DeadSpace II scene cracked heavy anti-p2p tracking reported

[Guru Zeb]

The header pretty much covers it.
Dead Space II is cracked and available via various trackers. However after less than 24 hours of release heavy anti-p2p tracking is being reported.
Some claiming to have received cease and desist emails already. Apparently peerblock and peerguardian are being circumnavigated by the anti-p2p organizations ( ESA seems most active ), which isn't really hard or anything new.

hmmmmm maybe its time to invest in that proxy or backup Usenet account i've been thinking about ........

Play safe people

[Takeshi]

I've gone away from pirating games a long time ago, never really did largely. I'm more paranoid to be download exe. files than movies for example. I'd much rather play it safe, and wait for Steam sales.

[AceHigh]

In my experience Steam releases have fucked up the game .exe more than any crack with a malware out there.

Valve games work well in Steam, that's about it.

[Takeshi]

In my experience Steam releases have fucked up the game .exe more than any crack with a malware out there.

Valve games work well in Steam, that's about it.

Imo, that's exaggerating. Although it's not uncommon for users to have different experiences. Some games work great for some computers, others won't even launch. For me it's very apparent when I lurk around on the forums.

There's a lot of games that works like crap on Steam because they either don't have comparability for newer OS or they're just bad console ports, but there are also a lot of games that work just perfect.

Dead Space, Batman Arkham Asylum, Modern Warfare, Mirror's Edge, Bioshock and Mass Effect all worked great from the start.

[HSSDamian]

All you have to do is wait a few years for popularity to die down.

[iindigo]

This is where usenet becomes valuable. Unless they track you by having the game phone home (which a big "no-no" in development and can be blocked anyway) there's no way they can track your downloading.

That, and private trackers. I've almost completely abandoned public ones (aside from BBT, of course, since we don't really piss anybody off) in favor of ratio-driven private trackers. It's annoying to have to keep so many different ratios, but the added protection is worth it.

[AceHigh]

Imo, that's exaggerating. Although it's not uncommon for users to have different experiences. Some games work great for some computers, others won't even launch. For me it's very apparent when I lurk around on the forums.

I remember a few years back an old buddy of mine bought Aion on steam. Too, bad, as it was completely unplayable due to steam installing NA instead of EU copy of the game. The hilarious part was that the workaround included dropping steam and install from Aion website using cd-key you got from steam.  I am sure it works now, but fuck! This is just one of many examples where steam fucks up a game at a release.