well ladies and gentlemen we've broken
youtube and in the past we've broken
steam
but today we're going to be breaking
steam to an all-new level
i'm going to accidentally be
demonstrating a way to farm steam keys
and then sell them for a gigantic profit
this is completely broken 100
not perfectly balanced and dear god
please i need someone to stop me and
help me
this is the worst steam exploit that has
ever touched the platform and my
goodness is it not absolutely
fantastically perfectly balanced money
laundering so strap yourselves in grab a
cup of tea because this
is going to be one heck of a bumpy video
well today ladies and gentlemen we're
going to be ignoring all of these new
fangled games that are really fun with
innovative new ideas and instead i'm
going to be
showing off how to exploit steam and ea
in order to destroy their payment
mechanism
and basically get a whole bunch of games
without actually paying for them now
doesn't that sound perfectly balanced
and completely unfair
yes that's because it is valve please
for goodness sake fix this i can't
believe you didn't see this one coming
so ladies and gentlemen let's go take a
look at this brand new exploitative
feature
now the feature that we're exploiting
today ladies and gentlemen is the lovely
and wonderful ea play
it's a service which has been available
for ea for quite a while now
but it's recently been released to steam
now what exactly is it
well it's a monthly subscription service
where you basically pay a small amount
each month for over a year to gain
access to basically all of the ea games
it's not too expensive and the games can
be quite good so you know it might work
out saving you a fair bit of money
however
we're not here to save ourselves a bit
of money we're here to spend basically
no money
and gain a whole bunch of games for free
so how on earth are we going to do it
now in order to get this exploit started
we need to sign ourselves up for ea play
luckily for us until march the 9th ea
play is only
80 pence i'm pretty sure that's one
dollar or something it's exceedingly
cheap however you will be
billed four pounds monthly every time
thereafter however for the purposes of
this exploit we're going to be spending
the atp
and then immediately canceling it but of
course i hear you saying spiff
surely this is a terrible idea you spend
atp to gain access to these games and
then you only have access to them as
long as you're paying the monthly
subscription
and yes technically that's the way the
system's meant to work
it makes sense as a concept it's a
subscription-based service where you get
the games provided you're paying the
subscription as soon as you cancel
the subscription you lose your games but
what if that didn't happen
oh no well ladies and gentlemen what are
we going to do well we're going to
subscribe up monthly for good old ea
play that's right
only 80p look at that it's brilliant
nice and cheap so i'm gonna buy this bad
boy for myself
this is where the fun begins because we
can now get started on ea play
every single one of these games we can
press add to library
and that's right this game gets
immediately added to our glorious steam
library so let's add a couple of games
we're going to add dead space 2 we're
going to add oh
mass effect 2 why not while we're here
we'll also add in oh good old the sims 3
and my personal favorite of course
spore which is for some reason in the
strategy section oh yes famous grand
strategy game
spore oh god and you know what western
was a hero pick up good old crisis too
because it's a fun game oh battlefield
bad company too
oh but let's not forget the greatest
game of all ladies and gentlemen it's
goddamn peggle deluxe
what the heck is this i'm spending 80p
to gain access to this oh it looks
incredible
oh it's amazing oh this is going
straight into my library thank goodness
i don't have to spend four pounds 25 to
buy
peggle deluxe but instead i have it on
my account already there we go it's now
mine
so as you can see up here ladies and
gentlemen are all of the games that i've
added via ea play
these are effectively the games that
i've spent atp in order to have them in
my library now of course i'm interested
in having these games forever so
how on earth do we get these games
forever well the thing is basically a
long while ago ea and steam had to set
up a way of allowing players to still
access the online content of sport
because ea decided to move the servers
around because they had to do this
process
basically if you bought a copy of sport
on steam you also gained access to a key
which would allow you to claim spore on
an
origin account now this makes sense
basically you buy spore you get it on
two platforms
that's great it's a really nice feature
11 out of 10.
the only downside is that it's broken
and allow me to demonstrate why we're
going to set up ourselves a brand new ea
origin account
okay so now we actually need to set up a
brand new origin account because i'm not
going to use my actual origin account
because i already have ea play on it so
we need to make a brand new one so of
course
date of birth it's got to be january the
1st um
1896 that seems perfectly acceptable
and for the country that i'm going to be
in well it's got to be none other than
the actual home of world of warcraft i'm
of course talking about the british
virgin islands
perfect let's make this account email
address uh well we're going to use
actually one of my favorite email
addresses that i've stored up
this entire time it is of course todd
howard at bethesda.com
don't ask how i managed to gain control
of the todd howard email account but um
it happened anyway there we go we're
going to gain the account todd howard oh
apparently todd how's ready in news todd
howard 69 someone's using todd howard
69.
todd howard for 2069. there we go
first name todd last name howard
bracket's best game designer in the
universe there we go
password of course we're gonna go for
the greatest password of all which is
todd howard 69 there he goes the best
password
oh god what is this account of course we
need to come up with an incredible
security question
so for that it's going to be where did
you go for your honeymoon
todd of course famously went to skyrim
for his honeymoon when he used his
incredible money from fallout 76 to
build an entire one-to-one scale replica
of skyrim
just off of the coast of iceland i says
allow gamers to find me by email
oh no we definitely can't have that
anyway let's create this account
and there we go welcome todd howard for
2069
let's get gaming ladies and gentlemen so
say hello to our brand new account
at the moment our entire library is
completely and utterly empty we have no
games in here however
this is where something interesting can
happen because as i mentioned
earlier a lot of old ea games give you
keys so that you can also access them on
origin now remember we now own this copy
of spore we don't have it downloaded but
because we have ea play
we now technically have a copy of it so
interestingly if we want to take this
from being a temporary copy we can get a
permanent copy by right clicking on it
going to manage
and cd keys here we have an incredible
product key which we can copy to our
clipboard we can go on over to origin
add a game redeem a product code and
enter in a product code for sport
yeah you can probably see the issue here
and there we go we've just redeemed a
copy of sport it's been added to our
library and we can download it
the issue is this stays forever because
we got it via a product key for a game
that we only temporarily own
this can be done for a huge amount of
games like the good old sims 3 here we
can claim ourselves a sims free key heck
we can even claim the sims free pets
then all we have to do is go on over to
origin deposit our key and would you
look at that we now own the sims 3.
this is an incredible game one of the
greatest games in existence and it would
normally cost you 18 pounds to buy
we've just got this bad boy for atp and
we keep it forever
we also get the pets dlc how much is the
pet's dlc again that's another 18 pounds
oh my god we have almost 40 pounds worth
of games here which we just played atp
for this doesn't seem perfectly balanced
at all
now what about mass effect 2 one of the
greatest cinematic experiences
in video games well guess what it's also
18 pounds on steam but if we get a cd
key for it that's right we can just copy
a straight up digital deluxe game key
here
hop on over to origin and add the game
and would you look at that we now own
mass effect 2
digital deluxe edition now why is this
kind of broken
well the reason it's completely and
utterly broken is because it allows you
to buy games for a lot less than what
they should actually be worth and
technically you're able to give these
games to anyone
my origin account here is not linked to
my steam account i
technically own these games on two
separate accounts that aren't linked now
this creates a bit of a problem because
there's no check on me actually playing
these games i
technically own them which means i can
spend 80p
to gain access to ea play gain access to
all of these lovely keys here and then
i can give them to anyone because i
already own basically all of these games
heck i'm pretty sure i own about seven
copies of spore
because people keep sending them into my
goddamn p.o box for some unknown cursed
reason
i can just give the key away for free
but the worst thing is i don't need to
give it away for free
allow me to welcome you to what is
effectively one of the scummiest
websites on the universe it's
g2a ladies and gentlemen the marketplace
for selling
all of your legal pirated games do you
own
some kind of russian hacking firm have
you hacked into an indie game developer
would you like to resell all of those
keys for huge profits welcome to g2a
oh goodness what a website the last time
i made a g2a video i received a very
angry cease and desist email from them
but hey we're back to demonstrate one of
the issues with this steam exploit
because as i mentioned we have all of
these game keys and
g2a allows anyone to sell video game
keys so what would happen if we were to
say
i don't know sell ourselves a copy of
dead space 2. we have a cd
key here for it we can redeem this key
on origin it's a game that costs 18
pounds but of course what happens if we
were to sell it
well we can sell this key for an
incredible profit because guess what
it's going on origin for two pounds
that's right it is two pounds now here's
the issue
we spent 80p gaining access to ea play
ea play has given us access to a whole
bunch of video game keys we can then
immediately cancel ea play which only
cost us 80p
and then we can keep all of the keys
that it gave us and sell them for profit
now i'm just gonna go out on a limb here
and say that that is not its intended
function
and that dear god this is completely and
utterly broken
honestly bugging me sideways with a tea
bag this is
absolute insanity and the thing is we
know people are actually pulling off
this exploit i'm amazed ea hasn't
noticed because if you go onto the g2a
website you can see that the going rate
for a steam key of dead space 2
is 10 pounds but a going rate for a dead
space 2 key for origin
it's only 2 pounds i wonder why that
might be the case
is it because you can get it for a
stupidly cheap price
yes yes it is i mean the issue is you
can effectively buy ea play
then cancel ea play immediately and buy
it again giving yourself an infinite
quantity of unlimited keys to either use
or to give to people or to sell
i mean at this point i could pull off
the exploit so many times that i could
give every single person who liked this
video
a copy of peggle deluxe oh dear god
so yes congratulations if you like this
video you have now been cursed with the
burden that is
your very own copy of peggle deluxe i'm
terribly sorry
there's nothing i can do to save you
that copy is yours forever and there
really is no cure for peg or fever my
goodness what a game now the thing is
this technically means you have an
infinite quantity of keys
because it only costs 80p to open up an
account opening up a steam account is
free
and then you can sell the keys for
profit online so effectively the steam
origin exploit is inadvertently an
infinite money cycle of death
because every time you pull off this
exploit you're turning a profit probably
in the tens of pounds
if we say it takes an hour to set up a
steam account and harvest all of the
keys for the games that you want to sell
and then list them on g2a then chances
are if you were pulling this off full
time you'd be able to maybe make 30
pounds an hour which is actually a
surprisingly good wage
this exploit shouldn't exist this is not
the way steve or origen intended it to
be used for goodness sake please fix it
why did none of you see this coming
oh goodness i've covered steam exploits
before this is straight up one of the
most
insane and terrifying steam exploits in
existence
also valve please can you not ban me for
exposing this one it was
very clear that people were doing this
and you should have fixed it i
understand that you suspended my paypal
account for what was effectively money
laundering with tf2 keys but please
don't remove one of my few remaining
non-vac banned steam accounts i need it
oh goodness now i guess all that's left
is for me to calculate just how broken
this exploit is exactly as i'm going to
basically add
every single ea play game to my steam
library and i'll work out which ones
give
keys as soon as we work out that
quantity we can then work out how much
money an entire ea play library is worth
so let's go find it out well i did the
maths
and uh this is more broken than i was
ever expecting
dear god it's um it's insanity so here's
basically the list of all of the games
which you can get keys for dead space 2
battlefield bad company 2
crisis crisis 2 dragon age origins mass
effect 2 medal of honor airborne
the sims 3 sims 3 pets spore and also
there was mass effect 1.
now mass effect 1 and medal of honor
airborne don't actually have any
listings for their games on origin
so i had to vaguely predict and say that
you could probably sell them for two
pounds each
but who knows what they'd actually end
up going for but yes i calculated just
how much money if you were to sell every
single steam key that you get for just
an investment of 80p
on steam if you sold them all on g2a you
would get yourself
31 pounds and 37 pence oh
dear oh dear oh dear this is not the way
that it should be working
this is evidently very broken i'd even
go as far as to say that in my time this
is potentially a
larger exploit than the entire release
of no man's sky
and trust me that thing was one hell of
a release this is beyond perfectly
balanced this is beyond broken
and of course i absolutely love it
ladies and gentlemen this has been one
hell of an exploit so there you have it
ladies and gentlemen we've broken
youtube we've broken steam and we've
broken origin
heck we've pretty much also broken every
single video game in existence so i mean
at this point what's even left oh god
not the stock market why do you keep
asking me to find exploits in the stock
market
oh god please just leave me alone and
worship daddy elon in peace you don't
need my advice on the stock market but
yes nonetheless it is on the way i'm
working on my stock market as perfectly
balanced video who knows it might even
be able to print you free money in the
same way that this bad boy does but
nonetheless all of that will have to be
for another time and heck if you want to
be there for that time you can even
subscribe
that way you'll be infinitely bombarded
when the time inevitably rolls around
for me to break the actual fabric of
reality itself
you can even be on the side of internet
users that survive my inevitable snap
when i destroy most of reality
this is of course a service that is
unavailable if you are a coffee drinker
anyway as always ladies and gentlemen
thank you very much for watching today's
video if you did of course enjoyed you
can like the video heck you can dislike
the video heck you can even go on down
to the comment section and tell me what
you're going to be doing in peggle
deluxe when you inevitably have bought
your 740
copy of it or you can just do what
everyone else will probably be doing and
going down to the comment section and
commenting something along the lines of
wow imagine not commenting steam is
perfectly balanced this is 100 going to
end up on trending
so yeah you could do that anyway as
always thank you very much to all of our
lovely majestic patreons and heck if you
want to see another video like this i've
got a few that you're going to
absolutely love i've got all of my
previous steam exploit videos where
we've broken most of the steam summer
sales
as well as also i've got a lovely
exploit for g2a where we completely
broke the loot box mechanic system to
farm infinite games for free yeah that
was a particularly broken time
anyway ladies and gentlemen i've been
the spiffing brit and i'll see each and
every one of you in the next one have an
absolutely lovely day and goodbye for
now