Me, five minutes ago: “who’s this Empress?”
Me, now: “I need to follow her, it’s free popcorn!”
I miss mostly anonymous people cracking games without running around screaming from the rafters about gremlins in their modems stealing their breakfast bars. I can’t believe most if not all Denuvo releases are now only cracked by this person.
shit, what happens when she kicks the bucket? maybe someone else will emerge but it’s been so long already, and they haven’t, so it could take years and years
Demand is what causes Supply. Somewhere out there is someone with the skill to crack Denuvo, but no need to, because this lunatic is already doing it. And being the competition means being on empress’ radar, which is really something a sane person would not want.
That’s wishful thinking.
She can only crack so many games, so the demand for the other games already stays without supply.
The scene was much bigger before denuvo, the supply obviously went down independently of the demand.
Also the demand/supply argument only makes sense where there is payment. There are starving people in the world who’s demand is not met bc the can’t pay while there are millions of facelifts administered to people who will pay large sums.
Denuvo has succeeded in imposing such a huge threshold onto cracking that from the talented people only the most driven stayed in the game. With no money in it you need to be driven by something else, usually ego. Even if there is a successor to empress chances are that is true for them as well.
The popularly linked post in this thread has a link to empress’ Indian rant but that’s dead now, so here’s a screenshot :
I don’t mind the rants, it’s fun if you take it as it is: Part of the Spectacle. I don’t believe empress is a single person with schizophrenia, most likely a group of people with a specific sense of humor
Found the empress team member
lol @ windows users and their precious viruses. so cute.
When I use Linux… I am the virus
So what lol. It’s still better than Linux.
lol, enjoy those downvotes
To be fair, I was trolling the linux users, never used linux lol. As seen by my voting, i succeeded.
you know whats sad - there are no denuvo crackers right now other than this psychopath bitch
Is this what cracking Denuvo does to people?
Wait, so crackers don’t publish any documentation on cracking Denuvo? They just keep all the knowledge to themselves? Or is it just that nobody else wants to do it?
they keep it to themselves to remain on top. empress also accepts donations, even going so far as to refuse to crack a game unless she receives a certain amount of money like $500.
she doesn’t release info because then she won’t be needed, and therefore won’t receive money for something that many crackers can do
That’s actually pretty strange. Person who is able to crack Denuvo should have superior hacking skills. Such skills obviously allow to work as information security specialist, and such job easily delivers salary of 5+ thousand of $ per month even to specialists who are not skilled enough to crack Denuvo. So Empress asks to sponsor her for the money that she could easily obtain in less than two working days. This makes no sence.
I heard there was this other one who’s in a healthy mental state but only agrees to crack football games
The first part of your comment contradicts the second.
Crazy bitch
I love me some good Empress drama.
This reminds me of the conflict between Graphene OS’s Dev and Louis Rossmann, and now Rossmann had to uninstall Graphene OS because he fears of the Dev injecting malware.
Edit: Video link, same one as the one in the replies below:
I remember when everyone was simping over her when she was cracking Hogwarts Legacy but no one cared once the crack was released.
I may or may not have done some cracking since the early 90s.
Back then three things were true for me to start that hobby:- Had a computer and lots of free time.
- Had 0 money but friends that would lend me a game for a week or two.
- Had access to burnable media.
This was mostly me trying to keep playing games after giving the disk (or disks) back.
However, once I might have cracked GTA (the original), the rush of finally understanding how a debugger worked and figuring it out, made actually playing less apealing than the whole figuring it out.It made me rent games then just try figuring out how to crack them, but that was financially killing me as again I had nothing to begin with and I was now at minus some.
Granted that none of the early protections were anything similar to Denuvo.
In most cases, it was just a case of blocking a cd check here and there. Some had hilarious protections where the game would screw the player if detected: RA2 would be probably the most famous I remember. Often than not it made me paranoid if I had triped a trap and the game was being unfair or bugged.Somehow I kept going until I shifted towards the Hackintosh scene.
Then when the first humble bundle appeared and people pirated it, it disgusted me to no avail and finally left this part of my life.
It was kind of funny the first few times, now I just kind of cringe at her whenever she has one of these meltdowns.
Genius and insanity are close bedfellows.
When they’re too close the person usually doesn’t make it beyond around 32 yo…
Can somebody enlighten me on who this is and why I should care?
It’s the only person who can crack Denovo-protected games
She’s also a delusional wannabe cult leader and may actually be insane.
Oh, she still exists…
Until someone else comes along to Crack Denuvo she will be around
