Rockstar reportedly selling pirated/cracked games on Steam

[John Elden Ring]

Discovered by modder ‘Silent’, the Steam version of Midnight Club 2 is actually the version that the scene group “Razor 1911” cracked back in 2003. Let me repeat that. Rockstar was selling on Steam a cracked copy of its game.



As you can clearly see from the HEX Editor that Silent has used, the Steam version of Midnight Club 2 features Razor 1911’s signature. So, instead of releasing the original version of Midnight Club 2, Rockstar went ahead and downloaded a cracked version in order to sell it. And that’s hilarious.

Ironically, this isn’t the first time Rockstar was caught selling cracked games on Steam. Rockstar had previously done the exact same thing with Manhunt and Max Payne 2.

 

[Systemshock2023]

Rockstar is due an attitude adjustment. But who am I kidding... GTAVI will sell like hotcakes.

 

[flaccidsnake]

It's funny that regular gamers get indignant about copyright infringement when corporations who actually hold copyrights will do anything that benefits them.

 

[Darth Vader]

 

[KiryuRealty]

The games are Rockstar's IP, and early 2000s DRM is pretty awful stuff, so it is totally kosher for them to use the cracks to keep the games available if they so choose.

The cracks represent unauthorized derivative works under copyright law, so Rockstar actually owns them.

 

[Darth Vader]

The games are Rockstar's IP, and early 2000s DRM is pretty awful stuff, so it is totally kosher for them to use the cracks to keep the games available if they so choose.

 

[Systemshock2023]

The games are Rockstar's IP, and early 2000s DRM is pretty awful stuff, so it is totally kosher for them to use the cracks to keep the games available if they so choose.

The cracks represent unauthorized derivative works under copyright law, so Rockstar actually owns them.

Poor mom and pop store rockstar right? Doesn't have the funding to come up with an alternate solution to the problem.

 

[KnittedKnight]

I like the irony here despite being technically wrong.

You do have to wonder however what the fuss is all about? The pirate takes the work of others (Rockstar) to release it for free. The dev takes the pirate's job to charge a price right back. You fuck me, I fuck you. Welcome to PC.

 

[Yobo]

I seem to recall a story about Rockstar losing a lot of its source codes? Maybe that's why

 

[Dr Bass]

Poor mom and pop store rockstar right? Doesn't have the funding to come up with an alternate solution to the problem.

What part of Kiryu's post did you guys not quite understand? lol

Rockstar owns it. They can sell whatever version of it they want.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

 

[Zzero]

Even Nintendo does this.

 

[Falcs]

Even Nintendo does this.

Please elaborate

 

[Zzero]

Please elaborate

Virtual console releases were found to have been cracked isos a decade ago.

 

[historia]

It is their property, what is wrong with that.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

Just seen a rumour that rockstar might charge $150 for GTA 6 I doubt thats true but I wouldn't put it past 2Ks greedy CEO to think it was appropriate