Video game piracy has been around for decades, and made even more prevalent when writable formats like floppy discs and CDs came around and where gamers discovered that making a copy of a game wasn’t that difficult. However could video game piracy be slowly dying? One cracking group seems to think so.According to a recent post by Chinese cracking forum 3DM, the group’s pioneer “Bird Sister” revealed her opinion on the cracking scene, and how over the years, developers and publishers have made it even harder for groups like hers to crack their games. She even went as far as predicting that in two years’ time, cracking of video games could be dead.
She was talking about how difficult it was to crack Just Cause 3, “Recently, many people have asked about cracks for Just Cause 3, so here is a centralized answer to this question. The last stage is too difficult and Jun [a game cracker] nearly gave up, but last Wednesday I encouraged him to continue.”
She then added, “I still believe that this game can be compromised. But according to current trends in the development of encryption technology, in two years time I’m afraid there will be no free games to play in the world.” That being said, developers have indeed gotten smarter with detecting pirated game, and have come up with amusing ways to troll the players that pirated their work, but what do you guys think?