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"We’ve all seen developers and publishers criticizing PC gamers for pirating
their games. We’ve also seen a lot of publishers doing their best to fight
piracy by implementing draconian DRM protection systems in their games. But can
you imagine a company downloading and then selling a pirated/cracked game?
Because that’s exactly what Rockstar did.
Discovered by modder ‘Silent’, the Steam version of
Midnight Club 2 is
actually the version that the scene group “Razor 1911” cracked back in 2003.
Let me repeat that. Rockstar was selling on Steam a cracked copy of its game.
As you can clearly see from the HEX Editor that Silent has used, the Steam
version of
Midnight Club 2 features Razor 1911’s signature. So, instead of
releasing the original version of
Midnight Club 2, Rockstar went ahead and
downloaded a cracked version in order to sell it. And that’s hilarious.
What’s also funnier here is that Rockstar may have done this because it could
not be bothered removing the DRM that the original game had. So, I guess it’s
easier to simply download a cracked version and distribute it on Steam.
Ironically, this isn’t the first time Rockstar was caught selling cracked games
on Steam. Rockstar had previously done the exact same thing with
Manhunt and
Max Payne 2."
Via Christoph S.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
