Doesn't seem to work for me. I've set an exclusion in the firewall, it's installed at the root of my C:\ drive, all of my drivers are up to date. It launches, but it doesn't get past the first loading screen. It just sits there spinning - I see Steam settings in the game folder, I wonder if it's trying to contact the game server/hasn't been cracked properly?
It seems like this crack is missing core functions to bypass the always online systems. It doesn't work at all right now.