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Caipirinha Games and Toplitz Productions have released City Patrol: Police, an action racing game that features a brand-new anti-tamper tech called Valeora. The developer’s website is vague and somewhat sketchy, but the software supposedly prevents a title’s pre-existing DRM from being removed by hackers with techniques that are “impossible to crack.” It echoes a quote from Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, who claimed the PC industry suffers from a “93-95 percent piracy rate.”
“Valeroa Anti-Tamper is extremely difficult to crack before and closely after the game release date. The protection becomes a lot easier to crack after a predefined period. We have no problem with organised pirate groups or individuals who crack Valeroa once the protection is weakened. We definitely don’t prosecute people who just play cracked games.” From the looks of it, and in theory, this appears to be a better anti-tamper tech than Denuvo. Whether developers will drop Denuvo in favor of this new anti-tamper tech remains to be seen.
“Valeroa Anti-Tamper is extremely difficult to crack before and closely after the game release date. The protection becomes a lot easier to crack after a predefined period. We have no problem with organised pirate groups or individuals who crack Valeroa once the protection is weakened. We definitely don’t prosecute people who just play cracked games.” From the looks of it, and in theory, this appears to be a better anti-tamper tech than Denuvo. Whether developers will drop Denuvo in favor of this new anti-tamper tech remains to be seen.