‘Hackers unite to save Atari’ — True?
p2pnet news view | Games:- It’s routine for release groups to be blamed anything and everything.
Somehow, though, the companies doing the complaining not only survive, they continue to rake in obscene profits.
But here’s a change.
“New rumors coming out of the scene say release groups unite to help Atari by not releasing cracked copies of ‘Alone in the Dark 5′ for the PC,” says 1oath on NCIX.
Not releasing cracked copies?
Yup.
The story goes on »»»
Atari, a veteran in the gaming industry has recently come on to hard times and some say the company may be near death?
AITD5 is its last hope, well as the rumor has it is why popular established release groups have not released copies in fear of losing Atari and its future releases.
While AITD5 is available for download from independent sources, not one is yet playable.
Truth? or just rumors? The only other rumor surrounding the game is that it is uncrackable.
In the end, if you wish to play AITD5 your gonna have to wait a few months to a year, or see the showcase above.
True? Or not?
azrd79 on SuperBAY posted he thought the the rumors that groups are, “somehow conspiring to not doing a relese for AITD5″ are baseless.
“They’re working on it I’m sure,” he says, “it’s just that this one is a very difficult nut too crack. It’s much trickier than what was seen on Bioshock or Two Worlds.
He goes on »»»
Mainly because the activation process involves downloading some stuff from Atari’s server. I’m no expert but i think each of these files are unique so you just cant share these activated files and make another install on another machine work.
There is a manual activation function and in the past manual activation is a weak point where crackers can take advantage off by making a keygen. Its not so easy here because the process is not entirely offline. First you need a valid serial, then a unique request code is generated from the serial, and then you have to submit the request code to atari to get a manual activation key.
This can be exploited by making a keygen that can generate a activation key from a specific serial and request code combination. The team blackdrug keygen uses this method. However it wont work for long since Atari can just ban the serial the keygen uses when too many people use it to obtain a request code. Which is what happened with the blackdrug keygen.
So I think the big boys are working on something, it’ll just take time. It would be bad for the future of the scene if they dont. If AITD5 remains uncracked, more and more publishers will flock to SONY and start using this Securom7/SecuromPA protection combination.
It’s only a matter of time really. AITD5 will be cracked, otherwise the future of the cracking scene will be very bleak indeed.
But azrd79’s post is three weeks old.
Stay tuned.
(Thanks, f4te)
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NCIX – Honor among thieves: Hackers unite to save Atari, August 10, 2008
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August 11th, 2008 at 11:37 am
If I’m thinking of the right reviews, I heard the game was absolutely horrid. Maybe the scene is just ashamed to waste their time on it!
August 11th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Besides the fact that I’ve never been all that crazy about the Alone in the Dark series, the activation of AITD5 guarantee that I never NEVER buy it. I don’t really buy new games, but I do tend to look for used copies of games I want so that I know I’m getting a complete copy. However, they can take that Activation crap and shove it. For the record, I won’t spend a single sent on new Valve releases either. I don’t care how many promises they make to release patches in the even of the company going out of business. Until such a patch exists and is available to me, they can keep their DRM-infected games.
August 11th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Atari died in the 1990s when the Jaguar failed. Eventually the name was sold to Hasbro. Anything after that has been the chicken running around with its head cut off.
It was all the fault of the Tramiels (Jack, who bought Atari to make computers (NOT video games) to compete with his old company Commodore; and Sam, who didn’t want in-house software development for the Jaguar and relied on signing up “over 150 software companies”, fewer than 20 of whom actually made games for the system).
August 11th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
If AITD5 doesn’t get cracked, but the company still goes bankrupt, then I guess the ESA won’t be capable of blaming release groups for Atari’s failure. On the other hand, if AITD5 doesn’t get cracked, ESA will claim the copy protection to be superior, even if Atari still goes bankrupt.
As far as I’m concerned, the content industry needs to create something worth buying for bitching that nobody is buying their crap.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
the games as of late have blown.