Sure, but she's, eh, eccentric and only cracks whatever she feels like. Then again, she's Russian, so might just get on it when the current stupid internet drama surrounding her cracking Howarts Legacy (which she seemingly chose because it triggers the wokes or whatever) dies down.
Nah. she'll want it done and in the wild while it's still a popular topic. She might be a genius cracker but her online persona is an egotistical little shit.
True. She just got banned from reddit and a couple other places, and oh dear, she's going off. So much phlegm everywhere.
Holy shit, this is priceless. It's better than when she went non-linear accusing repackers of stealing her work and no giving her proper credit.
Always have... just that social media has made it more obvious and derpy.
I just figured they wouldn't want too much publicity so they don't get sued or arrested or whatever.
To be fair most crackers don't interact with their followings and still keep things low key.
Like making an actually high-quality game, or deal with all the internal allegations?
Kind of. I lurk the emulation scene, which has a fair bit of overlap with the piracy scene, so I pick things up. Like Rhombus said, most crackers keep a low profile, but the last couple of years a bunch of notable groups/people disbanded or retired, leaving Empress as the only one with the skill set and willingness to crack Denuvo games. This got her a lot of attention from the piracy community, some good and a lot of bad. Doesn't help that she also only does games she wants to and demands $500 in crypto for it, which obviously ruffles the more entitled parts of the community's jammies, alongside a bunch of other eccentricities and a short fuse. And that's not even going into all the scene drama, like the feud she got going with repacker Fitgirl.
Well, in 2010 there was a man in France who got so mad about dying in a knife fight in Counter-Strike. He then spent the next 6 months (some sources say 7 months), tracking down where his virtual killer lived, then actually tried to stab him with a knife. Thankfully the victim survived. The dude was sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Pirate it and slap a couple grenade launchers onto it in a machine shop before sending it to the front lines.
Ok, so Fitgirl is a repacker meaning they take scene releases and 'repack' ie compress them into smaller file sizes, cuz a lot of people who dont pay for games also dont pay for gigabit internet. Anyway, Empress accused a bunch of repackers of stealing her work and not giving credit, with Fitgirl as the main object of ire. More drama, yelling back and forth. Eventually Fitgirl decided to no longer repack Empress releases, which Empress saw as a victory and took most gracefully. More drama and yelling.
I’ll be honest that sounds more likely to be Germany.
Nah, pretty sure the incident refers to Count Dankula... but iirc, the law he got done under was specific to Scotland
You're asking the criminals to police themselves. Bet a dollar to a bent dime that anyone handling HR in that studio is either a perpetrator or a protector of same.
