the anti-piracy problem

[harrisdarron1]

the fish are sinking my ships and i own the game and i dont know how to fix it this is on ver 1.8.2

[harrisdarron1]

i do know one fix for it remove the fish and do what farming simulator devs did after like 3h the a pop up THAT CAN BE CLOSE pops up saying to buy the game bc the fish make me want my money back

[Bacnsnaxx]

The attackfish only happen on pirated games, so either you infact didn't buy the game legitimately, have been scammed, or your game copy is broken and you should contact steam support instead of public forums.

[ShizNator]

Originally posted by Bacnsnaxx:

The attackfish only happen on pirated games, so either you infact didn't buy the game legitimately, have been scammed, or your game copy is broken and you should contact steam support instead of public forums.

No it's been happening to legit players their system is on drugs and from what I heard can happen just having a modded workbench.

And after my almost 2000 hours in the game that I have bought this game from day 1 I heard about it and bought weapons dlc the day it came out and the industry one a month or two after it's release.

If this happens to me I'm forever retiring from this game, this forum and boycott the company.

And I boycotted Rockstar so boycotting little companies like this won't be a problem.

[harrisdarron1]

iv stop playing storm works after i tryed reinstalling and removeing the storm works folder in the appdata and i steel got it so i moved on to brick rigs

[Lystent]

Originally posted by Bacnsnaxx:

The attackfish only happen on pirated games, so either you infact didn't buy the game legitimately, have been scammed, or your game copy is broken and you should contact steam support instead of public forums.

The mouse their name is general indication they own the base game. Says nothing about DLC though.

Originally posted by ShizNator:

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No it's been happening to legit players their system is on drugs and from what I heard can happen just having a modded workbench.
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Would not surprise me a single bit. There is no detail I've about which exact anticheat they are using; could be some in-house concoction as far as I know, which would pose an issue as these guys:
-Are obviously human and prone to error
-Seemingly don't test what they dish out
-Apparently still take what they got (in terms of anticheat) seriously enough to dish out VAC-adjacent bans (AKA "Game Bans")
-Also have been inconsistent with the information they have given, as far as I know
-And sound like they are ban-happy in their own discord server

[tomatosoup]

Originally posted by ShizNator:

No it's been happening to legit players their system is on drugs and from what I heard can happen just having a modded workbench.

i play a heavily modded game, and that doesnt happen.. so i would doubt a workbench would do it.

[Geometa]

Hi everyone,

I have checked the anti-cheat data and I can see that this player has a report for pirating DLC.

Our data clearly shows that their client is faking DLC ownership and the data also shows the modified executable code that they have used to do this, so there is no mistake.

And the Steam API confirms that they do not own the DLCs.

Unfortunately, it is very common for pirates to claim innocence and bewilderment. We don't understand why. This has lead to many false stories about how the anti-piracy is unfair and punishing innocent people.

Each time we hear this, we are worried we may have made a mistake. This would be terrible because punishing legit players by accident would be completely unacceptable. But then we check the data and every time, it clearly shows beyond any doubt, that they are being dishonest.

The game ban for this player has now been verified and applied.