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As a derivative game of the world-class IP Harry Potter for a long time, the Legacy of Hogwarts has become the first popular style in the game circle this year.

As of February 10, the Legacy of Hogwarts has set a number of records: overseas live streaming platform Twitch has more than 1.3 million online viewers and Steam platform has more than 800000 online players. These numbers are ranked even in the entire console / stand-alone game circle.

However, behind the number of tens of millions of players, rampant piracy is also a serious problem that can not be ignored.

Given the enduring influence of Harry Potter around the world, there will always be players who want to taste but are not willing to pay for it. In just a few days after the game was released, thousands of offline games have been traded on the domestic e-commerce platform alone, making the vast number of second-street traders make a lot of money.

Strictly speaking, offline games are not pirated games in the usual sense, but spread through loopholes in the Steam account sharing mechanism. after all, the Legacy of Hogwarts uses the industry's mainstream Denuvo anti-tamper technology, that is, what domestic players call "D encryption". This anti-cracking technology has always been known for its strong performance. Today, there are few "folk masters" on the planet who can conquer the umbrella of D encryption in a short period of time, so it is unlikely that there will be serious piracy of "Hogwarts Heritage" in the near future.

But the reality is that the decryption of Hogwarts is going very smoothly and in a very high profile. Earlier this month, the Empress, the most prestigious cracking organization in the overseas hacking circle, stepped forward, and its founder, the Queen, officially declared war on Warner Games, the publisher of the game, with wild words and debauchery, pointing the finger at the protection lock D encryption of the genuine game.

Unlike the pirated hawkers, the queen's crackdown manifesto is very popular. In this debate over piracy, wind reviews seem to turn to everyone's most shameless piracy, just like the question of "chicken or egg", and the dispute between genuine and pirated copies has returned to its original starting point.

Although the Legacy of Hogwarts has won a lot of praise from fans in the series, there are still some problems with the optimization of the game. According to the feedback of most players, even if their computers meet the recommended configuration requirements, the game will still show significant frame drop in most scenes, and poor optimization destroys a lot of valuable gaming experience.

There are many and complex factors that affect the number of frames in the game, and no one can guarantee where the optimization of Hogwarts turned over. Judging from the prior announcement by the Queen's team before the game was released, this group of experienced professionals had already foreseen the collapse of game optimization. because countless precedents have repeatedly demonstrated the fact that D encryption will affect the performance of the game to some extent.

Frame rate performance of the early genuine (left) and cracked versions of biochemical Evil 8 even though Denuvo has repeatedly stated that D encryption will not interfere with the game experience, games that adopt this anti-piracy technology will still get a lot of bad reviews. Some time ago, the "Dead Space remake" was constantly praised by the media and players, but many players were advised to quit because of the performance problems of the game, among which the impact of D encryption is to blame.

"Dead Space remaking" is not alone. More recently, games such as the Callisto Protocol and the Land of the Curse have varying degrees of optimization problems, and perhaps games with D encryption are news instead of problems.

There is nothing wrong with game manufacturers' measures to protect genuine copies, but D encryption is safe and reliable, but it is not unbreakable. Many manufacturers will choose to remove D encryption independently after the game is released for a period of time, or for the sake of players' experience, or they are unwilling to pay extra "protection fee" to Denuvo behind D encryption. Anyway, the game is often cracked at this time, who is D encryption to prevent? No one can tell.

"lost Light 2" was cracked six months ago, and the game did not officially remove D encryption until the beginning of this month. How long D encryption can last depends on its own difficulty and the skills of the crackers. After several versions have been changed, today's D encryption can completely shut out most confident challengers-but the Queen is a clear exception.

In fact, D encryption has strengthened another level since August last year, and according to the crackers, they believe that the difficulty of cracking is now equivalent to "going to hell." if you have to modify the difficulty of cracking with an adjective, the word "crazy" is the right word.

All this comes to an end with the Queen's deciphering the rise of the Monster Hunter: dawn. On February 3, with the cracking resources of the game and disdain for D encryption, the queen proudly issued her own declaration of victory.

After mercilessly humiliating Capcom and Denuvo, the queen pointed to Warner's "legacy of Hogwarts" and threatened to complete the crackdown that had not been done in the previous four months within 10 days.

The above-mentioned "biochemical Evil 8" and "lost Light 2" are the Queen's team responsible for cracking the risk of illegal arrest, fighting the rules of the entire game industry alone and fighting the infamous D encryption on their own. For a while, the queen has once again become a star in the game circle, but who she is and the purpose of her defiance of the law remains a mystery.

The Queen, who began her career in 2014, is now one of the few wizards in the world who can crack D encryption. Considering the legal risk of hacking itself, although the Queen left a lot of personal information on the Internet, whether her words are true or false remains to be verified and discussed.

For example, the queen claimed that she was 25 years old and was a "beautiful woman". Her path to game cracking stems from a dream a few years ago, and her credo is to "mix philosophy with code." She says she hates men and thinks 99% of Indians are mentally retarded, even if she has never been to India at all. The Queen's words and deeds all reveal her unusual character, and there may be only one step between a genius and a madman.

In any case, no one can question the queen's professional ability, she seems to have a job to support herself in real life, and she has achieved her present position in the field of game cracking only in her spare time. At first, the queen knew how to keep warm and share her cracking experience with everyone, until in recent years, most of her peers had to give up this part-time job because of life, and now she has to do this shady job alone.

If you ask the queen why she has persisted in cracking the game for years, she will probably reply to you with a logical system figured out by herself: "the essence of a legitimate game is to rent rather than buy out, and the existence of D encryption is harmful to the player's experience."

With that, she will probably bring out her own philosophy and export it in vain.

However, the queen's actual actions are not quite in line with her own ideas.

Such as the rise of the Monster Hunter: dawn, which was deciphered a few days ago, the Queen said, "how dare you sell 99% of the useless DLC for $450?" She lambasted Capcom, but as we all know, there is no serious optimization problem with rising Monster Hunter: dawn, and expensive in-game purchases don't seem to have anything to do with the D encryption she hates.

In fact, the Queen's game cracking list is casual and utilitarian, and she will target the already cracked "Wild Dart: redemption 2," just because she doesn't like the style of game developers; she will also adjust her focus according to the situation. as long as someone is willing to give her a reward of more than $500. To put it bluntly, those lofty ideals can make way for these two things: their own mood and the dollar.

It sounds more or less funny to let cracker players pay to choose the game they want to crack, and it is true. The Queen's free and unrestrained character, garrulous philosophy, aggressive tone and clearly marked behavior have not made her a good reputation in cracking the community over the years-until the emergence of "the Legacy of Hogwarts" completely changed the status quo. Now let's take a look at the relevant forums. Full of admiration and respect for the queen.

Although such praise has something to do with the queen's professional ability, her strength is obvious and her efficiency is well known, but perhaps the more crucial reason is that the legacy of Hogwarts appeared on her crack list.

The demand for piracy behind this controversial popular game is much higher than normal, and the source of all contradictions points to the original author of Harry Potter, J K Rowling.

In 32019, the British government held a solicitation of opinions on the "transgender policy". One of the provisions of this policy stipulates that even without sex reassignment surgery, citizens can still determine their physical sex according to their psychological gender.

After the introduction of the draft, there was a heated discussion in Britain, in which JK Rowling insisted that physical gender and psychological gender should not be confused. Since then, Rowling has been labeled as an "anti-transgender group", and the controversy surrounding her remarks has lasted for four years.

The "antagonism" of the Harry Potter actors and the absence of the 20th anniversary of the series are all direct evidence of the seriousness of the incident overseas. When it comes to the game, there is also a lot of contradiction intensified by the Legacy of Hogwarts.

In principle, the Legacy of Hogwarts does not invite Rowling to participate in the production or supervise the production, and this work can be regarded as a series of derivative works that have nothing to do with the original author. However, once the Harry Potter worldview is borrowed, there will always be such a problem: the revenue generated by the game is bound to flow into the hands of the original author Rowling in the form of copyright sharing.

Against this background, the European and American game circle is not doomed to be peaceful recently: before the game was released, the PS5 section of foreign game forums ResetEra and Reddit decided to completely ban the discussion between "Heritage of Hogwarts" and Rowling.

During the lifting of the ban on the media evaluation of the game, the foreign media GamesHub called on everyone not to buy the game in the evaluation article, on the one hand, the gender controversial topic mentioned above, and on the other hand, there is no exquisite design that must be played in the game.

In the live section of the Legacy of Hogwarts, the same incident is happening again and again, with several anchors refusing to broadcast the work live, and even some female anchors were frequently harassed by malicious on-screen comments during the live broadcast. So much so that she had to stress repeatedly that her games were started through free channels and did not pay any royalties for Rowling.

The anchor also raised donations for a LGBTQ + organization to boycott, and players who are dissatisfied with the original author know that the excellent quality of Hogwarts itself and the degree of restoration of the original make it a must-see work for fans. Since paying money is against their own beliefs, then piracy has naturally become the best choice.

The Queen's original intention of choosing to crack the Legacy of Hogwarts is obviously not dissatisfied with Rowling's remarks, but now enjoying the treatment of stars and the moon, she will probably not reject the worship of these new players. However, the ten-day period is approaching, and there is really not much time left for the queen.

(4) the dispute between genuine and pirated games has existed since ancient times, especially after the advent of D encryption, the related debate is inseparable.

Recently, the masterpiece of landing on the PC platform has an obvious trend of increasing configuration requirements, and the progress of most of the games in the screen is not consistent with the improvement in configuration requirements. These games do not necessarily use D encryption, but manufacturers often leave the optimization work to emerging technologies such as DLSS, neglecting what should have been done by themselves.

The burden of D encryption on the operation of the game will indeed make a large number of innocent players become veritable "legitimate victims", but piracy that holds high the banner of "justice" is unlikely to have much positive impact on the game industry. Removing the negative optimization brought about by D encryption may not make many pirated players turn to the authentic version, and the Queen's eloquence is so insignificant in front of her own mood and money, even if the existence of piracy is put an end to. There will be no substantial leap in game sales.

With the increasing chaos of the Internet environment, the dispute between genuine and pirated games escalates again. When the demand for piracy surges, the conversion rate of pirated players has become negligible, and genuine and pirated games once again become the primary stage of binary opposition.

If the queen can decrypt D encryption so quickly, the anti-piracy technology will go a step further in the foreseeable future, and the game experience of genuine players will only continue to decline. No matter what happens in the future, it is always the players who get hurt-genuine players.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: Okny

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