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The China-based cracking group that recently bemoaned Denuvo's anti-piracy system as all but unbreakable has delivered a second surprise announcement. 3DM says it will stop working on single-player games cracks for at least a year so it can assess whether genuine sales will be affected.

 

One of the hottest topics in the game piracy scene in late 2015 surrounded the Avalanche Studios/Square Enix title Just Cause 3.

Released on December 1, 2015, pirates were eager to get their hands on the game for free. However, JC3 is protected by the latest iteration of Denuvo, an anti-tamper technology developed by Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH. Denuvo is not DRM per se, but acts as a secondary encryption system protecting underlying DRM products.

 

All eyes had been on notorious Chinese game cracking group/forum 3DM to come up with the goods but last month the group delivered a killer blow to its fans.

 

According to the leader of the group, the very public ‘Bird Sister’ (also known as Phoenix), the game was proving extremely difficult to crack. In fact, Bird Sister said that current anti-piracy technology is becoming so good that in two years there might not be pirated games anymore.

 

One month on from those words and Just Cause 3 still hasn’t been cracked and today brings even more bad news for those hoping to obtain the best gaming titles for free. Taking to her personal blog once more, Bird Sister has just announced an immediate end to the cracking activities of 3DM.

 

“We just had an internal meeting. Starting at the Chinese New Year, 3DM will not crack any single-player games,” Bird Sister says.

 

For those wondering, the Chinese New Year is next Monday, February 8.

 

“Cracks by overseas warez groups will still get posted on the [3DM] forum, and we will actively deal with these,” the group’s leader adds.

 

It is not entirely clear what “actively deal with” means, but the suggestion is that these cracks will not be allowed on the 3DM BBS/forum.

 

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What is perhaps most interesting, however, is the group’s apparent reasoning for ceasing their cracking activities. Denuvo was previously cited as a headache for the group but this time around that technology isn’t mentioned.

 

Instead, 3DM essentially indicates they’re taking part in an experiment to see how the lack of cracks affects the legitimate market.

 

“We’ll take a look at the situation in a year’s time to see if genuine sales have grown,” Bird Sister says.

 

There can be little doubt that the effective withdrawal of 3DM from the piracy market will be received as a huge blow to the group’s fans internationally who have come to rely on it for their pirate fix. There is a modicum of good news for the Chinese though, since 3DM will still work on translating and localizing games for its internal market.

 

The announcement comes on the heels of yesterday’s earnings report from Square Enix, the company behind Just Cause 3 and fellow Denuvo-protected (and also yet to be cracked) title Rise of the Tomb Raider.

 

Square Enix of America and Europe CEO Phil Rogers said both games had enjoyed “solid starts” but stopped short of revealing sales stats.

 

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A pirate group that suddenly got a conscience about game sales :o lol.  In my own opinion I think they are trying to bow out gracefully.  They have got a reputation lately with me with for producing bad not fully tested cracks that crash or have lots of bugs.  I give them an A grade for trying though and where one group leaves the scene another one will take its place.  Denuvo protected games is another matter though and I believe that will never be cracked.

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1 hour ago, GRiM said:

Bullshit!  3DM's cracks are not really cracks anyway and their releases would have never effect sales either.

Really  there doing gamers  a favor now there is less p2p crap  that dont work ..At lest downloading real scene stuff if something is wrong  someone will try to fix it . :P

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3DM have always released loaders not real cracks.

Sound not believable to me this sudden interest to software house after that they have released loader also for indie games with developers without many money and they have declared aren't able to elude denuvo just few days ago. 

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3 hours ago, steven36 said:

Really  there doing gamers  a favor now there is less p2p crap  that dont work ..At lest downloading real scene stuff if something is wrong  someone will try to fix it . :P

 

I personally think that when the scene did not deliver, p2p did. So I would not rate p2p being crap. Infact, I have seen some cases where p2p fixes have been actually better than scene ones.

 

About this scene group, I personally do not remember using anything from them, as there were better fixes available for them.

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34 minutes ago, DKT27 said:

 

I personally think that when the scene did not deliver, p2p did. So I would not rate p2p being crap. Infact, I have seen some cases where p2p fixes have been actually better than scene ones.

 

About this scene group, I personally do not remember using anything from them, as there were better fixes available for them.

I remember  some web scene groups  like THETA  that were as good as the real scene  but not p2p ones .Alot  of people  get confused in the difference.    When I think of p2p  the 1st  thing comes  to mind  was there was some game came out back a few years ago (  Watch Dogs)   that came with a 3rd party malware Trojan.BitcoinMiner  and many got infected  because they didn't want to  wait on the real scene . :P 

 

 

Could Bitcoin Miners Help Pay For Pirated Games?

https://torrentfreak.com/could-bitcoin-miners-help-pay-for-pirated-games-140601/

 

Pirating ‘Watch Dogs’ Could Turn Your PC Into a Bitcoin Mining Slave

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/05/27/pirating-watch-dogs-could-turn-your-pc-into-a-bitc.aspx

 

If its not web scene or real scene  i dont use it . :)

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3DM is a huge P2P network afterall, among regular scene releases, they repack already available stuff from others and on top of that release their own things in between, which is where their own cracking efforts evolved from.

 

I'm also almost sure that the "360" is probably related to their last Denuvo statement too, it's all about expectations, people want more and 3DM can't deliver, instead of being confronted day in and out with obvious failure, they just go the "oh well, fuck it" way.

 

Also it doesn't make any sense to keep the forums, tracker, bbs online and at the same time try to count impact on sales of games they'd never would have been able to crack anyway or keep sharing stuff others released.

 

Take all sites related to 3DM down for a whole year, nobody releasing or sharing anything, that would have been the way to go to see proper "impact" they based their statement on.

 

They are simply annoyed as hell by demands, that's all.

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