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Cool We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but You're too shy to say it Inside, we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you (Ooh, give you up) (Ooh, give you up) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but You're too shy to say it Inside, we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
@@capybara9521 they have already delayed the game multiple times. They release it to make it to the financial year. They were just over their head about how much they can do.
@hell there's no real reason to run higher. I have 75fps limit set in rtss because that's the sweet spot for smoothness vs hardware requirements regardless of title on my setup
I'll never forget when I went onto a forum and asked why my camera was constantly shaking, and they all called me a pirate etc. Except, I wasn't. I had bought it legally, and was too young at the time to even understand DRM
When I was 12, I went on the wikia chatroom for Skyrim. I responded to a message from a guy talking about a bug and said "Yeah, my copy does that all the time." Some mod absolutely went IN on me for piracy because they thought I meant a literal copy. I was confused as shit. Got banned, lol.
@@user-cg8zi2wk3l I remember when my father bought me this game and I had all those issues, specially the drunk camera part. So yeah, more people who bought it were more affected by the anti-piracy measures than the pirates themselfs.
Funny thing is, somehow years ago I found a workaround to make badly cracked version work. I had the first (faulty?) crack from razor1911, which had issues with drunk camera and smoke on cars. Somehow turning on the game, loading save, getting to the point that drunk camera was activated, turning off the game and turning it on again made it absolutely gone. Completed the game this way, years later bought full game just from nostalgia.
@@Unfrightable Really? Really? How is this major? Some people buy, some people don't. I usually pirate games I wanna try out, and then I usually delete them after a while. I sometimes buy games too, proud to own GTA 4, but pirating is chill. It's not like stealing a physical copy. It costs nothing to sell it, all they do is price it for how much they spent making it. They still made over a billion dollars for GTA 4, do you think that with all the people that cracked the game, caused Rockstar Games to not see a profit? No.
I remember playing the original game for a couple of months then the anti piracy messures started taking effect, being an 11 year old who didn't undestand how cracks work and how to fix it, I had to expirement with the game and found out that if you RPG yourself right when the game loads and before the drunk camera starts the game will work normaly, I couldn't do this again when after revisiting the game on my old pc years later
I played the EFLC before the main game back in 2011 and I did run into the Police Car problem. The same happened with the main game in 2012 but I never had the drunk camera or damaged cars. Only the cop computer was my problem. Fast forward two years later when I had the Steam version of both games installed and they were performing worse than the pirated ones. Classic Rockstar.
@@teslashark Is it the Steam version? They kinda fixed this problem. That doesn't mean the game's all set and ready to play, though. My friend has a 2070 Super and he can't run the game.
@@Needformadness2the first versions were released a few hours after release, I was there as a poor teen lmao. Some of the anti piracy issues were there but it seemed random because some people were effected and some weren't
Thats kind of the idea in all honesty. The most sales for AAA games come in the first few days or first week. The hype is up, people buying their pre-orders, stores running out of copies on day 2 or 3. Even R* knew they couldnt defeat the Warez scene back then. It WILL get cracked, but wanted to delay them as much as possible atleast for that initial profit boom.
Its kinda ironic because Notch said himself that piracy help the developer as more people play it and vill be inclined to buy it. Same with the music industry.
@@xL1PEx exactly. and if they get to try out the game first. its more likely that they will buy the game. Now that we dont get game demos like we used to. I can understand why people pirate games even if its wrong.
@@selectdevotee6810 Media piracy is very poorly documented and does not factor in lots of variables such as: Do people buy the game after pirating it, do they pirate it to demo, do they react negatively or positively after pirating it and recommending it to people that are able to buy it, or would they buy it if it was possible to otherwise legally acquire it on their region. Without taking all of that into consideration media piracy still just takes 4.4% of profits from the companies, most likely less if all of those variables are taken into account.
"In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable." -Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve (the company behind Steam), in an interview with Cambridge Student from 2011
@@grosdoorne I'm not sure whether this was an anti-piracy measure but that's what happened in my version of the game. During the last cutscene at the end of "Burning desire" mission Denise went to her house's door said goodbye to CJ and then, for some reason, ran to the nearby car took the driver out and started a fight with him. Cutscene never ended. Also, it's pretty much impossible to complete "Key to her heart" with hot coffee mode installed because the "pleasure" is somehow broken, so you always fail to make Millie CJ's girlfriend and as a result all Caligula heist is inaccessible from this point. However, it might be due to frame limiter
Then play the so-called "remastered version" on the Consoles (Xbox 360, PS3, & Xbox One). It has tons of bugs and glitches that makes it look like anti-piracy measures, lol.
"Big losses due to piracy" Citation needed. EU study showed inconclusive but neutral results from piracy. Meaning if it was conclusive it would've been neutral or even positive. But because error bars exist it was inconclusive.
Actually piracy is very popular in modern world, you can go on any torrent and see how much time GTA 4 was downloaded from them. It's like millions downloads. I hate DRMs but I understand that game developers couldn't survive on PC without them.
When CD''s were still a thing, if you stole one from a store or say an 18 wheeler carrying 10 thousand physical CD's of the game crashed into a lake, the company would take a loss. Now, there is Zero loss with digital copies. People who are prone to buying games will still buy the games. People who pirated the games that don't normally buy games will often buy the game after pirating. Pirating is a Win Win for everyone.
I'd just like to thank the pirates, because I literally can't play the game that I own due to Windows online and Rockstar launcher shenanigans otherwise.
You need to thank Rockstar and take 2 for wasting si much resources into pranking a small group of people. Not the poor people living in shacks that can barely run the game on their old parts PC.
will you make a video about rdr2 piracy protection? The game took a solid year to be cracked, and in my opinion, there should be a bunch of silly protections in that game.
There's only one, the game keep trying to connect with the internet when you are playing so mr goldberg found a way to play off-line and empress did the license it took a year bc of that
It's truly amazing that to stop piracy R* caused issues with paying customers with customers who made the mistake of not wanting a rootkit (SecuRom) on their computers. Made those pesky pirates wait a whole week instead of having the game cracked within the hour. 🙃
Oh yeah the drunk camera! I was still a kid back then and I was playing it in an internet cafe so I didn't knew what was that about.Eventually i fixed this problem somehow but here's the thing. The game was moded, to be honest the only reason I started playing TBOGT in a net cafe was the fact that the owner put real, licensed cars in the game BUT there was a mission where I needed to pick up 2 passengers with a Landstalker. Problem is that in its place there was a 2-door Hummer prototype so one of the passengers couldn't get in XD
I finished GTA 4 and EFLC on xbox 360 using bootleg discs that were super cheap. Looks like Rockstar games forget to add anti-piracy measures on consoles HAAA!!
This also started the anti boobytrapyness for copy protections as well. Even some threw themselves on the bandwagon later, Bohemia with Flashpoint bragged of FADE, but FADE never existed in the base game. It was introduced with patches later, however it's lifetime was quickly squashed when it did surface and a lot of pirates never saw it appear. But the triggers for regular users eventually made most developers shy away from this practice as they did burn quite a few legitimate customers, and in the grand scheme of things back then, protection for 3-4 days wasn't really worth it. The slowness of the supply chain meant that even for legitmate users, you couldn't get it on day 1, so unless you secured a month it wasn't that worthwhile and as such they often got the pirated version before you could get in the store. This was before fast internet was a thing too, so as a result downloading also took quite a bit of time to do.
@@Hans5958 I think he meant the actual person playing, whoever does that speedrun is going to be staying home for about a week until they get their balance back
Some interesting anti-piracy measures there indeed😮 always enjoy watching these videos, certainly makes for quite a learning experience in itself, along with the amount of work/research that goes into producing this fantastic content too!👍👏
this game took 3 days to crack...and more than 4 years since its release in 2009 to 2013 when the steam posts from the video were complaining about the anti-piracy measures for rockstar to fix🤣
The best way to get a pirated copy to work as the original one was to use any cd key in game for windows live for any game that used same client. I used my cdkey for Fallout 3 I bought for literally equivalent of 1$.
12:00 - There is a bug in the game when I reach the mission shown in the 12th minute despite me having a legitimate copy of the game on Steam. The game goes into an infinite loading screen. Pretty strange that even legitimate players are punished.
@@tostadorafuriosa69 Exactly man. I have the same issue with my game I couldn't finish. quite annoying that I couldn't even complete my game despite paying for the whole damn game. lol.
Vadim M here saying that EFLC taking 4 days to crack was long, meanwhile these days any AAA game with heavy protection getting cracked within that amount of time is considered a miracle from God.
I always tried to call police backup when I had to kill enemies. Mostly all police officers were busy, but sometimes they came and started shooting with other guys. But I had to call them a bit far away from the enemies and try to luck they will arrive from their side. Than I just walked in, gangsters started shooting to me and police reacted.
All these measures taken, yet I remember just copying the GTA IV folder over and easily playing it without steam or a cd. (had license but copied it for modding)
Did anyone else notice the steep drop-off in quality of games the more advanced the copy protection got? Seems like piracy actually resulted in people choosing the games they buy more wisely and rewarding only the better quality ones. Today, you can't do that anymore, and people still want games - so now all the games are either terrible quality or remakes (with only a few exceptions, mostly by independent devs).
If only they put even half this much effort into remastering San Andreas. Instead of just running the game through some software, not even checking it for all the glitches and then selling it.
In my childhood , I bought GTA 4 and EFLC from my local game store . And this protections apperead to me even I have a geniune game . At the time I thought they were bugs and now 6 years later I know the truth.
If someone is going to torrent a game, it's likely not ever going to be a sale. I'll never understand DRM. If I like a game I pay for it after I try it. All these modern titles being so trash..yeah I'll continue my own demos.
I torrent games and if I get bored of them after a couple of hours or it's badly optimezed, I won't buy it. If its fun,i buy it for all my platforms, since I actually enjoyyyy them.
I actually bought a game I pirated because I enjoyed it, then when I tried to play it I got constant crashes and cutscenes wouldn't play. The pirated version, on the other hand, worked perfectly. That's what I get for buying games, I guess.
@@eneco3965 same thing happened to me, I pirated rainbow six vegas 2 on pc. Worked really well, then i bought the ps3 version on psn to play coop with a friend and the audio was completely broken, to the point that story missions became umplayable.
The fact that you can combine the weakened cars AND self driving to turn them into land torpedoes, means the pirated version has features that weirdos like me want to play with, like the serious sam scorpion.
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Gta king
Cool
We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but
You're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
(Ooh, give you up)
(Ooh, give you up)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but
You're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
GTA sa remastered is garbage part 2
Please make Why Remaster version of GTA San Andreas is gabage Part 2
do a vid about upcoming Underground patch
They focused more on piracy than PC optimisation. Smh
There will always be a way to crack a game 🙄
They should definitely have delayed the game a bit before releasing it, and Mike (Niko's VA) deserves better.
@@TheBreakingBenny like cyberpunk2077
@@capybara9521 they have already delayed the game multiple times. They release it to make it to the financial year. They were just over their head about how much they can do.
Well they piracy isnt that hard, if u not activated rockstar society and keep offline.. So the piracy system wont working
The Police backup option is actually useful. It's even used in some speedrun categories to quickly spawn a cop and steal their gun.
I'd listen to this guy. He can 100% San Andreas in 5 mins or so.
Or you can call them
Alwin Showi prob takes longer
@@ffgfdg123 tbh I never used the police backup in the game so I had no idea, I thought it took just as long
I used it for a brand new police car for the police missions
They did a good job at making the game unplayable for the people that paid for the game too.
i got it on steam and had 0 problems on windows 10 lol
@@menel5650 magic. I play this game time to time always have problems
@@molodoy.. similar story to me. 5820k @ 4.5ghz and a 1080ti regularly seen 30fps. Went to a 5800x and it's stable at 75fps
@hell there's no real reason to run higher. I have 75fps limit set in rtss because that's the sweet spot for smoothness vs hardware requirements regardless of title on my setup
@@menel5650 could you play it when it launched?
It's true. R* probably spent more time making troll hidden anti piracy measure than making the game itself playable with stable fps on PC.
@@Valet2 isnt the pc version just a console port ?
Didn't have any problem with the PC version.
There’s some loading issues, I drive then props pop up
Never had a problem with it on PC too
Yeah GTAIV on pc has a really bad performance but still playable.
The real anti-piracy measure is it requiring a GFWL account.
more like AWFL
atleast GFWL is dead af, they were replaced with Rockstar Games Launcher, but they also get rid of Multiplayer.
Use RunAsDate with any date before May 2019
@@silverstar254 just install an así loader as xlive or simply use xliveless
@@kenpanderz672 Awful Windows F-u-c-king Life
You know it's Christmas time when Vadim M uploads twice within a month.
It's the same video but with different audio
Darth Vader don't watch it then
@@Theunfriendlyneighborhoodman i think he's talking about the gta 3 video.
@@K0rnphl3x he's just explaining the difference between the videos
Niko let's go bowling !
I'll never forget when I went onto a forum and asked why my camera was constantly shaking, and they all called me a pirate etc. Except, I wasn't. I had bought it legally, and was too young at the time to even understand DRM
When I was 12, I went on the wikia chatroom for Skyrim. I responded to a message from a guy talking about a bug and said "Yeah, my copy does that all the time."
Some mod absolutely went IN on me for piracy because they thought I meant a literal copy. I was confused as shit. Got banned, lol.
More people who bought the game legally suffered due to these "anti-piracy" measures than actual pirates as always
lmao
How exactly? Don't tell me the anti-piracy measures are still running even though the copy was bought legally.
@@user-cg8zi2wk3l Yes, it was mentioned in the video
@@user-cg8zi2wk3l I remember when my father bought me this game and I had all those issues, specially the drunk camera part. So yeah, more people who bought it were more affected by the anti-piracy measures than the pirates themselfs.
Probably due to SecuROM not detecting properly the license
Yep anti piracy nonsense fucks over the consumer not the pirate denuvo is the next securom and once it's servers die thoes games are fucked
Funny thing is, somehow years ago I found a workaround to make badly cracked version work. I had the first (faulty?) crack from razor1911, which had issues with drunk camera and smoke on cars. Somehow turning on the game, loading save, getting to the point that drunk camera was activated, turning off the game and turning it on again made it absolutely gone. Completed the game this way, years later bought full game just from nostalgia.
nooo you pirated a million year old game and stole enjoyment from a multimilliondollar company
@@Unfrightable Really? Really? How is this major? Some people buy, some people don't. I usually pirate games I wanna try out, and then I usually delete them after a while. I sometimes buy games too, proud to own GTA 4, but pirating is chill. It's not like stealing a physical copy. It costs nothing to sell it, all they do is price it for how much they spent making it. They still made over a billion dollars for GTA 4, do you think that with all the people that cracked the game, caused Rockstar Games to not see a profit? No.
I remember playing the original game for a couple of months then the anti piracy messures started taking effect, being an 11 year old who didn't undestand how cracks work and how to fix it, I had to expirement with the game and found out that if you RPG yourself right when the game loads and before the drunk camera starts the game will work normaly, I couldn't do this again when after revisiting the game on my old pc years later
i like how you have the background of home-resonance song
razor1911's worked for me
The best crack protection this game had back then, was that it ran and still runs terrible on many PCs.
my shitty laptop runs good tho
@Eirenarch i dont crash i dont felt any lag i felt nothing wrong with performence on the game
@Eirenarch most are medium. night shadow are on. View distence is 40 and i get around 40-60 on average
@Eirenarch the only issue i face is sometime i go too fast that the city doesn't load sometime
@Eirenarch intel core i3 4gb and a hdd 1tb. its a laptop
I played the EFLC before the main game back in 2011 and I did run into the Police Car problem. The same happened with the main game in 2012 but I never had the drunk camera or damaged cars. Only the cop computer was my problem. Fast forward two years later when I had the Steam version of both games installed and they were performing worse than the pirated ones. Classic Rockstar.
Bought original GTA4 in 2017, got missing textures left and right, and the game doesn't even recognize my 1070
@@teslashark Is it the Steam version? They kinda fixed this problem. That doesn't mean the game's all set and ready to play, though. My friend has a 2070 Super and he can't run the game.
@@Behdad47 Yeah, Steam. Took me a whole week to get around GFWL, already forgot how I fixed the textures
@@teslashark GFWL was removed back in March. Reinstall the game and I'll help you get it running again.
The fact that I need the rockstar launcher to play gta 4 pisses me off and then again it doesn’t spawn at all
It’s always a great day when Vadim M uploads a video.
💩
Yes!
*BadgerGoodger
Ofc
@@riadinrisanto4766 *Vadim goodger
Yet another anti-piracy implementation that accomplished nothing but making pirates wait a few days while some paying players got punished
Not even a few days. Usually just extra few hours
@@TheMartuksxxxx it says in the video it took 4 days
@@Needformadness2the first versions were released a few hours after release, I was there as a poor teen lmao. Some of the anti piracy issues were there but it seemed random because some people were effected and some weren't
First day sales matter
Thats kind of the idea in all honesty. The most sales for AAA games come in the first few days or first week. The hype is up, people buying their pre-orders, stores running out of copies on day 2 or 3.
Even R* knew they couldnt defeat the Warez scene back then. It WILL get cracked, but wanted to delay them as much as possible atleast for that initial profit boom.
So, the best way to play GTAIV is by cracking it. Even if you own the legit copy 👍
This is not a joke btw.
Downgrading to anything below patch 8 means getting xliveless or a cracked exe.
yeah to even use mods or fan-made patches you have to downgrade it, which means you basically have to crack it.
@@howaboutsomesoyfood u can use mods on the steam Version?
It's funny that the game's so scuffed due to DRM and anti-piracy measures that the optimal version of it is now the pirated one.
Its kinda ironic because Notch said himself that piracy help the developer as more people play it and vill be inclined to buy it.
Same with the music industry.
Tasslar 15:38
@@selectdevotee6810 That's a load of BS. People who don't wanna buy the game are just not going to.
@@xL1PEx exactly. and if they get to try out the game first. its more likely that they will buy the game. Now that we dont get game demos like we used to. I can understand why people pirate games even if its wrong.
@@selectdevotee6810 Media piracy is very poorly documented and does not factor in lots of variables such as:
Do people buy the game after pirating it, do they pirate it to demo, do they react negatively or positively after pirating it and recommending it to people that are able to buy it, or would they buy it if it was possible to otherwise legally acquire it on their region. Without taking all of that into consideration media piracy still just takes 4.4% of profits from the companies, most likely less if all of those variables are taken into account.
"In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable."
-Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve (the company behind Steam), in an interview with Cambridge Student from 2011
And they still pirated GTA 4 themselves and released it on Steam lol
wow 15 year old channel
? I dont get it
@@cheeseburger9745 well i bought the game from steam and the anti piracy measures still got activated
@@norhazman6276 damn thats bad did you fix it?
@@cheeseburger9745 no
I want to see some GTA San Andreas' anti-piracy.
seems like there was no anti-piracy protection in GTASA.. if you know something about it text to Vadim with e-mail
there is none
Me too
@@grosdoorne I'm not sure whether this was an anti-piracy measure but that's what happened in my version of the game. During the last cutscene at the end of "Burning desire" mission Denise went to her house's door said goodbye to CJ and then, for some reason, ran to the nearby car took the driver out and started a fight with him. Cutscene never ended. Also, it's pretty much impossible to complete "Key to her heart" with hot coffee mode installed because the "pleasure" is somehow broken, so you always fail to make Millie CJ's girlfriend and as a result all Caligula heist is inaccessible from this point. However, it might be due to frame limiter
Then play the so-called "remastered version" on the Consoles (Xbox 360, PS3, & Xbox One).
It has tons of bugs and glitches that makes it look like anti-piracy measures, lol.
"Big losses due to piracy" Citation needed. EU study showed inconclusive but neutral results from piracy. Meaning if it was conclusive it would've been neutral or even positive. But because error bars exist it was inconclusive.
Actually piracy is very popular in modern world, you can go on any torrent and see how much time GTA 4 was downloaded from them. It's like millions downloads. I hate DRMs but I understand that game developers couldn't survive on PC without them.
@@MegaSmouke Well what are people to do?
games on PC are subject to a lot of hoping it runs well even when they exceed system requirements.
When CD''s were still a thing, if you stole one from a store or say an 18 wheeler carrying 10 thousand physical CD's of the game crashed into a lake, the company would take a loss. Now, there is Zero loss with digital copies. People who are prone to buying games will still buy the games. People who pirated the games that don't normally buy games will often buy the game after pirating. Pirating is a Win Win for everyone.
@@MegaSmouke you sure? Witcher 3 had no DRM and it sold like hotcakes on PC
@@MegaSmouke they could though... and they have!
The definitive trilogy itself is piracy protection.
6:12 Ford Pinto in a nutshell
Person: Slightly taps their Pinto bumper
Ford Pinto:
That car is so fragile 😂
I'm brazilian and here Pinto is a slang for Penis
@@Lucas66393 in our language filipino "pinto" just means door
I can confirm that on legal copies today you can still trigger anti piracy by downgrading or adding mods. Its happend to me multiple times
Anything affecting the launch of the game will be perceived that way if it detects the startup script is affected
The most effective anti piracy measure rockstar added was not adding optimisation
All of cyberpumk 2077 feels like an anti piracy trap
oof
emotional damage
I remember my friend telling about how his game was bugged with the drunken camera for no reason, now i know why ;)
🍭
I had the Problem myself with Anti Crack Shit activating but it was a legimite Copy (i bought it via Steam)
not really, it happened on legal version too
woke up to pee, stayed up for Vadim
I'd just like to thank the pirates, because I literally can't play the game that I own due to Windows online and Rockstar launcher shenanigans otherwise.
Glad
You need to thank Rockstar and take 2 for wasting si much resources into pranking a small group of people.
Not the poor people living in shacks that can barely run the game on their old parts PC.
I try to do it once and the map and entire game didn't load i get a infinite loading screen
The pirates are Not responsible for the actions of Rockstar.
will you make a video about rdr2 piracy protection? The game took a solid year to be cracked, and in my opinion, there should be a bunch of silly protections in that game.
There's only one, the game keep trying to connect with the internet when you are playing so mr goldberg found a way to play off-line and empress did the license it took a year bc of that
@@iMischaa wow. This is impressive.
The game used the same DRM (not denuvo) named Arxan. Used in the newer installments of (COD WW2 to COD BO CW) COD and Gears 5
@@mr-qt5oc yeah Arxan+RGSC DRM
@@iMischaa A bit shitty that you need online to play a single player game, as if everyone had good connection...
At the end the pirate clean version ('cause all of those traps were bypassed eventually) ended up being a better port than steam's lmao
Who wants GTA San Andreas Remastered is garbage part 2?
Me
@@user-sl5zk3vc5p ok
i do
Same
I do.
If I ever make a game, I’m gonna make the piracy beatable, because if you can complete a game on this difficult of piracy you deserve it.
That Mean You Want Your Game Give The Player "Hard Mode" If They Crack Your Game?
Wait, a minute, that can be interesting level of difficulty.
if you beat the game you get a chance to send a request to the developer for the actual game
@@noone3708 That would be nice from the developers.
Well in the 5th gen Pokemon games if you have a pirated copy you can't level up, which games the game way harder, but stills beatable.
After 6 years i discovered that the camera shake wasn't because of my bad laptop,but because it was a cracked game. Holy shit.
1k in 8 min that’s how you know we love Vadim
It's truly amazing that to stop piracy R* caused issues with paying customers with customers who made the mistake of not wanting a rootkit (SecuRom) on their computers. Made those pesky pirates wait a whole week instead of having the game cracked within the hour. 🙃
Oh yeah the drunk camera! I was still a kid back then and I was playing it in an internet cafe so I didn't knew what was that about.Eventually i fixed this problem somehow but here's the thing. The game was moded, to be honest the only reason I started playing TBOGT in a net cafe was the fact that the owner put real, licensed cars in the game BUT there was a mission where I needed to pick up 2 passengers with a Landstalker. Problem is that in its place there was a 2-door Hummer prototype so one of the passengers couldn't get in XD
Gonna admit... Luis and Johnny K with the pirate hats made me chuckle
2:48 Jim: *Cat Mario jumping sound effect*
I was waiting for a long time....
Thanks for the video
My alarm sounds but i sleep one hour more, now i discover i lost the moment to comment a Vadim M video...
I love Badger's voice. So soothing to listen to. He's by far the best narrator here. :>
Agreed 🥰
You are morally required to pirate any game with lame anti-piracy measures that hurt non-pirates too. And you aren't a 'freeloader' for doing so.
I personally find the self-driving feature fun, as you can use the infamous Swingset Of Death, without dying as the car drives itself.
Ah yes. Welcome notifications gang
I bet they would do more money if they just invest those efforts in making more features instead of doing anti-piracy shit.
Wait it hasn't been 3 months how could you upload this soon
I finished GTA 4 and EFLC on xbox 360 using bootleg discs that were super cheap. Looks like Rockstar games forget to add anti-piracy measures on consoles HAAA!!
I played both Liberty city stories and vice city stories on bootleg PS2 discs.
hmm is that flulff kevlar art i see?
didn't expect that vadim would upload under 1 month
I have actually finished GTA IV on cracked version 😅
I finished eflc with cracked version
@@shitgod109 I finished vice city with the cracked version
I am so proud of you
This also started the anti boobytrapyness for copy protections as well.
Even some threw themselves on the bandwagon later, Bohemia with Flashpoint bragged of FADE, but FADE never existed in the base game.
It was introduced with patches later, however it's lifetime was quickly squashed when it did surface and a lot of pirates never saw it appear.
But the triggers for regular users eventually made most developers shy away from this practice as they did burn quite a few legitimate customers, and in the grand scheme of things back then, protection for 3-4 days wasn't really worth it.
The slowness of the supply chain meant that even for legitmate users, you couldn't get it on day 1, so unless you secured a month it wasn't that worthwhile and as such they often got the pirated version before you could get in the store.
This was before fast internet was a thing too, so as a result downloading also took quite a bit of time to do.
These were patch like 2 days after release. However, the game was never optimized by rockstar...
When I start to play GTA IV in early 2011 was a pirate copy and I never see any of this anti piracy modes that rockstar puts in the game.
Because the anti piracy stuff was defeated 4 days after the games release
Gta eflc is one of my favorite videos can’t wait to see this
15:47 - "Games suffered back then".
There is a research proving piracy boosts sales that torrentfreak kept reposting...
Yeah I don't get why people still say that shit to this day when a simple search could disprove that
@@absolutemadlad4334 delusions of self-righteousness.
what about the one in TLAD where we have to pick up a girl at an airport? the wanted system will be disabled and the mission cannot be continued
Up next: The Definitive Edition Trilogy's Anti Piracy measures; Not letting you play the fucking game for four days after release.
If it were up to me I would have "BUMBACLOT" looping at extreme volume for the whole game and causing a earthquake each time and delete all cars
I'm a guitarist. But these videos are so interesting. I hardly even play guitar anymore
someone should do the speed run with drunk camera
So you want people to die for entertainment
@@kochschinkenheinz6695 According to Twitch viewers messing with the Chaos Mod, yes.
@@Hans5958 I think he meant the actual person playing, whoever does that speedrun is going to be staying home for about a week until they get their balance back
Bro I love this guys editing style, it’s so neat
Some interesting anti-piracy measures there indeed😮 always enjoy watching these videos, certainly makes for quite a learning experience in itself, along with the amount of work/research that goes into producing this fantastic content too!👍👏
The Drunk Camera is hilarious in cutscenes and shootouts. I wonder if anyone completed the whole game with all these anti-piracy effects.
We need a GTA V version of this masterpiece.
Anant Sharma good luck on that, Take Two took down a remaster of red dead redemptions map in gta 5
Or better RDR2. It's interesting why it took so long to be cracked
@@raxpyraxp from what ive heard the DRM for RDR2 actually had to be emulated instead of removed
1:55 RIP that one random dude
Killed by the swingset of death and ghost car
2008-2008
They put more effort into hiding piracy measures than properly optimizing the game on PC
this game took 3 days to crack...and more than 4 years since its release in 2009 to 2013 when the steam posts from the video were complaining about the anti-piracy measures for rockstar to fix🤣
5:37 - Why was it blurred, I’m sure it’s to dodge with...RUclips policies?
No, it's for people who hasn't played the game to avoid spoilers
Wasn't expecting this in my Recommend today...
And the fact it is another Hidden Anti-Piracy Measures is icing on cake
It would be extremely interesting to see someone try to speedrun this version of the game. anti-piracy%
The best way to get a pirated copy to work as the original one was to use any cd key in game for windows live for any game that used same client. I used my cdkey for Fallout 3 I bought for literally equivalent of 1$.
Bikers are always drunk or high so that’s just normal 😂
this type of cancerous DRM is why I will always support piracy
people are gonna find ways around protections like this regardless. should've focused on better optimization on pcs.
I cracked the game and I didn't even encounter any of those. Seems like I'm pretty smart for a pirate
Hate to break the news but you qre not smart, the anti piracy stiff was defeated in 4 days
Same here.
Thanks for the hard work you do for us.
Yoi
I hope you never run out of content
Wow dude! Two videos in the same month?!? Awesome!!! 😁👍
12:00 - There is a bug in the game when I reach the mission shown in the 12th minute despite me having a legitimate copy of the game on Steam. The game goes into an infinite loading screen. Pretty strange that even legitimate players are punished.
its a bug that happens to a lot of people.
@@tostadorafuriosa69 Do you know any fix for it by any chance?
@@michealdesanta3605 i dont know sorry, it was the reason i could complete tbogt on pc. if i knew i would tell you.
@@tostadorafuriosa69 Exactly man. I have the same issue with my game I couldn't finish. quite annoying that I couldn't even complete my game despite paying for the whole damn game. lol.
Vadim M here saying that EFLC taking 4 days to crack was long, meanwhile these days any AAA game with heavy protection getting cracked within that amount of time is considered a miracle from God.
For example Red Dead Redemption 2, it was cracked after one year
@@outlaw_of_adlers We still got 4 year old uncracked games, like NFS 2015 or the legendary Handball 17.
@@cannedbeverage7687 yes, I mean Rockstar Games
@@outlaw_of_adlers Well, the online modes of GTA 5 and RDR2 still aren't cracked.
@@cannedbeverage7687 it ain't possible to crack online I believe
I always tried to call police backup when I had to kill enemies. Mostly all police officers were busy, but sometimes they came and started shooting with other guys. But I had to call them a bit far away from the enemies and try to luck they will arrive from their side. Than I just walked in, gangsters started shooting to me and police reacted.
Would like to have thes "Features" as a Kind Trainer xD
Finally, I thought this would never happen.
0:28 “meant to slow down crackers”
So this game doesn’t like white ppl got it 🤣
Supreme "comedy"
yes
"gotta clean up the streets,yo"
All these measures taken, yet I remember just copying the GTA IV folder over and easily playing it without steam or a cd. (had license but copied it for modding)
2:07 that part made me laugh and my blunt fell out my mouth
Cringe stoner
@Milk's The One it was but its fine i burn myself all the time from the ashes falling off it
@Milk's The One me too then i would not have to grab my pipe to put it in
what is blunt
@@realcartoongirl some type of weed
Rockstar logic: there will be zero piracy if the game doesnt run
The voice is good. Almost too good. Nobody speaks like that for real. If they did, they'd definitely get punched.
Did anyone else notice the steep drop-off in quality of games the more advanced the copy protection got?
Seems like piracy actually resulted in people choosing the games they buy more wisely and rewarding only the better quality ones. Today, you can't do that anymore, and people still want games - so now all the games are either terrible quality or remakes (with only a few exceptions, mostly by independent devs).
i like how he's saying freeloader instead of player
I've never played this game completely through. I just dicked around with my friends when they came over
Some RDR content next please!
If only they put even half this much effort into remastering San Andreas. Instead of just running the game through some software, not even checking it for all the glitches and then selling it.
Badger goodger after being promised to be realised from vadim m's basment if he voices videos be like:
Lemickey has -6 rings in my book 🤡
In my childhood , I bought GTA 4 and EFLC from my local game store . And this protections apperead to me even I have a geniune game . At the time I thought they were bugs and now 6 years later I know the truth.
If someone is going to torrent a game, it's likely not ever going to be a sale.
I'll never understand DRM.
If I like a game I pay for it after I try it.
All these modern titles being so trash..yeah I'll continue my own demos.
I torrent games and if I get bored of them after a couple of hours or it's badly optimezed, I won't buy it. If its fun,i buy it for all my platforms, since I actually enjoyyyy them.
I actually bought a game I pirated because I enjoyed it, then when I tried to play it I got constant crashes and cutscenes wouldn't play. The pirated version, on the other hand, worked perfectly. That's what I get for buying games, I guess.
@@eneco3965 same thing happened to me, I pirated rainbow six vegas 2 on pc. Worked really well, then i bought the ps3 version on psn to play coop with a friend and the audio was completely broken, to the point that story missions became umplayable.
It looks like i always had best working cracks back then.
these pirates are the real god!
I had the problem with cars accelerating by themselves on a fully licensed copy but I thought my controller was faulty.
Does the PS3 and xbox 360 versions of gta 4 and eflc have anti piracy?
no
No, which is why some people in the comments are saying they bought cheap discs for a eastern euro shop for cheap and beat the game
The fact that you can combine the weakened cars AND self driving to turn them into land torpedoes, means the pirated version has features that weirdos like me want to play with, like the serious sam scorpion.