The first issue here is that Denuvo contracts typically charge from release, read the first few paragraphs of the documentIt's okay partner, I made an account on this site to get games for free.
Still, when the head honcho's pockets dry out I think we could salvage something from this game, Denuvo is not forever. And pirates always find a way.
Papaw used to say that there is no free lunch, but the internet proved him wrong.
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for an example. Helius is likely playing on this for a free lunch given that the standard fee for Denuvo is
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which would otherwise be insane even if he managed to wrangle some discount for an older version.The second issue is that this game is being made as a F2P under a GaaS model. Users don't own the game and Helius is under no obligation to release a Denuvo free version if he kills it. The more likely outcome is that the servers would shut down and the game would stop being made available simultaneously which wouldn't help anyone crack it.
The third issue is that reverse engineering a server from the client is hard work. It only happened in the current build because the server barely did anything and everything, even updating player positions, was done over a Rest API with zero encryption. The new builds are constantly opening connections and communicating with the server and everything is encrypted with TLS, you can still get around that if Denuvo is removed but the likelihood of anybody actually doing it for a subpar animation viewer is slim.