Final Fantasy XV has been cracked four days prior to its official release

DSOGaming writes: "Man, what a trainwreck. Yesterday, we informed about the inclusion of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech in Final Fantasy XV. However, it appears that the game has already been cracked, four whole days prior to its official release."

[PhoenixUp]

Anti-tamper tech won’t stop devoted pirates, it just creates a hinderance with people who don’t pirate

[mikeslemonade]

It’s free for me and I probably am not gonna play it. 4k 60 frames is tempting though.

[wraith9999]

cool story bro

[antikbaka]

but this game has nothing else but graphic...and not the best by the way. Only shiny particles distract attention

[mikeslemonade]

Thank you wraith :)

[slasaru01]

Not porting games to PC Will stop it

[Hungryalpaca]

And then they’ll lose a lot of money

[4blender]

this version is working all chapters
http://gsystemrequirements....

[MaxiPower90]

hahaha you cant stop it. why try. younonly piss off people who buy like me.

[mastiffchild]

They'd argue that the big thing is to protect the game for its first week on sale, I guess.

However, frequently that isn't possible and, anyway, if you were going to pirate it then waiting til it gets cracked won't make them buy instead.

Fact is that DRM only, and has only, ever hurt honest game buying customers, slowing down games a little at best, crippling them at worst. If anything I think DRM loses more sales than it gains and I seriously doubt that the cost of the DRM is paid for by extra sales revenue.

Pirates going to pirate and people who buy the games will buy the games. The odd few will be put off buying by intrusive DRM and many of ys will suffer for our honesty in badly performing, legally bought games. It's time they stopped hurting loyal gamers.

[kevnb]

the worst part is that most people dont pirate games, its just that pirates pirate almost every game and that makes it seem much more a problem than it really is.

[Vegamyster]

PC gamers are more willing to buy a game that's pro consumer. The Witcher 3 is probably the best example of this, zero DRM, unless you get it through Steam/Uplay/Origin but that's not like Denuvo and it sold over close to 5 million just through Steam and well over a million through GoG.

[rainslacker]

If it causes sales on PC to go down, then it can be stopped as publishers don't release on PC, or take more time to release on PC. If enough people pirate, it can affect the sales of the game, and without doubt, there are those who would buy if they couldn't pirate.

Nothing exists in a bubble, and never assume that PC gaming is safe, since piracy is still an issue.

[TheColbertinator]

Death to denuvo

[VerminSC]

This is why PC gamers are starting to miss out on a lot of big games.

[Vegamyster]

Which ones? It gets like 99% of 3rd party games lol.

[VerminSC]

All console exclusives to start. Halo, TLOU, Uncharted, Zelda, Horizion, The Last Guardian, Bloodborne, But even multiplat games like Red dead Redemption, Persona games, Destiny 1. Then you get awful ports like dark souls, and have to wait for games forever like FFXV

[kevnb]

the pc has more games than any other platform year after year.

[Vegamyster]

I said 3rd party games, not 1st party games which obviously won't come to other platforms unless it's Microsoft who want a piece of the PC pie. I never said it got every game but it gets the vast majority of them and it shares a lot of games that one console gets but the other doesn't like Street Fight 5, Nioh, all of Microsofts games like Gears of War, Forza, & probably future Halo games ect. it's really not missing out on much in the grand scope of things, if a platform doesn't do well enough to warrant bringing games to the system then it ends up like the Wii-U.

Whether a game comes later was not a part of your argument, neither was the quality of a few rare bad ports. it's not like consoles get every game at release date either, Divinity Original Sin 1 (maybe 2), Xcom 2, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 are a couple recent ones off the top of my head, consoles aren't free from weaker ports either, Kingdom Come Deliverance just came out and according to Digital Foundry clearly had a bigger focus on PC, it's easy to cherry pick a few examples but you can't honestly tell me it's missing out on a lot of 3rd party games at this point.

[Rachel_Alucard]

@Vermin

Since when was Persona a multiplat? It was only on Sony's platforms and Red dead never got a PC port because they literally lost the source code and the final game was a result of hiring one man to clean the mess of coding job it was near the end of development.

[Jon_Targaryen]

And what games would that be, please educate me. My massive Steam library looking at me all skeptical all of a sudden.

[Cobra951]

Yeah, you're a perfect example of why the PC market is so healthy. Many of us like Steam as a good dependable service to organize and maintain entire game libraries. It promotes legitimate sales because it provides added value. Valve have done their job well.

[antikbaka]

ff15 not one to miss.

P.S. lots of these games are image products, they are created to be sold only on consoles to stimulate their sales and make them more desirable.

[thekhurg]

Wrong.

[Cobra951]

We don't miss out. We sometimes do have to wait a while. The smart thing for publishers to do is hold off on the PC releases until the console versions make them some profits. Then whatever they get from PCs is gravy.

As others have said, the PC market is healthy despite the pirates. Steam wouldn't be a juggernaut otherwise. And most pirates were never going to buy anyway.

[Jon_Targaryen]

Good, this game was such a disappointment

[Harkins1721]

Doesn’t make it right. It’s why you PC users get such shit ports.

[antikbaka]

mmm but ff15 was shit with horrible fps fall on consoles

[Hungryalpaca]

Most ports are fine/way better than their console counterparts.

[Cobra951]

You must be thinking of the few bad ports that make headlines. The vast majority of PC games are not ports, and even the ports are usually good, because the hardware is very similar to a Gen-8 console's, but more powerful.

[Harkins1721]

@Hungry. They really arent. Batman AK took forever to get fixed.

[Hungryalpaca]

Uh one game doesn’t prove your point. There’s maybe one or 2 bad ports every couple months. For every ONE you mention I can name 10 that perform way better on pc.

I also find it funny how you mention AK but left out the fact the previous games ran significantly better and looked significantly better on pc.

It’s also easy to cherry pick. How’s PUBG doing on console? Or the frame drop fest that kingdom come brings to the “next gen consoles”.

[Notellin]

Just ignore Hungryalpaca he's a PC master race legendary troll around these parts.

[NotanotherReboot]

oh god please no

[ape007]

filthy no good pirates