2023-09-09 18:00:00
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For years now, the studio Rockstar, well known for its many blockbusters and the upcoming GTA 6is constant war with the hackers who distribute illegal versions of their games.
However, it seems that they are more in “mode”do as I say, not as I do“, while it has been proven that the company sold cracked versions of their games.
Rockstar sells cracked versions of several games!
Hackers are scary, especially for video game studios. Whether your game is online, competitive or not, it is never good for cracked versions of your game to be circulating, because this often means cheaters, and above all less potential sales. The only problem is, what should we say when it’s the studio behind the game that distributes them?
Porting an old game to PC isn’t always easy, and sometimes it’s because of anti-piracy measures taken during development. In Rockstar’s case, it’s the games Madhunt et Midnight Club 2 who had major problems with DRM at the time of their arrival on Steam.
It’s the modder __Silent_ on Twitter (X) who discovered the signature of a hacker group in the game files.
How it is possible ? To get around the porting problems, the company simply recovered the cracked version that it sold as its own, bypassing the major problems, but creating others.
Buy a game, and have a cracked version that is buggy?
However, Steam also has its own countermeasures for cracked versions, and most of the time, it was players who actually purchased the game who had the most problems with these legal, but not legal, versions.
Getting stuck on save, crashes and others were actually caused by this pirated version, and sold by the developers.
Rockstar isn’t the only company in this situation, Ubisoft had done the same thing for Rainbow 6 : Vegas 2 to “fix bugs”.
At once, Rockstar’s crusade is losing a little credibility.
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