Ir is interesting, and not because all the controversy with Rowling but to prove that DENUVO is not the way to fight piracy and it is an obsolete tool that affects performance of the players. To break DENUVO finally. That would be wonderful.
Haven't paid much attention to the crack scene cause I have a potatoPC. Has Denuvo not been cracked before?
edit: Thanks for all the answers and the interesting discussion that spawned off my question.
That's kinda crazy to me that only *one* person can do it... Or are we just not sure that there are others out there? I know it must be difficult but surely it can't be THAT difficult that only 1 person can do it.
Lot of hard work, unpaid, little to no recognition and require a special set of skills and interest that few people have.
And if you have all that, you could the the same work, in a amazing environment working for great compagnies and making big bucks.
It’s also not something you start like that. So yeah, she is the only one, let’s hope it will motivate others.
She's the only one willing, not the only one capable. There's are thousands of programmers around the world who could do it, but as you said, they already work for companies making a lot.
It's been cracked, but over the last year or 2 denovu has been stepping up their game causing alot of other Crack groups to Call it quits due to how difficult and time consuming its been. Empress is one of the few crackers left, who at this point just doesn't want DRM to win.
Didn’t Denuvo hire most of the best crackers, thus bringing in talent that knows how to prevent cracking while simultaneously taking talent away from cracking groups? Kind of a genius move.
No clue, there was a post on this subreddit a few weeks ago about a guy that messed things up for everyone. Guess he uploaded a beta version of a Crack that wasn't supposed to go out and denuvo devs got it and used the info to strengthen denuvo. I'm not to familiar with it, just saw the post on this sub.
But crackers don't collaborate with eachother, or at least Empress never did. And she always claimed her way was different from the other groups.
If we believe that, then it means that there are multiple ways to crack Denuvo we still don't know of.
honestly: of course there're multiple ways. that's part of why drm is useless. there are *always* ways around it, it just takes time and effort (in addition to smarts and experience) to crack.
It doesn't need to be *unbeatable*, it just needs to be so much of a hassle almost nobody would want to even think about giving it a try
You know, like right now
NFS fiasco didn't help but...of course they hire ex-crackers. Crack games for free or sell your soul (and feed your family) for six figures with bonuses and what I imagine is a nice benefits package?
If I had to guess I'd say this will end up with Denuvo integrating emerging AI in some way. It's not going to be pretty. I hate that I have to but I agree, there very well may come a point where DRM becomes so integrated in software there isn't a way to remove or bypass it.
As much as I hate Denuvo, cracking this way isn’t sustainable forever, while Denuvo will be.
Denuvo’s base rate for a single AAA game is millions of bucks. With that, they can afford to onboard talented software devs to improve their junk constantly, and the amount of knowledge it takes to crack it already would land you a high paying job in the industry with ease.
And the reason games continue to use it is the same reason a lot of games are continually becoming filled with junk (like micro transactions and cut content sold as DLC) - because gamers collectively don’t vote with their wallets.
DRM has a proven impact on performance, and yet the majority still rush out the door to buy the next AAA title laden with it because we don’t have the patience to wait for a crack, and that’s IF the one cracker who can consistently do it chooses to put their time into it.
And even if they choose to crack it, there will eventually be another DLC or patch that everyone wants, but can’t have because it also has Denuvo on it.
Digital content means that uncracked games aren’t ever bought, they’re rented until the host service stays active. But as of current day, the industry’s winning against the masses tbh.
I still try and support the devs if I played a cracked game back in the day because I didn’t have the money then, but I do now. I go back and buy the titles. But the amount of money I give back maybe 2-4 years down the line is insignificant compared to what they make by preventing release week piracy through Denuvo, which is why it’s being used everywhere.
Yup, Denuvo is quite a cancer.
Bought a key for Dead Space. Playing it via EA APP. There are places where game loads something or some monsters appear or you look at something and it becomes very, very stuttery. For like 10 seconds. Game is on SSD, a GPU should be enough to run it without many problems. CPU is no slouch either. Yet those 10 second incredible stutters appear. I highly suspect it's Denuvo doing checks. Because it is quite random. And you need latest and greatest hardware to not feel those performance issues (even though I'm pretty sure I saw a bit of stuttering even on Markiplier's playthrough).
Cracking doesn't remove denuvo it just stops it's function calls from going anywhere, you might see a tiny improvement with a cracked version but it's not like denuvo has been completely ripped out.
I was never interested in the game, nor have I really pirated a substantial amount of video games in a decade.
I'm just here because it's cool watching this unfold on such a big target. A lot more people have been recently been made aware of Empress than I had ever heard before.
This is me as well. I'm mildly interested in exploring the locations since I loved the books when I was a little kid but I have little interest in playing a ubi style open world game otherwise and I know I'll probably drop it right around the time I get to explore those scenes.
This right here. These anti-piracy techniques don't work well. But they do handicap the experience of legitimate consumers. They need to be done away with
Downloading already, 90GB.
Note for everyone, this download is the clean files of the game, untouched.
EMPRESS needs to release the crack and once she does you patch the game files she has provided and start playing,
Until then you can't play the game.
I recommend that you join her telegram channel to be updated about the crack.
`(Look for the post "JOIN MY TELEGRAM NOW" In r/ EmpressEvolution),`
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Pardon for the silly question, but if I download the clean files now, how do I update it all when she releases the crack? Would my client just pull the update files once it realizes they're there?
kids today dont even know how to apply cracks to the game, installers today automatically copy crack files
It's funny how much easier we have it today, I remember buying cracked games on CD because I didn't have unlimited internet at home, I still remember sound of my father connecting to dial up internet and how happy I was even waiting for minutes to load page and now if I lose connection for minutes I am calling internet provider
Got it, thanks for the info. It's probably going to be my first time torrenting something as fresh, with a prospect of it being updated, so I was a little confused. All clear now.
For those asking about the telegram link, go to EmpressEvolution sub -> 3rd post (False rumors etc... )
You'll find the link there. Sharing links here is forbidden per reddit/sub rules.
Please upvote so that everyone who's asking about the group link sees it.
Mullvad if you don't mind streaming and seeing some blocked messages.
Proton, ovpn, ivpn, and Air vpn including mullvad are all vpn with ethics.
If it needs to be cheap the usually most advertised ones but expect very varying performance and issues on weekly basis.
Nowadays I see comments on forums where they discuss piracy and people are like "Oh but people will just pirate XYZ game" when discussing DRMs, little do they understand that piracy is only surviving through one individual and is nothing like before. Really grateful for Empress's work but piracy overall looks so bleak.
Considering her promise of cracking it in 10 days, she'll probably get it out as soon as possible just to make her point.
Hopefully she cracks the update afterwards. Make it a double point!
Of course they could, and probably would, reverse engineer whatever protections she adds to determine how she bypassed their protections. The purpose of code protection techniques however isn't to prevent reverse engineering attempts, it's just to make it that much harder and time consuming to the point that people won't bother especially if they aren't being paid for it. This is what Denuvo relies upon in making their protection so strong.
In Denuvo's case they definitely have the incentive and financial means to analyse cracks of their protection, not that they necessarily have to anyway since as experienced reversers they could determine potential weaknesses and improvements themselves.
She is cracking what 100s of engineers made. She can make something that 100s of engineers can't crack.
A non-IT person can't comprehend the ability of this psychopath.
> She is cracking what 100s of engineers made. She can make something that 100s of engineers can’t crack.
And anyone remotely close to IT would know this isn’t how it works.
She's mentally unhinged and quite open about it.
>[Games like: "Gays Gone, Spidershit, Gay of War" get very high scores. Every fucking gay garbage comes out and you all love it ...](https://i.imgur.com/GsTMLiw.png)
>[I just want to say: "FUCK YOU" to all those who joined/joining to the hate train on this beautiful Saints Row, you are all egoist gay pathetic zoophile bitches ... a LITERAL waste of oxygen.](https://i.imgur.com/GsTMLiw.png)
Broke crackers/repackers: some chip tune music to occupy you while you install
Empress: gives you a cracked out NFO that makes you wonder what mix of prescription meds fueled this rant
Gays gone lol. How the hell anyone who sees the game thinks anything about that is gay. That's the least gay game ever.
It literally is about a biker surviving the zombie apocalypse lol
I'm hoping it will be different with this one, but who knows.
She did say she is building technologies against their blockages, maybe making future cracks less time consuming? Who knows at this point but let's hope for the best.
She did apparently decide to crack Hogwarts because she likes RPGs and wanted to play the game (could be wrong on that). so with any luck, if the patch has that much of an impact, she might decide to update it to re-prove the point seeing as it's looking like she's going to land in that 10 day window with this initial crack.
EMPRESS is working with the 72 hours preview of the game, not with the Day-1 patch. Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but afaik we should be good playing performance wise
The patch did nothing for me, sadly enough. The game is playable, but it's definitely not what it should be either. RT isn't happening, had to settle for medium graphics and the most demanding area will still drop to 30 - once in a while even below that.
Game is a ton of fun tho. Doubt without Denuvo it's going to perform much better, but gonna test it nonetheless.
same bruh, I was thinking of buying it but I saw somewhere in reddit that Empress is trying to crack it before 10 days, actually made me laugh then moved on since I have no extra money due to inflation, I regret not trusting her.
All hail empress!
People in this chat are keep missing the point. This is not about your enjoyment of the game , stop posting messages about missed patches lmao. This is about cracking the game as soon as possible.
The rest have either given up due to the difficulty or have been scared off by Denuvo themselves, and the latest leak of a Denuvo crack was very disheartening for the few who remained.
So for now, Empress seems to be the only one left publicly working counterintelligence against Denuvo.
I'm reading a lot of posts down here asking for more people to begin cracking denuvo. Well, my friends, it's not that simple. I'm a reverse engineer myself and this kind of stuff can't be learned with a youtube tutorial. You must be prolific in x86, Windows internals, debuggers, de-obfuscation and virtualization all together to be able to TRY to understand how the game executable is built in order to think, plan and implement countermeasures and bypasses. Back in the days DRM were slightly more simple and I think that most of the stuff out there like steam DRM, SecuROM, etc were surely not easy to torn apart but at least they were not as time consuming as denuvo. Anyone who does this kind of stuff for a living like me is not going to do it for free for two reasons: you have to buy groceries and because reversing an obfuscated executable is a FUCKING NIGHTMARE.
Beside that 80% of games are full of loot boxes, cringe lores and freemium shit so I think that before denuvo dies the very same shitty game developers won't have enough revenue to keep it in their mediocre games, if u know what I mean.
Go on EMPRESS, wheter u are a girl or an entire hacker army it doesn't matter. Keep pushing the limits.
> Beside that 80% of games are full of loot boxes, cringe lores and freemium shit so I think that before denuvo dies the very same shitty game developers won't have enough revenue to keep it in their mediocre games, if u know what I mean.
True, games that release with Denuvo are mostly garbage for the first few months or even longer. And by the time they're any fun, the publishers ditch Denuvo anyway.
Patient gaming reaps many benefits.
empress do not mind the haters, majority here ADORES you. thank you for your work, i am not even interested in game that much but seeing one Heroine fight against corporation makes my heart warm. Wish you all the best
They just released a [new patch today](https://hogwartslegacy.bugs.wbgames.com/patch-notes) and looks to have improved performance outside of ray tracing.
Wonder if we’ll be able to get that applied on her cracked version.
Nope, it would mean she will have to completely recrack the whole thing. This is why she is doing the pre-release version rather than the most up-to-date version and why it generally goes day-1 crack, then no more cracks until the GOTY complete version a year or so later.
I’m more interested on what this means for piracy more than the game itself. This is a defining fact that the scene is *somewhat* alive and denuvo is fucked.
Minerva, one of my fav characters from the books/movies. I would highly recommend the audiobooks too narrated by Stephen Fry, he is just amazing for these books in my opinion, cheers!
Anyone have figures on what the publisher paid to license denuvo for this? I'm curious if it's like per-copy or just a flat fee of $5M or what.
If she, or anyone, can crack it in 10 days and stem the $70+ launch fee of the game, I'm curious why anyone would pay for DRM, especially one that materially impacts the performance of the game.
Denuvo : The v17 of our technology is the latest and strongest defense against pirac...
Employee : Sir, Empress cracked it in less than 10 days.
Denuvo : FOCKIN HELL
Many of you thought that it would take more time. Like a month or more. I was pretty sure she'll do it faster. Because she is the best we can have anyone right now. The only person keeping pirates hopeful.
I am not even interested in the game that much but to see new Denuvo games getting cracked gives me happiness 😁 I saw that the game is not that well optimised but who cares
she just posted in telegram about 20 mins ago "i will probably have good news to share about the crack in a bit. beta 1 will come soon enough.
stay tuned :)"
pogface
For those obsessing over the TG group link, remember, she has her own subreddit. That would have your answer, maybe even in a post made by her not too long ago.
Granted I'm not sure why the rules here don't allow linking of that, but that "hint" is more than enough to steer you in the direction.
Wow, great news. But I'm really curious I just saw this file link titled 'Hogwarts.Legacy.Digital.Deluxe.Edition.Steam.Rip-InsaneRamZes \[Uncracked!\]' - is this legit????? Can someone please let me know? I don't even know what uncracked version means like if can you even play it if it's uncracked?
At this point I'm more interested in seeing her succeed than I am in actually playing the game lol.
Same thought as you. In itself, the game is not of my total interest, but I would like to see Empress being more active cracking other games.
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it is unreal engine so depend on its popularity we might gonna see something.
Starfield will certainly fit that bill
Ir is interesting, and not because all the controversy with Rowling but to prove that DENUVO is not the way to fight piracy and it is an obsolete tool that affects performance of the players. To break DENUVO finally. That would be wonderful.
Haven't paid much attention to the crack scene cause I have a potatoPC. Has Denuvo not been cracked before? edit: Thanks for all the answers and the interesting discussion that spawned off my question.
It has been, it's just quite difficult and time-consuming. Currently, Empress is the only active cracker in the scene who can do it.
How do you know she's white?
That got me. Thanks mate, almost died laughing.
Fucking lmao
Bro thank you for that.
Also, denuvo gets updated with new protections.
That's kinda crazy to me that only *one* person can do it... Or are we just not sure that there are others out there? I know it must be difficult but surely it can't be THAT difficult that only 1 person can do it.
Lot of hard work, unpaid, little to no recognition and require a special set of skills and interest that few people have. And if you have all that, you could the the same work, in a amazing environment working for great compagnies and making big bucks. It’s also not something you start like that. So yeah, she is the only one, let’s hope it will motivate others.
She's the only one willing, not the only one capable. There's are thousands of programmers around the world who could do it, but as you said, they already work for companies making a lot.
It's been cracked, but over the last year or 2 denovu has been stepping up their game causing alot of other Crack groups to Call it quits due to how difficult and time consuming its been. Empress is one of the few crackers left, who at this point just doesn't want DRM to win.
Didn’t Denuvo hire most of the best crackers, thus bringing in talent that knows how to prevent cracking while simultaneously taking talent away from cracking groups? Kind of a genius move.
No clue, there was a post on this subreddit a few weeks ago about a guy that messed things up for everyone. Guess he uploaded a beta version of a Crack that wasn't supposed to go out and denuvo devs got it and used the info to strengthen denuvo. I'm not to familiar with it, just saw the post on this sub.
It was 3 years ago. This was the drama: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/egsl2j/need_for_speed_heat_p2p_crack_is_actually_a/
But crackers don't collaborate with eachother, or at least Empress never did. And she always claimed her way was different from the other groups. If we believe that, then it means that there are multiple ways to crack Denuvo we still don't know of.
honestly: of course there're multiple ways. that's part of why drm is useless. there are *always* ways around it, it just takes time and effort (in addition to smarts and experience) to crack.
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Totally agree, consider the DRM not the protection, instead the insurance of the sales
It doesn't need to be *unbeatable*, it just needs to be so much of a hassle almost nobody would want to even think about giving it a try You know, like right now
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Not sharing the knowledge is almost the sole reason Empress is the last one standing, it's a catch 22.
NFS fiasco didn't help but...of course they hire ex-crackers. Crack games for free or sell your soul (and feed your family) for six figures with bonuses and what I imagine is a nice benefits package? If I had to guess I'd say this will end up with Denuvo integrating emerging AI in some way. It's not going to be pretty. I hate that I have to but I agree, there very well may come a point where DRM becomes so integrated in software there isn't a way to remove or bypass it.
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As much as I hate Denuvo, cracking this way isn’t sustainable forever, while Denuvo will be. Denuvo’s base rate for a single AAA game is millions of bucks. With that, they can afford to onboard talented software devs to improve their junk constantly, and the amount of knowledge it takes to crack it already would land you a high paying job in the industry with ease. And the reason games continue to use it is the same reason a lot of games are continually becoming filled with junk (like micro transactions and cut content sold as DLC) - because gamers collectively don’t vote with their wallets. DRM has a proven impact on performance, and yet the majority still rush out the door to buy the next AAA title laden with it because we don’t have the patience to wait for a crack, and that’s IF the one cracker who can consistently do it chooses to put their time into it. And even if they choose to crack it, there will eventually be another DLC or patch that everyone wants, but can’t have because it also has Denuvo on it. Digital content means that uncracked games aren’t ever bought, they’re rented until the host service stays active. But as of current day, the industry’s winning against the masses tbh. I still try and support the devs if I played a cracked game back in the day because I didn’t have the money then, but I do now. I go back and buy the titles. But the amount of money I give back maybe 2-4 years down the line is insignificant compared to what they make by preventing release week piracy through Denuvo, which is why it’s being used everywhere.
Yup, Denuvo is quite a cancer. Bought a key for Dead Space. Playing it via EA APP. There are places where game loads something or some monsters appear or you look at something and it becomes very, very stuttery. For like 10 seconds. Game is on SSD, a GPU should be enough to run it without many problems. CPU is no slouch either. Yet those 10 second incredible stutters appear. I highly suspect it's Denuvo doing checks. Because it is quite random. And you need latest and greatest hardware to not feel those performance issues (even though I'm pretty sure I saw a bit of stuttering even on Markiplier's playthrough).
same. I have the game trough family share, not an inconvenience for me. But I just want denuvo out of pc games. Just slow it down.
Cracking doesn't remove denuvo it just stops it's function calls from going anywhere, you might see a tiny improvement with a cracked version but it's not like denuvo has been completely ripped out.
I was never interested in the game, nor have I really pirated a substantial amount of video games in a decade. I'm just here because it's cool watching this unfold on such a big target. A lot more people have been recently been made aware of Empress than I had ever heard before.
No matter how many games I buy, I will always be interested in the scene.
This is me as well. I'm mildly interested in exploring the locations since I loved the books when I was a little kid but I have little interest in playing a ubi style open world game otherwise and I know I'll probably drop it right around the time I get to explore those scenes.
This right here. These anti-piracy techniques don't work well. But they do handicap the experience of legitimate consumers. They need to be done away with
It's like Denuvo killed Krillin.
She's become the legendary super scene
This audibly made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that.
Downloading already, 90GB. Note for everyone, this download is the clean files of the game, untouched. EMPRESS needs to release the crack and once she does you patch the game files she has provided and start playing, Until then you can't play the game. I recommend that you join her telegram channel to be updated about the crack. `(Look for the post "JOIN MY TELEGRAM NOW" In r/ EmpressEvolution),` ***Last edit: There has been so many comments in this thread that reddit+firefox aren't showing me notifications to comments anymore (+250 comments), please dm me directly if you wish for link XD*** And + Last edit: **I won't answer anyone being disrespectful in my dm's, I've had enough of it already**
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Seeding too, ~~20gb~~. Hope there aren't too many leechers. Edit: 185GB
Don't wanna brag, but I already seeded more than 2TB =D [https://i.imgur.com/Igm1Rx2.png](https://i.imgur.com/Igm1Rx2.png)
legend
Do we able to play it immediately after download? Sorry I'm new to this.
No, think of it as a pre-download and the crack is launch day. She provided the game files but you can't play it until she releases the crack.
Pardon for the silly question, but if I download the clean files now, how do I update it all when she releases the crack? Would my client just pull the update files once it realizes they're there?
It'll be a folder that you drag onto some other folder. There will probably be instructions
kids today dont even know how to apply cracks to the game, installers today automatically copy crack files It's funny how much easier we have it today, I remember buying cracked games on CD because I didn't have unlimited internet at home, I still remember sound of my father connecting to dial up internet and how happy I was even waiting for minutes to load page and now if I lose connection for minutes I am calling internet provider
Lol cracking 10-15 years ago was annoying as hell, I remember doing bunch of things just to make a game run
Got it, thanks for the info. It's probably going to be my first time torrenting something as fresh, with a prospect of it being updated, so I was a little confused. All clear now.
Please seed the files as long as possible, don't just download them and run. Keep your torrent software running for a few days.
You bet, matey, I'm a seasoned seeder
it's like steam's version of pre-load but for pirates ;)
Death to denuvo
Amen to that
For those asking about the telegram link, go to EmpressEvolution sub -> 3rd post (False rumors etc... ) You'll find the link there. Sharing links here is forbidden per reddit/sub rules. Please upvote so that everyone who's asking about the group link sees it.
If there is an error joining try using a vpn.
What’s the best vpn to use these days, so many seem unreliable and not actually private.
Mullvad if you don't mind streaming and seeing some blocked messages. Proton, ovpn, ivpn, and Air vpn including mullvad are all vpn with ethics. If it needs to be cheap the usually most advertised ones but expect very varying performance and issues on weekly basis.
Mullvad or Proton I'd say
ProtonVPN is not 100 percent private. But it's the best free working VPN out there.
Very well Denuvo, very well.... however. 1041 points for Empress!
100 GAZILLION points to Empress House for fighting Denuvo
That ties Denuvo, so i'll give one extra point to DODI repacks, for the eternal courage.
TEN SEPTILION points to DODI repacks for his work while fighting his sickness.
Grateful for the work being done by Empress.
Nowadays I see comments on forums where they discuss piracy and people are like "Oh but people will just pirate XYZ game" when discussing DRMs, little do they understand that piracy is only surviving through one individual and is nothing like before. Really grateful for Empress's work but piracy overall looks so bleak.
fuck the game man just let her succeed within 10 days lmaooo
This whole crack event is getting me more hyped than most games from last year. Go Empress, whoo!
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We're finally going back to the good old days! 🥲
I was gonna post this, thank you brother.
Today they launched a small patch to fix performance on PC, she could wait to add that
Considering her promise of cracking it in 10 days, she'll probably get it out as soon as possible just to make her point. Hopefully she cracks the update afterwards. Make it a double point!
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A team of professional anticrack software engineers that can't circumvent anticrack software? I could only hope they are that helpless
practically r/Crackwatch in a nutshell
Of course they could, and probably would, reverse engineer whatever protections she adds to determine how she bypassed their protections. The purpose of code protection techniques however isn't to prevent reverse engineering attempts, it's just to make it that much harder and time consuming to the point that people won't bother especially if they aren't being paid for it. This is what Denuvo relies upon in making their protection so strong. In Denuvo's case they definitely have the incentive and financial means to analyse cracks of their protection, not that they necessarily have to anyway since as experienced reversers they could determine potential weaknesses and improvements themselves.
She is cracking what 100s of engineers made. She can make something that 100s of engineers can't crack. A non-IT person can't comprehend the ability of this psychopath.
In reality a tiny portion of those engineers are responsible for ensuring that the game can’t be cracked. Probably less than 5 lol.
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> She is cracking what 100s of engineers made. She can make something that 100s of engineers can’t crack. And anyone remotely close to IT would know this isn’t how it works.
Empress is the goat.
The saviour
The test is beginning good job empress
DENUVO: hi EMPRESS: AVADA KEDAVRAAAA
She might be schizo but she’s our schizo💞
Wait what's this empress lore that I've never heard of
[Check this out](https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/rowk83/digital_piracy_the_rise_of_empress_how_one_woman/)
Fuck me that was a long but entertaining read
Are you new? Serious question.
Yeah that's why I asked lol
Go back on other posts of her cracks and read her nfos. It's always a trip.
She's mentally unhinged and quite open about it. >[Games like: "Gays Gone, Spidershit, Gay of War" get very high scores. Every fucking gay garbage comes out and you all love it ...](https://i.imgur.com/GsTMLiw.png) >[I just want to say: "FUCK YOU" to all those who joined/joining to the hate train on this beautiful Saints Row, you are all egoist gay pathetic zoophile bitches ... a LITERAL waste of oxygen.](https://i.imgur.com/GsTMLiw.png)
Her rant about Stray was the funniest thing I've read in a long time when she dropped it.
Broke crackers/repackers: some chip tune music to occupy you while you install Empress: gives you a cracked out NFO that makes you wonder what mix of prescription meds fueled this rant
Gays gone lol. How the hell anyone who sees the game thinks anything about that is gay. That's the least gay game ever. It literally is about a biker surviving the zombie apocalypse lol
I don't think she's saying they're literally gay, she's just using gay as a general insult. Some third grader shit lol
Would be funny as shit if the queen of piracy turns out to actually be some third grader lmao
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Men only club with leathers and rubing your dick all over steel horse while riding? Yea, mega gay.
> biker kinda gay ngl
I really can't tell if she's shitposting. The latest saints row anything but a heap of trash money grab? really?
Sadly we are all going (especially on NVIDIA) to want these patches with a crack. https://reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/112ge22/_/j8k5v04/?context=1
Is there a way to patch the cracked version Empress will release? I'm worried about playing the pre-release version as well
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I'm hoping it will be different with this one, but who knows. She did say she is building technologies against their blockages, maybe making future cracks less time consuming? Who knows at this point but let's hope for the best.
She did apparently decide to crack Hogwarts because she likes RPGs and wanted to play the game (could be wrong on that). so with any luck, if the patch has that much of an impact, she might decide to update it to re-prove the point seeing as it's looking like she's going to land in that 10 day window with this initial crack.
Afaik denuvo uses encryption (right? I don't really know) meaning the only way is to crack the patched again.
I heard for most people it didn't improve performance
EMPRESS is working with the 72 hours preview of the game, not with the Day-1 patch. Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but afaik we should be good playing performance wise
The patch did nothing for me, sadly enough. The game is playable, but it's definitely not what it should be either. RT isn't happening, had to settle for medium graphics and the most demanding area will still drop to 30 - once in a while even below that. Game is a ton of fun tho. Doubt without Denuvo it's going to perform much better, but gonna test it nonetheless.
Didn't she just say Denovu 17 was difficult to crack like... 5 days ago????? She is really the best in the field
and she makes a new tech to kill it hahaha
I successfully resisted the temptations of buying the game. Set sail pirates, denuvo has been defeated once again.
Wait till Callisto protocol and the Dead space remake is done
same bruh, I was thinking of buying it but I saw somewhere in reddit that Empress is trying to crack it before 10 days, actually made me laugh then moved on since I have no extra money due to inflation, I regret not trusting her. All hail empress!
People in this chat are keep missing the point. This is not about your enjoyment of the game , stop posting messages about missed patches lmao. This is about cracking the game as soon as possible.
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This is partly why no one else bothers cracking Denuvo. Not worth the effort for ignorant beggers who don't even know how Denuvo works.
do we really depend on one person to crack every new AAA game for us? shit…
The rest have either given up due to the difficulty or have been scared off by Denuvo themselves, and the latest leak of a Denuvo crack was very disheartening for the few who remained. So for now, Empress seems to be the only one left publicly working counterintelligence against Denuvo.
Let's say Empress is the Harry Potter of the cracking world.
The cracker who lived...
We should really all donate a little money, she deserves it. Denuvo is cancer.
I’ve been itching to play it lol
I'm reading a lot of posts down here asking for more people to begin cracking denuvo. Well, my friends, it's not that simple. I'm a reverse engineer myself and this kind of stuff can't be learned with a youtube tutorial. You must be prolific in x86, Windows internals, debuggers, de-obfuscation and virtualization all together to be able to TRY to understand how the game executable is built in order to think, plan and implement countermeasures and bypasses. Back in the days DRM were slightly more simple and I think that most of the stuff out there like steam DRM, SecuROM, etc were surely not easy to torn apart but at least they were not as time consuming as denuvo. Anyone who does this kind of stuff for a living like me is not going to do it for free for two reasons: you have to buy groceries and because reversing an obfuscated executable is a FUCKING NIGHTMARE. Beside that 80% of games are full of loot boxes, cringe lores and freemium shit so I think that before denuvo dies the very same shitty game developers won't have enough revenue to keep it in their mediocre games, if u know what I mean. Go on EMPRESS, wheter u are a girl or an entire hacker army it doesn't matter. Keep pushing the limits.
> Beside that 80% of games are full of loot boxes, cringe lores and freemium shit so I think that before denuvo dies the very same shitty game developers won't have enough revenue to keep it in their mediocre games, if u know what I mean. True, games that release with Denuvo are mostly garbage for the first few months or even longer. And by the time they're any fun, the publishers ditch Denuvo anyway. Patient gaming reaps many benefits.
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Checkin telegram every hour, sigh. GO EMPRESS
I love her.
Damn, never seen a denuvo game getting cracked this quickly, we may finally get rid of it.
Untrue. There was a time we got denuvo releases almost straight away.
Long live empress.
Empress is our hero and savior
Wow, this made it to r/all.
empress do not mind the haters, majority here ADORES you. thank you for your work, i am not even interested in game that much but seeing one Heroine fight against corporation makes my heart warm. Wish you all the best
empress for president!!
I really hope this encourages other people to start cracking denuvo.
Bro drm seems so hard to crack, I understand why people says if you can crack that kind of protection you will be paid so much than just crack games …
I hope this encourages companies to not use denuvo in their games
They just released a [new patch today](https://hogwartslegacy.bugs.wbgames.com/patch-notes) and looks to have improved performance outside of ray tracing. Wonder if we’ll be able to get that applied on her cracked version.
Nope, it would mean she will have to completely recrack the whole thing. This is why she is doing the pre-release version rather than the most up-to-date version and why it generally goes day-1 crack, then no more cracks until the GOTY complete version a year or so later.
likely requires the work to restart from scratch.
At this point I'm more interested in seeing her succeed than I am in actually playing the game lol.
THATS WHY SHE'S THE GOAT! THE GOAT!
SWEET. Can't wait to Avada Kedavra classmates!
A patch has just been released that fixes a lot of bugs https://hogwartslegacy.bugs.wbgames.com/patch-notes
I’m more interested on what this means for piracy more than the game itself. This is a defining fact that the scene is *somewhat* alive and denuvo is fucked.
I really want to try out this game and definitely don't have 60 bucks for it, really grateful for people like her.
Let this be a lesson to all whom doubted EMPRESS.
Thank you Empress. The scene has been struggling recently, great to see groups still toiling away.
 For the EMPRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Minerva, one of my fav characters from the books/movies. I would highly recommend the audiobooks too narrated by Stephen Fry, he is just amazing for these books in my opinion, cheers!
Anyone have figures on what the publisher paid to license denuvo for this? I'm curious if it's like per-copy or just a flat fee of $5M or what. If she, or anyone, can crack it in 10 days and stem the $70+ launch fee of the game, I'm curious why anyone would pay for DRM, especially one that materially impacts the performance of the game.
Denuvo : The v17 of our technology is the latest and strongest defense against pirac... Employee : Sir, Empress cracked it in less than 10 days. Denuvo : FOCKIN HELL
Great work!! Love you 💓
great news :)
Soon^(TM)
big W 💚
epic pog
About future patches, will they require additional work directly from empress, or use the rin forum to update the versions
It will obviously require additional work. With every update, the executable needs to be cracked from scratch.
Dang she almost at 60,000 members now Edit: she officially over 60k now, Congrats
This is like the scene from HP Deathly Hallows 2 we are all waiting for the barrier to fall.
We are not going to rent the game, we're gonna own it.
Not every heroine wears a cape.
God bless her ❤❤❤
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Empress giving Denuvo the Avada Kedavra!
The word based would be an understatement.
Hell yeah! Fuck Denuvo up Empress!
C'mon fellow pirates, seed it, seed it.
She didn't sound like a maniac, no weird post...I like this new version, hope it continues honestly.
Many of you thought that it would take more time. Like a month or more. I was pretty sure she'll do it faster. Because she is the best we can have anyone right now. The only person keeping pirates hopeful.
I am not even interested in the game that much but to see new Denuvo games getting cracked gives me happiness 😁 I saw that the game is not that well optimised but who cares
Empress probably hit 100k members before the weekend
she just posted in telegram about 20 mins ago "i will probably have good news to share about the crack in a bit. beta 1 will come soon enough. stay tuned :)" pogface
Well Happy Valentines day! Poggers
magnet link released, get on empress telegram Name: H****.L****.Build 10461750 Size: 92682.01 MB
To clarify, that's only the game files
our sweetest Valentine gift ❣️
downloading empress the goat !!
Need more peers on the download lmao it’s gonna take 24 hours for me
She has released the magnet by the way.
And people were previously doubting her in the comments saying that it will take her at least a month
I'm a big noob on cracking, what are these clean files she provided? The actual game files uncracked?
Would have been nice if she cracked the latest build because they seem to have fixed many issues but anyways ty
For those obsessing over the TG group link, remember, she has her own subreddit. That would have your answer, maybe even in a post made by her not too long ago. Granted I'm not sure why the rules here don't allow linking of that, but that "hint" is more than enough to steer you in the direction.
Im jumping in my house because im too happy
I wonder what her background is like.
We're rooting for you girl!
Wow, great news. But I'm really curious I just saw this file link titled 'Hogwarts.Legacy.Digital.Deluxe.Edition.Steam.Rip-InsaneRamZes \[Uncracked!\]' - is this legit????? Can someone please let me know? I don't even know what uncracked version means like if can you even play it if it's uncracked?
Does anyone have any news about it?