3DM will stop cracking for a whole year!

In a surprise announcement, 3DM cracking group have said that they will stop cracking single-player games under the pretext that they want to see if sales of games increase.

Why did I say pretext? Remember they last said they had difficulty cracking the latest iteration of Denuvo? As of now I propose either of the following reasons:

1. 3DM cannot crack Denuvo and want to work on it for the next year. This sounds more plausible. They might even drop out of the scene completely, only to re-emerge years later when things around Denuvo had quieted down.
2. They are genuinely doing this for the stated reason.
3. They have come to an understanding with Denuvo GmbH/VMProtect to cease their activities for now.

More on this here.

Just Cause 3 and Denuvo

So apparently the same thing is happening with JC3 that happened with FIFA15 and DAI.

The founder of notorious Chinese cracking forum 3DM is warning that given the current state of anti-piracy technology, in two years there might be no more pirate games to play. The claims come after attempts to breach the Denuvo security protecting Just Cause 3 pushed the group's cracking expert to breaking point.

Do you know what drives technological innovation? Competition! Right now anti-tamper/DRM solutions are being sought because of piracy, and get broken, which forces the authors to come up with new and interesting ways to prevent their solution from being broken.

The same cannot be said from "our" side, us reverse engineers. Most people keep their tools private and we have a stagnation of publicly available tools to help us combat these new solutions and techniques.
Do you know why? Money, Denuvo is paid, cracking is something people do for free of charge, there is little incentive to release their internal tools or to release docs or even bother .

Until then, this "prediction" of 3DM might have some merit.