40 Million Attempts to Use Pirated UT3 Keys

[displayroxs]

Is it even possible to pirate a game off Steam?



I think the developers of the new Chernobyl game have the right idea of making it Steam exclusive. Saves cash on producing it on a disk, and cuts pirating by a ten-fold.

P.S. F*** Epic Games. UT3 blows, and anyone that says PC gaming is going to die doesn't get my respect.

[ALT+F4]

displayroxs wrote..

Is it even possible to pirate a game off Steam?

Absolutely. I've seen de-Steamed copies of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, Portal and Half-Life 2: Episode 2, to name just a few. The pirates are quite clever at rewriting the data and install routines to negate the necessity of a Steam account or connection. The Steam version of Lost Planet requires a connection just to play alone offline, while the de-Steamed version does not. (See Point 2 in my previous post.)



P.S. The above information is posted for educational purposes only, and to disprove the common assumption that Steam in and of itself is any kind of answer to any kind of problem. It is not an endorsement of piracy and one should keep in mind that pirated or cracked copies of many games do not allow online play without legitimate and unique CD Keys.

[kalabalana]

Wouldn't surprise me if a couple hackers had their ******s constantly running to find valid keys.

40,000,000 attempts, but, at how many per person? For all we know, 49M of those could be from one guy, over a week.

BTW, again, a good game will get even the PIRATES to buy if it has a good online multiplayer.

Unreal doesn't imo, but it has been successful in the past.

[Ryosuke T]

All the people want is price cut. No game is worth $50-70 a pop without taxes.



These guys make enough profit from it regardless. Even if the game is going $30 without tax and it sold 1 million copies, that's $30M. Plenty of profit to pay out the workers/tax/utilities and etc for the year.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

UT3 isn't expensive, so that's not a valid argument.



I'm likewise inclined to believe that users trying a multitude of ****** keys are adding up to this 40M... it's hard to imagine all those people trying exactly once and instantly giving up.



Neither of those factors negates the fact that easy, relatively safe piracy can hurt sales, but obviously not to the extent implied here.

[kalabalana]

@Ryosuke -> They aren't making $30 on a $30 MSRP, they are prob getting like 10, and like 20 on a 50 game.



@Nighthawk -> Yeah I think so, but what pisses me off is that even though they are proving a valid point, they over-exaggerate the reasons for it, which pisses off anyone who realizes this. As a result, instead of any sort of sympathy they WOULD'VE gotten from me, now they just get my disdain, for the company, and their work.

[magicalpoop]

Ut3 is shit. Valve realized that sorta multiplayer was dead back when they picked up TF and re-released it as TFC.... Seriously..40 million.. R O F L like they werE ALL UNIQUE. Obviously a large # of em were either faked or key gen spam. Please..40 million people wanting to play UT3? R O F L .

[mifdeath]

It seems very odd that instead of these copyright/piracy/forgery laws and policies being implemented as an active force to stop one entity from literally profiting from another entities work, they are used as an excuse for poor sales or as a cash-grab from the defenseless. Do we seriously need laws protecting the usage of other laws?

[Linux]

wow so many people complaining about UT3 and other games once again... Personally I'm happy with UT3, it keep me from getting bored and annoying with 90% of the other games I got to play because too many little kids that they're parents don't have the power to say no them when buying a game are playing stuff... UT3 atleast is enjoyable before having come kid screaming across the mic saying jibberish.

Anywho pirates are aways going to be around, and if you don't want to support a game then don't buy its simple as they, but if you do want to support it buy a copy and show the support.... Don't bash shit until you have tired it, which I can say a lot of people bash UT3 because they think its like the old ones and its not.... Also computer Spec, go drop some real money on a computer and get up to date, stop trying to build computers on CS specs...

[Admz]

"Instead of finding out ways to make our games better, lets see how many times key-finding bots attempt to use our software!!"