So, it's this kind of constant innovation that allows us to stay a step ahead and keep our customer's IP safe.' For FIFA 15, we again made improvements and now we're approaching 90 days without a crack. We improved the system for FIFA 14, and then that game went 46 days before being cracked. 'For example, our Anti-Tamper protection on FIFA 13 went 13 days before being cracked. 'Every protected game eventually gets cracked,' Denuvo reasoned. 'Keep in mind that most PC games are cracked and pirated on the day of release, if not earlier, so keeping titles 100 per cent piracy-free for weeks or even months is almost unprecedented in the games industry.'īut now that Dragon Age: Inquisition has been cracked - verified separately by a handful of people on NeoGAF - what happens next? Now that Chinese hacking group 3DM does appear to have circumvented Denuvo's Anti-Tamper tech, will this DRM forcefield of the future be rendered obsolete? 'We're extremely pleased with how things have been going,' the company responded. Anti-Tamper only works in combination with an existing DRM system.'įIFA 15, Lords of the Fallen and Dragon Age: Inquisition all utilised Denuvo's Anti-Tamper tech, and all three remained uncracked for weeks. 'For example, if you add anti-tamper to a title without a DRM such as Steam, then Anti-Tamper is completely inert. 'Anti-Tamper is fundamentally different from DRM,' I was told. Exactly how it works is Denuvo's trade secret.īut, as Denuvo was at pains to point out to me, 'It is not a DRM solution.' There's no rights management (as in Digital Rights Management) or licence management going on. To use Denuvo's language, it prevents 'debugging, reverse engineering and changing of executable files'. It's tech that acts as a forcefield around whatever DRM the game has - such as EA Origin.

What protected Dragon Age: Inquisition was Anti-Tamper technology by an Austrian company called Denuvo.

In PC game-pirating terms, that's aeons - most games are cracked at release (unless they're online games). What's remarkable about Dragon Age: Inquisition being cracked and pirated this week is that it took so long - nearly a month - to happen.

Denuvo anti-tamper