malware

[߷_߷]

so does this game still have that backdoor that Adam the dev put in so he could ♥♥♥♥ with individual players and see who exactly is playing the game? did anyone check? this game is malware, and I don't know why anyone trusts Adam with their computer. if you don't believe this backdoor exists look up castoreh welcome to the game 2, where adam made his copy of the game and his copy only completely unplayable because he didn't like a comment castoreh made. he also did it with markiplier.

really? How is that allowed on Steam? Pretty illegal, I'll mention this to my friends, and warn them about it, thank you.

[giftedfox]

I did looked into this and it is very true since it has happened to a few streamers but only one had real evidence since the dev Adam did admit to screwing with his game since he called him the A word. Then it backfired against him, he made a tweet about how it was all an off season April fools joke that went too far. Even added in how a small streamer is trying to cancel him because of it and that they had no idea what really was happening.

I think Castoreh was the small streamer Adam made mention due to his attempt to "blackmail" him by releasing the private DMs to the public backfired (Castoreh showed them live on his stream when he said that) then blocked him and banned him from discord I believe.

But on this being illegal or malware, it really isn't. Think about MMOs where they need you to be online and their servers are always sending your PC information and data on live connection. So long as he isn't using it to gain access to your PC, which will be tricky and will be very illegal, he can still send information directly to your game to influence it in certain ways. This is a type of backdoor but Adam likes to say over and over it isn't even to this day. The reason why it is a backdoor is because his game has an access point he put in that the player is unaware of. With this access point Adam is able to send in data directly to the game to change the rules (like activating the Doll Maker without you triggering it by visiting the site). This type of backdoor just allows the 3rd party to send in data to change the system/software/game that makes it altered to what they want it to be regardless of the user.

Now again, this was all claimed to be a fun little troll event that wasn't scheduled or very well planned. I think that may have been the idea at first but Adam used it out of anger to try to punish a stream who has been farming views from his game after he was called an AH. This I cannot overlook since Adam has abused his power he had over someone else's game out of anger.

With Mark I do feel like there was something there but not as strong of an influence like in Castoreh stream. I think since the game still has to send in information to their server it is very possible that Adam can still use that server to send in commands to Marks PC if he found the IP address. It is very possible that Adam did made Marks game more unfair due to what Mark input was towards the game and Adam.

I did ask in their new game if it had anything like WTTG2 has. Adam tried to tell me that I am misinformed about what a back door is (I have certs with CompTIA and computer science background in both edu and job field experience, sure I am misinformed bud) then when tossed the "backdoor" term out he just said "No." without going into any detail.

With this game, it is best to be played offline. I am sure if Mark went back to it and played it offline then he would be able to beat it easily.

[Loaf of Beans]

I couldn't find any real yes/no answer, however from what I know it seems like the feature has been removed.

If you want to play the game, but want to ensure that nothing happens to your game. You can downgrade to a patch before the backdoor was even a thing. Here's a guide on how to do that: https://www.speedrun.com/wttg2/guides/yh27d

There are also mods that remove this feature, however the mods haven't been updated in 3 years (when this whole thing happened).

If you want to play this game, and don't want to support Adam. There's always ways to do that, maybe set sail upon the seven seas and see what you can find.

TL;DR probably not, but you can downgrade to a patch before the backdoor was even implemented if you're worried.

[Kushanuggy]

I was actually getting ready to play this until I read these posts. I thought this game looked like tons of fun but if there's outside influence coming from the Dev ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with players I'mma uninstall. I want to complete games not get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over by a Dev that doesn't want people to actually enjoy his game. Could have been my next 100 percent, guess I'll move on to something else.

[Khaled]

WTF

[ObamaBinBiden (No Monitor)]

This is 100% factually true. Dev is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ weirdo with a power trip. But by all means, please willingly install a backdoor on your PC. I'm sure there are absolutely zero ulterior motives from the dev should they get cranky, and the backdoor portion is strictly "for the lulz" on the game.

The fact that it's still allowed on steam is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wild to me, lmfao.

[Thegroovyhobo]

Someone made a video about whether or not Mark's game was messed around with and ultimately concluded that no, he wasn't messed with. As the update that added the 'backdoor' feature was 2 years after Mark had played the game (2018).

[Setari]

Vote 4 Holt just made a video about this game, and he discusses the backdoor the dev put into the game. Crazy Steam allows this to be sold on their store still.

[Girth Control]

What the developer did in this game is not new nor controversial. Unfortunately, peanut brained Markiplier fans dubbed it a "backdoor" which has some pretty extreme negative connotations that were unfairly applied to this game. When the Clustertruck devs did it, it was "awesome" and "hilarious" but when this dev did it, it was a "backdoor" and "shouldn't be allowed on Steam".

If you genuinely think this game has a "backdoor" you are stupid, period. There are no security or privacy risks that come with playing this game and there never was. It had asymmetrical multiplayer components that have since been removed.

[ObamaBinBiden (No Monitor)]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Girth Control:

What the developer did in this game is not new nor controversial. Unfortunately, peanut brained Markiplier fans dubbed it a "backdoor" which has some pretty extreme negative connotations that were unfairly applied to this game. When the Clustertruck devs did it, it was "awesome" and "hilarious" but when this dev did it, it was a "backdoor" and "shouldn't be allowed on Steam".

If you genuinely think this game has a "backdoor" you are stupid, period. There are no security or privacy risks that come with playing this game and there never was. It had asymmetrical multiplayer components that have since been removed.

You are correct. It's not new. What is new, however, is a dev using it for malicious purposes due to ass mad caused by criticism.

Just say "please ♥♥♥♥ me harder" and keep every port on your router open if you think it's "no big deal".

[Girth Control]

Początkowo opublikowane przez ObamaBinBiden (No Monitor):

Początkowo opublikowane przez Girth Control:

What the developer did in this game is not new nor controversial. Unfortunately, peanut brained Markiplier fans dubbed it a "backdoor" which has some pretty extreme negative connotations that were unfairly applied to this game. When the Clustertruck devs did it, it was "awesome" and "hilarious" but when this dev did it, it was a "backdoor" and "shouldn't be allowed on Steam".

If you genuinely think this game has a "backdoor" you are stupid, period. There are no security or privacy risks that come with playing this game and there never was. It had asymmetrical multiplayer components that have since been removed.

You are correct. It's not new. What is new, however, is a dev using it for malicious purposes due to ass mad caused by criticism.

Just say "please ♥♥♥♥ me harder" and keep every port on your router open if you think it's "no big deal".

The absolute worst thing, and I truly mean the most heinous, disgusting, repulsive thing the developer was capable of doing with this tool was making your game impossible to win. It's not even remotely comparable to DMZing your IP, there is ZERO security risk or invasion of your privacy.

I get it, you watched a YouTube video and now cannot formulate your own opinion. That doesn't change the fact this entire thing was massively blown out of proportion (an understatement really) and a stream sniping developer made out as a cybercriminal scam artist hacker e-terrorist.

[ObamaBinBiden (No Monitor)]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Girth Control:

Początkowo opublikowane przez ObamaBinBiden (No Monitor):

You are correct. It's not new. What is new, however, is a dev using it for malicious purposes due to ass mad caused by criticism.

Just say "please ♥♥♥♥ me harder" and keep every port on your router open if you think it's "no big deal".

The absolute worst thing, and I truly mean the most heinous, disgusting, repulsive thing the developer was capable of doing with this tool was making your game impossible to win. It's not even remotely comparable to DMZing your IP, there is ZERO security risk or invasion of your privacy.

I get it, you watched a YouTube video and now cannot formulate your own opinion. That doesn't change the fact this entire thing was massively blown out of proportion (an understatement really) and a stream sniping developer made out as a cybercriminal scam artist hacker e-terrorist.

You're downplaying the fact that the dev is able to do that, again, "no big deal hurrrrr".

We get it; you're a super duper hacker man who knows how these things work, and is next going to tell me you "acckkkyually, I work in IT." Lmao.

[Girth Control]

Początkowo opublikowane przez ObamaBinBiden (No Monitor):

Początkowo opublikowane przez Girth Control:

The absolute worst thing, and I truly mean the most heinous, disgusting, repulsive thing the developer was capable of doing with this tool was making your game impossible to win. It's not even remotely comparable to DMZing your IP, there is ZERO security risk or invasion of your privacy.

I get it, you watched a YouTube video and now cannot formulate your own opinion. That doesn't change the fact this entire thing was massively blown out of proportion (an understatement really) and a stream sniping developer made out as a cybercriminal scam artist hacker e-terrorist.

You're downplaying the fact that the dev is able to do that, again, "no big deal hurrrrr".

We get it; you're a super duper hacker man who knows how these things work, and is next going to tell me you "acckkkyually, I work in IT." Lmao.

1. The dev literally can't do that again as the functionality was removed from the game ages ago.
2. Even if it was still possible, or the dev did it in another game, it literally doesn't matter because there is NO security or privacy risk. What are you struggling to understand about that? It's not a backdoor, virus, trojan, whatever you think it is. The dev could spawn enemies in your game, that's it.
3. I don't work in IT, I'm just not an idiot.