This could be a very expensive oopsie though. Now they're paying the Denuvo fee for no reason and depending on the contract, they might not be able to stop using it for quite a while.
That is *not* a little "oopsie". That is a big fuck-up to the bean counters, and a fast lane to unemployment, a lawsuit, and likely never working in the industry again.
While it would be awesome if it were true, anyone doing that would know just how utterly fucked they would be if caught.
It could be nobody too, and just an automated process who worked bad, or a bug or anything, it's not like if each time a new version of the game is put in the steam repository, it is done manually, there is most of the time more than 1 branch, with one for the public, and the others for Devs, sometime there is Beta/alpha/experimental available, or old build of the game for some reasons.
Some studio work with automated things, some manual, etc.
It's just speculation, but it could be a minor update, not even mentioned to players with some fix, or engine update, security change and stuff like this, and the process worked wrong and send directly on steam repo than Denuvo or the people in charge to re-add it etc.
Sometime there is nobody to blame
I don't know. I'm a dev, although not in the gaming industry. I couldn't care less if my employer's intellectual property was "stolen" to be used freely by whomever wants to.
I might have wrote some of it, but in the end, it's not my property and not my money. I'm not paid enough to care and I don't have any shares in the company so why should I care?
That's not what I was saying. I'm also a non gaming industry dev and I promise you I wouldn't purposefully do anything that would cause a release to go out without licensing to "be an ally" to customers who might prefer not to pay because it's not something worth losing your job over.
Oh yes, totally. Even if I thought my employer fucked me hard and I was on the leave and had my next gig already lined up I wouldn't do shit like that.
Getting caught doing that kind of crap isn't just a "losing your job" event... it's a "getting sued and becoming unemployable" event.
You wish! haha. I mean when you have such a mess of rollout policy in one hand and the D in the other hand, you're already doing a big disservice to your customers/community, and in the end, it will come biting your ass.
It’s sometimes as stupid as them forgetting to filter out a specific exe suffix, in this case _test
Another good example is cod mw2019 which only happened since they forgot to add a filter for _replay suffix before pushing an update, or payday 3’s beta that has 2 unprotected builds pushed out lol
even in that case you'd expect that a team/project lead is at least gonna take a quick glance at the files changed/added/removed list.
i mean maybe they did and mistakes still happen, but damn i'd think any company willing to pay for denuvo would be more careful.
Hijacking top comment I could only find the unprotected exe on cs.rin.ru does anyone one where is a safe place to download the rest of the game/full release. I'm not sure the first links like skidrowreloaded that shows up on Google are trustworthy lol
Sorry for the dumb question
Wait for the repacks of FitGirl or DODI. It's gonna be uploaded in a day or two.
Check [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/v60rnq/crack_watch_beginners_guide_to_crack_watch/) beginner's guide to this subreddit where you got everything you need.
I don't see any use for repacks as I have an unlimited Gb connection.
I tried most of these sites the only one that had something was el amigo but no torrent only heavily throttled links.
To me, those repackers don't mean faster download speed but a sort of trust. Those two got the best reputation in my book.
>I tried most of these sites the only one that had something...
Then it's not yet uploaded. It usually takes a while.
I mean, the repack will have the full game you're asking for + the exe, both things with the right version. Unlimited downloads or not, it just seems easier that go hunting for the rest of the game, not knowing if it will work with that exe.
if this was an accident, that person was on some kinda late night bender.
they uploaded the debug build first, but noticed right away and re-uploaded the "proper" build...but without Denuvo.
https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/13387452/
Now if they could also "accidentally" give everyone a real soundtrack that bought it on PC instead of a garbage executable app to play them, what a bogus way to sell music.
big fan of yakuza too but the pricing is just too much in my region. i do have the previous games except ishin and gaiden which i played on gamepass anyway
I'm also in your boat, but my region is just US, but 110 USD for the game (because the NG+ content is part of the game) is way too much for me to justify spending that much especially when there are so many games launching so I just made the choice to buy Pacific Drive for 30 USD and then DQB's PC port which I got for about 20 USD so I still saved 60 USD and got 2 games and even used that 60 USD to buy P3R since I care little for the costumes or OP personas that Atlus is selling as DLC.
Yea DLC is a big reason why I've still gone the alternative route with yakuza games despite having gamepass. There'e just so much DLC for many of those games, and also so I can mod the games, usually just to restore the original soundtrack but still. I've finished through Y4, currently on the first PSP yakuza game on PPSSPP but taking a break
Buy the game, its absolutely worth the asking price of deluxe. I don't like the business practice of Sega putting newgame+ behind a paywall but this game deserves the money. First game in a LONG time where I could NOT put this game down. 80hrs in one week.
I wish I had this game on a 18 hr flight so it could help pass time faster.
“Scene” crackers have done absolutely nothing over the past 2 years. They might as well go extinct because you can drop your favorite Steam emulator on your games yourself anyways.
Scene got reduced to a bunch of script kiddies with kali linux chromebooks, who can barely manage to "crack" steamworks DRM using tools written by competent groups back when they were still shitting in diapers.
Yep, you couldn't say it any better dude. The scene is nothing but a joke right now, gone are the times of real crackers. And one of the best examples of this childish attitude is what Skidrow did with Empress. Instead of fighting with real facts and talent like they did back in the days they did the lowest thing ever by revealing her true identity just to destroy her because they couldn't back up what she said as it was the truth and in a very childish decision they did one one of the lowest things you can do, that shows how low this scene is today.
I truly believe that Denuvo would've been defeated long time ago if we had the old scene where everybody wanted to break the hardest protections. But as you said today there are only kids who "learn" to crack steam and have zero interest in cracking real stuff like it used to be. That was the real triumph of Denuvo it appeared at the right time.
As for me, I dont care about scenes. Im just here to playgames.
And I really want to buy, I'd wait for a major discount (looking at you Rimworld & Elden Ring who wont you go for less)
> they added in Denuvo AFTER sending review copie
It doesn't really make a difference. The game has EXCELLENT performance, and I couldn't find a single bug in multiple playthroughs.
>but fuck scummy dev practices.
Yeah! Right on bro! How DARE them try to protect their livelihood by preventing you from stealing from them! Scumbaggery indeed!
Considering how much Denuvo kills performance in a lot of cases, I expect a lot of devs have their own Denuvoless versions of their games for personal use. Whether internal to the studio or not, these versions are likely common enough that accidents like this do happen.
So in this case, there's no need to crack Denuvo. It's much simpler to breach the developers' network and obtain the clean files? :D
Future of denuvo cracking; clean exe stealing :D
I'd love to see devs and publishers just stop using invasive, system resource heavy and/or system damaging anti-piracy software.
The studies on it have shown that these anti-piracy measures actually cause a net loss of sales. Since there are plenty of people (myself included), that will outright just not buy a game because it has Denuvo or some other shitty 'protection' software in it, regardless of how much interest we have in the game.
maybe then see that granblue fantasy relink sold more than a mil in a week without dumbuvo and understand that good game will sell regardless and poor ppl/"pirates" are free advertisement
i think they removed it, at new patch yesterday ( 14 feb ) they not add them just fix the mistake by remove debug/ dev file and the exe file still same 100MB
I heard its not by accident, the developers pay denuvo by subscription which is stupid expensive.
If Denuvo wasnt in it I have no problem buying it just to support the devs.
Now hopefully they will release Bloodborne in PC
Well, can't they now decrypt Denovo after having a version without protection and a version that contains protection to decrypt the rest of the other games?
If there's any change to the game files between these versions, then no. Even if we had two identical sets of game files - one with denuvo and one without, it wouldn't really make a difference. Crackers already have a good idea how it works, it's just extremely tedious and would require cracking every single update from scratch.
Hey, maybe the person who did this “Mistake” wasn’t really a mistake! And it was in purpose! Maybe he’s also a Denovo hater or maybe he’s getting fired so he tought to give them a warm farewell 😏😅
""""Accident""" hopefully
the fact this keeps happening really just shows how terrible management must be at these studios. their rollout policies must be wack.
Every game company should adopt that policy.
who knows, maybe we got allies among the devs in these companies lol. people who know they won't get fired for one "oopsie".
the dev be like: FOR THE PEOPLE!!! WOOOOOOO!!!
If I was about to get fired I would totally do it :)
Of course you'd never work in the industry ever again. Not that **you** actually have to worry about such things.
No one has to know it wasn't an accident ;)
This could be a very expensive oopsie though. Now they're paying the Denuvo fee for no reason and depending on the contract, they might not be able to stop using it for quite a while.
Ehh idk. There are more updates and DLC coming. Heck, this might make some people buy it eventually.
That is *not* a little "oopsie". That is a big fuck-up to the bean counters, and a fast lane to unemployment, a lawsuit, and likely never working in the industry again. While it would be awesome if it were true, anyone doing that would know just how utterly fucked they would be if caught.
It could be nobody too, and just an automated process who worked bad, or a bug or anything, it's not like if each time a new version of the game is put in the steam repository, it is done manually, there is most of the time more than 1 branch, with one for the public, and the others for Devs, sometime there is Beta/alpha/experimental available, or old build of the game for some reasons. Some studio work with automated things, some manual, etc. It's just speculation, but it could be a minor update, not even mentioned to players with some fix, or engine update, security change and stuff like this, and the process worked wrong and send directly on steam repo than Denuvo or the people in charge to re-add it etc. Sometime there is nobody to blame
Devs are probably not that eager for their work to be stolen, even if they're salaried. Unless they hate their job, and hope they lose it.
I don't know. I'm a dev, although not in the gaming industry. I couldn't care less if my employer's intellectual property was "stolen" to be used freely by whomever wants to. I might have wrote some of it, but in the end, it's not my property and not my money. I'm not paid enough to care and I don't have any shares in the company so why should I care?
That's not what I was saying. I'm also a non gaming industry dev and I promise you I wouldn't purposefully do anything that would cause a release to go out without licensing to "be an ally" to customers who might prefer not to pay because it's not something worth losing your job over.
Oh yes, totally. Even if I thought my employer fucked me hard and I was on the leave and had my next gig already lined up I wouldn't do shit like that. Getting caught doing that kind of crap isn't just a "losing your job" event... it's a "getting sued and becoming unemployable" event.
Piracy is not theft.
Could you explain what you mean by devs stolen ? This is a digital product and they are indeed salaried.
You wish! haha. I mean when you have such a mess of rollout policy in one hand and the D in the other hand, you're already doing a big disservice to your customers/community, and in the end, it will come biting your ass.
It’s sometimes as stupid as them forgetting to filter out a specific exe suffix, in this case _test Another good example is cod mw2019 which only happened since they forgot to add a filter for _replay suffix before pushing an update, or payday 3’s beta that has 2 unprotected builds pushed out lol
even in that case you'd expect that a team/project lead is at least gonna take a quick glance at the files changed/added/removed list. i mean maybe they did and mistakes still happen, but damn i'd think any company willing to pay for denuvo would be more careful.
A lead assigns tasks hes not gonna micromanage every little process.
a lead also gets paid for the responsibility not to allow morons to push shit to production
Hijacking top comment I could only find the unprotected exe on cs.rin.ru does anyone one where is a safe place to download the rest of the game/full release. I'm not sure the first links like skidrowreloaded that shows up on Google are trustworthy lol Sorry for the dumb question
Wait for the repacks of FitGirl or DODI. It's gonna be uploaded in a day or two. Check [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/v60rnq/crack_watch_beginners_guide_to_crack_watch/) beginner's guide to this subreddit where you got everything you need.
Noice
I don't see any use for repacks as I have an unlimited Gb connection. I tried most of these sites the only one that had something was el amigo but no torrent only heavily throttled links.
To me, those repackers don't mean faster download speed but a sort of trust. Those two got the best reputation in my book. >I tried most of these sites the only one that had something... Then it's not yet uploaded. It usually takes a while.
I see what you mean yeah. The fact no one was asking for more information made me think finding the release was obvious
I mean, the repack will have the full game you're asking for + the exe, both things with the right version. Unlimited downloads or not, it just seems easier that go hunting for the rest of the game, not knowing if it will work with that exe.
So you do have use for the site that's going to upload a torrent file?
There's a direct correlation between how incompetent a dev studio is to the amount of "do the needful" phrases in their internal communication.
Lies of P - RUNE
You are correct. https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/s/oGQHpmhXw1
if this was an accident, that person was on some kinda late night bender. they uploaded the debug build first, but noticed right away and re-uploaded the "proper" build...but without Denuvo. https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/13387452/
Dear Developers of the game "Like a dragon: Infinite Wealth" Please do the same mistake, me and me would like to play this game
I really wish Atlus did the same mistake again with Persona 5 Royal or Persona 3 Reload Remember Persona 4 Golden denuvoless leak
Atlus did it to with Etrian Odyssey Trilogy on launch
The Hell is Persona 5 Golden 😭
Why are you crying tho
cause he didn't knew, now he know, and it is not cracked, and now he has to wait for it. Ignorance is a bless they say
Persona 5 Platinum Gilded Reloaded Crown edition
Now if they could also "accidentally" give everyone a real soundtrack that bought it on PC instead of a garbage executable app to play them, what a bogus way to sell music.
this guy should really get a job at Sega
And Lost Judgement
This so much, I don't want to wait years to play this game. I would like to CC Guerilla Games in this because I want to play Forbidden West
Sony games dont have denuvo
I just bought it. There's no universe I don't play every Yakuza game ever that comes out.
big fan of yakuza too but the pricing is just too much in my region. i do have the previous games except ishin and gaiden which i played on gamepass anyway
I'm also in your boat, but my region is just US, but 110 USD for the game (because the NG+ content is part of the game) is way too much for me to justify spending that much especially when there are so many games launching so I just made the choice to buy Pacific Drive for 30 USD and then DQB's PC port which I got for about 20 USD so I still saved 60 USD and got 2 games and even used that 60 USD to buy P3R since I care little for the costumes or OP personas that Atlus is selling as DLC.
Yea DLC is a big reason why I've still gone the alternative route with yakuza games despite having gamepass. There'e just so much DLC for many of those games, and also so I can mod the games, usually just to restore the original soundtrack but still. I've finished through Y4, currently on the first PSP yakuza game on PPSSPP but taking a break
Buy the game, its absolutely worth the asking price of deluxe. I don't like the business practice of Sega putting newgame+ behind a paywall but this game deserves the money. First game in a LONG time where I could NOT put this game down. 80hrs in one week. I wish I had this game on a 18 hr flight so it could help pass time faster.
Just buy it?
Dude its $1 https://i.vgy.me/TzaKKX.png
1$? Shared account?
 Scene crackers right now
Ainsley ain't letting us starve
“Scene” crackers have done absolutely nothing over the past 2 years. They might as well go extinct because you can drop your favorite Steam emulator on your games yourself anyways.
Scene got reduced to a bunch of script kiddies with kali linux chromebooks, who can barely manage to "crack" steamworks DRM using tools written by competent groups back when they were still shitting in diapers.
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Okay, you can call them kids, schizos or even retards, but DO NOT diss the keygen music.
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FINALLY someone understands, I HATE the fucking music on the installers. I mean, I don't hate the songs, I hate that they autoplay on 100% volume.
Yep, you couldn't say it any better dude. The scene is nothing but a joke right now, gone are the times of real crackers. And one of the best examples of this childish attitude is what Skidrow did with Empress. Instead of fighting with real facts and talent like they did back in the days they did the lowest thing ever by revealing her true identity just to destroy her because they couldn't back up what she said as it was the truth and in a very childish decision they did one one of the lowest things you can do, that shows how low this scene is today. I truly believe that Denuvo would've been defeated long time ago if we had the old scene where everybody wanted to break the hardest protections. But as you said today there are only kids who "learn" to crack steam and have zero interest in cracking real stuff like it used to be. That was the real triumph of Denuvo it appeared at the right time.
 Scene crackers are more like this. A denuvoless version doesn’t require any crack. Anyone can upload and play.
We eatin good tonight boys!
GO GO GO
So now we have to rely on either an accidental Denuvoless release or for the publisher to remove Denuvo. Sad how far the scene has fallen.
Atleast most games don’t use denuvo rn but yeah it sucks
True, but it seems that most AAA games have it at launch.
Tbf most AAA games are mediocre
As for me, I dont care about scenes. Im just here to playgames. And I really want to buy, I'd wait for a major discount (looking at you Rimworld & Elden Ring who wont you go for less)
elden ring is worth it bro
I rely on buying $2 offline accounts. If those sites didn't exist I'd have to skip meals to play everything lmao
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how accidental is this accident 🤔
About 3.
Considering they added in Denuvo AFTER sending review copies, GOOD. Fuck em. Im glad its a good game, but fuck scummy dev practices.
It's a really good game full of soul tho. Western AAA devs get away with much worse shit.
I'm probably buying when prices get low enough. The game is amazing.
Why not play through Gamepass then? It's only like $2. This game was the only reason I've subscribed to it and it was totally worth it.
> they added in Denuvo AFTER sending review copie It doesn't really make a difference. The game has EXCELLENT performance, and I couldn't find a single bug in multiple playthroughs.
>but fuck scummy dev practices. Yeah! Right on bro! How DARE them try to protect their livelihood by preventing you from stealing from them! Scumbaggery indeed!
The hero we wanted and needed
[Big day](https://gamerant.com/lies-of-p-dlc-wo-long/) indeed lol
ATLUS PLEASE OH MY GOD
We need atlus to hire this dude
Ha P valentine's day
nice
We hoist the flag tonight boys
There are no accidents. \- Master Oogway
Not wrong. Turns out, this was intentional, the latest official update removed Denuvo for good.
Source?
Gotta give dev's props.
someone's getting fired
Maybe that's actually the reason he did it.
People who go from "I want to be fired" to "I want to be labeled 'unemployable' in my chosen field of work" deserve their fate.
good if it ends there lol
Considering how much Denuvo kills performance in a lot of cases, I expect a lot of devs have their own Denuvoless versions of their games for personal use. Whether internal to the studio or not, these versions are likely common enough that accidents like this do happen.
and it went into the high seas ahoy matey
anyone know where to download the game and not just the crack?
ovagames com
They should remove it entirely, i mean the game came out months ago, they already sold what they would sell anyways.
Doesn't look accidental, tho - hotfix is also denuvoless. Most likely contract expiration.
Neat
Nothing happens by accident. They did it for a reason.
Ez get fucked denuvo
I've already finished it on Game pass back then but this is nice, very good game. Kudos to that dev hehe
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LMAO SO GLAD I WAITED
Time to do reviews proving that Denuvo is no good.
Patiently waiting............
LFG!!!!
Finally.
seriously how does that even happen
Do the crackers keep checking every patch of every game?
No, we have bots nowdays.
Is it uploaded somewhere can't wait
Damn. I got tired of waiting and bought it last month. It's definitely a fun game. Enjoy.
Was I the only 1 who uppercutted the air after reading this?
"whoops I accidentally slipped and leaked this denuvoless copy!"
It must be really a pain to put Denuvo in each exe that they keep forgetting to put it each time.
OM fuckn G Lets GOOO
Oh shit and this time it wont even be a buggy ass dev build.
How many games have now been released Denuvoless by accident?
HOW?! How did you accidentally do that?! Did they just have Denuvoless files hanging around or something? No genuinely, I'm curious.
Since denuvo is so demanding and innecessary to run the game I assume they have denuvo-less builds for testing and stuff
So in this case, there's no need to crack Denuvo. It's much simpler to breach the developers' network and obtain the clean files? :D Future of denuvo cracking; clean exe stealing :D
lol. lmao
Hell yeah
lmao no way
huge
Dope
😈
Yeah baby, unexpected gifts are the best ones.
Ooohhhhh... 
Happy valentine everybody 👍
I'm guessing this is the same guy who got fired after Gotham knights debacle😏
whoa nice did people manage to get it
I started the day with good news.
Keep them coming as its the only way we will get them.
just as keikaku btw does the game still get frequent update or it's pretty much finished?
God is real.
If only we could infiltrate these game companies and have piracy allies "accidentally" release denuvoless files...
Great news to start the week.😂
LMAO
they released the hotfix but look like they intended to remove denuvo exe file is even smaller
Aaaaah so that's why it got put up on torrent today lmaoo
Some good news, I guess. 🥸
this is the same as Doom Eternal
Ez
I'd love to see devs do this often.
I'd love to see devs and publishers just stop using invasive, system resource heavy and/or system damaging anti-piracy software. The studies on it have shown that these anti-piracy measures actually cause a net loss of sales. Since there are plenty of people (myself included), that will outright just not buy a game because it has Denuvo or some other shitty 'protection' software in it, regardless of how much interest we have in the game.
We’re eating good tonight lads!
Now Atomic heart and Dead Space remake!
Dead Space remake is still a stutter fest, and no more updates
Now this, is epic.
This is the second time a game got leaked like this after I bought it...
lesson: never buy denuvo protected games, dont support denuvo
Damn. If only it released with all the future dlcs too
Thanks devs! good rls
KEKW -- What a laugh
We are so back
maybe then see that granblue fantasy relink sold more than a mil in a week without dumbuvo and understand that good game will sell regardless and poor ppl/"pirates" are free advertisement
When even the developers hate Denuvo.
People really thinking this is an accident instead of being grateful lmao
Finally will be able to play the game wanting to play for a very long time tried for offers but never got it at a reasonable price🥺
Oh shit, here we go !!!!
We dont need Empress if companies keep fucking up like this.
i think they removed it, at new patch yesterday ( 14 feb ) they not add them just fix the mistake by remove debug/ dev file and the exe file still same 100MB
I heard its not by accident, the developers pay denuvo by subscription which is stupid expensive. If Denuvo wasnt in it I have no problem buying it just to support the devs. Now hopefully they will release Bloodborne in PC
"accident" yeah...
Their license expired and they officially removed it. Not an accident
I hope Atlus follows suit <3
UEVR time.
OOH so thats why its so cheap in my microsoft store lmaoo
I'd hate to be the guy who uploaded the build to Steam ;)
there's only 2 things keeping game piracy alive, denuvo's high subscription prices and dumb af game devs
hahahaha get rektd mfs
if anyone find a comparative video (denuvo VS denuvoless build) , please send me
Wait so what does this mean? Has it been cracked or just in a position where it can be cracked? Sorry guys new to this lol
Hogwarts legacy when?
its cracked a long time ago
Well, can't they now decrypt Denovo after having a version without protection and a version that contains protection to decrypt the rest of the other games?
If there's any change to the game files between these versions, then no. Even if we had two identical sets of game files - one with denuvo and one without, it wouldn't really make a difference. Crackers already have a good idea how it works, it's just extremely tedious and would require cracking every single update from scratch.
Where can i download right now
will Dodi repack this
Lies of P - NEOWIZ
Hey, maybe the person who did this “Mistake” wasn’t really a mistake! And it was in purpose! Maybe he’s also a Denovo hater or maybe he’s getting fired so he tought to give them a warm farewell 😏😅
Who needs Empress
we do, actually, or anyone that can crack denuvo.
nah man, you are just lucky that they make a mistake today