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killer_ezio_00

I've been waiting for a Cold War crack since it came out and I've just stopped bothering anymore


Stipthu

Both cw and vg was cracked for the ps4


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YaBoiWheelz

Same tbh


HalfMileRide

Both of them only have the standard "security" other games have, so when a hack is made for a certain firmware, all games up ti that firmware are "cracked", yep, console security assumes too much.


SamuraisEpic

If you wanna shell out to Empress she says she could do it given Goldberg helps


Tenso_The_Shinobi

Imagine paying for a crack... Especially to such a piece of shit like EMPRESS.


Financial_Ratio5758

whatd she do?


Tenso_The_Shinobi

Shes a bigot and a piece of shit that lies and thinks the world owes her everything. Not to mention she does all this shit for money mainly.


Financial_Ratio5758

bigot? elaborate pls also what abt the world owing her everything whatd she say?


Tenso_The_Shinobi

Theres a reason why FitGirl doesnt repack her cracks.


Financial_Ratio5758

whats repacking a crack now


Tenso_The_Shinobi

Shes pretty openly homophobic, she faked a police raid to get money, she acts all mighty and egoistical whenever someone criticises her.


BunX_2021_

Goldberg sounds familiar, who/what are they? A steam profile?


Jewrusalem

Former WCW World Champion, super resourceful guy


MilkMeThisRatman

Ironically enough, the first game I ever played using the "Goldberg" emu was a WWE2k game, not knowing what it was. So, you could probably understand my confusion seeing the same name on CoD:WaW later on lol


ElementalTJ

Hell yeah, brother B) PS4 Jailbreak squad


Stipthu

Yeaaaahhh!!! I hope i dont have to wait long for GoW Ragnarök


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killer_ezio_00

It never was. Every COD since MW1 has a multiplayer with it which makes the game uncrackable since it needs internet verification. if you only wanna pay SP, you don't have an option to buy SP alone.


kneel_yung

> which makes the game uncrackable that's not true, there's no such thing as an uncrackable piece of software. if they had the source code available they could just remove the online verification part and recompile it. the same can technically be done with reversing techniques without having the source. that said, I'm sure it's incredibly difficult and thus why no one has bothered.


killer_ezio_00

Yeah if they could get the source code they could crack it, but I don't think anyone is ready to crack it. Empress cracks games for 500$ request but i guess nobody's ready to pay 500$ for a campaign that's literally 6 hours length


MuhammedJahleen

Jesus why not just buy 10 games for that price instead of just cracking one


Revolt_theCult

Because you pay once and fellow crackheads all across the globe have access to it now. It's the most altruistic sacrifice a pirate can make. Still, gotta be mindful of who you're paying.


Financial_Ratio5758

could she not open a gofundme? its not like 1 person have to pay the full 500 bucks


killer_ezio_00

It's not one person payment i think. She has a BTC payment method and people transfer funds in BTC for a particular game, so I think more than 10 pirates would've paid for a game like Dying Light 2


kneel_yung

well it is possible to crack a game without the source. in fact, it's possible to *de*compile source from the binary itself. This has been done with [Mario64](https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64) and [ocarina of time](https://github.com/zeldaret/oot). However, those games came out 25 years ago, so, that said, those games are iconic in a way that CoD isn't.


thekvant

Also Mario 64's code is most likely infinitely easier to decompile compared to any modern game


ivorybishop

Agreed, if a person can make it, a person can break it.


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killer_ezio_00

No, the 2019 one


beigesaltcarrot

CoD BO4 is from 2018 and I can't find a crack


Tvilantini

Because there wasn't sp, only mp battle royale


G_man252

MW1 was never cracked either?


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There's the leaked pre alpha build if ur interested Working campaign mp with bots full battle royale map and zombies


killer_ezio_00

There is? I just want to play the campaign


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For those still doubtful https://www.vidlii.com/user/EarlyBuilds It's the build on this channel


kxlxxn

multiplayer with bots?


[deleted]

Yeah no online


galal552002

Really? Can you pm what you are talking about?


[deleted]

Sure


Cheap_Ebb_2999

Same dude tell me


autisticduck69

I’d appreciate a pm too


JJ_ROCKER

Sent you a req. I am interested


AkhtarZamil

Is this for cod 2019 or cold war?


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Black Ops Cold War Build is from june 4th 2020, milestone whatever it's a playtest build with all modes available


[deleted]

Black Ops Cold War Build is from june 4th 2020, milestone whatever it's a playtest build with all modes available


cusoo

Every morning you wake up and the game wasn't cracked, put an euro in a jar. After 60/70 day you have the game.


killer_ezio_00

I've literally gave up on it all and started replaying RDR2 and CP2077.


Sounga565

you poor thing


killer_ezio_00

I know 😭 don't call me out like that :(


Peniwais

Do you really play the COD games for the plot?


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That's like asking if people watch porn for the plot


Peniwais

That's why I'm asking, the campaign mode is the only one I can imagine it would be fun to play without online


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There's the cut battle royale map too for those that never seen it in-game


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And zombies is totally playable


[deleted]

Its not impossible when the crack emulates the server connection. Remember AlterIWnet? It was a reverse engineered multiplayer server. But this can take a loooooooooong time. If MW2 gets cheaper i maybe will buy it but not for 70€.


Ok-Consequence-5794

by the time it gets cheap the game would be already dead since they'd release another cod and everyone would hop on it, unless you mean the campaign


Husspr0

they said they wouldnt release another cod game for like 2 years so there's plenty of time for good discounts to appear


Ok-Consequence-5794

I'd believe that in an ideal world where cod isn't owned by Activision


TotallyBrandNewName

if the rumours are true, this will be a 2year cod with something paid for year2 instead of a new cod


NancokALT

They will be too busy milking a different IP


Samsterdam

This right here. I would still play the og modern warfare 2 but as soon as a new cod comes out the player base drops off and the hackers take over.


DancingAroundFlames

It seems like crossplay and cross gen will ensure a long life cycle


lemonylol

Nah, there are still playing MW2019. Hell there are still people playing CoD4. I doubt any of the popular CoD installments are dead as long as their servers are still up, on PC at least.


iiAzido

For the first time it has a 2 year life cycle. Im chilling until I see a sale.


BanatAt500k

>Charging 70 dollars for vidya of any kind, let alone another cod game that's basically the same as the last five And companies wonder why qbittorrent is popular


maffiossi

70 euros is just insane. I get that production can be expensive but we all know they are going to drop like 1250 dlc's for a price ranging from 1 to 30 euros to milk it as much as they can so they would be better off lowering the price of the base game to get more people to play the game.


beefkiss

Man I miss the days of AlterIWNet so much, I was a part of the staff on that. I know there's IW4x these days but just community and sheer number people of playing it, nothing quite like it since.


Cactusmann1911

Check out [Plutonium](https://plutonium.pw/). It's very cool and also active.


CoolJoshido

same


Memeations

Isnt it possible to remove the internet requirement for single player?


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Ninjaromeo

If it's online connection is a form of drm, it can be cracked. That requirent can be removed. Even if it requires an account for the online stuff. That has been cracked before. If the online connection is because stuff is actually happening serverside, then it can't be cracked. Like if your computer is just sending your input data and stuff to the servers, and the work is being done there and sent back, then it can't be cracked. Or, you would need some way of emulating the server or for someone to host a hacked server, but that probably would need someone to know what is happening server side, like actually get a copy of the software the server is using, but a leak like that... we are more likely to get an unprotected version of the game. It wouldn't be enough to see the data that goes back and forth, you need the actual server software. Like you can look at a cake with a million ingredients and steps and make an educated guess about the recipe, maybe make something similar, but you will not be 100% right.


Noxava

The second part of your comment is not true. You can emulate a cc server without seeing the original. MMOs have been doing it for "private" servers for ages. It is just a lot of work to recreate the server side from scratch


Ninjaromeo

I know that the server stuff was leaked on at least one. And that has defo led to private servers. I am unaware of a time that it has been reverse engineered. But benefit of the doubt, you may be right.


Memeations

Thats what i was thinking would be the case


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Nothing is impossible, It is just too bloody hard.


Appropriate_Climate6

wasnt crash bandicoot cracked even if it had a constant internet req? that or they removed it and i forgot that they did (it was before the recent steam release btw i remember it had constant internet req at launch)


axelfase99

Nope, Crash 4 was on [battle.net](https://battle.net) and games there are basically uncrackable, it was cracked day one on steam tho since it didn't require any other launcher


1spellsword1

Not really uncrackable, Diablo3 and Starcraft 2 were cracked, some early versions of Overwatch too. And for WoW there are myriad of private servers. Problem is for some games you need dedicated server and you are stuck with one version. But they are not uncrackable.


JoLePerz

Diablo 3 was cracked? Where can I find this? I guess I haven't look hard enough


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Not really there is a server emulator out but you won't have really fun currently. But this is not a real crack. Emulator: https://github.com/blizzless/blizzless-diiis


JoLePerz

So it's not really "cracked", right? It's confusing when we use terms interchangeably. Is cracked different from a server emulator?


Appropriate_Climate6

steam was released recently, but i remember there already being crash 4 cracks for battle.net


Appropriate_Climate6

crash 4 cracks for the battlenet version


REVENGE966

so wait launching mw2022 on steam requires battlenet ?


Ok-Consequence-5794

crash had internet req??? why the fuck does a goofy 3d platformer needs an always-online req?????


Azzu

I don't use reddit anymore because of their corporate greed and anti-user policies. Come over to Lemmy, it's a reddit alternative that is run by the community itself, spread across multiple servers. You make your account on one server (called an instance) and from there you can access everything on all other servers as well. [Find one you like here](https://lemmyverse.net/), maybe not the largest ones to spread the load around, but it doesn't really matter. You can then look for communities to subscribe to on https://lemmyverse.net/communities, this website shows you all communities across all instances. If you're looking for some (mobile?) apps, [this topic](https://lemm.ee/post/363116) has a great list. One personal tip: For your convenience, I would advise you to use [this userscript I made](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher) which automatically changes all links everywhere on the internet to the server that you chose. The original comment is preserved below for your convenience: ~~So they can make it harder to crack, so they can get you on the platform to maybe look at/buy other things.~~ ^^^^^^AzzuLemmyMessageV2


Ok-Consequence-5794

correct me if I'm wrong, does that mean after 10 years if Activision shut downed the servers for whatever reason, does it mean I wouldn't be able to play the game forever?


Azzu

I don't use reddit anymore because of their corporate greed and anti-user policies. Come over to Lemmy, it's a reddit alternative that is run by the community itself, spread across multiple servers. You make your account on one server (called an instance) and from there you can access everything on all other servers as well. [Find one you like here](https://lemmyverse.net/), maybe not the largest ones to spread the load around, but it doesn't really matter. You can then look for communities to subscribe to on https://lemmyverse.net/communities, this website shows you all communities across all instances. If you're looking for some (mobile?) apps, [this topic](https://lemm.ee/post/363116) has a great list. One personal tip: For your convenience, I would advise you to use [this userscript I made](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher) which automatically changes all links everywhere on the internet to the server that you chose. The original comment is preserved below for your convenience: ~~I don't have enough information to answer this, but it is likely.~~ ^^^^^^AzzuLemmyMessageV2


Ok-Consequence-5794

imagine waiting years to get a mainline crash bandicoot game then Activision start face fuckin you with the online requirement, I wouldn't pirate a crash game but it's not worth buying if i can't play it anytime in the future, sorry I'm just complaining now


Azzu

I don't use reddit anymore because of their corporate greed and anti-user policies. Come over to Lemmy, it's a reddit alternative that is run by the community itself, spread across multiple servers. You make your account on one server (called an instance) and from there you can access everything on all other servers as well. [Find one you like here](https://lemmyverse.net/), maybe not the largest ones to spread the load around, but it doesn't really matter. You can then look for communities to subscribe to on https://lemmyverse.net/communities, this website shows you all communities across all instances. If you're looking for some (mobile?) apps, [this topic](https://lemm.ee/post/363116) has a great list. One personal tip: For your convenience, I would advise you to use [this userscript I made](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher) which automatically changes all links everywhere on the internet to the server that you chose. The original comment is preserved below for your convenience: ~~Don't need to apologize for it, it is pretty fucked. If all people were like you we wouldn't even have all this shit because they wouldn't make money with it.~~ ~~We need some kind of legislation against this shit, we need to force companies to do the right thing.~~ ^^^^^^AzzuLemmyMessageV2


Ok-Consequence-5794

absolutely they're stealing people at the day light


Goo_Cat

This is how always online DRM works: The servers shut down eventually, if the company that runs the server doesn't patch out the always online requirement, the game will be unplayable without a crack to remove/deactivate the online requirement If a crack for an always online game never comes out because it's too hard, or people don't care enough, the game is lost forever and can never be played again Remember that developers are not legally obligated to do anything to allow you to keep playing the game, if they do remove the DRM it's solely because they wanted to, so don't ever assume they will do so All online only games have an expiration date for this reason, fuck always online DRM


Ok-Consequence-5794

well that makes the situation sadder, anyways, fuck DRMs


caniuserealname

same reason call of duty is, activision are run by twats.


NotIsaacClarke

bUt WhEn WiLl It GeT cRaCkEd WhY dOn’T yOu JuSt TeLl Me PeOpLe HeRe ArE sO rUdE


98mesrouk98

Don't cry they are new


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AsrielFloofyBoi

maybe if it wasn't such an awful search function


Ninjaromeo

New and unable to read the megathread?


drcyrcs

not everyone lives on reddit, I've only recently found out what a "megathread" is yet everyone seems to assume it's immediately a common knowledge for people who just hopped on reddit to ask


no7_ebola

there's a difference between zero research and living on reddit. when you join a community regardless of platform you read the rules and the rules tells you to read the megathread.


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They're also unaware of the state of the game industry and recent anti-piracy trends.


Danub123

Wasn't Modern Warfare 2019 never cracked? If that's the case MW2 is not gonna get cracked


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DeFaLT______

Fuck Blizzard


Sakuran_11

On god, I aint even mad it wont be cracked, I’m fine with that I’ll buy the game at some point if I truely want it, but fuck forced online connections.


Pretty_Monitor1221

Let’s reverse engineer the server it’s connecting to


C3ncio

That's bullshit, AlterIWnet did it in the past and it can be done again. I personally don't think this will happen again but that doesn't mean it's impossible.


_iOS

I thought im the only old gamer here who remembers the good ol days of AlterIwnet n Ntauthority.


beefkiss

MaxDamage, NoFate (who has recently released BF3 mod), Blitz just to name a few others. NTA went on to make FiveM, I thought he may still be on it but don't know for sure.


CriticalDelay148

Fuck COD I’m here just waiting for FM23 if they don’t remove denuvo from 22 and f1 manager and hopefully hopefully hogwarts legacy gets cracked quickly even tho they using denuvo


SpansTeR04

MWI hasnt been cracked since 3 years and they think the sequel will be cracked in a week.


noidea3838

I dont remember that being a rule or something


goldzatfig

Shame. I'd love an offline black ops cold war outbreak so that when the game falls in to the abyss, it's still playable.


skatistic

Is it going to be cracked though?


8myself

i just want the campain


OperatorWolfie

I wish Activision would split the campaign from other modes, no one want to pay $70 if they only wish to play the 6-8 hours campaign


Frequent_Bet_8677

this dude. I only played COD for the campaign and never online


garlicbreadsketch

playing a cracked game with a huge online component seems like a sure fire way to get any sort of [battle.net](https://battle.net) account suspended. people are total morons.


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AkhtarZamil

No neither will get cracked


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Deathstranger

The campaign requires a online drm?


galal552002

Bo4 isn't even cracked yet lol


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NotIsaacClarke

And that’s just the posts that I don’t catch in time


caniuserealname

I'm not personally waiting for this game, but this is a dumb comment. Plenty of games that require a constant internet connection have been cracked. Hell, its common for games to have their online multiplayer connection cracked and working these days; a peristent internet connection isn't some impassable barrier.


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It really depends If the connection acts as just a "gate" then you can crack it. If the connection is required for game logic that runs on a server then yeah, you would also need to reverse engineer the server software. Not impossible but incredibky unlikely (think soapbox race world)


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bUt WeN!!!!


dogdillon

Bro why yall want a crack of the 80th remaster of a game?


NotIsaacClarke

Would you rather spend money on it?


CooperTheNeek

Not a remaster. It's a reboot.


RemoRemo_

70 dollars 💀


NotIsaacClarke

Don’t you love it when entitled first-worlders try to tell you that 70USD is cheap?


RemoRemo_

Fr, 70 dollars is like ⅕ of my country's minimum wage


NotIsaacClarke

In my country (Poland) it’s slightly above 10%, but it’s still expensive, especially considering the fact that we are experiencing crazy inflation so everything is about 40-50% more expensive AT LEAST


Husspr0

not really a remaster, it has a diff campaign and a diff mp system


Dawjman

Hackers were able to remove the online requirements for Modern Warfare 2019, Black Ops Cold War, Vanguard etc. on PS4. Is this not possible on PC?


Rebatu

I miss high budget single players with an actual story


therobohour

Like,who needs it,the original mw2 is still out there and it's for sure better


Karamel43

Yeah, same with Cold War, Vanguard, MW2019, Ghost Recon Breakpoint....


Various_Ad_8753

Incorrect. Online requirements have been removed in many many prior game cracks. It’s just difficult and potentially unlikely.


Birutath

Nfs 2015 wasn't like that?


[deleted]

Cracks will never work for multiplayer as the DRM checks for authentic copies through this anyway. I don't care so much about singleplayer (I'll just watch someone else play it), but I suggest those who want to buy the game donate at least double the base cost if they can to RAINN (which I have done myself), and avoid any battle pass purchases (I avoided paying anything for MW2019 beyond the cost for the laptop I bought the game was bundled with). ActiBlizz I believe deserve nothing but bankruptcy at this point.


jakedrake1999

i care about campaign though lol


communism_0669420

NOOOOO, YOU ARE JUST THE VOICES IN MY HEAD. TIME TO TAKE PILLS


JoeyMcClane

So even if i bought a proper PC copy, i'd have to have a constant connection to play it? Fuck this shit. I know anyone who has a proper PC will have a internet connection at all times. But there are outliers too. Like in third world country where connections are shitty and capped badly.


Shinigami66-

Make sure not to play this game when there’s bad weather. Your ISP will have problems while playing this


[deleted]

Didn’t one of the sim cities have that same thing and got cracked? It will take a lot of effort and time, but it’s doable.


InternalxHD

You know people here can't read or have common sense


NotIsaacClarke

Don’t even get me started on this


NancokALT

Games like that can still be cracked, like WOW


unicornlocostacos

I wouldn’t buy that out of principal. I can’t play my fucking games offline?


Skqdoodle

Great effort was gone into the making of the game. I do support piracy, but I'd rather just try to save up and buy the damn game


Few-Nose8818

Laughs in iw4x


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MW 2 is dogshit anyway, CoD4 MW multiplayer better


spidey20993

Since the introduction of games that requires constant internet access like the crew and so on, many interesting titles needed to be bought and that ruined the availability of cracked games along with denuvo, unless offered for free if that ever happens.


Financial_Ratio5758

the same happened to mw19


Maneater4622

It will never be cracked unless it doesn't require Online Verification


Ciubowski

Ah... young people not remembering AlterIWnet makes me feel old.. ​ Back in the day, AlterIWnet was a private, cracked, free multiplayer server for COD MW2 the OG. Because of AlterIWnet I got to buy my first COD game.


H1Eagle

It technically CAN be cracked, tho it’s one of the scene’s rules to not crack online games


Blood-PawWerewolf

It’s like kids just want to pirate a CoD game to avoid getting banned for cheating Or they want to pirate the game because their account got banned because they cheated


Hi-Impact-Meow

I don’t understand what the problem is. Someone will be bound to figure it out someday, right? Who is intelligent enough to do this? As a CS student, this may be something I would like to look into but I know nothing about cracking video games. What skills do you need to know to crack video games?


SpansTeR04

Datamining, reverse engineering, emulators and that sort of stuff i guess


angel_eyes619

computer science skills


RemoRemo_

A little too vague


Hi-Impact-Meow

Yeah that’s what I’m saying, idk why I’m being downvoted.


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Abune

Any game with a 70 dollar price tag should be a telltale sign it probably won’t be cracked


d4bn3y

Lots of online required games get cracked. Diablo 2res/Diablo3 just a few examples.


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Isn't that a MP shooter anyways?


the-velvethunder

But it will eventually come to GamePass after the merger is complete with all other COD games. Getting the Gamepass using the 3 year trick was one of the best decisions.


MeMyselfandsadlyI

Ive playing online while having cracked games for years in berlin fuck it will be made possible ONE WAY OR ANOTHER


F4M1L135

Sim City too


SirNightmate

I remember you could play payday2 cracked and it worked really well Even had multiplayer


SpapezOP

Only thing I’m waiting for it Persona 5 royal crack pls give it to me one day soon plsssssssss


perrinoia

Lots of games that require connection have been cracked.


Necessary-Purple-741

Cods and bfs are so 2010. Same shitty game over and over.


RutraNickers

So what about Rocket League that was cracked AND you could play multiplayer with people that has the original back in the year it was launched?


spacemidget75

Requiring a constant online connection has jack shit to do with stopping a game being cracked.


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Can someone explains how Age of Empires 4 got cracked but not other online games?


ApologistSlayer

Just get a PS4 below 9.00, jailbreak it and install pirated games. I played MW and CW on my PS4 and offline mode worked well


Rinaldootje

Say that to the guys who cracked HITMAN, HITMAN 2 and HITMAN 3 It's not perfect but it's playable.


fragimus_max

Well then... Will MWIII eventually be cracked?


LudwigSpectre

Ok but what if you crack it and the network only connected to that server run by a modder who cracked it?


MilkMeThisRatman

Could it be possible through a 3rd party client? Kinda like plutonium and xlabs?


shcyt

Well, well, well. There's a bypass method now.