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I am editing a page on a wiki, and I don't want to accidentally publish misinformation.

I know of empress, but is there anyone else releasing cracked Denuvo games?

RIP CODEX

Edit: Denuvo not Denvuo

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (2 children)

isn't it only Empress at this point, which is the entire reason why she is tolerated?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, just the nutter doing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like I'm missing something here

Why do people say they're crazy?

For context I have no idea who this "Empress" is

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Ah that explains a lot and they do sound pretty unhinged

Thanks for the link

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I tolerate her because she's fuckin hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a crack team called MKDEV that targets Football Manager series which uses a slightly weaker version of Denuvo. They didn't crack the 2024 series so far, but chances are they will sometime soon.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure MKDEV, who is one person, quit cracking earlier this year.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Oh damn, that'a sad loss

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have little doubt someone will lay into me for saying this but is even Empress bothering anymore? I haven't seen anything from her in months.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apperently she is busy modding starfield, she said that in an nfo

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great. She'll be busy fixing that turd for at least 5 years. 😩

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I saw that on her telegram but wasn't sure how serious she was about it. I guess we won't be seeing any denuvo infections get cured any time in the near future cause god knows that shitheap is going to need plenty of attention.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it's only Empress. On another note, I would not believe the Empress story if I hadn't been around long enough to actually watch everything play out in real time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is there a documented history or tl;dr I could check out to catch up?

[EDIT] nvm, conversation one comment thread down linked to this: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/EMPRESS

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it's just Empress lol

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are two, Empress and I can't remember the other name, the other person/group just does Football Manager games running older versions of Denvuo

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe youre talking about MKDEV, but someone else in this thread said they quit earlier this year :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes MKDev (also called MenuDev by some) cracked FIFA 23 before exiting the cracking scene this year.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I recall correctly, CODEX's Denuvo cracker was Empress anyway, so it has been just her for a long while now. There have been one or two cracks by other people for games using ancient versions of Denuvo that nobody bothered to crack before, but she's the only one doing anything with Denuvo's current version.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

MKDEV cracked Football Manager 2023 and FIFA 23 and even infodumped his workflow. Sadly, nobody seems to have picked up his place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any links to this? I'd be interested in seeing how it is done

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's on his discord server.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I believe there's one that only cracks football games. I'm not too deep into the crack universe though