10 Popular Game Cracker Groups Who Always Like to Terrorize Developers

Like a tragedy”Zombie Apocalypse”, video game piracy has become an extremely difficult phenomenon to control. It’s quite impossible to eliminate a culture that has plagued almost all gamers or even every user of digital works in the world. Even so, fortunately the zombie outbreak is still just a fiction, while being a connoisseur of pirates is also not a bad habit that can’t be changed at all. So all that remains is the presence of one party who first made it seem as if the video game could be played improperly.

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Commonly referred to as Crackers, they are indeed a threat that developers should pay attention to. Because the game makers themselves must have made enough efforts to eradicate this through various existing protection methods. However, Always relentless in hacking seems to have become a sacred guide for the Cracker group.

By wanting to show their skills even though it is not at all morally justified, this phenomenon seems to still be growing prolifically. So that producing quality games, marketed on non-PC platforms or full of various online features seems to be the best solution for developers in countering these problems.

And from here, we would like to share a list of which cracker parties have been bothering game makers for the past few years quite so often. Because they are also known to always include some kind of nickname in every illegal act.

1. Plaza

In the midst of the evolution of the culture of presenting games with the lure of additional content such as DLC and the like, this hacker group has a very high focus on breaking into these things. Besides that they are not very popular, they are also good at hacking a number of big AAA games such as Watch Dogs 2, Assassin’s Creed, Wolfenstein, Skyrim and others.

2. Skidrow

You could say it is a group of pirates who are quite old in this black world. First appeared since 1990 ago, Skidrow has started his career by cracking games from old PC platforms like Amiga though. Even the techniques they use claim to be the best compared to other modern crackers today. Especially good when hacking games that have Denuvo protection or not in it.

3. Reloaded

Founded in 2004, Reloaded is a cracker known to be very impatient in plowing a game. Because the hack really involved a number of games that shouldn’t have been released on the D day.

4. STEAMPUNKS

One of the crackers whose name is on the rise lately. Apart from the surprise of releasing pirated games unexpectedly, Steampunks is also rumored to have a super-sophisticated hacking technique through the help of a special keygen that is able to display a product ID that is considered valid by the system.

5. FCKDRM

You can guess from the name, this one cracker seems to hate the existence of DRM. Even though there were rumors that said that they were people, a small part of which came from the GOG side, there was still no sufficient evidence to corroborate this. Games with the presence of DRM are clearly the main prey of how FCKDRM operates.

6. 3DM

One of the popular cracker groups from China that once shocked the world of the gaming community in the 2010s and above. With his statement that once said that the game piracy industry will slowly die, 3DM has also surprised the public by being legally sued by a large publisher of Koei Tecmo’s caliber in 2017.

Although proven guilty, apparently 3DM still doesn’t give up on piracy games. Final Fantasy XV, Dayz, and Jump Force have also become victims of their return to the surface.

7. RAZOR1911

Is an old hacker group that was first established in 1985 and had been involved in many hacking PC games that were classified as old school there. Razor 1911 is well known for its successful efforts to break into games with launcher-based protection such as Battle.net, Rockstar Social Club, and Ubisoft’s game protection that requires you to turn on the internet.

Since the death of a member of the Razor group due to cancer, they are now much more focused on pirating games that do not have DRM protection in them.

8. Codex

Those of you who have ever hijacked or are still not deterred from playing pirated games are certainly quite familiar with a group of Crackers who call themselves Codex. For the audience, Codex seems to have become one of the coveted angel figures. Almost all AAA or semi-AA games have become targets that have increasingly catapulted their name.

9. CPY

Apart from Codex, CPY is certainly a group that you may not be foreign to. Reportedly originating from Italy, they have always acted as Codex’s toughest competitors in winning the hearts of pirate gamers. Ordinary is very fast in hacking and seems indiscriminate in presenting illegally a collection of AAA games to its audience.

10. Fitgirl

Like a support character in an RPG game, Fitgirl is actually not a game hacker. However, he has quite an influence that is no less crucial in fertilizing this negative culture. Under the guise of “repack”, Fitgirl usually presents a collection of pirated games belonging to other Crackers that are packaged in a much more economical or populist size. So that it will be very helpful for pirate gamers with limited internet connections and quotas.

In addition to fitgirl, there are actually many other collections of game repackers who are also following in the footsteps of the user of this “Amelie” photo. It’s just that loading the avatar of the character in the French romance film seems very iconic to be remembered by farm gamers.

Likewise with other cracker groups or seeds that seemed to be inspired by their seniors. They seem to continue to grow like a virus that is always evolving or even innovating. Through the illustration of the Zombie apocalypse form of terror above, everything seems clear and it is not impossible that the world of the game industry will turn out like that in the future.

But again, being a pirate gamer is not an incurable disease. Through the awareness and common sense that you have as a human, of course you should be able to try to recover from this habit. It must be admitted that the process will not be instant. But through the existence of many examples of cases from gamers who were able to escape these shackles, you can actually see that as an appropriate motivational motivation. If they can, why can’t you?

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