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why aren't r/piratedgames here? I thought they migrated to lemmy too (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not to start a war, but I think the place here is better for free discussion of games piracy. the lemmy community they site on their subreddit is literally dead, has just one or two posts. It would have been good if a rival community to r/piratedgames appears here on dbzer0 too, I mean r/piracy is still there, but this place is better, right ?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Honestly, pirating anything with an executable in it is just asking for something to happen. The hoops required to mitigate these risks, especially when games mostly now are online with a multiplayer component, I can understand why game-piracy would really only be for the people who are REALLY hardcore into AAA titles. Most of the stuff I purchase now is indie and ends up being better than AAA titles, and it's cheap enough that I don't really even want to pirate it.

Additionally, lemmy just doesn't have the eyeballs that Reddit has...still. I can understand someone's justification if they stayed over there. I got site-banned once just for reporting a mod for child-predatory statements, and I literally hadn't even made a comment. Just reporting the post got me banned. So I'm over here hiding from child predators.

[+] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How does one get access to a good private tracker these days? Any recommendations?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

there really is no way to know if you’ve got a virus. it doesn’t take a lot of time to develop a malware that is undetectable, especially if you target something very specific and make it be patient about it. e.g. wait a month, snatch all the browser cookies and send them to a server hosted on azure.

or every so often snatch the clipboard

there are a lot of ways to be very silent

I highly suggest you don’t use the pc you run the pirated games on for anything critical

background: I crack stuff as a hobby (never published anything), used to be a security engineer, programmer by hobby

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I recently switch to Linux and the only way I was able to run some of the games I already bought was to pirate them because of the launcher. I hate game launchers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

May I ask which distro, and which scene releases you are using ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fedora 38 and elamigos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

so you use wine ? does there exist a guide ?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I play a lot of older AAA games and piracy has been a life saver. I tried playing Assassin’s Creed 4 with a legit steam copy and couldn’t even play offline because of the stupid Ubisoft launcher. With a pirated copy, you skip the launcher and get a better experience than a paying customer. Just stick to reputable groups like fitgirl and you’re fine

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ubisoft Launcher is the worst.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Accusing someone of being and/or defending a child predator (or stance) is a serious, potentially life ruining action. Without context I can’t assume it was warranted or that you were unfairly banned given our current social discourse where people flippantly call people “pedos.”

Point is we only have your side and no clue what was actually said. Just something to consider.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah pirating games is way sketchier than pirating movies. I used to do it when I was a kid, but nowadays I know enough to avoid random .exe's. That's basically just volunteering to be a part of a botnet.

Also, most of the games I'm personally interested in are online multiplayer titles. Playing pirated games online can be very difficult or basically impossible, depending on the game.

Game piracy certainly isn't dead, but there are valid reasons that it's less popular.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm in agreement. Old PC games like pre-2006 are fine, but anything newer than that, especially GFWL and beyond, i'm just not comfortable downloading executables for. Even repacks seem mega sketchy to me, so I'm fine with waiting for steam/gog sales.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Cause we’re all at dbzer0 lol