Gotta love DRM that makes paid versions of games worse than pirated stuff.

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    Yeah, but that might just be that no one cares enough about the FIFA games to waste energy cracking them, not because of Denuvo specifically.

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      FIFA is one of the most popular game in Brazil, a country of over 200 million people. I doubt it’s a matter of little interest.

      It really is that Denuvo is effective at preventing cracking.

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        Brazil isn’t particularly known for wealthy people. The one person/group doing Denuvo these days wants a bunch of money per game.

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      Aren’t they extremely popular still…? Highest selling sport series of all-time from what I can see. Certainly not as liked these days though, that’s true.

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        Yeah but it took the Hogwarts game like a week to be cracked with the most restrictive denuvo in place. If there’s demand for it someone will crack it.

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        They’re popular among a different crowd than those who would go online to talk about video games.

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          Yes, after all, the Fifa crowd were more than happy with microtransactions.

          Porting that monetisation policy to Battlefront 2, well, we saw how that turned out.

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        Think FIFA’s popularity also stems from FUT, which I guess won’t work with a cracked version. So FIFA’s real DRM is via a popular feature that requires account registration for microtransactions.