The settlers 7 cracked!

[cieply]

Well, it seems that ubisoft protection is falling harder and harder as few minutes ago a crack made by Razor1911 was published on demonoid. I'm not going to publish the link as we all know that piracy is BAD and we all should put up with UBI DRM but I find what they wrote with the crack really hilarious

Scene-related rants & stuff:

As far as previous 'cracks' of Ubisoft's new DRM system are concerned:

Both of Skidr0w's releases show us they haven't had a look (probably
even didn't find) the actual protection code and everything hints on em
using parts of publicly collected 'challenge/response' pairs. Luckily
Assassin's Creed II is probably the only target ever where this approach
of 'emulating' the server by a static lookup will yield any measurable
success (due to a basic design flaw in an otherwise pretty neat
idea of software protection). In fact, we considered this approach as
generally too unreliable and 'unworthy' of a scene crack, so we didn't
care about doing it. Instead we opted for going for the arguably
most challenging implementation of Ubisoft's new DRM first
(emulating actual server-side game code). So here it is: The first
Ubisoft DRM crack!

@RELOADED:
Congrats on your recent advances in automating your Solidshield VM cracks.
We actually respect that. However, we wonder why you didn't go all the way
and recompiled the fixed decompiler output to optimized native x86 code as
we did as early as with Perry Rhodan (followed by Anno 1404).

Although we think there's not much merit to discussing technical details in
.nfos (mostly because it's impossible for anyone lacking the skills and
sources to fact-check these statements) we feel the need to preempt all
that made-up "they-ripped-it-from-some-unprotected-tuvaluan-multi12-binary"
bullshit that's sure to follow:

We invite anyone who is able to and interested enough in this to check the
history of scene-released Solidshield VM cracks taking into account things
like availability of possible alternate sources for the protected code
fragments at the time of release, similarity to compiled code (i.e. 'copy &
paste cracks' from differently protected or unprotected binaries), the
rebuilt code's resemblence of the original VM instructions regarding
sequence of mnemonics etc.pp. We're pretty confident (read '100% certain')
you'll come to the conclusion that we were first with respect to rebuilding
actual Solidshield VM code.

Nvm, 'mild respect'!

Finally, there's a chance of the good ol' times coming back (when
protections had to be dealt with on a per title basis by skilled
individuals) and an opportunity of telling the sharpies from the fakers
again. Thanks Ubi! (Yup, we're actually serious about this )

Razor 1911 Greetings

To our demo division heroes: Your cracktro rocks (we expected no less :wink!

Razor 1911 __ Since 1985

SUPPORT THE COMPANIES THAT PRODUCE QUALITY SOFTWARE!
IF YOU ENJOYED THIS PRODUCT, BUY IT! SOFTWARE AUTHORS DESERVE SUPPORT!!

Of course as it's fresh it might be fake but looks legit

 

[cieply]

Oh and this reminds me of this hillarious pic
http://i42.tinypic.com/fuykpd.jpg

 

[Monstrion]

I wonder how much did the DRM cost ... after all, premium cracking groups will be around as long as there will be protections to crack, so it seems rather pointless. You may argue that this DRM took a while to crack (and slightly shorter to emulate) and therefore it fulfiled its purpose but ... new protections come out once in a blue moon and when you crack down the basics, cracking future titles using modified versions of said protection is much easier and faster.

 

[mightybozz]

Once upon a time, when the settlers wasn't as obssessed with a realistic style as everything else, I might have cared. Now it just satisfies be to know that not only did Ubisoft kill whatever small chance there was of me buying this game by draconic DRM, but they also did so pointlessly.

 

[Tony2077]

i heard there was some bugs with the crack

 

[cieply]

i heard there was some bugs with the crack

As far as I know there were problems with erlier cracks, like settlers not gathering water or game crashing. This crack is new and in the next few hours we will know if it really does it's job.

 

[Tony2077]

i heard there was some bugs with the crack

As far as I know there were problems with erlier cracks, like settlers not gathering water or game crashing. This crack is new and in the next few hours we will know if it really does it's job.

when will devs learn that drm like this only hurt themselves not that i care as long as i can play the game and at a decent fps I'm good

 

[Ancientgamer]

Yeah, people in the scene really do take cracking as more of a sport or hobby. I'd go so far as to say sometimes the game itself is a secondary factor.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Yeah, people in the scene really do take cracking as more of a sport or hobby. I'd go so far as to say sometimes the game itself is a secondary factor.

In the cracking scene the game is irrelevent, pulling apart that sweet, sweet DRM and fucking it's shit up is what counts.

 

[cieply]

Yup it's confirmed. It's razor's and it's working like a charm. And Razor1911 made their own intro which is pretty hillarious with words being typed "Ubisoft prese..." and then it gets deleted and it writes "Razor1911 presents". And later after thanking ubisoft for giving them finally a real challange and great fun cracking the game there is "WARNING: Internet connection is not required"
Sorry guys but this is downright hillarious. I love Razor.