Arc Raiders has easily been one of the biggest games to release over the past few months, having sold over 12 million copies and managing to amass millions of players every single day. It’s the hot new game at the moment, which obviously means pirates have been working away to get the game cracked as soon as possible, since it’s not like your typical free-to-play live service game.
Well, unfortunately for Embark Studios, that day has now arrived. First shared on the PiratedGames subreddit, it has been announced that Arc Raiders has officially been cracked to play online, meaning an influx of people who weren’t quite keen on paying Embark for the game will be diving in to play multiplayer games.
Arc Raiders Has Been Cracked To Play Online
But while you’d probably expect something like this to be celebrated by video game pirates, the reaction to this news is rather mixed. For starters, it’s important to be aware that Arc Raiders has a very big cheating problem at the moment. High profile streamers like Shroud have called it out multiple times, while Embark itself has acknowledged the problem and is attempting to take action.
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Yes, if you’re shooting other players, it will affect matchmaking, but it’s not that cut and dry.
However, with a game like Arc Raiders being cracked to play online, it means the less scrupulous PC players out there can now get in more easily. As very eloquently put by a Reddit user called Le_Random12, the game being cracked now “opens the floodgates to big cheating Jim and his totally not his alt accounts friends.” To put it briefly, fans are worried.
Another user called AnthMos also points out that Embark will be working on patching the problem, meaning we’ll all be getting massive updates to download in an attempt to stop hackers from flooding in. As another user puts it, the game being cracked to play online is “good for cheaters, bad for everybody else.”
You then also have a similar sentiment to when Hollow Knight: Silksong was cracked, as one user called Universal_Vlad says that they’re not a fan of the game being cracked because Embark “should get all the support from the players” after doing such a good job. It’s a sweet but rather naive sentiment that I’m sure a lot of people share, but it was always going to happen. Even the most beloved games out there are pirated, and Arc Raiders is no exception. We just need to hope that it doesn’t exacerbate the problem on the cheating front.
- Released
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October 30, 2025
- ESRB
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Teen / Violence, Blood
- Developer(s)
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Embark Studios
- Publisher(s)
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Embark Studios
