RELOADED (warez)
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RELOADED is a major PC game warez release group that has cracked several StarForce and other copy protection protected games. They often release games on the day of, or occasionally before, their street date. Many of their cracks are are not true cracks but are instead emulated by a virtual machine, while this has the benefit of being able to "crack" a game fairly fast, it has the disadvantage of making the release very inefficient, which is noticable on low-spec machines.
[edit] History
RELOADED released their first title on the 1st of June 2004. This was only a couple of days after DEViANCE's last release for that period. As such many people have stated that RELOADED is made up of the same people who ran Deviance in 2004, just under a new name. The DEViANCE brand returned to the scene a year later, but many have claimed it was being run by people who had no right to use the name. A statement would be further solidified by the fact that RELOADED continued on after the return of DEViANCE in 2005.
It is also claimed that the RELOADED members who said they were formerly from DEViANCE actually had been lying. This is a statement that both HOODLUM and MYTH reiterate in the HOODLUM NFO, Lord Of The Rings Battle For Middle Earth.
"For starters they go back to the past using the DEViANCE name. A name they have no right to use. They never invented this name (as you will see later, we did) and they have no previous leaders from DEViANCE in their group and have never had. Even though when RETARDED started they went around telling everyone they were ex-Deviance! Yes you have been lied to from the very start. Why do this, are you fucking RETARDED?"
RELOADED often found themselves in public slanging matches with other groups they once had associations with. They were given the nickname 'RETARDED' by HOODLUM and it was used to great effect. The nickname would later return with their slanging matches between ViTALiTY.
While RELOADED got off to a less than desirable start, it can be claimed that over the years they managed to establish themselves as one of the power groups of The Scene.
The group has survived at least two large attacks which were aimed to damage The Scene. The first operation was known as Operation Site Down and was carried out by the FBI, destroying two major RELOADED competing groups, VENGEANCE and HOODLUM. After the raids, RELOADED became one of the most active PC game cracking and releasing group in The Scene.
[edit] Notable Releases
On February 29, 2008, RELOADED released Assassin's Creed, a month before it was to hit the shelves on March 28, although this release was later nuked for not being the final retail version as well as crashing issues with the cracked files. RELOADED has since released a repack resolving both issues. The NFO file for this release is shown below:
