The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered may have just been released on PC, but it appears that it's already been cracked. In other words, video game pirates have found a way to pull the game off Steam and into the seedy underbelly of the torrenting world. For reference, the game was released at 1 p.m. EST, meaning it didn't even have a day on the digital shelves.
The crack, which was announced on Twitter, allegedly took a handful of minutes to make happen. Soon after, multiple other pirating organizations announced their own versions of the game.
As it stands, the game has about 20,000 active concurrent players, according to SteamDB. That number figures to be higher had prospective players been forced to, well, actually buy the game.
I want more Naughty Dog.
This wouldn't be the first time that a game that was released on Steam quickly found itself in the dark corners of the Internet. Back in January, the PC port of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was allegedly cracked in just two minutes. Afterward, nearly 300,000 peers, or people attempting to download the file, were found.
Before that, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was also cracked within hours of...
