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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. This is actually Rockstar's little joke... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 0, Troll

    They could have released their own clean version; but they decided that it would be more fun to pirate the pirates' efforts...

  2. Re:Same story different players by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is that like, a reflex response to anything DRM Related?

    That doesn't even apply here! The DRM -HAS- been removed, for re-released. But rather then go through and remove the code themselves, Rockstar found it easier to just apply the crack to the installation.

    Which - if ANYONE here has programmed before, should completely understand. You don't re-invent the wheel. You copy, cut, and paste code wherever you can. In some cases, you can write entire applications with nothing but the CTRL, C, and V keys.

    So - to make things abundantly clear: this is not the "DRM scheme was cracked by pirates, works better than original" story. This is a story about how the Cracked Version was used for re-release. Two different cases here, as they decided to remove the DRM on their own terms.