The game-cracking community was abuzz this past week as a major Denuvo bypass was revealed.
On 5 August, Russian hacker “Voksi” shared the bypass, giving PC pirates access to previously protected games, including Rise of the Tomb Raider, DOOM, Just Cause 3, and Total War: Warhammer.
The bypass worked by using a custom loader to swap the Steam AppID of two games, essentially tricking Steam into launching one of the copy-protected games (and in the process verifying it).
The work-around meant that over 600,000 gamers downloaded and played the previously protected titles over the weekend of 6 and 7 August.
The bypass was quickly snuffed out however, and those that had not already downloaded and activated the pirated games were left stranded.
Not soon after the Voksi bypass was blocked however, a group called CONSPIR4CY uploaded a cracked version of Rise of the Tomb Raider.
This once again gave hope to pirates that Denuvo had finally been cracked, as the pirated copy did not require Steam or an internet connection.
At this point, it’s not certain whether the Rise of the Tomb Raider release was a one-off or if we can expect to see more Denuvo-protected games being compromised soon.
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Not yet. FIFA 16 on origin offline is so buggy as hell, and they don´t cracked because they bypassed very bad! The creators of cracks will never crack FIFA 16 or 17. We are all screwed.