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[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

When pirating becomes easier and more convenient than using the legit services, the industry is doing something very wrong...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Genuine games being sold with cracks to remove the DRM instead of recompiling it without the DRM because the DRM doesn't work on modern machines and they can't be arsed to recompile and actually fix anything so even they resort to piracy.

It's absolutely ridiculous.

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

Yeah I still haven't forgiven EA for making me waste 15 fucking dollars on a fucking sport demo disc that didn't fucking work on my computer, and I had to reinstall it uninstall it so many times that I used up all five of my installs, because apparently you don't get those back when you want install. Fuck you EA

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

Excuse me, what?

Got any links for that? I’d love to read more about it, that seems really stupid but also believable considering our current market.

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

It's a bit of a rabbit hole, but Rockstar was caught recently selling a cracked version of their game on steam.

A lot of the time the person / group doing the cracking leave a digital signature. Here's a hacker news link to the original Twitter thread that caused a bit of fuss recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37394665

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ that’s embarrassing. And it’s not even one of the companies commonly labeled as “lazy” like EA or Ubisoft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Rockstar is well known for dodgy PC ports, though.