I haven't touched this particular game, but from experience cracking just takes a lot of time but is never impossible, unless the program is using something you have no control over like a DRM chip or something like that. Even then, everything has holes.

You can use the strongest encryption but at some point you need to have the game decrypted in memory. You can have a tonne of obfuscation but not enough that would hinder the game's performance. As long as you have control over the machine that runs it, you can crack it. It's just a matter of time and making the cracker so bored that they just give up. Which is what is happening here.

But they will succeed, or someone else will.

I'm curious if they implement some sort of rootkit or a bootkit. Those are pretty hard to deal with, relatively. But uhm... history repeats itself. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...