Mass Effect Andromeda is ugly. Let's not beat around the bush, the character models are terrible, the story is meh, and you're not playing as Shepard. But, the gameplay is actually pretty good, and the planet exploration is what everyone wanted in the first Mass Effect title. The graphics themselves, when running on maximum on the PC are also excellent, so it has that going for it...
The face of a madwoman!
But, that's not what this story is about. This story is about the Denuvo Anti-Tamper digital rights manager (DRM) which has proven to be an effective tool to combat hacker in recent times for titles such as Resident Evil 7. Basically all the big titles these days come included with this tool to prevent hackers from stealing the game. For a while the system proved to be rather infallible, stopping many attempts at breaking the code, and preventing the piracy of software everywhere. But, in-spite of their efforts, even the best of defenses can have weaknesses.
While it stands to be said, that the software developers at Denuvo Software Solutions have admitted that their system is strong, but not unbreakable. The latest victim of a crack is actually Mass Effect: Andromeda! A game which has admittedly been panned by quite a few critics, and the response has been generally mixed. It only took a few days, but the hackers who cracked the code actually have a history of attacking Denuvo. This is also the second software which utilizes the DRM system that has been hacked by them. The first title they tacked was Resident Evil 7 and that actually took a bit longer with a whole week.
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But, still the most crucial days for any game to be sold are during the first week, if Denuvo can modify their system a little bit further it might just become actively unbreakable (for some time again), but until then, it's too bad it had to be Mass Effect Andromeda that fell victim to the hack.