need a crack for v 1.0.7.4

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  1. aralcan

    aralcan New Member

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    i need a crack for the version 1.0.7.4 do you happen to know any sites?
     
  2. Spuddy

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    aralcan New Member

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    does it chane anything? i need a website pls
     
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    mathboy New Member

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    Actually, what you need is a new account and a new IP.
     
  5. TONGSyaBASS

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    Mathboy, where were you when pre-release Arcanum was pirated?
    Perhaps if you'd been paying a little bit more attention at the time then Troika wouldn't have gone under.
    That's right, the blame rests squarely on you.
     
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    I don't think Troika went bankrupt because of the pirated copies, but the LOLNO3DIRATHERPLAYDOOM3 types
    But, of course, don't ask for crack at a forum where the mass majority has it legally.
     
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    I dont know, if you invested a hefty sum into a game that financially took anose dive, and you invested capital woth it, you might be inclined to declare bankruptcy to avoid paying back all those loans. Its common practice in business, and everyone writes it off on taxes as a 'loss'.

    Unfortunately, we'll never see Arcanum II unless Sierra gets a boatload of requests all at once from its remaining fans.....
     
  8. Xz

    Xz Monkey Admin Staff Member

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    Well, it's worth a shot isn't it?
     
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    Sure, if you can find the contact email for suggestions to Sierra corporate.
     
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    Transparent Painting Well-Known Member

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    So... every one is supposed to mail them and tell them that they better finish Arcanum 2?
     
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    Yeah, thats the one I found to, but its all tech support and career stuff. What we need is the marketing dept, and then we could email them and tell them what a "fantastic game Arcanum is, and when are they going to produce a second one?" Add in some bits about "all our friends play it, but nobody can find new copies on the shelves..."

    If enough of us hit them around the same time, maybe some ambitious guy would take it and run. Or maybe we'll just annoy the hell out of them, but at least Arcanum wont go down without a fight....
     
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    I've had bad dreams since I made that comment. What if the poor guy just wanted the patch? I'm a semi-regular at another forum where all warez/cracks requests get slammed within seconds, so I'm used to reacting as quoted, but... what if I was wrong?

    Please, absolve me of blame, all ye gods of Arcanum.
     
  15. Xz

    Xz Monkey Admin Staff Member

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    Nah, you weren't wrong, he asked for the crack, if he wanted the patch that was what he should've asked for.

    Then again it's not illegal to use a crack if you own the game. I for instance use a crack. Heck I even downloaded iso files of the game. But since I have the original disks, I atleast, fail to see anything wrong with that...
     
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    It can happen that he can't stand fretting his original CD or that +700MB on his HDD, but it's still better than a 3rd party low-quality crack. Besides, the two illegal versions I've seen so far are unable to run without crack. So I'm pretty sure he wants to play it illegally.
     
  17. Xz

    Xz Monkey Admin Staff Member

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    The original Arcanum.exe requires the cd to be in (I don't know if it requires the original cd) the cdrom. So, either you replace the arcanum.exe file (crack) or you use the cd.

    In any case, generally cracks aren't low quality, they're copies of the original game files, only with the cd checking part cut out, so basically it's the same only it doesn't have the function which checls for the CD.
     
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    ISO + Daemon Tools + Securom emulation (if I remember correctly)
    But the 2 versions I mentioned didn't contain the neccessary information from the CDs for the emulation, they needed a crack.

    Annoying nag screens, unstable cracks, potential spyware or trojan, etc.
     
  19. Xz

    Xz Monkey Admin Staff Member

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    Hehe, I've never used the 127 level hack, until I went looking for a new crack for arcanum a few days ago (I don't like using my cd's, they're too valuable :p (this goes for all my games)) Anyway I found someone added a cracked 1074 version with the level hack only a month ago.

    Anyway, Yeah, some cracks have annoying nag screens. As for the unstable, I've never come a cross such a thing.

    And for the potential spy-ware/trojan, it's all about looking in the right places, and for cracks made by the people you can "trust". :)

    If however you should be stuck by a trojan, how hard is it to re-install windows?
     
  20. Zebulin

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    if it wasn't for all the trojans and other nasty surprises that are likely present I would download cracks for *all* of my games. I *hate* having to dig out the cd every time I want to take a few precious moments of free time to play whatever random game from my collection that has momentarily grabbed my fickle fancy.

    The few games I have that don't require the CD (quake3, alien vs predator, etc) get played *a lot* more than would otherwise be the case simply because they are always just a click away.

    I'd love to have arcanum be so easily accessable.
     
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