Within just a few hours, both Crimson Desert and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora had their Denuvo anti-piracy protection bypassed without requiring the Hypervisor trick. The dual release highlights a growing trend showing that Irdeto’s DRM system is no longer posing a significant challenge to crackers.
The cracks were released by voices38, who has become the most recognized name on Reddit regarding the bypass of Denuvo DRM. Earlier in the week, voices38 published the crack for the Avatar game first, followed shortly after by Crimson Desert.
While no technical details were provided alongside the releases, recent cracking timelines suggest that Denuvo’s security no longer presents a major hurdle:
The time required to bypass the DRM now appears to depend more on voices38‘s personal priority list than on technical advancements made by Denuvo. It remains to be seen whether any affected developers will decide to remove the system from their games on their own.
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