Piracy has been discussed in a heck of a lot of threads, so I'm not trying to do the same again here. I'm more interested in the executables themselves.
I bought GTA: San Andreas from Steam a while back, and it emerges that the Steam version is "patched" to version 3.0. Version 3.0 removes, believe it or not, support for 1920x1080. If you want to play in native resolution on the Steam version, the only method detailed on the Steam forums is to download a crack exe cut able for an earlier version of the game.
And after some research, there appears absolutely no other method.
So my first question is, why on earth has it been done? Seems insane to encourage paying customers to go and find cracks.
Secondly, and perhaps more interestingly, what's your opinion on the morality of it? On the one hand, you bought the games "as-is", so you should just go out and get another version if that's what you want. On the other hand, it has been (as far as I can see) deliberately hobbled, and Steam being steam, there are no refunds. So you either accept your money has gone down the drain, accept an inferior product, or use an "illegal workaround".
Thoughts?


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