The games protection isn't working, since I can copy it to a totally different machine and play it, so the image you posted means nothing and it's not working "fantastically well".
The only protection that is working is this forum preventing people from posting a copy of a working patreon release and the most likely ban of the person that posted it. That is the reason there is not a patreon version here, and I do get that, but it was said that it can't be done and a crack was needed, which it can be and there is no crack needed. That was what I replied to and was talking about and you are the one that didn't understand.
Therefore, there really is no real protection in the game keeping it from being copied or posted somewhere.
You haven't even
seen the game's protection. You've mistaken a basic feature of the launcher (hiding the play button when it doesn't know where the game is installed) for a security feature and refused to acknowledge that just maybe, you're barking up the wrong tree.
The developers want you to be able to keep playing the copy of the game you paid for. Your ability to play it sans subscription, even on an entirely different computer, is 100% intended on their part. You bought it, you keep it. That isn't even remotely close to what the security for this game is about, your difficulties with the game's launcher notwithstanding.
I don't know how many different ways I need to say the security feature is designed to convince people the game isn't worth sharing publicly for you to get what I mean. Every single step of this game's security implementation has been focused on punishing the source of a leak rather than the players who download the game. Originally it was just a copy of the patreon ID that gets added to the game's folder. When people figured out where that was stored and started sharing the game again, they updated it so the game wouldn't run without the player's patreon info. The game doesn't make sure the information is still valid, just that it exists. Because, again. This isn't intended to prevent people from playing the game. It's intended to force people who share the game to include personally identifiable information so developers can plug the leak.
The entire point of the theoretical crack everyone here has been talking about is to bypass a single choice the developers have given us: share a copy that won't run due to a lack of personally identifiable credentials, share a copy that will run because it has the credentials (and get that account permanently banned from future updates), or find a way to remove the protections that require personally identifiable credentials to run the game.
The crack isn't for being able to play the game. That's easy. It's for being able to share the game without losing the ability to update in the future. If you're so insistent the game doesn't need to be cracked, please. Be our guest. Take option two of the choice, share everything needed to make the game run. Get your canceled Patreon account permanently banned from their Patreon. Your account info from appdata will probably work just fine for the current version of the game too, because the game doesn't verify current status.
Edit: I just figured out an apt comparison for this conversation. It's like if someone said those alarms at the front door of a store that go off when you try to walk out with a tagged product prevent theft, and you came in and said no, they can still walk out of the store just fine. And despite people pointing out that if you do they'll have you on camera and there will be repercussions for doing so, you continued to insist that no, they didn't work at all because you walked out of the store with the product after buying it. Basically, you refuse to acknowledge that a deterrent exists and functions as intended, since it only prevents an action by increasing the potential cost of doing so. (In this example, the "crack" would be breaking the alarm and CCTV system in a way that doesn't get noticed.)
Oh it matters. I am pretty sure he would get more Income/Pay etc, if he would give all the content out instead of paywalling. A bunch of people give out the stuff by 4 or 5 versions behind, and do very well by it. The Little Things are what really matters.
The content withheld from Steam versions at the moment is literally two cocks. That's it. Every other piece of content that Patreon has and Steam doesn't is just because Patreon updates faster. All of that will wind up in Steam during the next update.
Technically, that is a crack, and it does still need to be cracked, as without those key verification files, any upload of the game itself here would be unplayable, but I see your point. Pirating this game is significantly more difficult than a lot of the other games on here because of the verification system, which means anyone sharing patron builds is putting their access to the game at risk. Obviously this isn't really worth the effort since all that content is released in a far easier to pirate version every three months, so talk of cracking the patreon versions with user verification files has almost completely died out among the veterans of the thread.
I mean, the funny part about this whole thing is that from what I can gather, Raistln successfully copied everything needed to run the game and then wasn't actually able to play because they insisted on running it through the launcher rather than just, you know. Running the game. Then wound up doing extra work just to tell an old version of the launcher where the game is installed.
