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Rockstar selling you cracked copies on Steam (i.redd.it)

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[-] tun@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

It means cracker fixed the issue for the developer, right?

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 5 points 2 years ago

It means the publisher was too lazy/greedy to remove their ancient DRM themselves and just nabbed the work someone else did, slapped Steam Stub on top and sold it.

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