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JelloBrains ,
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I miss mostly anonymous people cracking games without running around screaming from the rafters about gremlins in their modems stealing their breakfast bars. I can't believe most if not all Denuvo releases are now only cracked by this person.

clitoris ,
@clitoris@kbin.social avatar

shit, what happens when she kicks the bucket? maybe someone else will emerge but it's been so long already, and they haven't, so it could take years and years

cyanarchy ,

Demand is what causes Supply. Somewhere out there is someone with the skill to crack Denuvo, but no need to, because this lunatic is already doing it. And being the competition means being on empress’ radar, which is really something a sane person would not want.

psilocybin ,

That’s wishful thinking.

She can only crack so many games, so the demand for the other games already stays without supply.

The scene was much bigger before denuvo, the supply obviously went down independently of the demand.

Also the demand/supply argument only makes sense where there is payment. There are starving people in the world who’s demand is not met bc the can’t pay while there are millions of facelifts administered to people who will pay large sums.

Denuvo has succeeded in imposing such a huge threshold onto cracking that from the talented people only the most driven stayed in the game. With no money in it you need to be driven by something else, usually ego. Even if there is a successor to empress chances are that is true for them as well.

Cl1nk ,

I don’t mind the rants, it’s fun if you take it as it is: Part of the Spectacle. I don’t believe empress is a single person with schizophrenia, most likely a group of people with a specific sense of humor

Hathaway ,

Found the empress team member

massive_bereavement ,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

I may or may not have done some cracking since the early 90s.
Back then three things were true for me to start that hobby:

  1. Had a computer and lots of free time.
  2. Had 0 money but friends that would lend me a game for a week or two.
  3. Had access to burnable media.

This was mostly me trying to keep playing games after giving the disk (or disks) back.
However, once I might have cracked GTA (the original), the rush of finally understanding how a debugger worked and figuring it out, made actually playing less apealing than the whole figuring it out.

It made me rent games then just try figuring out how to crack them, but that was financially killing me as again I had nothing to begin with and I was now at minus some.

Granted that none of the early protections were anything similar to Denuvo.
In most cases, it was just a case of blocking a cd check here and there. Some had hilarious protections where the game would screw the player if detected: RA2 would be probably the most famous I remember. Often than not it made me paranoid if I had triped a trap and the game was being unfair or bugged.

Somehow I kept going until I shifted towards the Hackintosh scene.

Then when the first humble bundle appeared and people pirated it, it disgusted me to no avail and finally left this part of my life.

lvxferre ,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

Me, five minutes ago: “who’s this Empress?”

Me, now: “I need to follow her, it’s free popcorn!”

Melody ,

Empress is a neurotic narcissist who needs to be NUKED at every release and HARD MUTED, IGNORED, AND DEPLATFORMED by every sociopathic rant she makes.

We should not be giving her attention by talking about her; she needs to be SHUNNED into OBSCURITY. Let her fucking philosophize in her own damn isolation. Her behavior is unacceptable by most social standards and her contributions to society are not so significant we can’t do without them.

icogniito ,

I would agree except for the fact that the only person out there who cracks denuvo is a delirious psycopath. The denuvo piracy lore is so fucking hillarious

sarvo99 ,

you know whats sad - there are no denuvo crackers right now other than this psychopath bitch

JadenSmith ,

I’m just going to assume if she disappears, at any point, that she is in rehab for meth. Lots of meth.

spez ,

The popularly linked post in this thread has a link to empress’ Indian rant but that’s dead now, so here’s a screenshot :

https://files.catbox.moe/r68agd.jpeg

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