack Denuvo since a few years now.
Her cracks are usually taking a while now, occurring a few months after the protected game's release since Denuvo reinforced it's protection multiple times. Empress was also asking for donation (500$ in total) to crack a game.
But that's about to change.
In it's latest release, she made it clear she is not appy with Warner Bros for using the DRM, and is against Denuvo very intrusive systems that can cause stutters (Resident Evil Village was a good example, though it was fixed a few weeks after the release date).
Here is what she had to say:
Hogwarts Legacy vs Empress live soon on all your devices
anthony2690
Banned
Empress sounds like a whiny petulant bitch 
fermcr
Member
Think, before saying something like that. DRM isn't exclusive to PC games. Do you realize that console games also have DRM's? The latest Gran Turismo can't be played if not online. Redfall will not be playable if not online.
lh032
I cry about Xbox and hate PlayStation.
Alot of PC version has denuvo and launchers....dont just use the example above to brush me off.
Last time Diablo 3 is always online on PC. but not for console....
Comandr
Member
Man. Empress' letter is so unhinged. You can't help but love it. But seriously. I fully condone sticking it to Denuvo. As previous posters have said, the only people that it really hurts are the legit buyers. People that pirate the games don't have to deal with always online or intrusive DRM solutions sucking up performance. It sucks to be punished for doing the right thing.
fermcr
Member
Just wait and see... more and more console games will have DRM's that phone home, even single-player games.
Like Thanos said, It's...
MMaRsu
Banned
I laugh at the edgy writing, but nothing but applause for Empress who's cracked a ton of high profile games. Denuvo is a cancer, the publisher assumes you are a pirate so they put this invasive DRM in the games that not only affects performance, but you get a worse version by buying the game then by pirating it.
jigglet
Banned
we're going in deep boi
MMaRsu
Banned
They dont need a crack to push for that, see Redfall.
MMaRsu
Banned
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
She not even gonna be waiting the 6 months to a year anymore.
Ooooooofffff I guess publishers were eating too nicely looks like we are going back to within 2 weeks cracks.
Fuck Denuvo.
Thats literally what every "gamer" sounds like.
I mean have you looked at your own post history?
Read your own posts back to anyone and ask them how much of a whiny petulant bitch that person sounds like.
This post is from today:
Glass houses and all that jazz.
Ooooooofffff I guess publishers were eating too nicely looks like we are going back to within 2 weeks cracks.
Fuck Denuvo.
I take it you havent been on NeoGAF long?Empress sounds like a whiny petulant bitch
Thats literally what every "gamer" sounds like.
I mean have you looked at your own post history?
Read your own posts back to anyone and ask them how much of a whiny petulant bitch that person sounds like.
This post is from today:
WAAAA WAAA No 60fps WAAA WAAA Im going to cancel my preorder WAAA WAAA!!!
Glass houses and all that jazz.
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
That's a lot of schizo raging but hey, if it helps with fucking up with Denuvo, I'm fine with that.
existensmaximum
Member
Guess what, Warner Bros and Capcom can make whatever choices they want and this hacker kid is not entitled to anything. Not their games, with or without Denuvo. This is the most pathetic thing I've seen for a long time.
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Sentenza
Member
I knew absolutely nothing about this "Empress" until few days ago and then I read a couple of detailed recaps about her story. Seems a fucking nutjob from head to toes.
As a side note, I'm starting to wonder how long it will take before people will start to use machine learning in some form to crack these DRMs.
As a side note, I'm starting to wonder how long it will take before people will start to use machine learning in some form to crack these DRMs.
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anthony2690
Banned
I literally said I cancelled my preorder of Gotham Knights due to no 60fps mode and said I'd happily buy the game otherwise? (In a prior post)
Is that really whining? I don't think so.
I personally like the look of Gotham Knights and I'd happily buy and playthrough it if it got a 60fps update.
But there is no shortage of other great games I can play and enjoy at 60fps currently, so I'm happy to wait if it ever gets an update.
I didn't cuss the game out
I'm pretty positive about games.
Sentenza
Member
OR they could do the smart thing and give up on DRM entirely, given that they hardly seem to have any noticeable impact on sales to begin with.
Davevil
Member
Sentenza
Member
What's your counter-point, exactly?
Skifi28
Member
nah, indonesian ladyboy
Sentenza
Member
Not sure of who or what she actually is, but for the record when I was doing my reading about her few days ago, I stumbled on an episode where some people accused her to be a "transexual woman" and she took really big offense on it.
And to stress the point that she was "a real woman" she then proceeded to insult both the people making the assumption and every transexual on the planet, calling the former "wimpy faggots" and the latter "tranny degenerates". Or something like that.
She also had some unhinged rants about hating all Indians (and possibly even other ethnic groups. But Indians for sure).
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Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Always online DRM for single player games is even easier to hack than Denuvo.
If the entire game is on disk, as in it isnt actually streaming in new content from the server then thats beans.
You just emulate the response from server the game is expecting.
I take it you are new to the scene?
Alot of always online games have been cracked already.
I literally said I cancelled my preorder of Gotham Knights due to no 60fps mode and said I'd happily buy the game otherwise? (In a prior post)
Is that really whining? I don't think so.
I personally like the look of Gotham Knights and I'd happily buy and playthrough it if it got a 60fps update.
But there is no shortage of other great games I can play and enjoy at 60fps currently, so I'm happy to wait if it ever gets an update.
I didn't cuss the game out
I'm pretty positive about games.
Nigel
Member
Never heard of Terry A Davis?
Wildebeest
Member
"There are certain things you need to know to be spiritual like third eye openings, chakras, and all that."
Guy sounds like a graduate of Naruto studies.
MMaRsu
Banned
Elden Ring didnt have DRM
Plenty of other succesful games did not have DRM.
Your argument (or whatever) is baseless.
VN1X
Banned
This entire thing feels like the Tism Singularity
Thebonehead
Banned
SSfox
Member
Just remin me there were some rumours that Jimbo was going to put this Denovo trash in ps5
Didn't hear anything about in a while, this better had to be fake.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
"Famous Cracker Empress"
Well that's racist. You could have just said she was white, not that race matters in this story.
Sentenza
Member
For any fool out there trying to argue in good faith that "Highly invasive DRM may be annoying but it's a necessarily evil", here's a relevant question:
Have games with Denuvo suddenly started to sell an enormous amounts above the average of comparable titles for budget and appeal?
Most of the recent "success stories" of mega-sellers or surprise hits on PC have been games that didn't come with Denuvo tied in.
And the exceptions who did (like Monster Hunter World) are games that it's genuinely hard to argue with a straight face would have bombed without it.
Some people from time to time love to mention examples of "a friend of a friend who actually bought a game because it could not be pirated".
Yeah, I'm sure it happens. I'm also fairly sure that when you account for:
- people who will now start bitching about it and deliberately boycott the game because of Denuvo
- people who won't have a "chance to try the game" and change their mind about wanting a legit copy
- people who simply will have less chances to hear word of mouth about a game because of "decreased cultural penetration" (their friend, fellow redditor/forum dweller praising the game and suggesting it, etc) that come from being passed around less
- the costs of licensing and implementing the DRM itself
...In the long run the difference doesn't really amount to much, IF it amounts to anything in positive.
not to mention that the number of illegally downloaded games in the last years is on a downward trend even for games that DO have a working crack.
And let's try to list some success stories of the last few years we keep mentioning, ok?
Elden Ring and Cyberpunk are often dismissed as outliers, but what's else sold a lot in the last decade?
Risk of Rain 2 didn't use Denuvo.
Vampire Survivor didn't use Denuvo.
Fall Guy didn't use Denuvo.
Among Us didn't use Denuvo.
Valheim didn't use Denuvo.
V Rising didn't use Denuvo.
No Man's Sky didn't use Denuvo.
Sekiro didn't use Denuvo.
Hollow Knight didn't use Denuvo.
The Witcher 3 didn't use Denuvo.
...You got the point, I'd hope. Tell me again how Denuvo is a "necessity" to become successful on the current market.
Have games with Denuvo suddenly started to sell an enormous amounts above the average of comparable titles for budget and appeal?
Most of the recent "success stories" of mega-sellers or surprise hits on PC have been games that didn't come with Denuvo tied in.
And the exceptions who did (like Monster Hunter World) are games that it's genuinely hard to argue with a straight face would have bombed without it.
Some people from time to time love to mention examples of "a friend of a friend who actually bought a game because it could not be pirated".
Yeah, I'm sure it happens. I'm also fairly sure that when you account for:
- people who will now start bitching about it and deliberately boycott the game because of Denuvo
- people who won't have a "chance to try the game" and change their mind about wanting a legit copy
- people who simply will have less chances to hear word of mouth about a game because of "decreased cultural penetration" (their friend, fellow redditor/forum dweller praising the game and suggesting it, etc) that come from being passed around less
- the costs of licensing and implementing the DRM itself
...In the long run the difference doesn't really amount to much, IF it amounts to anything in positive.
not to mention that the number of illegally downloaded games in the last years is on a downward trend even for games that DO have a working crack.
And let's try to list some success stories of the last few years we keep mentioning, ok?
Elden Ring and Cyberpunk are often dismissed as outliers, but what's else sold a lot in the last decade?
Risk of Rain 2 didn't use Denuvo.
Vampire Survivor didn't use Denuvo.
Fall Guy didn't use Denuvo.
Among Us didn't use Denuvo.
Valheim didn't use Denuvo.
V Rising didn't use Denuvo.
No Man's Sky didn't use Denuvo.
Sekiro didn't use Denuvo.
Hollow Knight didn't use Denuvo.
The Witcher 3 didn't use Denuvo.
...You got the point, I'd hope. Tell me again how Denuvo is a "necessity" to become successful on the current market.
Shakka43
Member
