Using cracks to access older patches of games.
4 years ago
Tasmania, Australia

Hey All

Before I start: The game is Middle Earth: Shadow of War, I want to make it clear that I own a full copy of the game+ all DLC so I'm not talking about ripping off developers, just trying to access patches I can not longer access.

Question: Is it valid for a Speed-run to Pirate a game that requires always on connection to access older patches?

Brief summary: I'm new here so my apologies if this has been asked before I did a quick search before asking but couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, I couldn't ask on the specific game either as the forum/game is pretty much dead.

Situation: I've been learning from and watching the current WR which uses a rather large bug (to level super fast) however it was patched out after this run was recorded (the last DLC made a ton of changes to the game even if you don't own the DLC) it makes the current WR quite possibly unbeatable (without new discovers of course) due to the time saves the glitch allows.

Since the game requires constant connection to its servers (not even allowing the game to be launched in Steam offline mode) I'm not sure what else I can do. I'd love to hear more veteran speedrunners takes on this, I don't want to go to the effort of trying for a time I think is unbeatable with the current patch but I also don't want to put the effort in with a pirated copy of the game only to have it rejected.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
Antarctica

You need to talk to the community of that game and find out how they’ve addressed the game post-DLC. Every game has different rules and different ways of dealing with that type of stuff. Also, the community will be the deciding factor in whether or not what you’ve described would be legal.

HeyItsRykon likes this
Tasmania, Australia

Thanks I'll try unfortunately the community is pretty dead for the game.