Steam again free from cracked copies?

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Hello

A while back I heard about someone making a crack letting all steam games be available... Now there seems to be rumors around that Valve fixed this and banned a lot of people, is that true?

I am of course not asking if this crack is available, I'm a very satisfied silver-pack buyer who's just curious ;)
 
Hmm... well, there are alot more sneaky people than would've expected... so no.
 
isnt supossed that steam is unhackable?
 
<RJMC> said:
isnt supossed that steam is unhackable?
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Nope, m8 has this hack and he has all steam games for free, so doesnt matter if valve banns him because he can make a new one anywayz.

And no this is not me im talking about for the lamo's that would think that.
 
ok sorry I am PC noob

and who is m8? a famous hacker?
 
.Jezus. said:
Nope, m8 has this hack and he has all steam games for free, so doesnt matter if valve banns him because he can make a new one anywayz.
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Assuming this isn't offline only, being banned is the very last thing he should worrying about right now.
 
I was thinking the other day, if you register your cd key online then play offline forever, never getting any updates, couldnt you in theory use ONE account offline on 4000 computers that are on offline mode, cos steam isnt connected to the internet. I know the system well and overlooked that bit. Anyone see what i mean? Isnt that possible :rolleyes:
 
Entirely. But of course it only takes one person to change the password and you lose the account.
 
They've gone beyond that, they now have a faux steam program, you download the games from real steam and then unlock on fake steam and play on fake steam, even get the updates through it.

But those people can't play in mp games with the rest of us.(I don't think)
 
Did you now that there is being made a version of half life 2 that can go around steam so you can copy the game?
 
The day Half Life 2 came out, some hacker made a steam emulator. This means that all he had to do was get the .gcf's from a friend and them play them. The hackers even came out with a patch that fixed the stuttering the next day after release. (LoL)
 
as I hav say I am a PC noob so I dont know that was meang mate

anyway I dont think this crack will affect the sales of the game,cuz from what I know the industry of videogames is getting more money that before

right?
 
Sid Burn said:
Hmm... well, there are alot more sneaky people than would've expected... so no.
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True, some people have a downloaded ver and still use it without being banned
 
Actually, the first cracked version of HL2, that ran without Steam and on an emulator, never had the stuttering problem. I've seen about two dozen people speak about their illegal version, and all mentioned the lack of stuttering problem. This is probably the one thing that pisses me off most about Valve and HL2, that warez users get a better product in the end.
 
Actually there is no cracked version to play MP, last updated fixed it.

Before there was a hack to play all online games for free even in non cracked servers.
 
They release update... hackers release new hack... ad infinitum.

Forget Steam and HL2, look at human history. Invent bow and arrow, invent better shields. Invent better swords, invent better armor. Invent effective cavalry, invent tanks. Invent nukes, invent SDI systems. It's an eternal cycle of one group doing one thing and another catching up or surpassing. It happens always, and computer hacking is no exception.
 
huh ? its real guys,

you can get it from ........... wow I mean all games are working for free.

I have not tried it but friends of mine did, and it worked :p
 
Solver said:
They release update... hackers release new hack... ad infinitum.
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Yah yah.

You cannot stop someone from pirating a game. However, many companies have been successfull in keeping piraters from playing their games online, using key verifications. As long as the servers are compliant, the authenticity can be verified. It actually baffeled me that there was this security hole in Steam.
Aeron said:
Actually there is no cracked version to play MP, last updated fixed it.
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This is good news. I hope it sticks.

I'd like to know for sure,. because as much as I hate cheaters, the idea of cheating pirates just burns me up! Because so f'n what if they get 'banned',. it means nothing to them.. theres just no deterrant.
 
there is a way to gain access to all the games on steam [bar codename gordon] for free, using steam with a fake account. you are than able to play online with any of those games.

the people are able to download the games through steam, like a normal, purchased game and have them update etc, play in offline mode, just like a legitiamte account.

yes, it works, and it's been around for almost 2 weeks and there is a few variations of it right now.
 
Solver said:
Actually, the first cracked version of HL2, that ran without Steam and on an emulator, never had the stuttering problem. I've seen about two dozen people speak about their illegal version, and all mentioned the lack of stuttering problem. This is probably the one thing that pisses me off most about Valve and HL2, that warez users get a better product in the end.
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And I know two dozen people with a legal HL2 and without any stuttering too, might I ask what your point is?
And your argument fails when you consider that Vampire: Bloodlines suffers from the stuttering problem too, and since when does that game use Steam?
 
destrukt said:
there is a way to gain access to all the games on steam [bar codename gordon] for free, using steam with a fake account. you are than able to play online with any of those games.

the people are able to download the games through steam, like a normal, purchased game and have them update etc, play in offline mode, just like a legitiamte account.

yes, it works, and it's been around for almost 2 weeks and there is a few variations of it right now.
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Yeah the fake account works... till you get banned after logging out of Steam...

And has been working for 2 weeks.... but after update it doesnt work anymore, and the variations too, cos they all were using the same xploit.

Maybe there is a few ppl playing with those methods till they got a validation from valve or a IP check or Cd key check... but almost everyone is getting the ticket error sooner ot later.

A new hack? dunno maybe hackers pass over Valve protections but maybe not :)
 
PvtRyan said:
And I know two dozen people with a legal HL2 and without any stuttering too, might I ask what your point is?
And your argument fails when you consider that Vampire: Bloodlines suffers from the stuttering problem too, and since when does that game use Steam?
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My point is, most legal HL2 buyers were affected by stuttering after HL2 release, and only got it fixed after the patches. And not a single warez user has suffered from that problem - or at least not mentioned it.
 
most?

you have no idea how many were effected

hell, there were only 200 steam complaint tickets made about it from last we heard
 
It is still getting hacked and will keep getting hacked in the future, no matter how many updates.
And people will keep taking advantage of the hacks.
And thats final
 
Solver said:
My point is, most legal HL2 buyers were affected by stuttering after HL2 release, and only got it fixed after the patches. And not a single warez user has suffered from that problem - or at least not mentioned it.
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Most? If it wasn't for forums, I wouldn't have known it existed, never heard anyone in my neighbourhood with problems, and sure, there were/are lots of posts about the problem, but only people with the problem post about it, you don't see all the people who are fine posting that they don't have the problem.
And that not a single warez user has problems (according to you) has nothing to do with Steam, because like I said before, Vampire has the stuttering too, and doesn't use Steam. And Steam is the only thing I know of that's different from the legal version.
 
Yep, it definitely wasn't "most" of the users.

Look at it this way - how many people legitmately bought it? How many people warezed it. You're looking at a two hugely different sample sets.
 
"ai_disable"

So warez users didnt have no problems?
 
|Ben| said:
The hackers even came out with a patch that fixed the stuttering the next day after release. (LoL)
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Is that the same "patch" that stole Steam account information from users dumb enough to install it?
 
^Ben said:
"ai_disable"

So warez users didnt have no problems?
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Those were clueless, apparently. I know that on Nov 17, torrent sites showed a version where the ai_disable problem was fixed.
 
That still doesn't change anything, does it?

You make it sound like the warez groups actually did something to remove the stutter. They didn't. Any effect their ripped version had was entirely coincidental.
 
And then again not everyone had the stutter problem, so maybe those people who had the warezed version were not going to get the stutter in the first place?
 
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