![]() ![]() This appeared to do the trick but obviously, such drastic measures shouldn't be needed to play a game that has been legally purchased - especially those that are single-player only. Reports began flooding in on ResetEra and various. To solve the problem, some users on Steam posted up tutorials for players to modify their Windows HOSTS file to point to the last known IP address for the domain. It seems as though Denuvo's servers had a bit of a hiccup on November 7, rendering tons of games with the DRM technology temporarily unplayable. This meant that the domain would not resolve to an IP address, effectively breaking the system. ![]() Following the failure to renew, the domain then went into a grace period but when that expired too, it appears to have been removed from DNS records. According to Alex Buckland, the DRM provider for all of the affected games had let a key domain expire, rendering the system inoperable. While the situation is still not completely clear, it appears that someone allowed a domain used by Denuvo's anti-piracy technology to expire, meaning that players of some big games couldn't enjoy what they had paid for. Even when it's working as intended DRM is never good for players, but time and time again Denuvo has been accused of making otherwise good games quite awful to play. An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Last evening the web was alive with angry players who couldn't play their games due to an unexpected error. ![]()
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