[ArkanExplorer]

PC piracy has been neutered by Denuvo, which is the most effective DRM the platform has ever seen, and has been embraced by almost all major publishers.

Ubisoft embraced Denuvo for all PC product in 2017. Thereafter their PC sales revenue and PC's share of their total revenue has hit record levels.

The other factor is that with the rise of Crypto, PC torrents are now filled with miners and other malware.

The other factor is the largest games being online-only or having exclusive online functionality.

Digital distribution (Steam) is an aged and established concept now. What Steam provides is not and has never been unique - they just had the best exclusives (Valve games).

[dannyw]

Denuvo is being cracked by Empress, who is pretty legendary considering all scene groups gave up. Interestingly she has a habit of making controversial comments on gender identity on reddit.

[drummer]

Who is Empress? Have a link?