It doesn’t matter who made it, Rockstar still owns it. Why bother doing something over when someone else did it for you for free? If someone steals my family portrait and paints a Stormtrooper on it, I’m still allowed to hang it up in my living room.
Oh come on
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It means they’re a bunch of twats that have never considered the future or their customer’s needs (some game devs and publishers release non-DRM versions eventually)
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You can’t guarantee how safe the crack is. If there was some really cleverly hidden malware, now it’s on them
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Cracks may still be imperfect and have issues. Again if something doesn’t work, now it’s on them
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Just how stupid does it make them seem? All this time fighting piracy and now they’d be lost without them. Because we know how the likes of R* handles their old properties. If they had to do it themselves, it would be a fuckup
Whatever it is these kinds of arguments are trying to criticize, I don’t think the resolution is one that is favorable to gamers.
I’d rather have a cracked cheap DRM-free copy than one whose new price factors in development to do correctly.
Points 1 and 2 are jabs at the company postures sure but once you peel that back don’t tell me you want them back on the DRM train. Who cares if the company position seems silly.
Do you guys think Rockstar did this, or a Valve employee? If you’ve ever seen the interview with the GOG CEO, he mentions how they routinely have to use these files they find on the internet to get the games to work. Who’s going to prosecute this, Razor, for copyright? Oh, wait. I’d just be a bit more leery if there’s some latent malware in there. But, then again, I wonder if older malware even still works in the new version of Windows. Not that they patched some hole, but more that MS has just evolved Windows and now some things that the MW used to be in one spot are in a new spot, or just outright don’t exist.
Definitely rockstar indeed manhunt, another of their games, has the same razor hex sign in the game files, and I’m pretty much sure rockstar did this, because manhunt is unplayable on steam because all the antipiracy measure in it are trigghered, and the funny thing is that is not happening because of the crack but because rockstart added the steam drm in a non code section of the game that trip a Data Execution Prevention.
So if i get manhunt from a trusted repacker theres a good chance it will work better than the legit one?
People keep misunderstanding why this is huge deal.
Obv razor is not going to file suit for copyright, that’s just dumb, but the big news is that they are using a cracked version and selling it as a legitimate one. This means they somewhat approve of the crack in the game in that fashion. That is surreal and also proves a bunch of arguments against DRM. That is the real news here.
This means they somewhat approve of the crack in the game in that fashion
No it doesn’t lol
“We absolutely disapprove of cracks! Here, buy this cracked game.”
Well I know it makes sense in corpo-world, just not in a world that runs on logic and common sense.
It just means someone was lazy and hoping nobody would notice, it says absolutely nothing about how much they approve of it lol
It’s like how the “You wouldn’t download a car” video has pirated music in it.
That’s just an internet myth that everyone wants to be true.
It was a completely different obscure anti-piracy commercial.
https://torrentfreak.com/sorry-the-you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-anti-piracy-ad-wasnt-pirated-170625/
Feels like there should be class action lawsuits for the people who purchased what they thought were legit copies of the game.
If it’s through steam then there are receipts about what binaries where installed; and at the end of the day it’s legally their game so if they sell it then it is automatically legit.
This is also why Nintendo feels they can sell emulators they didn’t write with the Mini consoles and the VC & Nintendo Online…
This reminds me of when Nintendo was caught selling ripped ROM’s from a pirate site in the WiiShop lol.
IIRC it didn’t end with the wiishop either. Off the top of my head, there was some controversy surrounding the NES/SNES Classic consoles. I think they used emulators that were written by pirates, instead of writing their own?
Also reminds me of the time Microsoft was using a cracked version of SoundForge to make system sounds:
http://www.techpavan.com/2009/05/24/microsoft-deepz0ne-pirated-cracked-sound-forge-windows-xp-audio/
XD holy shit, how is that even possible?
