>Want to try game before buying it
>There's no playable demo
>Try downloading a pirated version
>Lose hours to find a safe torrent
>Lose additional hours to download said torrent
>Try it, and guess what? It doesn't work on my machine
>Change strategy, use an emulator
>Lose other hours configuring the emulator
>Lose other hours searching for a .nsp file of the game that can run on the emulator
>Finally everything's set! Boot emulator and game... and it motherfricking crashes!
>Lose other hours browsing the internet trying to find what the problem might be
>Dozens of possible reasons, and for each one of them dozens of possible fixes, don't know where to start
>Try the "upgrade graphic card" option; open terminal, type "sudo whateverthefrickitwas"...
>...I get "HURR DURR couldn't updoote whateverthefrick because something something certificates something something keys signatures whateverthefrick"
>Try the last resort: running the .nsp on my Nintendo Switch
>Turn out, in order to do that I need to download some homebrew program stuff; I already see dozens pages of explaination about how to install and use this shit
>But wait, before even starting I need to download ANOTHER program in order to hack the Switch!
>And before attempting to do that I need to block Nintendo servers before otherwise I risk being permanently banned from internet playing!
>And also I need to SPEND MONEY on required equipment!
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DODI
the frick does that mean
>he's still too moronic to pirate in the age of normie repackers like DODI and FITGIRL
I made this picture
The only thing that amazes me is that it gets smaller every time I see it.
How the frick do you Black folk do that?
Here, save the full size version and don't embarrass yourself.
nah, don't need a copy thanks!
My phone has very little storage
>How the frick do you Black folk do that?
Phoneposters.
The scourge of the internet. Ruining memes left right and center with their shitty compression and resolution-scaling.
>The only thing that amazes me is that it gets smaller every time I see it.
>How the frick do you Black folk do that?
phoneposters
Skill issue, works on my machine.
What even is the point of piracy if I need to spend MORE money than I would by buying it regularly?
>"hacking a switch or 3ds is easy."
https://www.cfwaifu.com/atmosphere-tinfoil/
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This, ladies and gentlemen is what piracy looks like in 2023: A hell on earth I wouldn't wish upon on my worst enemy.
And that's why nobody pirates anymore: why in the world would anyone lose hours and hours of time (and sometimes even money!) in an ungodly labyrinth of physical and mental pain, and even risking serious legal consequences, when I can just throw away some bucks and be done with it?
Face it, regularly buying games is the true Max Stirner way of playing games: that is, the one that is more convenient and involves less risk, less sacrifice, and less moral issues about the absolute state of modern gaming.
I don't know whose fault it is, but it's time they realize they can't expect everybody to be a selfless martyr ready to sacrifice anything in the name of an ideal, however right it might be.
Sometimes it's just the satisfaction. I'd rather relish the fact that I made the effort to steal a terrible game rather than pay money and find out the game is terrible immediately.
Also, I'm glad piracy is starting to be gatekept again. You kids don't know how easy it used to be - downloading DS/3DS games on release day, having every single console be easily emulatable before non-ninty 7th gen, everything at your fingertips.
>I'm glad piracy is starting to be gatekept again.
>but piracy needs to be gatekept
Spoken like a true bootlicker!
Denuvo would be proud of you
Gatekeeping piracy isn't only about keeping the masses out, it's about encouraging more people to learn skills and tinker with new releases and game systems so the scene flourishes with new talent instead the same insular group attention-seeking homosexuals having their gay dick swinging contests until they either retire, start charging fees, or start inserting malware.
>Gatekeeping piracy isn't only about keeping the masses out
>isn't only about
The very fact you're openly admitting you're actively trying to "keep the masses out", as if it's supposed to be something good says everything.
>it's about encouraging more people to learn skills and tinker
Lol, and it worked spectacularly until now, amiright??
What idiot wouldn't want piracy gatekept? The reason a pirate has stuff to pirate is because the vast majority of people don't pirate which is because it's gatekept.
I have never had these issues man I don't know what you're doing
long greentext just to say you're moronic, you should apply for a job in kotaku you have talent
I second this, you'll have some extra tendiebucks every month to buy more slop.
Pc gaming in general. It’s great when I have unlimited time to troubleshoot this minor issue I have never heard of, and one other person is having. And I’ll be lucky enough to see “pm’d you the answer!” Or even better, have to scroll through a bunch of snarky posts about how “this was answered in the sticky”.
>download game
>apply crack
>play
wow so hard
>download game
...which takes hours
>apply crack
...which takes hours to find
>play
...and it crashes.
>click game link
...which takes hours to find
>click the exe
...no because I don't use Windows
>play game
...and it crashes.
Your move, homosexuals.
>Your move, homosexuals
works on my machine :^)
>it takes hours to type a name into torrentgalaxy
>it takes hours to find the crack packaged with the rest of the game in the torrent
lol wat
>it crashes
Sorry your toaster can't play new games idiot
you must be a macgay because you are too dumb to be a linux user (not saying linux users are smart just that you are even dumber). you don't deserve video games, enjoy your word processing and architectural applications.
>I don't use windows
>BAWWW WHY CAN'T I PIRATE
lol
lmao
>...no because I don't use Windows
That explains everything, thanks.
>download bottles / lutris
which takes minutes
>download got games exe or any other site or torrent
which takes minutes
I know you're trolling but come on.
>>Lose hours to find a safe torrent
>...which takes hours
what kind of literal Black personbrained zoomer are you that you can't find a torrent for a game in less than two minutes
>I don't use Windows
You're not supposed to play games
Why are you even on this board?
I'm not saying windows is better or anything, it's just the way it is. You either play games and use windows, or you play tux racer and compile your kernel every day. Or if you're an applehomosexual, my condolences then
>or you play tux racer and compile your kernel every day
Why do you keep lying? Do you love Microsoft that much?
>I'm not saying windows is better or anything
Linux has no games
Well, maybe some, thanks to GabeN, but linux is for schizophrenics with too much free time and server admins. You don't play games on it.
>Linux has no games
It has almost all of your games.
It seems like something has changed since the 00's, when was the last time I checked the game situation on linux
I'm not going to use it anyway.
Things have really changed in just the last few years. It's not at parity with Windows but it's no longer shit for games.
Windows is only going to get worse anon. As it stands if you were to remove Defender to truly stop it from running you'd have been broken your OS at the kernel level and need a reformat. Microshit just announced a policy a few days ago that more or less amounts to "You don't own your OS and you cut tweak a wide array of settings we use to harvest your data anymore". Everything like this pulls system power away from what you want to do what you're forced to put up with.
A GTX 970 and i5 4600 series on Windows 8 enterprise is roughly equivalent to an i7 7600 and GTX 2060 on Windows 11.
>windows 11
But why would I use windows 11?
It literally runs everything now and usually with a file structure that makes more outright sense than Windows.
No, not "it runs with loopholes". It runs like you would run any other desktop app through Wine and that game will get anywhere from 15-30% performance gain because of the nature of the OS.
>lose hours
piracy only takes time if you don't know the actual sites to find the quality uploads and instead just try to grab the first torrent you see on pirate bay like a rube.
lmfao, fricking kys you utter mongoloid
Can safari or whatever even open Ganker? Can it open yellow boards, or do they scan the sites you visit for CP and if you open /b/ you are instantly raided?
>>Lose additional hours to download said torrent
ngmi
Skill issue
Imagine not knowing how to automate this shit
>OP is a moronic homosexual zoomer
>click game link
>click the exe
>play game
>live in the sticks, so only one ISP that isn’t like $70+ a month
>they get butthurt about pirating and send dmca letters
What do, bros? I miss torrenting everything on my uni wifi
$5/month for a vpn.
VPN, dipshit-kun. Also you act like those threats mean jackshit. I've been sent 6 letters in the last year when I pirated /teevee/ media, mainly from HBO, and I'm still breat
User error, there is no way for them to grab your real IP to send a letter. Next time enable the killswitch in your VPN
I refuse to believe there are people too stupid to pirate
Ive been pirating games and software since I was 8
I remember when you had to apply cracks to the games, I remember when you had to get a key generator to "certify" the game so it install
And I did all that when I was 8
Meanwhile this fricking drooling moron cant do it today
>Ive been pirating games and software since I was 8
Same as myself.
>I remember when you had to apply cracks to the games, I remember when you had to get a key generator to "certify" the game so it install
I don't. In fact, all this shit seems more similar to what I need to fo NOW.
>And I did all that when I was 8
No shit, since piracy was enormously easier back then.
>you must be a macgay because you are too dumb to be a linux user
I've been using Linux before you even learned how to eat cum, homosexual.
>https://1337x.to/home/
...which is what I tried.
>Use qBittorent, as it's reliable and safe
...which is what I tried.
>Stick to recognizable repackers like Fitgirl and DODI.
...which is what I tried.
>linux user
>can't apply cracks or emulate windows
hilarious
It's not any harder to pirate on Linux except for some cases.
You're LARPing, this isn't real. I used Arch for a few months as a tech illiterate moron and didn't have any problems with piracy, both for old and new games
How can you have this much trouble? Even as a teenage idiot who was afraid of pirating things I was still better at it than you
The real reason is that all new games fricking suck and not even worth the effort to pirate.
Nah hacking a switch or 3ds is easy. It's hacking a xbox that's hard since you have to hotswap the drive while the system is on if you want to upgrade the hdd
>Change strategy, use an emulator
>Lose other hours configuring the emulator
>Lose other hours searching for a .nsp file of the game that can run on the emulator
>Finally everything's set! Boot emulator and game... and it motherfricking crashes!
>Lose other hours browsing the internet trying to find what the problem might be
lmao this happened to me when I tried to run a switch game
In the end it was just like no your graphics card is supported
>try torrent, cant figure it out because moronic
>I'll try emulating it instead
Did.....you try torrenting a PS2 game or something lol
some real artificial posts in here
>torrent " doesn't work on my machine" after searching for a "safe torrent"
Yeah, lots of artificial posts starting with OP's
i stopped pirating because my backlog is so huge that by the time i come around to play games i can buy them for like 5-10 bucks on steam
Not reading all that, but piracy needs to be gatekept, so its a good thing.
Gabe is right and wins again
in reality
>google fitgirl
>download
>play
https://1337x.to/home/
Use qBittorent, as it's reliable and safe
Stick to recognizable repackers like Fitgirl and DODI. If you can't find a repack from either of these on 1337, IGGGAMES is also an acceptable choice
If you need a VPN, use Mullvad. It's simple, quick, and only costs 5 bucks a month (you can choose how many months you're paying for when you buy it, from 1 month to 1 year). I don't trust NordVPN or ExpressVPN, or pretty much anything that is sponsored by YouTubers (I get they need money, but that doesn't mean I have to watch this waste of mindspace)
>Hours trying to find a "safe" download
No such thing, fricking download the shit and run it you pussy, I've been doing it for a decade and a half now and got no viruses. The age of the traditional virus is over, nobody is putting that shit in game releases anymore, they are all busy putting backdoors in linux distros and getting ransomware into the computers of large business, capitalism fricked even the hackers up, they ain't gonna do "oh I'm going to delete your files" silly viruses anymore, everybody gotta aim for the big paydays. Windows already sends all your info to Microsoft anyway, the OS are already the malware, so stop being a pussy and download Super Mario 64 from the shaddiest site you ever seen, you get fricking nothing, even those sites are just trying to get by from ad revenue. God damn.
Are all botnets just made of the machines of 3rd worlders/the elderly/a few scattered work computers? Surely someone is still getting viruses.
>Are all botnets just made of the machines of 3rd worlders/the elderly/a few scattered work computers?
yes. The last time I got a virus was from a shitty porn game uploaded by a thirdie who was too moronic to even hide the malware so the tagged file was literally malware.exe or some shit when I gave it a cursory scan
I got a virus from a game torrent recently (as in 2020). I didn't even really notice it for a long time and I dunno what it was doing, supposedly some kind of telegram bot that phones home. Just silently running in the background all that time
You can't let your guard down still
Where did you get it from?
Nyaa a torrent of totono English version (you and me and her)
Hope you got it taken down
Oh I guess I should do that
I don't have an account though
NTA but I downloaded and installed the first Baldur's Gate 3 torrent on both my main and secondary PC kek.
>pirateinggames
>not having an antivirus
Zoomers are moronic
That's just standard windows updates.
Yes, piracy is too hard for the average consumer, dont bother with it. Someone has to pay the bills, might as well be you
I've been pirating for decades but I still dont know how to get into a private tracker
you know steam has a refund system right?
stay filtered pleb
unironically a skill issue
I don't know why you'd pretend to be so moronic when my fricking 12 year old nephew knows what Deluge is.
You are more fricking moronic than a preteen have a nice day.
>>Lose other hours searching for a .nsp file
Switch games are the easiest to pirate you genuine moron
I feel fricking old and Im a zoomer
All I do is pirate from the same guy Ive always pirated from on piratesbay using qbitorrent
Guys this is a phishing scheme
Op is a fisher
He's trying to catch carp, don't listen to him
To be fair demos are a double edged sword so I can see why developers got rid of them; see my experience with a couple demos during 2023:
>Play the Lies of P demo on Steam
>Liked it so I buy the game at launch
>Play the Crymachina demo on PS4 (no demo on PC so I had to undust the thing)
>It was so shit I removed it from my Steam wishlist
Without a demo I would have bought Crymachina and ignored Lies of P (and be mad I wasted $70 on a shitty game)
>it is paramount that we lie and deceive people into buying our games
Yes we know. It was never about muh piracy but about stopping people from actually sampling the goods.
It's more like most people's interest in games stops after they get a sample, paid or not. Most people don't complete their games. A demo allows those people to get those hours in and drop the game without having spent a dime.
Wrong.
>Without a demo I would have bought
Just don't.
>"HAHAHA YOUR moronic CAUSE YOU DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO..."
>proceeds to list a bunch of stuff I already tried (and did NOT work).
this thread in a nutshell.
u retar
Have you considered the fact that it smells like shit everywhere you go because the shit is on YOUR shoe? Multiple sources are telling you the same thing, so figure out what you're doing wrong and fix it. This is a life lesson that applies to a lot, sometimes you're the moronic one
Yer be a lopsided brain landlubber OP and a habitual fellator of prostitute pipes
Well...maybe if getting something for free is too hard, you should just buy it. As for me, downloading from cdr and loading the rom in retroarch has never been a struggle.
>no I mean pirating NEW games
Oh no ahahahahahahahaha
You're literally too dumb, so dumb in fact you can't even automatically breathe, see now you're breathing manually hahahaha gottem.
It is actually a problem these days looking for torrents for niche games. A lot of them have no seeds, a lot are only uploaded by untrustworthy groups like igg.
>Piracy is dying because of tech illiterate morons
OP is a gay, but the cause is there, it shouldn't be easily accessible in the first place anyway
>piracy is dying!
oh please
when games are fully moved to GaaS and your client doesn't even contain the full game code that's when you can say piracy is dying
Right now piracy isn't even that difficult, it's simply time-consuming. It's sifting through a massive haystack to find a needle. The only people willing to go through the trouble are turbo-autists on huge doses of stimulants, and Denuvo hired most of them just to stop them from taking payment to crack their games.
See
>time consuming
The only "time consuming" thing about piracy is downloading, and that is when your internet is shit, or you have few seeders, or when you are not downloading the next game while you play the one you just pirated
tldr skill issue
Man I remember when my internet was so shit it took a literal day to download anything over 20gb. Still did it though cause it was the best I had back then. Better than when our wifi was connected to the phone line and would go out if the phone line got unplugged
>so shit it took a literal day to download anything over 20gb.
lmao zoomers are so funny
Dowloading the ~200gb COM3D2 files took a month here lmao
>Man I remember when my internet was so shit it took a literal day to download anything over 20gb.
My dear, sweet, summer child
>The only "time consuming" thing about piracy is downloading
No, the real time consuming thing is finding a solution for when what you downloaded inevitably crashes.
And when you find it, finding out that "time consuming" becomes "money consuming", which defeats the entire purpose of pirating.
My guy, maybe 1 out of every 50 games I pirate either crash or dont work, and even then, its some random obscure rpgmaker shit that uses some obscure vs redist
Buy an ad.
>only pirate old games
>have none of these problems
>Lose other hours configuring the emulator
you may be moronic my friend
>Lose other hours configuring the emulator
>you may be moronic my friend
What's the number of all the possible combinations of the various emulator settings I need to go through in order to find out exactly what works?
Since you're such a genius you'll have no trouble answering that.
>"I was better at pirating when pirating was much easier!"
Wow another genius!
Dude if you emulate anything before 8th gen it isn't that hard, what kind of low iq moron opens and emulator and thinks it isn't adequate out the box. Like at most fricking with settings takes maybe 10 minutes and that's being generous.
>Dude if you emulate anything before 8th gen it isn't that hard
No shit sherlock, that's why I'm saying piracy is dying NOW.
Yes because emulating ps3 was possible 10 years ago, if you think about it for 5 seconds maybe you'll understand that emulation technology gets better over time.
I will NEVER buy a game I can't try beforehand, be it a demo or a pirated copy.
I will NEVER buy a game whose studio already got paid by the government or hedge funds.
I will NEVER buy a game whose devs actively insulted the playerbase or belittled its fans.
I will NEVER buy a game that's been shilled on Ganker.
I will NEVER buy AAA or FotM bullshit.
Deal with it, shills and fanboys.
Sounds like you need to support game developers 🙂
You being too moronic to pirate isn't my problem
piracy gatekeeping is a good thing. buy the games so we can pirate, timmy
So basically what you're saying is
>I'm moronic
>falls for schizo turbo-autist Ganker bullshit and installs a linux OS
>upset when some things just don’t and can’t work, and solutions are impossible to find.
The best OS is the same as the best UI: the one you have to frick with the least to run your desired applications. Linux is for web browsing and light office work on outdated craptops with hardware too weak to run modern windows.
>want to pirate a game
>google "gog *name of game*" to see if it's on gog, and if so check the gog uploads
>if it's not there, go to cs.rin.ru & download there
>always works, always safe, almost always updated
Emulation is piss easy dude what the frick are you talking about?
Still gay ben was absolutely right and piracy is a service problem. I've literally never pirated a game which is available on steam
Skill issue
didn't read anything you just wrote
if you're too stupid to pirate, its not my problem
>not having a v1 switch
lmao the worst case scenario is you just need to buy a bigger sd card, a usb c cable, and/or the jig to start RCM mode
might as well tell us what game you were trying to play
>Lose hours to find a safe torrent
Frick off avatargay
>step by step guide
>he needs a guide on how to download games on the internet
I seriously hope you guys don't do this
I need 3DS Max and ever since my computer got annihilated by a Game.exe I torrented I don't trust my own judgement anymore.
Just admit you like pirating stop trying to die on this moral hill thinking you pirate to test out a game before you buy. Just shut the frick up pussy.