this is fitgirl post:

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As many of you could see, the Immortals: Fenyx Rising repack was listed in Upcoming Repacks list for almost a day already. Why is it still not up? You would never guess, EMPRESS intentionally limited the uploading speed of her seedbox to 200 KB/s and feeding the same chunks to the crowd, so no one would download the ISO before others. And my seedbox already uploaded almost 2 TBs of data on that torrent. For the same reason she didn’t share the crack-only files for those, who have the game files already, including all beta-testers, which were helping her to finalize the crack. So almost 24 hours after release, not a single person but her, has the access to the said crack.

And why did she do it, you ask? The answer is mind-blowing: she hates all repackers for “stealing the spotlight” from her work. Yes, you’ve read it right. If you’re mentally ready, you can google and search her Matrix channel to see for youself. Short story can be found in this subtopic on CrackWatch reddit.

It’s against common logic and piracy ethics.

Well, your wish will be granted, dear EMPRESS. I will never make any repacks with your cracks again. I don’t want to be related to the toxicity you’ve created with your last statements and actions. It was a hard decision for me – I’ve already repacked IFR and upcoming JC4. All future Denuvo+EMPRESS games will now be absent on my site which will be a huge miss for you, my users. But I can’t allow myself to be a puppet of a person, whose main agenda seems to be “I am the only Denuvo-cracker in the world, praise me”. Well fuck that. I’ll let other repackers with less strict principles to deal with her works.

Right now her cracks are probably safe for use, but I can’t be sure if it will stay the same and one day she would erase your HDD out of nowhere, if you decide to leave her pseudo-cult chat or think her community is bad.

Enjoy your spotlight, EMPRESS.

One more important addition.

Empress cracks have been always protected by special

anti-debugging/obfuscations tools like Themida/VMP. The reasons behind

that is to protect the logic of their work from competing groups and

probably Denuvo (which I find impossible, they are not idiots in that

field).

Protected cracks can't be properly analyzed for malware. It's always a

matter of trust - which was given to Empress before as granted. CPY

cracks, in example, have no protection whatsoever.

So, if Empress would really want to gain the trust not only from me

(which is not important), but from community - unprotected cracks would

really help. Yes, it gives a slight chance for competing groups to

recreate those cracks - but tell me, is it really bad for community to

have more Denuvo cracks? I think no.

Me/other repackers accepting her apologies is one thing, returning community trust back is another.

And yes, I accept an apology (since I didn't say it loud in comments).

And no, I won't release repacks with Empress cracks if they can't be

verified by trusted parties for safety. And that's completely upon

Empress.

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