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Rockstar Ships Max Payne 2 Cracked By Pirates

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-getting-steamy-in-here dept.

Jamie noticed a fairly amazing little story about Rockstar shipping a version of Max Payne 2 via Steam that was actually cracked by pirates to remove the DRM. The going theory was that it was easier for them to simply use the pirate group's crack than to actually remove their DRM themselves.

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  1. Re:Expediency by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most likely they simply found themselves unable to build the old codebase. You'd need a seven year old version of whatever build environment they were using, tons of other severn year old bits and pieces and a seven year old OS version. You'd probably need a seven year old machine too, and all the peripherals that go with it. Bits rot when left alone..

    Lol Wut?
    They don't need the source code or anything else.
    If you don't know, most DRM is only buried in the game exe and maybe a dll.

    All they needed is a DRMed copy of the game + a debugger in order to
    strip out the DRM exactly the same way the scene release groups do.

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