[last update] All games on Steam for free - Hack your account.....

Sparhawk wrote:

All games on Steam for free - Hack your account.....

Nice try Sparhawk... Or should I call you dun dun dun! PSYCH.

I think you guys are missing out. This is just the ultimate Valve ARG/Steam sale promotion!

Holy cow I would NEVER do this! That's awful!

my backlog is big enough!!!

And I thought they've never top the winter sale.

What's funny is future google inquries for "All steam games for free, hack your account" will point to this thread. Open the flood gates for pirating douche bags!

Alternate explanation:

Valve really takes this free to play thing seriously. No wonder EA was scared!

I am astounded that a thread with this title was not created by a Spambot.

Gumbie wrote:

What's funny is future google inquries for "All steam games for free, hack your account" will point to this thread. Open the flood gates for pirating douche bags! :lol:

Welcome, Perverts!

In practical terms, just how much storage would this bullsh*t story require? Every game on Steam? Pick which you'd run out of first: HDD space / ISP data allowance / will to live.

This thread seems like a bad idea overall. It makes me feel dirty

You KNOW if this is real, Valve will be all over this and everyone who tries it will have their account banned. Then whatever games they legitimately bought is gone forever.

Hacking like this is stealing, pure and simple.

Be decent people...

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

What's funny is future google inquries for "All steam games for free, hack your account" will point to this thread. Open the flood gates for pirating douche bags! :lol:

Welcome, Perverts!

When do we get another one of those?

Seems like it'd be pretty easy to track. Steam has an easy, free way of taking away access to all games, too.

MannishBoy wrote:

I think you guys are missing out. This is just the ultimate Valve ARG/Steam sale promotion!

If that were the case, there'd be a potato.

When you For BoogleTM?

So it would be pretty easy to actually test this with a fresh new account, right?

Stengah wrote:

When you For BoogleTM?

So, 'bout the 7th of Never?

Floomi wrote:

So it would be pretty easy to actually test this with a fresh new account, right?

Sure, until they match your IP with your real account and then ban you because they can.

Plus there's no way this doesn't involve some kind of malware.

I haven't looked it up but I would highly doubt this is real. And if it was Valve would have patched it very fast.

I wanted to nab the file to run through jotti for kicks. Turns out the link to the download is just a typical "Complete any survey below and your download will unlock" scam. The guy/girl will get points or fractions of a cent for every person who actually goes through a survey basically.

Will I get a boatload of money from the Nigerian Prince as well?

BadKen wrote:
Floomi wrote:

So it would be pretty easy to actually test this with a fresh new account, right?

Sure, until they match your IP with your real account and then ban you because they can.

Plus there's no way this doesn't involve some kind of malware.

As previously noted, you "can't" use a new account.

So I did a search on Youtube and watched a couple of the videos. One of them was uploaded today and appeared to show an ancient version of Steam (remember when the title bars were green?), and another had "This will only work with Steam Guard disabled, otherwise it'll immediately send you an email saying your account is trying to sign on from another location" in the uploader description.

Yeeeah. Trojan time, anyone?

Anyone who thinks about this for more than 2 or 3 seconds will realize that Steam obviously stores what games you own on their servers, not in your client. (After all, if I log in on a different computer it still knows what games I own, right?) There is nothing you can do to your client that will convince Steam otherwise.

Anyone who falls for this... deserves whatever happens to them.

tanstaafl wrote:

Anyone who thinks about this for more than 2 or 3 seconds will realize that Steam obviously stores what games you own on their servers, not in your client. (After all, if I log in on a different computer it still knows what games I own, right?) There is nothing you can do to your client that will convince Steam otherwise.

Anyone who falls for this... deserves whatever happens to them.

I tend to agree with this. Hope to have more info tomorrow from the guy who actually did it. As I am not sure that the way it is showed on youtube, is how he did it.
Also sent out an email to Valve. I am not holding my breath for their reply, but you never know.

This looks like a pretty obvious scam... but what about Sparhawk's friend's son?

Any ballpark figure as to how much all games on Steam total up to? A theft of that size has to qualify for felony grand larceny at least. That's got to be a great big fine and prison time in most states?

Yonder wrote:

I am astounded that a thread with this title was not created by a Spambot.

Same, I clicked hoping for an epic repeat of story the last one generated!

OK, after thinking a bit more I can come up with a way it sorta might work, but it depends on having a bunch of other suckers ahead of you.

One of the restrictions is that you have to have bought at least one game. Suppose the thing is harvesting username/passwords and looking to see what games each person has. It keeps a list (somewhere) of all those pairs and what games are associated with them.

If a user of this system wanted a game that a different user had (legitimately) bought then the system spoofs their client to look as if it is logged in as the legitimate user (which Steam knows about as I said earlier). Steam then downloads the game since the spoofed user would "legitimately" own the game.

The client then does something behind the scenes to make it look like the newly downloaded game was a non-Steam shortcut being launched through Steam.

That's why you have to turn Steam Guard off; otherwise you would keep getting alerts that you were trying to log in from another computer.

I suspect the doctored client would have to run in offline mode most of the time too; otherwise you would get the "already logged in on another computer" message.

So OK, there may be a way it would work. Whoever gets caught still deserves whatever happens to them though.

i love the idea that valve charges these accounts for all the games they stole in one shot, not sure how a credit card company would react though. big charges like that tend to be rejected until they are cleared over the phone

Seems like a lot of work and a lot of ripping people off just to provide everyone with free games.

Blotto The Clown wrote:

i love the idea that valve charges these accounts for all the games they stole in one shot, not sure how a credit card company would react though. big charges like that tend to be rejected until they are cleared over the phone

That would take one hell of a high credit limit. It would also be charging users without their direct consent, which is theft. Fun idea, though.