Long ago, I bought a copy of MW2. As I run it, it requests me to make a Steam account and assign the game to it — otherwise, it doesn't let me do anything at all. Not even single player. 🙁
On Google, I searched for "MW2 no Steam". Google came up with 2 things: Some illegal "no Steam" crack and "AlterIW".
I'm almost sure that applying that crack is illegal, but what about playing through AlterIW?
Here is AlterIW.net.
I read some article about it, and what it said was: "AlterIW net is an alternative to steam which also has much servers…"
What do you think about it? Legal/illegal?
What makes things even more complicated is that I'm playing this on a Mac – with Wine.
Best Answer
This is what the lead developer has to say on the subject:
I'm afraid replacing files does counts as modifying, and thus breaks the EULA you agreed to when you ran the installer. Then again I cannot be sure, because I couldn't locate a copy of the EULA anywhere online.