Lords of the Fallen - PC Version Still Uncracked Thanks To New DRM Solution, Three Days And Counting

Well, time for some exciting news everyone. Lords of the Fallen was released three days ago and surprisingly enough, CI Games’ latest action RPG has not been cracked yet. That’s a real accomplishment, considering that most PC games are cracked just mere hours after their official release.

[CocoWolfie]

:o really?! one of my favorite games wolfenstein i think i remember it was cracked a few hours before release.. then in the first week gather in the millions of downloads.. but this, i applaud theyre efforts.

[Muzikguy]

Lol @ all the pirates in here

[purpleblau]

all PC games should equip this type of encryption to prevent from being cracked. Well, only time will tell whether there will be a crack.

[MRMagoo123]

It's been up on pirate bay for a day at least the article is wrong

[purpleblau]

It's not cracked. Keep dreaming. FIFA 15 uses the same protection. It hasn't been cracked for 20ish days.

[MRMagoo123]

Fifa is up on the site as well lol go have a look

[lelo2play]

@MRMagoo123

Both Fifa and Fallen are likely in piratebay, but they aren't cracked.

[RedstonerMC]

@lulumink of course fifa isn't cracked it's garbage.

[Meltic]

Im glad it hasnt worked too crack the game yet and pirate it. Buy it instead. PC games are so cheap. Ps4 is like 60$ and PC 30-40$....

[Broodyr]

I'm sorry, but that's just not true. If you've ever looked at prices on AAA PC games, you'll see they are the same as console prices.

That said, they absolutely SHOULD cost less, as there's no distribution fees as there is with console games (discs, packaging, shipping, etc.), aside from bandwidth costs, which is minimal comparatively.

[CyrusLemont]

Yeah, if only the game actually functioned as well as its DRM did, then it would be a worthy achievement. Seems like they spent more time on trying to prevent the people who want to play without spending money, then on helping the people that actually gave them their hard earned $$$.

Wankers.

[Gamer1982]

This is news now?? They all get cracked in the end plus Sims 4 for a proper crack took nearly 4 weeks. The thing is pirates dont effect sales that much especially on pc where games are so cheap no (you can buy any new game for around £20) If a pirate pirates a game they were probably never going to buy it in the first place anyway. So its not a loss in sales..

[rajman]

Awesome, need this in all future PC games

[Bodge]

NO

[the_dark_one]

yes

[nX]

If every game has this kind of DRM I still won't buy them if I'm not interested. Pirating is for games that you want to try out, not the ones you want in your collection. On the other hand, legitimate buyers will have to deal with these kinds of DRM which is even worse.

[ziggurcat]

@bloodborn:

"Pirating is for games that you want to try out..."

that's what demos are for...

and don't kid yourself - people that pirate games *want* the games, they're just too cheap to pay for them.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

Apparently the DRM causes a host of crashing issues within the game for people who purchased the title. So I'm gonna say no.

[WildArmed]

That's the problem with DRM.

It's a choice between hurting your customers vs delaying the pirates. We all know this DRM will be broken soon enough, a small company working on DRM vs millions of cracks isn't really a fair game.

Most cases, the customers get the bad end of the deal w/ a broken game, and the pirates have to wait a few days to get the game w/o the silly DRM breaking their game.

I've bought games which I had to crack to play, this is unacceptable. Why do I need to crack AC games to play them when I bough them through steam? Uplay has got to be some of the worst type of DRM. I just hope DRM goes in a direction where the buyers don't suffer.

[annoyedgamer]

Why? What if people bought the game and wanted to not use that garbage known as Steam? One of the reasons that I rarely buy PC games is the totalitarian DRM that renders my fully bought and paid for game a rental through some companies software.

[wannabe gamer]

i dont think you fully understand how steam works. the only games on steam that ever quit working for good are the ones that rely on online play only. it wouldnt matter if you had a physical copy or not in that case. owning a physical disc does nothing but give you the ability to say i have this in my hands. if they want to render it a "rental" as you call it then they can still do so and your disc will be nothing more than a coaster.

[FastRedPonyCar]

This particular DRM they are using is causing big performance problems. One of the programmers who has worked with the software posted a big of actual code that points to what exactly it's doing and why it is impacting performance and stability of the game.

There's probably a good reason why you haven't seen this type of DRM yet. There is 100% certainty that this is something that all the other AAA devs have heard of and maybe even considered but yet none of them have decided to go with it.

I wonder why they chose not to yet this obscure european dev decided it would be a good idea?

[Dark_Overlord]

Give it time, as with all new DRM it'll take them a while to learn how it works. I don't think it'll ever beat Splinter Cell Chaos Theory though, that game took over a year to crack.

Cracking groups will most likely see this as a challenge and will be competing to be the first to crack it.

[Mega24]

Give them time, they will crack it, by posting an article like this, your just challenging them more. They love to be challenged.

[Orbilator]

It will be cracked over weekend as they off school till Monday haha

[camel_toad]

From what Ive read on the steam community, its because of the coding used in the drm that the game is unstable and has poor performance on pc. Dont be surprised if the dev ends up removing it. Its happened before.

[ninjahunter]

Well, hey, if it works and it isnt harmful to the user experience, then by all means.

[nX]

Every game/DRM can be cracked unless it needs an online connection to work (Diablo3, Sim City). The thing is that DRM usually impairs the legitimate buyers (remember uPlay?) so it only makes sense if done right.

[InTheZoneAC]

all the reason to never release pc games...

[Lon3wolf]

So good DRM means they should never release PC games, strange logic you have there.

Glad to see a company use some decent non intrusive/system screwing DRM and it works, well for now.

[InTheZoneAC]

I'm talking about morons downloading every game they get their hands on.

Devs have to go out of their way to implement drm and they lose so much compared to consoles. I know consoles get hacked and downloaded as well, just saying it's a lot more extreme on computers.

[Kingdomcome247]

I don't know much about drm. As to my knowledge it was primarily a pc thing. What is it that makes the idea of console drm receive so much backlash, but it's accepted on pc? I legitimately am ignorant on the whole subject, and am honestly curious.

[TABSF]

DRM on consoles lock the game out, meaning you have to have a new pass (online pass) which for some is ridiculous as the console industry is still big on pre-owned and Rental. This is the main reason I thing console gamers get pissed.

DRM on PC makes you use a specific platform, such as Steam (a nice one), Uplay or Origin (horrid ones). Luckly a lot of companies are going to Steam now (not EA).

Older DRM software locked the game to a limited amount of installs, so if you had to re-install or wanted it on your laptop and ran out, guess what too bad. Cracks in the past go around CD checks, now they get around the game phoning home (authenticating).

I play pretty much 99% of my games on Steam with my Phone being the last percent.

[Kingdomcome247]

Thanks for the reply. I understand it better now.

[Orbilator]

They said that about virgins new code on there cable boxes and that's still secure.
Would be nice if pc users had to pay for games,lol

[Ravenor]

A large portion do, don't be a dick.

The majority of piracy is kids and teens with little or no income.

[TABSF]

I wouldn't say majority, in the UK a lot of CD, DVD, Blu-ray and video game busts are done on guys over 18 and are not doing it because they have low income, its because they can.

Trust is if someone steals games, films or music off the internet, then if you give them half a chance they'd probably do the same with their local show or post office. Thieves are thieves.

If you ask me, if you can't afford! DO WITH OUT! or get a ducking job!

[Orbilator]

@revanor Utter rubbish, I have never pirated a game in my whole life. A thief is a thief, dress it up and justify it how you want dick

[Ravenor]

Man, I sure hit a nerve with you huh? You may not have, but countless teens do. What do you think I was doing? Making an indictment of all teens everywhere? Justifying what? Piracy numbers? I don't really care what the numbers are, I don't pirate games it's all meaningless to me.

The fact is, a certain age group has far less access to disposable income. Thus, they are more likely to pirate new titles as they can't afford them. It's simple. Really, really simple. I applaud your restraint, but your anecdotal evidence is just that, anecdotal.

Grow up sweet child, grow up.

[ATi_Elite]

Lords of the fallen is a Game not really popular in Pc circles.

But now that an article is out bragging about the drm I bet it will be cracked by sundown Halloween.

People who crack games are just hackers in general and do it for practice and fame.

Most games are pirated in countries where games cost way too much money.

Pirating in the USA is nothing compared to France Russia Australia or Argentina.

With Steam sales it's so much easier to buy a cheap steam game then pirate a game and go through all that crap to get it to work and then trying to find cracked MP servers is another headache.

Trust me I've been there and I don't even download copies as demo anymore because my PCS are multitasking behemoths and I run a light but effective anti-virus and don't need cracks setting it off.

Lmao I get so many free games with hardware purchases I probably have Lords of the fallen in my free game bin or it may be downloading now.

As a Pc builder I have no reason to pirate but in 3rd world countries I see why they do it but wish things improved so they would not do it.

[Lon3wolf]

I for one as a PC gamer am really enjoying Lords, not sure why think it's not popular among PC gamers. I am hoping they can do a sequel

[ATi_Elite]

glad you enjoy it and if you can send me a pm and tell me about it because from what i saw it just seemed like a 8 hour console rental

[Lon3wolf]

So far 18 hours played, the later stages of the game are buggy. Gameplay wise it's combat is a mix of Dark Souls and Darksiders IMO. More forgiving than DS, I like the art style/graphics (lots of people don't), no hand holding in telling where exactly you need to go next. The spell system is a set of different ones dependent on class chosen plus 3 different gauntlet spells (which can be altered slightly with gems/runes). All in all a nice action/RPG in my book, and glad I purchased it, now if they could sort the PhysX and random crashes that would be nice.

[Psychotica]

No matter how high you build the fence someone can build a ladder to climb it..

[Orbilator]

Man that's deep, real deep lol

[Psychotica]

Yes, yes it is..

[Unarmed_Civilian]

http://23.253.106.247/plant...

[Gwiz]

Yet people don't seem to know that console version releases are out before PC games.

[kevinsheeks]

You know how I know drm doesn't prevent piracy because the people who pirate are currently awaiting the crack and before they even think about purchasing they will nag and complain and play something else

[Kaze88]

Most of the games are leaked to crackers before the launch so they have plenty of time to crack them before release, that wasnt the case in lords of the fallen. Its always just a matter of time before its cracked.

[Reaper29r]

PC DRM needs to die and go back to like before. Piracy happens everywhere, it was just companies trying to excercise control over an uncontrollable platform with that bs excuse. Notice with the rise of 360/PS3 crap practices like DLC became common place. If you primarily gamed on consoles don't bother arguing, you don't know. They were last on PC, which still had actual expansion packs, and micro transactions on full retail games were failing horribly. Between steam, Uplay, Origin there's already more than enough. Some of us like the comfort of having it on disc, but now it's all about going through company X Y Z's launch portal. And if it's down, you can't play. Even with a disc sitting right there. A better way to do it is let them get to a certain stage than just make an unbeatable boss or an item that they need that never appears. Something like that. Otherwise the only people it punishes are legit consumers who have to jump through hoops to run your most likey unoptimized game. That hurts PC game sales more than pirating. Thieves will always steal, on any platform. I still feel PC is the most verstile, fun platform, but I hate DRM and people who have the ability to for no reason at all shut down all my games. So unless its PC only or has crazy mods, I get it on console now. Where my physical purchases still belong to me. I can play offline without having to boot into a mode before that, and the worst some company can do is not let me do online multi. The minute that changes, I'm done with gaming. I work hard for my money and I pay for my games. The minute someone can take that away from you without an explanation, it's time to go.

TL-DR. DRM sucks.

[Hold_It]

It's been cracked for awhile, I don't know where you're getting your information from. Then again it's not like it matters, this is just a watered down version of Dark Souls.

[Aon]

I don't know why but my PC version do not crashed at once. Maybe I play on it too short because during 5 hours I don't have any crash. This game comes out a few days ago so maybe it is too fast to cracked it:D

[Ps4andxb1]

If pc games cant be cracked, the following things will happen -

1) Initial pc hardware sales will drop
2) PC exclusives will become better quality
3) Microsofts PC integration with console games will pave the way for third party devs to feel safe spending more development time for better pc ports

PS4 and XB1 will have their great games, but PC will become the true place to play with better graphics and not how it is now where PC elitists boast they do, but everyone knows that they really dont with shoddy console ports, games that microstutter, and other things that just flat out dont work.

Pc gaming as a platform that cant be pirated on will be the best thing to ever happen to pc gaming.

[purpleblau]

Don't really agree with all of your points.

PC games become better? Not really, if there aren't many cracked games out there, PC gamers will go to console games.
Who wants to consistently buy expensive hardware to play expensive games? Why don't we just buy a PS4 once for all.
The number of PC gamers will reduce. PC gaming will die so does the PC hardware development.

Majority of PC gamers are willing to buy hardware because they can play free games.

[Ps4andxb1]

If games dont get bought, devs will stop making them.

When games get bought, devs make better quality games.

If your version of the future becomes reality, it is inevitable pc will spiral downwards to a slow end.

[wannabe gamer]

if all this was true then steam wouldnt be a HUGE success and gaben wouldnt be rich as hell.

[Ravenor]

Why do people talk about shit they know nothing about? The PS4 is not a high end machine, it's a capable console but nothing even approaching mid to high end machines in terms of pure processing power. You're also pretty much glossing over the plethora of games that work on PC, but just don't play as well on consoles (From a gameplay perspective).

Could you just not talk about stuff you don't know anything about? Could you please? Pretty please?

[DivineHand125]

I completely disagree.
1) The PC has a quality free to play market and more people buy hardware to get in every year.

2) Whether the game can be cracked or not will not affect the quality of the exclusives because no developer would release a game on a platform he/she believe was going to be pirated by the majority.

3) Microsoft has already given up on releasing PC games themselves and has gone xbox exclusive because they believe it would make them the most money and make their xbox more competitive.

PC is already a great place to play for better field of view, graphics, frame rates, resolution, mods etc. Even when the PC gets bad ports, a member in the community will release a mod/patch to have most of the issues resolved within a short period of time.

[Ps4andxb1]

You disagreed with me, then made points that support everything i wrote.

Strange.

[DivineHand125]

@Ps4andxb1 you might need some glasses because none of my points supports what you are saying. My point is that nothing will change much if they suddenly found a way to do away with cracked games and your point is that there will be a huge change.

[Ka7be]

Most people who pirate games, if they like the game they will buy it...

IMO pirating is very good for gamers. we can test the game then buy it. I bought so many game because of pirating.

[DJ-DK786]

Why are demos made then?

[Hassassin]

they're not. Betas and Alphas are all the rage now XD

On topic: BUY the fucking games you rats, it's not that expensive if you're not a little 12yo.

I pirated my fair share, and wouldn't be a PC gamer if I didn't. Now I buy my games. With Steam buying is more convinient than pirating, it just is.

[Ace Killa 08]

I wish demos were made to test games. Sadly there aren't many for PC. The only useful website is systemrequirementslab.com and that also doesn't give a 100% certainty

[wannabe gamer]

This DRM is what is causing all the paying customers to have so many crashes. so they delay piracy but casue HUGE problems for honest people that get fed up with the BS and then turn to piracy in the future and even more so when dealing with the same devs that left a sour taste from previous experiences like this.
sure a small portion of people that would i have pirated may buy it instead but when they are hit with these technical problems caused by DRM they are going to be pushed even further to pirate and not buy more products. and the rest of the people that dont get converted to buying are either never going to play it or they will just wait for it to be cracked. so in the end all this causes them to earn a little bit more money in the short term from initial sales but it hurts them in the longrun with a bad rep and lost sales from the technical difficulties may even negate any converted pirates causing more problems that having NO DRM ever would have!

[windblowsagain]

It's already been done.

[Scenarist]

The thing is that it will be eventually cracked, (one way or another) , and then this DRM will be just like any other at that point. its not uncommon for crackers to take a while to reverse engineer new code ... once its done tho , they dont have to do it again

[Nivalis]

3dm cracked this on the 29th, check gcw.

[vandal GAB]

I'm a PC gamer and I don't have one pirated game on my system, If I like a game I will buy it!! Not all PC gamers are dishonest thieves.

[Hassassin]

Hawx 2 took years to crack.

[windblowsagain]

Because nobody wanted it.lol

[Hassassin]

jajaja maybe so, but I wanted to "try" it :P

[Ace Killa 08]

What a useless article. Zero information about the DRM and its technology other than Fifa 15 uses it

[ThePowerpuffGirl]

Very well, they have security, so far not to break. People want games at a high level, and somehow did not realize that to do such a title is needed concrete financial backing. There is nothing for free. When you want a good game, you have to support the developers.

[riverside666]

whoa! Although I have the game on the PS4, but the information is curious to me! I wonder how long they will try to Crack this game :)

[Mjazma]

That is something to be proud off. There are not many developers who achieve more than a few hours. There is high possibility that in the end they will crack this game.

[Foxov]

Just.. google this: interview-cd-projekts-ceo-on-w itcher-2-piracy-why-drms-still- not-worth-it and read the article (i'm new user so I can't just post a link...)

[Dull]

I hope there is a another way to purchase a game with a real money ont an online transactions.

[Joher]

Maybe everyone who want to play on this game go to shop and buy it xD I'm one of this gamer which have all of game copy is original.