- Mar 4, 2020
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Early last year the developers implemented increasing levels of patreon-related security checks. While the game originally validated nothing and could just be run post-download, now it actually looks for subscriber-specific information dumped into appdata by the launcher upon login, and without that information will leave you with a fancy screen informing you (in broken English) that you are not a subscriber.You're joking right. The patreon versions are release in tiers 1 week before each tier. You don't need to crack the patreon version, just install the launcher, don't play it, then copy the patreon version over the game files, copy the appdata information, then make sure the registry entries are there (there's actually quite a few), start the launcher but don't log in, click play the game, and enjoy. So yes it can be done as I did it after I canceled my Ascended tier and copied it to 2 different pc's.
This was all talked about in the first few pages of this forum.
This means that, barring a crack to remove the Patreon check, functional downloads of Patreon-specific versions are guaranteed to get the account that leaked them banned. Not many people are willing to make a new throwaway account twice a month (And spend $30 monthly in the process!) just to keep a single game up to date on this forum.