Rockstar Using Game Crack In Their Code?

[admin]

Rockstar's effort to produce a Steam version of their game Max Payne 2 may have resulted in their programmers using code from an illegal no-CD crack for the game.

The Steam version of the game is a no CD version of the game, but apparently the programmer tasked with altering the game to remove the CD requirement simply used code from an illegal crack of the game. Cracks are uploaded online to enable games to be played without the original CD.

The crack in question was from the now defunct group Myth, and a Steam forum member found the ASCII art logo for the group when using a hex editor to view the executable for May Payne 2.

This is not the first time that game companies have used illegal game cracks for their own purposes. Two years ago, Ubisoft (now notorious for using the harshest "always on DRM") released a patch to fix a DRM problem for Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, and the patch actually used code from a crack released by the group RELOADED.

More:

http://torrentfreak.com/did-rockstar-use-pirate-game-code-for-max-payne-2-on-steam-100512/

[icon08]

hi

Thanks for the info! It's great! With a good antivirus like kaspersky it will work perfect!

[admin]

Not sure about that ... anti-virus tools tend to just detect cracks as "malware" and delete them, even if the cracks are perfectly harmless. The cynical amongst us will suspect back room deals being made with software publishers/anti-piracy agencies as the cause of this, but of course, there are lots of malware pretending to be cracks as well.