Encrypt-Keeper

All wealth is imaginary. If you have stocks “worth” X amount of money and can borrow real against it , it’s wealth.

2021

Unlikely lol.

you think by the end of the year Meta will have 10,000 less employees than it did at the start?

No, I think it will have even less.

There were several Denuvo cracks in that period actually, just not as many.

Other games get cracked day 0 even though it’s equally thankless. That obviously isn’t the distinguishing factor.

Denuvo games also get cracked day 0. Not sure what your point is, or at this point if you even have one.

At the end of the day, what I said was correct. There was a period of time where we had less cracks, and now it’s ramping back up again. There doesn’t seem to be anything about Denuvo that stops its games from being cracked fairly quickly other than a lack of people to do the cracking.

These are all verifiably correct and factual statements. Whatever it is you’re whinging and whining about… I don’t know what to tell you.

They can’t report on hiring that doesn’t happen. They will not be adding these jobs back next month lmao

2 year*.

Everyone lost “interest” simultaneously for multiple years? They got bored or something?

Who is this “everyone” you speak of? You realize pirate scene groups are very niche groups of people right?

I mean yes, people who are not in pirate scene groups are largely so because they’re not interested in being so. I’m not interested, and I’m not in one. I’m not sure what it is that you’re implying is keeping people out of these groups besides a lack of interest. Do you think doing a thankless job like that is fun? I don’t think it would be.

What on earth are you talking about? You’re all tied up in knots. I’m not talking about any non-Denuvo games.

every single denuvo game with millions in sales gets left alone for years

I mean if you ignore the ones that don’t, then sure. Most recently RE Requiem just came out and is a AAA hit with millions of sales, has Denuvo, and has already been cracked. That doesn’t sound like it was “left alone for years” to me.

And those exact same people suddenly gain an interest as soon as denuvo is removed?

No the lack of interest is probably there in both cases.

“well I wasn’t even trying anyways!” excuse lol

Generational levels of cope on display here. “My lock is so effective that NOBODY* can break it!”

*No one has tried

By that logic the locking mechanism on my old 1998 Ford Taurus I was driving in 2015 had a state of the art security system that protected it that would put modern solutions to shame because for some reason, it was never stolen.

It’s like I said, the biggest opposition to game pirating isn’t the protection Denuvo actually provides but just the lack of interest in people doing the cracking.

I can see where you’d argue that this means Denuvo is “working” but only in the sense that any old $2 lock you put on your front door is protecting your home from the 0 people attempting to break and enter.

Also in the void EMPRESS left in the scene, there have been newcomers, but they’ve started off by cracking older games.

I mean court’s not really a factor. The surveillance tech is only to help identify targets. One they nab you that’s it. The Supreme Court already ruled that it’s ok for them to target people based only on race. The confidence level of the tech against your covered face is sorta irrelevant in this scenario.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102452

Not really. It’s trivial to match your face. If you use an iPhone with FaceID it won’t miss a beat. You have to cover your full face, head, and eyes.

The problem with this is that the idea of “KN95 and a hoodie” is that you’d still reasonably blend in. By the time you reach the point t of covering every identified part of your head, you’d also stick out like a sore thumb which doesn’t help you when the camera surveilling you is attached to the face of an ICE agent looking specifically in your direction.

That won’t work either and it’s very difficult as a matter of fact.

You should know facial recognition software is optimized to defeat KN95 masks specifically

I’m not the guy you’re replying to but I really hate BOTW so I’d probably agree with his take on TOTK

I think I agree with your sentiment but why did you make a list of unrelated games of various levels of quality from god tier to dogshit abandonware?

No? Not sure how you got that.

These work patterns are becoming common and that’s precisely the problem.

This industry is also very vast and doesn’t just include the big tech companies. When all the big tech companies are doing layoffs like this there is no lateral or upward mobility. Many of these employees move downwards pushing out plenty of employees without the high salaries and mobilities. Some of those less mobile employees leave the industry entirely and flood others affecting those as well.

The idea that these layoffs affect only the people laid off is not accurate. 10,000 fewer jobs means 10,000 fewer jobs. In a country that does not have enough jobs for everyone who is willing and able to work, every lob lost is a net negative for an entire industry. When this continues year over year it’s not just the big tech sycophants who are negatively affected. This shit rolls downhill to every already underpaid high school IT employee.

Very recently - maybe.

No for nearly 10 years now. There was a stint of a year or two where cracks took a little longer, but truth be told that was around when COVID happened and there were just fewer big ticket games for people to put effort into it. Several groups just got out of the game. These days the only thing protecting games from piracy isn’t Denuvo, it’s the lack of interest of scene groups in doing the cracking. Since it’s picked back up though we’re seeing games cracked within hours of release or in some cases prior to release. At most a few days to a week. The days of it taking three months are gone

And what was first?

For an increasing number of people, Denuvo. With the hardware crisis and all, people aren’t upgrading hardware as much as they used to. People have to do more with less. Games with Denuvo removed run better on the same hardware, so people who have had no financial interest in pirating have turned to it as a means of making their games run better.

We’ve seen this all before with streaming. When Netflix got big, tv/movie piracy nearly died out because it was so convenient to pay for streaming.