It is possible in time someone may be able to get us a working patch/crack/hack/workaround so all of us can play online again.
I would love to help and have spent roughly 16 hours over 4 days trying to get this to work as 1 of my 4 PCs still runs the hacked client (SiX-STEAM) which allows me to play
all STEAM games online. I hit a wall though because I do not have any accounts that are older than the 18 of January, so for me I am pretty much limited...
I have come to the conclusion that accounts made prior the silent update will work fine with the method I have but I would need someone willing to give me an account they made say in early January or in December last year which they have not used when they got the TICKET ID ERROR, I don't need one with a key, just a free account made thru STEAM.
If anyone's willing to help me here and test me on my conclusion send me an email
cro_23q@hotmail.com
@ jewjewjew,
1 of mine still work also, I restart this PC many times and shut down aswell

but again I believe if I had more of the older free accounts I would have more running again, the more time I spend the more I believe they did the change on their side.
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