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The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods (ghostarchive.org)

submitted 2 months ago by hal_5700X to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

From the Nexus Mods Discord:

God of War No PSN Requirement Mod

Hi <@&1116364961757790238>

We've had several questions from the community about the NoPSSDK mod for God of War Ragnarok which is no longer available on the site.

We would like to clarify this page was removed by the mod author and not by a member of our team.

I've reached out to iArtorias to find out what happened, but we suspect that Sony may have requested they remove it as they've deleted it from GitHub too.

[–] MelastSB 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hope that mod was forked

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I looked around and there do seem to be backups out there, would suggest people download them and reupload them. Same way was done when they tried to go after YouTube-dl.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There was a fork and I've found the source code lmao, gonna save it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I can't tell you because I don't want to be sued by Sony but please don't open this link!

Lemmy might have leaked it with a preview:(

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

please DO NOT use this magnet link (I unconciously might have put the magnet link you should not use in this comment):

magnet link that you should not use

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:03e752a3cfb3e975179df4a0806eb1ed434400fa&xt=urn:btmh:12203247be5129310b7ec671b2605ed94e6b036ae579de3e239f06465bbdaa8a1fe9&dn=nopssdk-master.zip&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.demonii.com%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.stealth.si%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3a451%2fannounce&tr=https%3a%2f%2ftracker.tamersunion.org%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker1.bt.moack.co.kr%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker-udp.gbitt.info%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fretracker01-msk-virt.corbina.net%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopentracker.io%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fwepzone.net%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker2.dler.org%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.dler.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.ccp.ovh%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.0x7c0.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2frun.publictracker.xyz%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fnew-line.net%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fmoonburrow.club%3a6969%2fannounce

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm not on pc but on android it gives me infinite download time

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[–] Aquila 36 points 2 months ago

Pleasantly surprised nexus mods weren’t being goons in this scenario

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The modder posted like two days ago that he was gonna continue to maintain it lmao how quickly they changed their tune

[–] Rekorse 5 points 2 months ago

I think this is a way to release it, it will get copied numerous times, and then he can shut down and avoid legal trouble.

Putting it on nexusmods was a PR stunt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Was enough to make a crack, so, now we all can play it without DRM anyway

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i assume he got a cease and desist letter from sony

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

According to public sources at Nexus Mods he has taken it down preemptively out of fear for possible consequences.
But there is always the possibility that the cease and desist letter came with a firm request to not talk about the cease and desist letter, but that is highly speculoos

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Things that get removed by staff on nexusmods don't show a 'Not Found' link or have the title renamed 'DELETED' - they generally show 'removed by staff' or 'under moderation review since <date>'.

'Not found' is usually when the mod author unpublishes a mod.

This sounds like the typical mod drama, author has removed it for some reason and people are jumping to conclusions and/or the author is gaslighting people into the wrong conclusions.

[–] kboy101222 14 points 2 months ago

Nexus Mods confirmed they didn't do it

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago

Once again we see how DRM only punishes paying customers

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Not too surprising, I imagine removing the PSN login was real close to just cracking the game entirely. Honestly not sure why people would buy the game and then use a third party tool to bypass the PSN requirement as opposed to just pirating the game to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Back in the day I would use NO CD cracks for games I legit owned because I just didn't want to have to change discs all the time when switching games.

DRM tends to negatively affect paying customers more than pirates, so I could easily see legitimate owners still using cracks to remove DRM that is causing them issues in their legally obtained game.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I made .iso files and mounted them in virtual drives to do the same thing. I could have used cracks but I didn't want a virus and I still had the delusion that doing things "fairly" actually meant anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some DRMs can detect ISOs, so this didn't always work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Back in the days of windows xp and Alcohol 120% it didn’t. I remember having like 12 virtual disk drives each with an independent iso just to avoid swapping disks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

When I bought Fallouts 1, 2 and Tactics from EB like 15 years ago I couldn't run them even with the disc in the drive. The shitty securom was broken and refused to recognise the disc. It was only thanks to pirates that I was able to crack them and play the copies I fucking paid money for.

DRM is cancer.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

and ofc sony be enforcing drm

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Freaking said it literally yesterday that they'd force it down, and literally yesterday someone said "there's no way no company has taken down a mod like that". Modders are well and good but they're people, and whether it was the modder directly or nexus, it was only a matter of time before Sony lawyers sent a cease and desist.

I blame the news outlets for making it public and screaming from the rooftops that they were bypassing it.

So anyone have a copy saved?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I blame the news outlets for making it public and screaming from the rooftops that they were bypassing it.

It's not the journalists' fault if they are informing people of the existence of something. And the idea that gamers would've been able to enjoy the mod without Sony noticing if journalists never spoke of it is dumb.

So anyone have a copy saved?

I'm still able to download the file from the original link.

https://www.nexusmods.com/godofwarragnarok/mods/22?tab=files&file_id=74

This was the original description of the mod:

Notes
This project does not touch or modify any original game code and is NOT intended to encourage the piracy.

Download the latest release

Copy the version.dll and PsPcSdk.dll to the game folder

Enjoy!

Troubleshooting:
If you still encounter the login screen error, make sure to remove this file first:
C:\Users[Username]\Saved Games\God of War Ragnarök[AccountID]\userpreferences
Upon the first popup when it asks to link the Steam account, press "NO" button.

It's worth mentioning that the mod could stop working with future updates of the game, however.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's worth mentioning that the mod could stop working with future updates of the game, however.

That's why it would be good if somebody had the source code, not just a backup of the mod. Available source code will allow somebody else to tweak it or more easily make a better one in case Sony tries to break it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The author deleted it, not nexus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and whether it was the modder directly or nexus, it was only a matter of time before Sony lawyers sent a cease and desist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

There are mods and alternate launchers that skip these things for pretty much every single player game that has launchers and sign-ins. This isn't a new concept.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I blame the news outlets for making it public and screaming from the rooftops that they were bypassing it.

We should put our efforts and energy towards fighting back against the companies that do this and not against each other. Pointing fingers at each other doesn't do anything.

These companies have their own intelligence divisions whose job it is to find out about projects like this. They don't find out about it from the news they find out about it from their intelligence divisions long before it becomes popular.

If anything projects like this being popular is better for them because it means people like us can copy them and redistribute them faster than they can issue takedowns.

If anything I would say that this mindset is exactly what these companies want, they want these projects to be obscure and copied by very few people so when they issue the takedown, it's not saved by anybody else. They also would prefer it over the retaliation that some people might do to them, I mean just look at what people are doing to Rockstar right now. They would rather we fight with each other, then fight back against them. They are the enemy and they always have been, the sooner we realize it the better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

So much for the guy making his vow to always maintain it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods

That poor mod - they generously offer to go to peoples' houses to bypass the PSN login and then get removed from the website! That's some gratitude!