20 years ago, rockstar sold a game with annoying hoops you had to jump through to “authenticate” its purchase (aka DRM, aka “anti-piracy technology”)
Now, when they want to sell the same stupid old game to us on steam, they don’t want to / can’t include the old anti-piracy code (maybe they stopped paying Denuovo, maybe the old code is glitchy and breaks some part of the game, who knows)
So instead of fixing their old ass garbage code, they’ve decided to grab a PIRATED version of the game, from the internet, which has already removed all the “anti-piracy” code, and they’re selling that to us.
The picture included has part of the code embedded by piracy group called razer 1911 in their cracked version of the game executable, you'd instantly recognize the name if you were into game piracy during the 2000s
What does this mean?
Not sure I really understand your question, but:
20 years ago, rockstar sold a game with annoying hoops you had to jump through to “authenticate” its purchase (aka DRM, aka “anti-piracy technology”)
Now, when they want to sell the same stupid old game to us on steam, they don’t want to / can’t include the old anti-piracy code (maybe they stopped paying Denuovo, maybe the old code is glitchy and breaks some part of the game, who knows)
So instead of fixing their old ass garbage code, they’ve decided to grab a PIRATED version of the game, from the internet, which has already removed all the “anti-piracy” code, and they’re selling that to us.
That is exactly what I needed. Thanks.
The picture included has part of the code embedded by piracy group called razer 1911 in their cracked version of the game executable, you'd instantly recognize the name if you were into game piracy during the 2000s