1 hour ago, Isaiah said:Actually it's day -4 if you look at the date! Which is an obvious error by whoever posted that, but the crack status is still accurate and that's what I was talking about. The bottom-line being that a "cracked" game isn't always playable as you thought. So I was just trying to explain why that is.
You're giving them way too much credit and assuming evidence that isn't there. Here's the chain of progression:
2011: Game released, no crack exists. A group "IND" claims it's cracked. There is no evidence of this. They're lying. People sometimes lie on the internet.
Whenever crackwatch added the entry: They repost the same false information.
2018: a proof of concept server emulator is released with no affiliation to IND
You say the cracked status from crackwatch is accurate. No, it's not, for 2 reasons:
1. Crackwatch's claim is that Darkspore was cracked by IND, not by Resurrection Capsule.
2. Resurrection Capsule says on their very site they haven't cracked all DRM, nor do they intend to, from their site "this project will respect every layer of DRM that is above the Darkspore application." I have NEVER heard someone declare a game "cracked" that still leaves DRM checks in that prevent the game from functioning. The very definition of a crack is that it REMOVES or circumvents DRM.
If a piece of software has multiple DRM components and only one of them is circumvented, but the rest of them prevent the program from functioning, no one would ever call that "cracked." That would be the same as declaring an unfinished alpha of a program "completed"
The thing to remember is requiring the client to connect to a defunct server by EA is a form of DRM in itself. Now if all DRM involved with preventing a game from running was removed, but the game still didn't run due to some other reason, like an OS incompatibility or something, then sure, you could call the game "cracked, but unplayable" Darkspore isn't cracked by any known definition.