Welp. Looks like I was right. They keys are tied to individual accounts. It's alreay been established that you need to connect to the internet the first time to register the machine on their server so it "unlocks" the game. What they are probably doing it matching the device IP and location to a particular authorization ID. This means if another pc tries to connect with the same credentails, the server will see this and block it in addition to notifying the owners who then ban that account.
The big issue is after this, no one will risk an account. This is because (I don't know if they do this but they could), you enter your payment info on Patreon and click agree to legal contracts. What the developer could do is add a clause where if you share your patreon key, they could fine you $250 or something and since your payment is already connected to paypal, they just charge your account. The only way to bypass this is to buy one of those visa pre-paid gift cards. At this point I don't think anyone would be willing to do that and create a seperate patreon account. Lastly they could IP ban your device so you now need (A new throw-away patreon account, pre-paid debit card for payment, and a device you don't mind getting banned).
What interests me is it looks like the entire game downloads. It's not like you connect to a server and then download the rest of the game (no doubt they will now switch to this method) so you have everything installed locally. This means there is a file somewhere that is looking for a true/false value to be filled. You don't need to change your pc name or anything. You need to find this root file that controls everything (assuming the game is not setup in a tree-branch matrix where several files rely on one another to confirm identity making cracking much harder). The only way to find this file is to go though EVERY file for the game and decode it. This could take weeks to do and no one in their right mind would do that for free.
I do not know how to crack. I just have a lot of IT experience in cyber and am thinking about how the developers would block the crack.
You need to decrypt the file {timestamp}.byte located into %appdata%/FurryVNE/cache/1/*.byte
Thats all
If you want to study the code i suggest you get older build as they now obfuscated the shit out anything that use that file
if you want the whole dialog tree for authentication online its simple
Connect to patreon return you are connected to patreon we dont care about this one because it can fail but it ok even if there no pledge they just check that the patreon login was a success
after that they go to yl2Cloud/verify-user that all the magic
the argument of the post request are
SessionID from unity, passwords, HardwareID
the password are multiple sha hash 15 in totate separated by "," as delimiter
the HardwareId is your device unique identifier
If you failed login to patreon the backend return {Valid : false, Reason : "login"}
if you failed the pledge check {Valid : false, Reason : "pledge" }
if you are banned {Valid : false, Reason : "banned" }
if all good the backend return a byte stream that is the 103kb byte file located in appdata
I bet money that it contain decrypted
Hardware id, username, game version, and some needed stuff for the meshes and texture to work
There no black magic here and dont try the only true or false to be set if it was that simple replacing jz by jmp will solve our problem but the game take the same path for online and offline as a code flow the only thing that make it change are the fields and they are mostly arrays and there is too much of them to attempt to patch them all
i dont think they are as stupid as the heat devs and let an true false easy open door as also they have a concrete example of what you need to not do
the key is the decrypted file it will solve all the inner working of the whole protection
Will this change the whole game structure? If yes, they would just waste a lot of time to make the almost pirate-free game instead of upgrading the content of the game, that will cause the loss of patrons, that donate to see more content, not to see the most Fort-Knox-similar program
they will not make the file download from cloud for one absolute reason bandwith is Expensive as fuck imagine if we needed to download files each time you launch the fucking game mumtiply that by the user base and add 20 or more % to account for new user and now search for an host that will have gread BP for low price and sond limit transfert speed if they do that they are fucking moron and they will pay over 1K/month for "anti hacking"
And i give you the solution to this now patch the file delete method to NOP launch the game wait download end and you have the files all of these cost for something that you can hack in 10 seconds straight
and if they make direct access over network you dont even want to know how much it will cost ask any game like shake and fidget or event facebook game how much that cost / month and you will be surprised by the price
