Now you can run and update the original Steam regardless of it in a compromised version. (new)Ī large number of changes in the installer client. No longer need to be updated after every update GreenLuma Steam Powered preservation statistics and accomplishments (may not work in all games) Updated version GreenLuma to 3.0.1 XP fixed Most pirates wouldn't pay for the game anyway.Removed client DarkSteam (closure of the project) The new fad is preordering, early access and crowdfunding, that shows the main mass of people are paying BIG TIME for the games they want. Their customers and their customer support also doesn't suffer, they don't pay money for protection and they can release daily updates without having to worry about applying the security wrapper to every goddamn binary version they release. There are big budget games that are released drm-free and their sales don't suffer. Meanwhile the protection causes more trouble than it's worth. Good riddings annoying protection that paused gameplay if net connection was down or the server not responding.Īll it takes is one or two skilled and dedicated crackers to make a breakthrough. Hackers used packet sniffers to capture all communication and created a cracked executable with an internal server emulator and a query-response database. Ubisoft was using some custom protection in its then-new Assassin's Creed games that was querying a server for magic values needed for proper execution. Goodbye shitty protection with limited number of hardware-id'ed activations. It was beaten in the end and I haven't noticed any recent game with it.

Later another protection system, Securom, started implementing some online authentication and protection triggers, like Mass Effect that wasn't properly cracked for a while. it even requires a driver installation and a restart.

The Reloaded group beat that protection, started releasing cracks for previously uncracked games and released their tools eventually, now it is hardly used outside Russia and old SF games aren't playable on modern OSes lmfao.

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory was uncracked for a year and a half iirc. They were saying the same things about Starforce.

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