CRACKs missing.... What's happening with the latest games???

[glenbo]

then maybe its all down to dvd-r media and good burning software..maybe alcohol 120% might have a little trick up its sleeve...or then maybe not,its become so commercial in the last year it dosent look good.

[TippeX]

the reason is because of the recent busts, of the flt people (fastlink) and the hlm (and others), that cut down the amount of crackers, and the new blood now dont seem up to the task, the protections are also getting tougher, thats the reason..

because of the busts a lot of other crackers (they are a very small amount of people..perhaps 20 or so 'professional' ones.. the ones who were in ims, flt, rzr, dev and so on) who didnt get busted retired because they saw what happened to the others that did and retired... losing all your equipment, ontop of legal fees, dealing with the police and so on is no laughing matter, be grateful for what you got from them, they did it for nothing, they made nothing from it and they paid the price for others that sold their work

oh and the encryption schemes starforce uses can be broken, dont believe all the hype, anythings breakable, it just requires skill.. that skill however is held in a small amount of people, who really dont give two ****s (especially after being busted) about your 'needs' for cracks anymore


just my opinion

[crnelyone]

well cracking is difficult. But it seems like the game companys finally have won the war. 3 years ago i'd have said yo can get a crack for every game and the following patches for it. But now, Starforce and all that ****. You can't even burn them anymore. Remember when CloneCD was able to copy every damn copy protected game? Thos times are over. And the time of no-cd cracks also :-(

You know why i use no-cd? Becaus it makes life easier. You don't have to search the game-box in you cupboard. you don't have to lay in the damn disc. It takes round 1-2 Minutes. So i just download a no-cd and that takes me 1time 5 minutes. And for the rest of my life i don't need the cd (only for patches etc.)

But those things like Star****, Daemon-Tools+Mini image
Are just ****! It takes 5minutes to set them up correctly EVER time you want to play (and hell we know there aren't even mini-images for some games).

So it's easier for me to take the damn disc and have the loud cd-rom making stupid noises decreasing my fun while playing.

oh and for the "scene" with their releases i see only this possibility:
get many new crackers to help out.
OR
Invest your time in developing the ultimate cd-burning software.
as we all know from your .nfo's you buy your games so just stop making isos but make images who can be burned with your new coded burn-software and which copy-protection will recognise as original!

By doing the first version you will please those like me who buy their games but hate inserting the disc.
By doing the second version you will please the kiddies and show the game industry that they are fu****

[Tony22]

nocdcracks will always be ,just be patient and wait for the profs just to inform you EA NHL 2006 nocdcrack is available nogrp release .

[ByteMare]

Or you could work your way up to the top by learning to crack the stuff you
need...

[glenbo]

ppl seem to think that because crack groups are not intrested any more that we are done for....not the case atall,there will be 1000 groups in the future..ppl learning the same way those groups did,it is not rocket science,the best thing for crack groups now is to stop competing..and share there knowledge more openly and all will be sweet

[TippeX]

nice little dream world you live in glenbo... it is a science, it takes skill, time and dedication and especially now with all the legal changes regarding reverse engineering i really dont think your idea of 1000 groups etc really holds much validity... as for groups sharing information, the precise reason groups dont share information is so that their methods / tricks / whatever aren't circumvented by the next version of the protection... ever wondered why there are very few (if any) public dumper/rebuilders available for removing protection?

[glenbo]

lol so you are saying the current groups of crackers are going to be the only crackers ever? no matter difficultys,secrecy there will always be crackers/hackers or anything else to do with the shady world of internet nerds,because kids are becoming more clever year by year,they will sit back in a few years and laugh at our primative @ss's,you guys act like the current crop are the be all and end all. not so,if you believe that then you may aswell give up now. my only point was that they should stop there petty wars with each other and concentrate on there wars with authoritys and gameing protection etc. why have 10 pretty groups when you can have 1 exellent one? why? because people are to competitve and competition causes delay in this respect.
so no im not in a dream world,im in reality,meet me there when you find it.

[gulian]

Originally Posted by crnelyone

well cracking is difficult. But it seems like the game companys finally have won the war. 3 years ago i'd have said yo can get a crack for every game and the following patches for it. But now, Starforce and all that ****. You can't even burn them anymore. Remember when CloneCD was able to copy every damn copy protected game? Thos times are over. And the time of no-cd cracks also :-(

You know why i use no-cd? Becaus it makes life easier. You don't have to search the game-box in you cupboard. you don't have to lay in the damn disc. It takes round 1-2 Minutes. So i just download a no-cd and that takes me 1time 5 minutes. And for the rest of my life i don't need the cd (only for patches etc.)

But those things like Star****, Daemon-Tools+Mini image
Are just ****! It takes 5minutes to set them up correctly EVER time you want to play (and hell we know there aren't even mini-images for some games).

So it's easier for me to take the damn disc and have the loud cd-rom making stupid noises decreasing my fun while playing.

oh and for the "scene" with their releases i see only this possibility:
get many new crackers to help out.
OR
Invest your time in developing the ultimate cd-burning software.
as we all know from your .nfo's you buy your games so just stop making isos but make images who can be burned with your new coded burn-software and which copy-protection will recognise as original!

By doing the first version you will please those like me who buy their games but hate inserting the disc.
By doing the second version you will please the kiddies and show the game industry that they are fu****

Well wrote.

I would like to add that the more starforce protected games will release and the faster the protection will be broken. (or you can understand the faster it will be needed to be cracked).
Victory for game companies would be significant unbreakable games in household proportion and not in my opinion a few noisy games forasmuch good as they are.