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So can I pirate this bad boy? What's the status of the crack?

by diminoten 14y ago

danielweber 14y ago
It's an online game. Pirating it is about as feasible as running a pirate copy of google.com.
- bradbeattie 14y ago
  Online in its final packaging perhaps, but what effort would it take to get running locally? If one can play offline for a couple of minutes, the online portion is likely not as critical as it's being portrayed.
- illuminate 14y ago
  "It's an online game. Pirating it is about as feasible as running a pirate copy of google.com" What a silly, untrue statement. A better analogy would be "as feasible as running a copy of World of Warcraft offline", which people do.
  - sgarman 14y ago
    Which in a way relates to Irregardless's post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5345217 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5345217. One of my favorite MMO's Ragnarok Online won't get locked away and lost when Gravity decides to close it down, there are plenty of backends and open source projects that support the game.
    - illuminate 14y ago
      I really prefer playing shards to the original game. Less/no grind, I can whiz through most of a MMO including the minimal story in a few months, the price isn't necessarily the issue, I just don't care to compete with millions of other people and devote several days a week to survive at that level and stay up to date (let alone be on "top".) I want to have fun, I don't need artificial constraints to surpass. Thank goodness for these emulators, which are fun now and will continue to be fun when pocket-sized in the future :)
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- Deestan 14y ago
  Warning - that webpage tried to give my computer several types of herpes on page load.
apalmer 14y ago
If a working offline crack is produced BEFORE the game developers can produce a fully working version this would be a BIG development
- diminoten 14y ago
  I have faith in the cracking community. :D That said, I don't think this is as "simple" as something like an Origins "online presence" crack. I just don't think there's enough data about what the "online" part does (specifically the processing done remotely) to actually produce a fully-working crack at this time. Not my wheelhouse though, so maybe there's hope!

So can I pirate this bad boy? What's the status of the crack?

danielweber 14y ago

It's an online game. Pirating it is about as feasible as running a pirate copy of google.com.

bradbeattie 14y ago
Online in its final packaging perhaps, but what effort would it take to get running locally? If one can play offline for a couple of minutes, the online portion is likely not as critical as it's being portrayed.
illuminate 14y ago
"It's an online game. Pirating it is about as feasible as running a pirate copy of google.com" What a silly, untrue statement. A better analogy would be "as feasible as running a copy of World of Warcraft offline", which people do.
- sgarman 14y ago
  Which in a way relates to Irregardless's post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5345217 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5345217. One of my favorite MMO's Ragnarok Online won't get locked away and lost when Gravity decides to close it down, there are plenty of backends and open source projects that support the game.
  - illuminate 14y ago
    I really prefer playing shards to the original game. Less/no grind, I can whiz through most of a MMO including the minimal story in a few months, the price isn't necessarily the issue, I just don't care to compete with millions of other people and devote several days a week to survive at that level and stay up to date (let alone be on "top".) I want to have fun, I don't need artificial constraints to surpass. Thank goodness for these emulators, which are fun now and will continue to be fun when pocket-sized in the future :)

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Deestan 14y ago
Warning - that webpage tried to give my computer several types of herpes on page load.

apalmer 14y ago

If a working offline crack is produced BEFORE the game developers can produce a fully working version this would be a BIG development

diminoten 14y ago
I have faith in the cracking community. :D That said, I don't think this is as "simple" as something like an Origins "online presence" crack. I just don't think there's enough data about what the "online" part does (specifically the processing done remotely) to actually produce a fully-working crack at this time. Not my wheelhouse though, so maybe there's hope!