Steam's DRM is completely symbolic. There are widespread cracks available and Steam is AFAIK not even bothering with the cat and mouse game, and Denuvo games released this year are being cracked in < 24 hours.

I would never underestimate the lengths people are willing to go to to 'crack' games. Countless online-only games have been cracked with users reverse engineering the network protocol and writing their own servers. LLMs will probably greatly ease that process as well.

> Some Denuvo games stay uncracked for years

this era is well and truly over. you've got pre-release hypervisor bypasses and then a conventional crack a couple weeks later.

edit: i might've misinterpreted your comment, i expect some older denovo titles might never get the modern treatment

Oh wow that's really smart of them, now you have a reason to send your hacked version along the cad file so the user on the other side can escape from their spyware :D