Post #1262723
2026-04-04 17:15 UTC
SAAS. You never install the entire application. Large parts of the engine never run locally.
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@Cethin@lemmy.zip 2026-04-04 22:55
Although that still never totally protects it. I’ve seen a fair few number of passionate game communities bring online-only games back from the dead by reverse engineering the server architecture. It’s a lot of work, but if you know how the software is supposed to function then you can write the other half of the software that gives the response to make that work.
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@frongt@lemmy.zip 2026-04-04 17:24
Or use the cloud gaming approach and just stream the video, no local engine at all!
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@mlg@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 23:21
I think Denuvo technically does a little bit of this. I forgot the exact details, but one of the keys that's used to unscramble the bytecode has to be downloaded from their registry server on first launch. But after that, it's not required.