I don't care if you're a console-cuck or a PChad, you should be pirating the shit out of Ubisoft products on principle if you want to play them.
You SHOULD be pirating as much as you can anyway, but double so for this.
>You SHOULD be pirating as much as you can anyway, but double so for this.
zoomers don't pirate anon. They suck as much corporate wiener as they can and toss as much money away as humanly possible.
I actually know people who want to vote Bernie again in 2024. It's more depressing BECAUSE they aren't full-on NPCs. They should know better, and they do about everything else about the rotten systems in America, but they still think Bernie's not also in on the DNC's grift.
Not him, but Republicans tend to be very anti right-to-repair, which tells me they probably don't give a frick about whether or not I own my games or movies if they don't even want me to repair the fricking shit I actually physically own.
they are npcs now anon. They are lost in life and have nowhere to turn because they invested fully in a system which is showing how corrupt it truly is. People are in shock and have been dumbed down.
thats only true with old games.
and youve said it >I own my physical media.
thats the thing you own, not the game.
not even the access to the game, because online features and such are normal nowadays that they simply can deny you that part.
There's no point in playing Ubisoft games unless you've never played one before. They're all the same. Just play AC Black Flag or Origins and you've played every ubisoft game
Not really. You clearly don’t know anything either and you’re betting on just trusting some random person in russia cracking your games, that one day could just frick your computer up
2 years ago
Anonymous
Ok
2 years ago
Anonymous
Ganker anon here are prick
Just ask your problems to reddit, they genuinely help you
Yeah, the DLL files are usually small but was wondering if they could one day just take over my PC. All the games i’ve installed were clean except for one that was a false positive, i wanted to know if has there ever been a crackgroup that gone rogue
2 years ago
Anonymous
If they did, then people would talk about it.
That's why you don't download immensely sketchy shit that has 5 downloads.
You go for the ones that have thousands. You verify the contents.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Use virus total to check up on the files. If lot well name anti-virus pick it up, there is good chance it's a virus.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload
2 years ago
Anonymous
The empress crack i installed from a trusted site had about 10/30 flagging it as a virus, and windows defender picked it up though doing some research people said it was just a false positive
2 years ago
Anonymous
10 not bad. Do you have shitty laptop to test games out on? I use my gaming laptop for testing pirate games.
Also try reading up on the name of the virus.
2 years ago
Anonymous
So it's safe if it's only like 1 lesser known antivirus like Cynet or something? I downloaded snoot game a while ago, and since it was an EXE I was wary of running it, so I ran it through virustotal.
Weird thing is that the first exe was completely clean, but the 32bit exe set off 1 vendor.
2 years ago
Anonymous
It probably trigger it because the exe was cracked. Cracks give off lot false positives. Imo if anti virus detected somthing as virus that is not the crack you might want to worry.
Also keep you're tasks manager open. If you see weird spikes of usage when gaming is hint for a bot. Like cpu or gpu using 99% power for a game.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Like cpu or gpu using 99% power for a game.
what? most games uses 99% of your gpu if it's a triple A game if you try to run over 60fps and depends on your graphics card
2 years ago
Anonymous
All the time? What game's are you playing?
2 years ago
Anonymous
games like RDR 2, and not a cracked version either.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Even when you're doing nothing in menu or having the game pause?
2 years ago
Anonymous
when you're actually playing the game, i don't keep track of it when im in the pause menu, though a good indicator of the game using less resource is when you pause the game and the fan speed goes down.
2 years ago
Anonymous
any game with an unlocked frame rate is likely to max out the gpu most of the time.
2 years ago
Anonymous
True, another tip is if you're framrate is unstable when you have more than enough spec for the game.
it it doesn't seem that way to me. why is the installer an exe? why do the games refuse to run without administrative rights, when almost all other pirated games don't? There are so many huge red flags, I'm not going to just take fitgirl's word for it.
virustotal may not find anything, but that doensn't mean much when it's fairly easy to obfuscate code and/or make novel malware that won't be in databases.
The only reason I'm willing to play these pirated games is that I have a computer specifically for that. It has no personal information related to me whatsoever. I've isolated it on the network as well. If you have or do anything of value on your computer, you should avoid pirated games on that machine. or even games in general, since official steam games have been caught including malware.
you are literally a like 95 iq lukewarm midwit who read like two tech magazines and thinks he knows anything. shut the frick up and play the games you moronic c**t.
most pirated games are distributed in a ready to play state from a torrent or inside a zip/rar archive. that particular group goes out of their way to make exe installers.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Not when it's 90gb of files compressed down to 30gb
As I said in another post, just download the original release then
2 years ago
Anonymous
yeah that's what I do. If you have fast internet, that's faster than decompressing them anyway. To begin with I was replying to the post that said fitgirl is safe, pointing out obvious red flags.
most pirated games are probably safe but if you install dozens and hundreds of them like me you'll probably get malware at some point. i've gotten some odd and funny malwares over the year, from 'trusted' groups. in addition to the typical crypto miners, i once got some russian radio malware. it kept playing russian music and ads from the internet. sometimes it would play porn sounds. i could mute in the windows sound mixer, but it couldn't get rid of it. antivirus programs never detected it. i've been able to remove most malware, but this one completely stumped me and i had to reinstall win7.
I also got a keylogger once. It stole my username and password to a few sites before I realized what was happening. Thankfully nothing bad happened, but that was luck. It's entirely possible to lose your social media or your bank account like that.
Worst malware I ever got was one that used up some of my disk, cpu, and network. don't really know what it was doing, probably p2p sharing of illegal files, but these files were encrypted. it would stop whenever you opened a directx game, torrent app, etc so you wouldn't notice it. I only was able to notice because I was logging these things for benchmarks.
if you want to safely pirate games on PC, I recommend emulating console games. The exes you run are open source. The games you run are sandboxed.
Emulators have actually been exploited with hacked ROMs in the past but it's rare. I've never had a problem with that personally.
that happened back when win7 was current. i've been playing games for a long time. it's hard to say which game exactly the malware came from. I always did follow the general guidelines other people are suggesting in this thread. Nothing about those has changed in the past decade.
what are some signs of crypto mining on your PC, and whats the best way to detect and remove them., it's mostly what im spooked of because keyloggers and ransomware are easy to see and you know when it's happening because you would get 1000s of notifications of someone trying to bruteforce the 2FA and take your shit.
2 years ago
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>what are some signs of crypto mining on your PC
your CPu and GPU usage is not near zero. they can limit CPut. but gpu is a lot more complex. so is really easy to tell.
whats harder to know is if your pc has been turned into a CS or some other game server-
2 years ago
Anonymous
keyloggers aren't necessarily easy to see. the information might not be used for years. I got lucky. I like to change my important passwords once every few months.
Ransomware is harmless if you back up your data.
Crypto miners will always use up some system resources, normally CPU and GPU, but there are also disk based ones. In my case it was easy to see because my GPU usage was high when it shouldn't have been. I could hear the fans running and feel the extra heat coming out of my PC (i keep it below my desk). Even without measurement software on my PC, it was obviously running.
Depending on how smart the developer is, they might not be easy to detect. They might be programmed to use less system resources so you never find anything amiss. Even the one I had, which seemed to run at full blast, was smart enough to turn itself off when I opened task manager or a game. By the time I scrolled through the list of processes, it would already be gone. You can log all your sensors with hwinfo64. Process hacker can tell you which exe is using which resources. Sometimes malware doesn't even have its own exe, but it gets loaded as a dll or injected into another process or service. When I found the service I would kill it, but it would get revived in a few minutes.
IMO cypto miners are harmful to society, but to the individual, they may have no impact other than your power bill. Assuming they don't also do other bad things.
In my case, I was able to find the bad dll that was being loaded and just delete it. There were actually several copies, which also got revived, and I had to delete them with a linux live usb. but what was loading that dll? I had no idea. is that process also malicious? I should have reinstalled windows right then, but I had to wait a few days. It did solve the problem though.
Hypothetically, my other drives could have also been infected. In practice, the problem didn't seem to recur.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I think a good general tip for people is don't use the same machine you're pirating games and porn on as the same machine you do your bank account and personal information on.
35 years or so of rampant pirating like a c**t and I have yet to get one. The closest I've gotten is installer bars and popup generators back in the 90s which I could just delete and weren't from pirated games but "free" apps like media players and such. I also do not run an antivirus, as in at all. Mainly because honestly it's mostly a placebo, and the Microsoft one now is worse than the malware it was created to catch.
The real truth is pirating PC software is never 100% safe. There could always be something undetectable. Generally most is safe if you download from reputable crackers. Pirating roms and isos for console games is safe.
This is the only post worth reading, you have no idea what you're running or what it could do when you run cracked games. If you really still want to pirate games you should do it on a computer that isn't connected to your network.
Never download from Piratebay. It's the worst public tracker and you will get infected sooner or later (I did). The safest way is probably to download from fitgirl, but make sure it's the correct site because there are a bunch of fakes made to infect people with malware.
Idon't. but also I'm just too used to my machine. even slight weird behavior is an alert.
2 years ago
Anonymous
weird behaviors like what, i have weird behaviors on my pc all the time but it's most likely due to windows update
2 years ago
Anonymous
windows update is a weird behavior on itself.
I have linux and w7 at home only.
behaviors like cpu spikes, shit wanting more ram than usual, internet traffic I didn't allow or shit I don't know the process manager. etc
2 years ago
Anonymous
>windows update is a weird behavior on itself.
only if youre on old windows
2 years ago
Anonymous
win7 doesnt update if I don't want to. that's a you problem.
dude don't fall for the unsupported boogieman.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I had my ancient install of W7 randomly max out writing to my boot HDD every now and then doing frick knows what rendering the computer unusable for like an hour
2 years ago
Anonymous
then is clearly infected. duh
2 years ago
Anonymous
The specific end of support day for Windows 7 was January 14, 2020.
everything else is virus
2 years ago
Anonymous
>old windows
Former IT admin, frick anything past Windows 7 for personal or enterprise use. >8 started the locked down shit >10 only made it worse with GPO deployment >11's released caused functionality to go from decent to Apple-gay moronic
I'm waiting for when MS starts a monthly or quarterly fee to use Windows 11v30 or higher as they've done with their 365 environments.
I got a keylogger that stole one (1) of my passwords before I managed to get rid of it. Unfortunately it was a password I used for multiple accounts on multiple websites so I had to nuke them, but thankfully they were minor stuff and nothing serious like my paypal account which means they couldn't steal anything.
pirated games do often have viruses and cryptominers in 'em, though. i don't really understand why you think they don't, since it's often been proven they do.
It's not an option for everyone, but you can consider having two PCs. One "normal" one, one for pirated/Chinkware/other untrusted software. If you're willing to game entirely on the burner system the only capabilities the legit one has to have are the system requirements for whatever productivity shit you use..
thats what i am currently doing. i didnt know what to do with my old pc after building my new one and decided to make it my emulation/pirating machine. downloaded around 200 PS2 and psp games over the weekend already lol
>stopped buying ubisoft games becausw they were shit >stopped buying ubisoft games because uPlay was uNusable garbage
Now another reason to not buy Ubisoft crap.
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You: ubisoft made a pirate game so i don't think they hate pirates that much
I'm guessing he is trying to be quirky by pretending he did such a bad copypaste job he "accidentally" included his username (the redditor he wants targeted) and some of the page's html
but thats the username of the OP who posted it to the copypasta sub. I guess they could have changed it but that is a lot of effort for such a low-tier blow, nobody from here is gonna go to reddit, make an account if they don't have one, jump through the karma hoops to message, and then say what? "Don't cum 2 4chin ever again"
hey dude i laughed at your post and thought it was clever when i read the last part, dont listen to those other guys there just butthole
>that long dead unfunny meme
Uh oh reddit stinky....
jesus frick newbie go back.
fricking losers i could probably fricking murder you cucks in real life and u wont do shit seriously frick off or ill report ur post and u will get banned for being a moron Black person
I prefer to blame the companies and not the ignorant customers. The world won't get better if you constantly give the butthole companies a pass and blame the victim. Yes, people should do their own research, that doesn't absolve Ubisoft from being shitheads and it doesn't absolve valve for not doing more to explain why going off platform for your DRM is going to suck.
He's probably right. Economy is looking bad for the next decade and there will probably be horrifying wars that disrupt international trade. But will that be in 5 years or 30? idk.
>Yes, anyone who purchases a digital copy of Super Mario 3D All-Stars while it's available will be able to re-download the game from the eShop after March 31, 2021
is there an actual reason for this? im assuming it must be more than just some licensing agreement running out because most games delisted from steam stay available indefinitely unless there is some major technical issue
Publishers have made efforts to link single-player to online components to cripple pirate copies (and legal copies for games they won't maintain anymore, but that's a plus).
I think a person is fully justified to pirate any game they purchase on steam, just to keep as a backup.
You can't trust corporations.
why would you buy an ubisoft game made in the last ten years
the last good one was AC2
maybe For Honor was okay but I wouldn't dare touch it for shit like this
>Your license for a game can be revoked at any time for any reason.
This doesn’t seem true, and if it is I doubt it’s very legal. You can’t just offer goods or service for a cost and then be able to suddenly revoke it without the end user breaking some part of the EULA
>I doubt it’s very legal
clearly ubisoft thinks otherwise. there's no doubt some language in the tos that says you own jack shit that can be deleted at any time. even if you can contest it, it will probably also have something that forces you to go through an arbitration kangaroo court or something to further discourage people
They honestly need some laws that require TOSs to be shorter and more digestible for the average consumer. No one reads these 6 page documents full of legal jargon.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>No one reads these 6 page documents full of legal jargon.
That's exactly why they're the way they are and there's sites like https://tosdr.org/ that give you dot points
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I doubt it’s very legal
clearly ubisoft thinks otherwise. there's no doubt some language in the tos that says you own jack shit that can be deleted at any time. even if you can contest it, it will probably also have something that forces you to go through an arbitration kangaroo court or something to further discourage people
>Your license for a game can be revoked at any time for any reason.
This doesn’t seem true, and if it is I doubt it’s very legal. You can’t just offer goods or service for a cost and then be able to suddenly revoke it without the end user breaking some part of the EULA
Pretty much every EULA/TOS/etc is illegal, just no one bothers to challenge it because no one person has the funds to run through court bullshit for years of stalling outside of literal million/billionaires. And they don't give a shit to do that because they have nothing to gain from it.
Companies knowingly write whatever the frick they want because it won't be challenged unless it's particularly egregious and they can't have their pet lawyers drag a case out forever.
Also non-3rd world countries usually have laws that axe shit like this without providing the consumer some kind of recompense. It's only in legal wastelands like the US that shit like this flies.
>This doesn’t seem true, and if it is I doubt it’s very legal.
it is written in the eula, but the thing is, the eula isnt legally binding.
like the part where you cant be part of a class action lawsuit etc. those things are straight up impossible.
Weird to blame steam for FC3 when the base game will still be accessible from steam after the ubisoft shoah but the DLC must only authenticate via ubsoft so it will be gone forever
>For some reason, no recompense to the consumer is required for this, which is the part I don't understand
because lawmakers' bills are paid for by modern day robber barons
Lawmakers ARE robber barons. They always were. Magna Carta, this massive progression towards liberty and individual rights, didn't come about because the people wanted it. It came about because the robber barons wanted it.
Steam sells perpetual licenses, which are contracts that are, as the name suggests, perpetual. There are a few elements that could cause a contract to be legally terminated in the United States, but this is a problem with the U.S. and EU not having any digital ownership laws in place. It's in the same position as streaming, which technically isn't legal, but we do it anyways.
That's true even of physical copies by the way. Even when you buy a physical disc, according to the DMCA you don't actually own that disc, you've just purchased a license saying you can have the disc at your house and play it in your computer/console.
Sure, you can't expect to own the IP, only a single instance of it is all you have.
However, that license is perpetual until you lose the disc. Not applying the same standards to a game because it's stored in your HDD rather than a CD is bullshit.
>That's true even of physical copies by the way. Even when you buy a physical disc, according to the DMCA you don't actually own that disc
I believe you but can you post a proof?
He's completely wrong. You absolutely own the disc. Just because you own a physical manifestation of an IP doesn't mean you own the IP. The people arguing HURR DURR YOU DON'T REALLY OWN THE GAME EVEN WHEN YOU BUY A PHYSICAL COPY may as well be claiming you don't really own you car because patents are a thing. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine >The first-sale doctrine creates a basic exception to the copyright holder's distribution right. Once the work is lawfully sold or even transferred gratuitously, the copyright owner's interest in the material object in which the copyrighted work is embodied is exhausted. The owner of the material object can then dispose of it as they see fit. Thus, one who buys a copy of a book is entitled to resell it, rent it, give it away, or destroy it.
There's your proof he's full of shit.
Oh, so it gets checked on Ubisoft too? That would explain it. There must be some sort of work around. I mean, I don't expect Ubisoft to do that, but I'd imagine there is a way to bypass the Ubisoft check.
>want to play Forza >don't care for open world meme >the latest mainline installment, Forza 7, isn't available for purchase anymore
I don't understand.
why would you buy an ubisoft game made in the last ten years
the last good one was AC2
maybe For Honor was okay but I wouldn't dare touch it for shit like this
What the frick are you guys talking about? You will obviously still be able to play the Singleplayer like normal. They will just shut down the Online Services.
no it's not
that's like saying every game is an online service because you bought it online
it's obviously not true because there are games you can play offline even without logging into steam
>we don't want to bother having to use the most minimum of server usage for the stupid bloatware DRM we designed and achievements and all that junk on our game, it's just not worth it anymore >alright so we'll just get rid of those >no just delete the game from existence frick it
absolutely BASED so frickin sick
people really got on activisions case when bobby kotick was goin wild but I always thought it was ubisoft who was always on the cutting edge of just absolutely buttfricking their customers
> The government.
You are literally so conditioned by corporations, you can't even assign the blame where it lays. Say it with me: corporations are responsible. They lobby governments and manipulate ones they cannot. Corporations are NOT YOUR FRIENDS. Nintendo is not your friend. Sony is not your friend. Ubisoft are not your friends. Fricking Walmart is not your goddamn friend. The reason why we have such shit governments is that corporations own them in all but name.
It is true. Look at every single PC release. Nobody makes physical versions except for maybe Rockstar.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Nobody makes physical versions except for maybe Rockstar.
This release has two physical copies. One in the israeliteel case with a optical disc, and a USB drive.
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2 years ago
Anonymous
>dumb indie game has a gimmick physical limited run
Not a real argument.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Cope.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Cope with what? That a game nobody's ever heard of got a random physical release?
2 years ago
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>game nobody's heard of
Bait. Don't reply to this post.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>limited run games
don't make me laugh anon.
>i-it doesn't count if it's not a game from papa microsoft!!
2 years ago
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>Get BTFO >Double down on being a moron
Just stop. It's embarrassing.
2 years ago
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>Promised a DRM free copy >Get a steam voucher instead
We are the minority anon, people either don't have a disc drive anymore or outright don't own a PC anymore not even a fricking laptop
You are the minority, when I built my new PC I didn't see the point of one. All my games are digital and they don't even include discs in physical pc copies at the store anymore. Having a disc drive is moronic now.
Except for those with already large physical collections. Or indeed DVD/Movie collections. The interesting thing about it was how quick and forced the no disk thing became. It was planned, that much is obvious. They even told us that it would lower costs. Instead, they went up.
>Every pc homosexual has a PC with no disc drive already
I could say the same about how every consolehomosexual only ever bought a digital-only version, but your mental illness wont stand for that
Shit like this is why I've moved away from vidya. During the height of the pandemic era. I decided to sell nearly all of my vidya consoles and games except for my Switch, modded N64, modded SNES classic, and modded Wii.
Ended up getting $5K for everything as I overcharged the frick out of some rarer items.
RIP vidya, I'll rather go full /vr/ than deal with the shit that is slowly approaching the industry with digital-only homosexualry.
Why would this gay be happy? Clearly he is not buying physical to begin with, so why does he seethe? How does the option and existence of physical copies effect digi only gays? Why cant we just have both options?
>buy disc >contains full version of game >still requires online check-ins >disc becomes worthless paperweight after servers go offline >this is somehow better than digital
games would be cheaper and consoles would be more powerful if we ditched physical games
there's nothing about physical that stops it from happening though. if you're really upset about ownership then you should b***h about that instead of about physical games going away.
>games would be cheaper and consoles would be more powerful if we ditched physical games
the should but they won't because publishers can simply keep the money they save on not having to physically create and ship games
That's just an excuse. The real reason is the publishers like prices where they are and love to raise them as far as they can get away, like all these bs editions that give out a single skin or weapon in game that was just cut out of the base game but because it's in a separate edition makes the game cost increase by $20.
>games would be cheaper
No. Games would continue to be the same price, or more expensive, because that just means more profit for these companies. >consoles would be more powerful if we ditched physical games
No? Are you genuinely fricking moronic? Your fancy new consoles don't actually play games off discs, they haven't since the switch to BluRays.
>No. Games would continue to be the same price, or more expensive, because that just means more profit for these companies.
maybe for call of duty or gta, but for smaller more niche games companies would be more likely to price them lower to appeal to a wider crowd. >consoles would be more powerful if we ditched physical games
whatever money is saved by not including the disc drive can instead be spent on other components, hence more powerful.
You are truly underage if you think going full digital will make a significant decrease in prices. Its always better for the consumer to have multiple options. Also consider harddrive space and being able to delete and reinstall as you please. Sure, who can redownload from whatever service you bought from, but you will always have shit like OP image as a possibility.
Yeah. That must be why games went up in price while digital sales have multiplied exponentially. Because that will make them cheaper. Big daddy corpo said so. You fricking dumbass twat.
and that whould have been far more self contained if you didn't have a fricking tracking deice with you all the time helping to "document" and widespread it.
You're right about the privacy, and facebook DID kill both privacy and common sense but ultimately it was iPhone who "put a facebook on every hand".
2 years ago
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If there had been no Facebook, the worst smartphones would have unleashed is an eternal september.
>Told people throughout the 90s and 00s to not give out your details online >Some reptile looking twink makes a website specifically for handing out your person info >All those people who told you not to give info give their info willingly.
There were several factors building up to ruin the Internet but they were kept quarantined in cages. The smartphone was the fricking idiot that decided to open up those cages. The smartphone is basically if the nobles/clergy of the late medieval era were right about the printing press.
> 2011. > Good era.
Nah. For that era, you have to go back to before Google. That was when it was a wild west with forums and chatrooms and P2P the likes of which would simply bet people arrested now. Once all that got indexed, the lawmakers stepped in because they knew where to find everyone. It's ironic, but the very tool that made the internet accessible, ended up destroying it. By the time web 2.0 and whatever was foisted on to people, everything was already corporate and shit.
This. I've never owned a game more than when it was an exe that didn't require stupid third party launchers. Take FTL, Or Starsector for instance. Sure I might not be able to "sell" them in a sense, but why would I want to? I own them forever, can make infinite copies, and I don't even need to worry about keeping my CD key for them. A game that respects your freedom is one worth keeping.
that's how I feel, I have copies of DRM free games in multiple places, I don't need to worry about if X service goes down because I can backup my games as much as I want to, it beats having to rely on a disc which is a single point of failure
physical copies are kind of a meme when games are always released in such a state you have to install day one updates immediately anyways for the game to even function half the time, let alone all the actual gameplay bugs. But it would definitely be nice if companies started offering physical "definitive editions" of all their games after all the updates and DLC's once they have completely stopped supporting them. As long as its discounted based on how much content you already own and only a couple bucks if you own everything I wouldn't see any issue
It's so strange to me how people simply no longer want to own anything or have control over their possessions. Everyone wants to just rent shit/digitally download/stream things that are at the mercy of some multinational company. People don't even want to have privacy anymore as they willingly broadcast their private information to all these companies across the internet.
Maybe the World Economic Forum is right. Maybe the majority of people will be happy owning nothing.
I think they are, for right now at least. Space is going to be an issue for the generations after us if the housing issue is still a thing. New houses are smaller and there is a big push for less space. It isn't necsesarily a bad thing to want less stuff and take up less space, but it is also not a good thing to set as the nominal. Once these people who advocate for less realize they are getting screwed they'll wisen up (I hope). So glad we are not like them though. They'll learn, most likely the hard way.
>overpopulation is terrible! We need to save the earth! >our workforce is aging, we need more Africans to do the jobs we don't want to do and they will definitely pay for social security! We'll just import people from every 3rd world country with a higher birthrate.
The majority of people have never been good at long term thinking. The ability to defer immediate gratification for a greater reward later is the biggest and most consistent marker of successful people and can be demonstrated with literal toddlers but amongst most people they take the lesser but immediate reward.
Young people want to rent, pay subscriptions, borrow, buy now pay later, etc. etc. because it gets them immediate satisfaction. They don't consider 1 year, 2 years, 10 years later when they'll have been paying out 60% or more of their paycheck for 10 years with nothing to show for it. People eventually grow out of this mentality, the itunes generation buys vinyls for instance, we shall see what the spotify and netflix generation do after they realise they've wasted their money.
Normie: >wtf this is not ok
bot army: >It's actually not that bad >eh, it doesn't bother me at all >un.... it's necesary because of x >stop being so entitled >you're racist, fascist, transphobic
I wonder if people interact on the internet anymore. Everyday it's the same ukraine flag basedgay or trump boomer talking the same arguments and defending the same shit over and over.
there was another precedent, studio vegas was sold in argentina for like a quarter of a dollar by mistake and they took away the license from those that bought it
>Taking away a game with a mixed and mostly negative review >A game that has been on the platform for years and that very few people liked or played
Big deal, I get the principle behind it though it'd be more shocking if they were pulling a game that people actually liked and played regularly like if they pulled AC: Odyssey or Origins.
I hate this reality. I still have my original copy of Yoshi's Island and Secret of Mana. Secret of Mana even still has my original save last time i booted it up. Now everything will either be revoked so it can be monetised again in future or you're access will be removed if you commit some thought crime. Who wants to live like this. It's ridiculous to say but i want to own shit
I don't think it's a first, plenty of games with an online only requirement on Steam are completely dead with no survivors.
It's still bad, though. Moldman was right. Although you really shouldn't be giving any money to Ubisoft, just pirate their shit, it's shit.
Ubisoft? The same company that just had a presentation where they showed off Skull and Bones their upcoming pirate game and the tagline is literally " Long Live Piracy"? kek. kekmao even
Ubisoft quit Steam and took the Epic payout.
This is just Ubisoft shutting down a verification server for these old games which had been sold wherever (Steam, Uplay, physical box) and stealing your money because NONE of the options will verify anymore.
it has to be automatic. still imagine giving a frick about seeding. are you worried about the law? worried about data caps? worried about your limited connection?
Are there cracks for the dlc yet? Seems like most pirated versions of games come with the full game. Where exactly would I go if I just want to keep playing the dlc I already own?
there's no such thing as a verified pirated game site. there's some that would seem more trustworthy, and some that definitely aren't.
I think a good general tip for people is don't use the same machine you're pirating games and porn on as the same machine you do your bank account and personal information on.
yeah that is very good advice. everyone should follow it, even if it means spending $100 on a refurbished office pc or something. most people here will ignore it anyway.
I pirate games. If i like them I buy a physical copy if is available. even for old ass roms I pirated.
I' may start doing the same for bluray soon since there no so much games left I like. censored movies and removed from platforms is the new thing as well. save those physical movies.
to me physical is just too much for movies. I have way too many I feel like I should have copies of and don't feel like having a massive stockpile of physical disks, so I just have troves of pirated copies of stuff I like. the best part is no one cares if you pirate older stuff, which is mostly what I like.
I know. but movies they are cheaper and more normie friendly so other people can support this stupid hoarding.and call it less childish. a collection my family can enjoy as well.
talking about downloaded ones. I started sorting/multiplexing my files a little ago. I had like 3tb of unsorted shit. what a tedious job, specially when you're autistic about audio tracks
>autistic about audio tracks
have you tried tagging software like picard or beets? I personally keep a relatively simple organization system then just use picard to tag all my music since it's accessed through ncmpcpp(pc)/poweramp(phone) anyways.
And Ubisoft playing morons will keep buying their games and dlc instead of punishing them, then blame the company for what they allow them to do.
But then again if they had standards they wouldn't be playing Ubishit games to begin with.
>Giving more credibility to pirating
They always do it to themselves. Same thing with the Movie/Anime industry they have literally ALWAYS done it to themselves
Anime industry old problem was that it was just so inaccessible that people pretty much had to pirate. Now the problem lies more in a combination that anime is just fricking expensive relatively speaking to what westerns pay for shows coupled with localizers being absolute cancer that put their political agenda into their translations or just choose bad choices as a frick you to fans as some weird power trip
>don't want to go all-in on PC due to the lack of phyical options >Steamies tell me that I'm moronic >even though I want to OWN the games I BUY >this shit happens
Just pirate.
That's what I do.
I consider purchasing a game a form of donation at this point.
I buy your game if I like you/how you run your business.
If I don't like how you run your business I pirate your games, no matter how good they are.
Simple as.
EA now forces you to play Dead Space (2?) through their launcher off of Steam and I've heard people were having issues with the authentication code because the switch doesn't know it's a legit product? Either way this trend is just ramping up and yes pirate everything.
i remember when they did that. anons explained it was because of the online multiplayer component that demanded you install Origin, but on the install process you could refuse one of the prompts and it would install the older (original) Steam release of the game. EA still forces mandatory Origin install for anything released during the many years they quit Steam, though. Dragon Age 2 through today.
So let me get this straight
The game is bring delisted on steam
People still KEEP the game, like all the other delisted games, and they can install(?) it on their accounts
But because the game relies on ubisoft's own online servers/DRM it wont launch
So all of this is ubisofts fault?
>Then why are people blaming valve?
Because valve likes to play pretend that all games on steam are created equal when in reality they just sell licenses that could have any bullshit in the 200 page long EULA you need to agree to AFTER buying it. They also don't even do their due diligence to ensure that the publisher correctly marks the game as requiring 3rd party DRM or not. And even when it is correct and up to date they relegate it to a small box well below the "fold" as they say so as not to be off-putting to any potential marks, I mean customers.
>Because valve likes to play pretend that all games on steam are created equal
Since when? They literally tell you when a game is using 3rd party DRM and many don't even have any DRM so you can just copy the game files from the steam folder and everything works. They also warn you about 3rd party launcher bullshit too
Check when games are brand new or pre-order. They often don't have the box, or it's the wrong box. It's only post launch, after someone complains that they chase the publisher for an update. THEY should be VERIFYING the content on their content delivery platform but they don't.
Also, it is hardly acceptable to put "Requires agreement to EULA" with a pop-up (that often fails to load) with 200 pages of legalese where buried on Section 17, paragraph 23 subsection iii that they reserve the right to discontinue the authentication servers at any time. That shit should be front and god damned center. Saying "Uses denuvo with 5 machine activation" doesn't adequately inform customers of the downsides and potential pitfalls.
Imagine your doctor prescribed pills and the side effects which may include blindness were buried in a click through EULA accessible through a QR code. Frick no, even in america you have to print that shit front and center on the box.
I haven't bought an ubisoft game since Far Cry 4, and that was on a steep discount and only because a Battlefield buddy wanted to co-op.
Far Cry 5 was better, but I'm not supporting them anymore, their attitude toward their customers is genuinely one of the most disgusting I've ever seen. Like a step below EA. I mean, maybe not even a step below anymore, since I can still download ancient ass games and patches from EA.
Holy shit, UbiSoft is actually worse than EA now. Imagine fricking up that much.
My borderline-normie sister in law has been very insistent about her games being paid-for as much as possible, but I've gotten my brother (who's much more on the ball) to exploit her love of Assassin's Creed and her issues with Ubisoft's DRM homosexualry to get her redpilled more and more on piracy.
>reputation in toilet after breakpoint, FC6, hero shooter ghost recon, etc >hmmm, how do we fix our reputation? >I know, we'll stop allowing people to play games they paid for, regardless of storefront >genius!
>*clears throat*
ANY GAME THAT REQUIRES A CENTRAL SERVER IS IMMEDIATELY IS ON DEATH ROW. THEIR FATE HAS BEEN SEALED FROM THE START. >BUT THE GAME IS POPULAR
DOESNT MATTER, THE MOMENT THE GAME MAKES LESS MONEY THAN IT TAKES TO KEEP THE SERVER RUNNING IS THE DAY THE SHUT IT OFF >PIRACY WILL SAVE US
WRONG, PIRACY CANT DO SHIT WHEN IMPORTANT ASSETS IS LOCKED TO THE CENTRAL SERVER. HIGHLY SKILLED CODE CRACKERS WILL BE NEEDED IN ORDER TO REVERSE THE ENCRYPTION
FRICK EVERY PUBLISHER THAT DOES THIS SHIT
GAMES AS A SERVICE IS A LIE AND SHOULD BE COMPLETELY ILLEGAL
>YOU DONT OWN ANYTHING
YES YOU DO. WHEN YOU BUY A GAME IS CONSIDERED A PERPETUAL LEASE. SO IT WILL NEVER EXPIRE. SO PUBLISHERS WHO SELL GAMES UNDER THE LINES OF PERPETUAL LEASE BUT ITS ACTUALLY LIMITED IS COMPLETELY LYING TO YOUR FACE AND HAS BEEN PROVEN IN COURT
Long watch but it clearly explains how games as a service and companies purposely killing games could get them in serious legal trouble if presented to the courts in the right way. Since companies are selling you a limited time license disguised as a permanent perpetual license. Hasn't been tried in court yet, but similar things have that show it was with the consumer in the winnings
The blurring of line between product and service is deliberate and specifically because while the law may say when you sell a product to someone that product is now theirs to do with as they wish it absolutely does not say anyone is ever expected to provide a service in perpetuity. Especially in the US. There's this little sore spot in history called "slavery" which makes courts and legislators very, very reluctant to mandate an obligation of servitude and especially so in perpetuity. You could argue companies are exploiting that but the resolution there is the legislative branch, not the judicial branch.
The US can frick off in this issue. I think it would be better to focus on Europe since they have stronger consumer protection laws.
The hope is that if Europe sets a standard the rest of the world will follow.
2 years ago
Anonymous
This.
American consumer rights laws are fricking dogshit, because America is full of morons.
We unironically need Euros to step in and put a stop to this shit.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Australia would also be acceptable, as this anon says
Just need to wait for some based Australian to sue Ubisoft, their consumer laws are pretty tight and I doubt this is legal there.
After all, they already got us refunds.
2 years ago
Anonymous
This.
American consumer rights laws are fricking dogshit, because America is full of morons.
We unironically need Euros to step in and put a stop to this shit.
I think you guys would be surprised how similar consumer protections are between the US and Europe. Maybe you should go read the Uniform Commercial Code for the US that pretty much all states have ratified and encompasses consumer protection laws rather than just making up America doesn't have consumer protection laws.
2 years ago
Anonymous
absolute cope, you wouldn't even have a refund button on steam if it weren't for the EU and ACCC
2 years ago
Anonymous
>you wouldn't even have a refund button on steam if it weren't for the EU and ACCC
False. Neither the EU nor the ACCC mandates a refund for any reasons other than the product doesn't work, the product was falsely advertised or the product is not fit for purpose and America has those exact same protections too.
2 years ago
Anonymous
The way the law is interpreted differs greatly depending on the legal system.
2 years ago
wizard ross
In the video
Long watch but it clearly explains how games as a service and companies purposely killing games could get them in serious legal trouble if presented to the courts in the right way. Since companies are selling you a limited time license disguised as a permanent perpetual license. Hasn't been tried in court yet, but similar things have that show it was with the consumer in the winnings
Ross does explain that you DO own your software. This has been proven in Canada and Europe. In the US its harder since there hasn't been a specific court situation specifically talking about ownership of software and game companies would rather like it if it stays like that
There is hope
Long watch but it clearly explains how games as a service and companies purposely killing games could get them in serious legal trouble if presented to the courts in the right way. Since companies are selling you a limited time license disguised as a permanent perpetual license. Hasn't been tried in court yet, but similar things have that show it was with the consumer in the winnings
In a legal sense it should never expire but game companies do which they could get sued for blatant false advertising >if I sell you a car and then decide I'm no longer gonna support producing your car. I can't go to your driveway and smash your car to pieces
>if I sell you a car and then decide I'm no longer gonna support producing your car. I can't go to your driveway and smash your car to pieces
How convenient that the electronic system is classified as a service, and can be shut down at any time. :*~~))
>tfw AC Brotherhood’s multiplayer servers are getting shut down too
I haven’t played in years but I remember that shit being super fun, maybe I’ll trying playing again before this dumb shutdown.
AC4's Wolfpack mode is fun. I tried to play it the other day on PC and it was completely dead but when I tried on PS5 I was actually able to get into multiple games. I was surprised.
afaik its because ubisoft is shutting down the servers.
thebig issue should be singleplayer games that have always online, but brand warriors will always turn it into some corporate defense party.
Is it really a precedent or 'new low' if it's been done before?
I could've sworn i remember the Accursed Farm guy saying this exact thing happened to some racing game.
It's happened to countless games, this one is getting attention because Ubisoft has been shit for like a decade and now they're shutting down their last good (single player) games which their current games are just a copy of
>AC Liberation
Technically, nothing of value is lost.
It's also a bonus if you buy the AC3 Remaster which is not going anywhere.
More importantly, you can pirate either release, the original or the remaster, and considering this is a Ubisoft title, you should.
>inb4 buygay
shiggy diggy, specially for Ubisoft games
this won't fly in europe. they way they see it, license or no, you bought it you own it, end of story. only americans get shafted like this, an inevitable consequence of the freedom they love so much.
Ten years from now on, when you buy a game you'll have a time limit on your ownership. When time's up you lose the game. They're moving towards this model so they can instead sell you monthly subscriptions to have access to games. You can already see it now and it's gonna get even worse. I play csgo with an bigshot at a western gaming company and that's basically the plan. They don't care about backlash, gamers are gonna pay anyway.
>Sony threatens to retire servers and make games unplayable >threads full of damage control >nintendo actually does retire servers and makes games unplayable >threads full of damage control >Ubisoft retires servers and makes games unplayable >PIRATE THAT SHIT!
This is why cancer like subscriptions dont exist on PC
This sets a bad precedent that may even ruin steam profitability in the long run, why are they letting it happen? Is there something not being told? A new version of the game free for everyone?
This makes buying games unsafe in steam and doesnt make sense to pay full price for a game anymore if you can just pay a cheaper subscription on places like that windows store, a shoot in the foot.
>why are they letting it happen?
because this has literally nothing to do with steam. This is entirely Uplay's fault
the only thing steam could do is acquire Ubi and put those games on its own servers, but that's not happening
Serious question: can I refund my ubisoft games? I purchased all of the Far Cry and Assassin Creed games during the summer sale two years ago.
I have yet to play a single one, because they're on my backlog, and now, I won't be able to play half of these games or their dlc after September. Games that I fricking paid for...
> Angry paypiggie squealing.
Ahh, the sound of another dickhead crying. Music to my ears. Lad, maybe learn how to pirate. You c**ts are so fricking moronic, that is actually something you seem to need to do: learn how to do it. No wonder you all get angry at pirates. It makes you feel small, under endowed, and pissed that people can enjoy something you paid for. So you don't want them to have it, because you yourself are that incompetent that you don't know how to join them. So you are, in essence, the perennial snitch. That's how much of a shit person you are.
I'm listening to pirated music right now. I also have several terabytes of pirated entertainment(games, anime, movies, etc). I just think it's silly how you homosexuals get so smug doing something that everyone else does without a second thought.
Wasn't me who made the post. It was me however that noted that you sound like a fricking c**t. Also, I call bullshit. I bet you own a Switch library and DVDs of weird furry gay pornos from niche Jap retailers in pink boxes. Unopened and sealed, of course. You stink of corporate reek, pal. Because that was an odd, and completely meaningless post to be getting upset about and now suddenly pretending to be one of the boys.
What is the alternative? >Buy overcosted hard copies. One accident and your shit is gone. >High-seas games. Denu seems to get stronger and groups seem to go into rent (see Codex).
Right before it, yes, after a vast golden age current pc gaming can never hope to reclaim because most of its appeal and genres that flourished on it are dead. Now its just a cheap option for indie and drm riddled console ports from years earlier. The fact you have really only one, at max 3, major storefronts proves how much such an open platform as rotted.
>because most of its appeal and genres that flourished on it are dead
and this is steam's fault......how? >cheap indies >when said cheap indies are the ones reviving these dead genres
hollow knight revived metroidvanias
hotline miami brought back the 90's pixel artstyle
sakuna revived farming
shovel knight revived platformers
cuphead revived boss rushes
issac, gungeon,necrodancer, deadcells, slay the spire, etc defined the roguelike genre
now we're getting indie management sims and rts
and yet, pc gaming is deader than ever, right?
To add to your point, most indies are available on multiple sites often including straight from the dev with little or no DRM. It's AAA games that only get released on a single storefront for the most part
>Now its just a cheap option for indie
I dont get why consolegays still think this is a valid argument when steam indies are the closest thing we have to the flash game boom back in the late 2000s. looking at all the bad anime porn on steam reminds me of newgrounds back in the day
>instead of having infinite copies supplied instantly at any time you'll have to cherish the one copy you have, and if you lose it that's it, you'll have to procure another one
I'm talking about physical media by the way
Piracy is the only fully pro consumer thing in the world. Pirates get you the product with the least amount of resistance possible. Moralgays get dicked down by corpos and ask for seconds. Only purchase games from studios you fully trust and support and make sure you do not overpay.
Arent they just shutting down online services? Like multiplayer and all those shitty "complete this challenge in sp game to earn ubipoints".
It's still bad but your sp games will still be playable.
>Bro trust me more stores are good because competition or something
If you buy anything on Steam that may or later will require an external software license you are a moron
This is why it's actually important that the company publishing the game doesn't manage the launcher and vice versa
>Steam contractually sells a permanent license to digitally owning games on Steam >This license can't be revoked >Uplay and Origins games on Steam actually sell you a license to owning a license to another third party DRM >Such license can actually be revokee
Never buy Ubishit, EA or Epic games
This shit along with planned obsolesence is why pirating is the only logical path to take. Why would anyone besides npcs want to put up with this? If its not the government fricking us its the corporations yet alot of people dont care. The future is so bleak. May God be with us all.
I don't care if you're a console-cuck or a PChad, you should be pirating the shit out of Ubisoft products on principle if you want to play them.
You SHOULD be pirating as much as you can anyway, but double so for this.
>You SHOULD be pirating as much as you can anyway, but double so for this.
zoomers don't pirate anon. They suck as much corporate wiener as they can and toss as much money away as humanly possible.
u really shitting on bernie bro what the frick. he tried to do more for us then anyone
>politicians being good for anything other than fertilizer
Come on bro.
bernie is different from all of them he's the only one who knew how to save everyone.
dems are the lesser of two evils. trump was literally controlled by the russians.
bernie or his successor will get to become president one day.
No he didn't. No politician will ever like or care about you. They deserved far worse than that shitty larping insurrection.
I actually know people who want to vote Bernie again in 2024. It's more depressing BECAUSE they aren't full-on NPCs. They should know better, and they do about everything else about the rotten systems in America, but they still think Bernie's not also in on the DNC's grift.
Regardless of your opinions on Bernie, he''s first of all an 80 year old man, and no one over 70 should hold public office
What's YOUR idea? Vote for some irrelevant spoiler effect party? Or republicans, that even worse than democrats?
Reddit is that way
Kill yoursef, moron.
Just download from rutracker.org, never gotten a virus from there.
Any proof that a Republican would've been worse or even only as bad as Biden's administration?
Not him, but Republicans tend to be very anti right-to-repair, which tells me they probably don't give a frick about whether or not I own my games or movies if they don't even want me to repair the fricking shit I actually physically own.
they are npcs now anon. They are lost in life and have nowhere to turn because they invested fully in a system which is showing how corrupt it truly is. People are in shock and have been dumbed down.
we're in a lot of trouble
>zoomers don't pirate anon
Source?
I just don't know what sites to use anymore after Pirate Bay became shit and kickass went down the crapper as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/games/
Only way to pirate on consoles is to keep your firmware out of date, locking yourself out of online features.
You can abuse from game sharing features on ps4~ps5 though.
Not seeing the issue here.
>console-cuck or a PChad
PCgays are the ones paying for games that they don't own.
it's non-free software, you can't own it
I own my physical media. The only way they can take my games is if they came to my house and killed me.
>pushes an update that bricks your CD when you least expect it
Hope you're never online. 🙂
diaper post
Literally won't happen
Already did. Look up chrono cross
May I also point you to Warcraft 3?
thats only true with old games.
and youve said it
>I own my physical media.
thats the thing you own, not the game.
not even the access to the game, because online features and such are normal nowadays that they simply can deny you that part.
I've never paid full price for an Ubisoft game and felt good about it afterwards, anyways.
There's no point in playing Ubisoft games unless you've never played one before. They're all the same. Just play AC Black Flag or Origins and you've played every ubisoft game
>d be pirating the shit out of Ubisoft products on principle
Anything on steam too they are allowing this
you vill buy zee remaster and you vill be happy
this was the remaster I thought
no the remaster is packaged with ac3 remastered which is packaged with odyssey mega edition so if you have that you have liberation.
"You vill pay zeventy dollars plus tax plus tip for ze highly progressive & inclusive venake of your favorite zeven year old game"
I wish Putin or Biden would drone strike that fricker and his cronies.
Yeah, that's what happens when you buy DRM'd games.
this is why i pirate everything, even games i dont want to or never will play.
How safe are pirated games? I just recently started doing it and im paranoid that maybe 1 day the cracker can just delete my whole entire pc
You're an idiot
You didnt answer my question
He kinda did
Stick to paypigging
Not really. You clearly don’t know anything either and you’re betting on just trusting some random person in russia cracking your games, that one day could just frick your computer up
Ok
Ganker anon here are prick
Just ask your problems to reddit, they genuinely help you
Even if you get caught you will be okay. Just use vpn if you are worried.
He thinks the cracker is going to kill his pc, but not the huge exe file he downloaded
Reread my post. Im not talking about the game companies
Just look at the size of the cracker. Crackers are small
Yeah, the DLL files are usually small but was wondering if they could one day just take over my PC. All the games i’ve installed were clean except for one that was a false positive, i wanted to know if has there ever been a crackgroup that gone rogue
If they did, then people would talk about it.
That's why you don't download immensely sketchy shit that has 5 downloads.
You go for the ones that have thousands. You verify the contents.
Use virus total to check up on the files. If lot well name anti-virus pick it up, there is good chance it's a virus.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload
The empress crack i installed from a trusted site had about 10/30 flagging it as a virus, and windows defender picked it up though doing some research people said it was just a false positive
10 not bad. Do you have shitty laptop to test games out on? I use my gaming laptop for testing pirate games.
Also try reading up on the name of the virus.
So it's safe if it's only like 1 lesser known antivirus like Cynet or something? I downloaded snoot game a while ago, and since it was an EXE I was wary of running it, so I ran it through virustotal.
Weird thing is that the first exe was completely clean, but the 32bit exe set off 1 vendor.
It probably trigger it because the exe was cracked. Cracks give off lot false positives. Imo if anti virus detected somthing as virus that is not the crack you might want to worry.
Also keep you're tasks manager open. If you see weird spikes of usage when gaming is hint for a bot. Like cpu or gpu using 99% power for a game.
>Like cpu or gpu using 99% power for a game.
what? most games uses 99% of your gpu if it's a triple A game if you try to run over 60fps and depends on your graphics card
All the time? What game's are you playing?
games like RDR 2, and not a cracked version either.
Even when you're doing nothing in menu or having the game pause?
when you're actually playing the game, i don't keep track of it when im in the pause menu, though a good indicator of the game using less resource is when you pause the game and the fan speed goes down.
any game with an unlocked frame rate is likely to max out the gpu most of the time.
True, another tip is if you're framrate is unstable when you have more than enough spec for the game.
till trojans got your moms credit card info cuz you went to igg or some shit
>im paranoid that maybe 1 day the cracker can just delete my whole entire pc
bro, a cracker doesn't even arms. how's it gonna do that?
fit girl is safe
it it doesn't seem that way to me. why is the installer an exe? why do the games refuse to run without administrative rights, when almost all other pirated games don't? There are so many huge red flags, I'm not going to just take fitgirl's word for it.
virustotal may not find anything, but that doensn't mean much when it's fairly easy to obfuscate code and/or make novel malware that won't be in databases.
The only reason I'm willing to play these pirated games is that I have a computer specifically for that. It has no personal information related to me whatsoever. I've isolated it on the network as well. If you have or do anything of value on your computer, you should avoid pirated games on that machine. or even games in general, since official steam games have been caught including malware.
you are literally a like 95 iq lukewarm midwit who read like two tech magazines and thinks he knows anything. shut the frick up and play the games you moronic c**t.
If you are such a genius, explain why fitgirl's games only run as administrator.
If you're afraid le le epix haxxor fitgirl just download the original release since she(he) is a repacker
All installers are exes, what the frick are you on about
most pirated games are distributed in a ready to play state from a torrent or inside a zip/rar archive. that particular group goes out of their way to make exe installers.
Not when it's 90gb of files compressed down to 30gb
As I said in another post, just download the original release then
yeah that's what I do. If you have fast internet, that's faster than decompressing them anyway. To begin with I was replying to the post that said fitgirl is safe, pointing out obvious red flags.
>100% CPU power when installing for multiple hours
Absolutely not.
Because it's uncompressing gigabytes of files which requires cpu power? Try using your brain next time
The worst thing is your cracked game has a keylogger or coin miner
The worst thing you can get is a crypto miner, no one does ransomware to random people
My grandma somehow got ransomware
What game was she pirating, Anon?
You can consider anything as safe as long as other people have downloaded it before you did.
The cracker can call the cyberpolice on you and they can backtrace you.
>They can backtrace you
Frick me, man think of what the consequences of that would be.
most pirated games are probably safe but if you install dozens and hundreds of them like me you'll probably get malware at some point. i've gotten some odd and funny malwares over the year, from 'trusted' groups. in addition to the typical crypto miners, i once got some russian radio malware. it kept playing russian music and ads from the internet. sometimes it would play porn sounds. i could mute in the windows sound mixer, but it couldn't get rid of it. antivirus programs never detected it. i've been able to remove most malware, but this one completely stumped me and i had to reinstall win7.
I also got a keylogger once. It stole my username and password to a few sites before I realized what was happening. Thankfully nothing bad happened, but that was luck. It's entirely possible to lose your social media or your bank account like that.
Worst malware I ever got was one that used up some of my disk, cpu, and network. don't really know what it was doing, probably p2p sharing of illegal files, but these files were encrypted. it would stop whenever you opened a directx game, torrent app, etc so you wouldn't notice it. I only was able to notice because I was logging these things for benchmarks.
if you want to safely pirate games on PC, I recommend emulating console games. The exes you run are open source. The games you run are sandboxed.
Emulators have actually been exploited with hacked ROMs in the past but it's rare. I've never had a problem with that personally.
>and i had to reinstall win7
i don't think you got it from trusted sources, if you're using ancient OS's that aren't getting any more safety updates.
that happened back when win7 was current. i've been playing games for a long time. it's hard to say which game exactly the malware came from. I always did follow the general guidelines other people are suggesting in this thread. Nothing about those has changed in the past decade.
what are some signs of crypto mining on your PC, and whats the best way to detect and remove them., it's mostly what im spooked of because keyloggers and ransomware are easy to see and you know when it's happening because you would get 1000s of notifications of someone trying to bruteforce the 2FA and take your shit.
>what are some signs of crypto mining on your PC
your CPu and GPU usage is not near zero. they can limit CPut. but gpu is a lot more complex. so is really easy to tell.
whats harder to know is if your pc has been turned into a CS or some other game server-
keyloggers aren't necessarily easy to see. the information might not be used for years. I got lucky. I like to change my important passwords once every few months.
Ransomware is harmless if you back up your data.
Crypto miners will always use up some system resources, normally CPU and GPU, but there are also disk based ones. In my case it was easy to see because my GPU usage was high when it shouldn't have been. I could hear the fans running and feel the extra heat coming out of my PC (i keep it below my desk). Even without measurement software on my PC, it was obviously running.
Depending on how smart the developer is, they might not be easy to detect. They might be programmed to use less system resources so you never find anything amiss. Even the one I had, which seemed to run at full blast, was smart enough to turn itself off when I opened task manager or a game. By the time I scrolled through the list of processes, it would already be gone. You can log all your sensors with hwinfo64. Process hacker can tell you which exe is using which resources. Sometimes malware doesn't even have its own exe, but it gets loaded as a dll or injected into another process or service. When I found the service I would kill it, but it would get revived in a few minutes.
IMO cypto miners are harmful to society, but to the individual, they may have no impact other than your power bill. Assuming they don't also do other bad things.
In my case, I was able to find the bad dll that was being loaded and just delete it. There were actually several copies, which also got revived, and I had to delete them with a linux live usb. but what was loading that dll? I had no idea. is that process also malicious? I should have reinstalled windows right then, but I had to wait a few days. It did solve the problem though.
Hypothetically, my other drives could have also been infected. In practice, the problem didn't seem to recur.
I think a good general tip for people is don't use the same machine you're pirating games and porn on as the same machine you do your bank account and personal information on.
No thanks, I'll stick to my trusty PS4 and Switch.
I have been pirating since 2008... None of this shit has ever ever happened to me... How dumb are you anon kun???
alright, good for you, but a lot of pirated releases have often been bundled with a little "special sauce", though.
35 years or so of rampant pirating like a c**t and I have yet to get one. The closest I've gotten is installer bars and popup generators back in the 90s which I could just delete and weren't from pirated games but "free" apps like media players and such. I also do not run an antivirus, as in at all. Mainly because honestly it's mostly a placebo, and the Microsoft one now is worse than the malware it was created to catch.
I have cds I burnt with gta 3 on them for my mates back in the day don't worry about it
dont do it, it makes mustard gas
crackas aint gonna do shieet bruh
the frick would they botha with some random homies pc
The real truth is pirating PC software is never 100% safe. There could always be something undetectable. Generally most is safe if you download from reputable crackers. Pirating roms and isos for console games is safe.
This is the only post worth reading, you have no idea what you're running or what it could do when you run cracked games. If you really still want to pirate games you should do it on a computer that isn't connected to your network.
Never download from Piratebay. It's the worst public tracker and you will get infected sooner or later (I did). The safest way is probably to download from fitgirl, but make sure it's the correct site because there are a bunch of fakes made to infect people with malware.
what happened when you got infected?
you get disinfected
yeah, but how did you know you got infected
Idon't. but also I'm just too used to my machine. even slight weird behavior is an alert.
weird behaviors like what, i have weird behaviors on my pc all the time but it's most likely due to windows update
windows update is a weird behavior on itself.
I have linux and w7 at home only.
behaviors like cpu spikes, shit wanting more ram than usual, internet traffic I didn't allow or shit I don't know the process manager. etc
>windows update is a weird behavior on itself.
only if youre on old windows
win7 doesnt update if I don't want to. that's a you problem.
dude don't fall for the unsupported boogieman.
I had my ancient install of W7 randomly max out writing to my boot HDD every now and then doing frick knows what rendering the computer unusable for like an hour
then is clearly infected. duh
The specific end of support day for Windows 7 was January 14, 2020.
everything else is virus
>old windows
Former IT admin, frick anything past Windows 7 for personal or enterprise use.
>8 started the locked down shit
>10 only made it worse with GPO deployment
>11's released caused functionality to go from decent to Apple-gay moronic
I'm waiting for when MS starts a monthly or quarterly fee to use Windows 11v30 or higher as they've done with their 365 environments.
I got a keylogger that stole one (1) of my passwords before I managed to get rid of it. Unfortunately it was a password I used for multiple accounts on multiple websites so I had to nuke them, but thankfully they were minor stuff and nothing serious like my paypal account which means they couldn't steal anything.
How can people in Ganker be this tech illiterate and dumb?
pirated games do often have viruses and cryptominers in 'em, though. i don't really understand why you think they don't, since it's often been proven they do.
It's not an option for everyone, but you can consider having two PCs. One "normal" one, one for pirated/Chinkware/other untrusted software. If you're willing to game entirely on the burner system the only capabilities the legit one has to have are the system requirements for whatever productivity shit you use..
thats what i am currently doing. i didnt know what to do with my old pc after building my new one and decided to make it my emulation/pirating machine. downloaded around 200 PS2 and psp games over the weekend already lol
cool it with the racism we're on Ganker
I would make a cheeky post with a picture of a pirate but nobody cares enough about ubishit like that to even pirate it so here's a rat
Nice rat pic
That's not a rat, that's a hamster!
Your rat looks autistic.
cheesed to meet you
I hate ubishit so god damn much
and I hate zoomerhomosexuals for enabling them into pulling this crap
>complaining about bullshit in vidya
>zoomer pops in with his hot take and says: it is because thats what its suppose to be 😀
i hate zoomers so much its unreal.
>stopped buying ubisoft games becausw they were shit
>stopped buying ubisoft games because uPlay was uNusable garbage
Now another reason to not buy Ubisoft crap.
>A bar new low
>in medias res
>a tour de france
I've definitely never owned any of those shit games
>we hate pirates
>we have heavy DRM that hurts people actually bought the game
>lets frick over people even more
Lmao
ubisoft made a pirate game so i don't think they hate pirates that much
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You: ubisoft made a pirate game so i don't think they hate pirates that much
>that long dead unfunny meme
Uh oh reddit stinky....
I'm guessing he is trying to be quirky by pretending he did such a bad copypaste job he "accidentally" included his username (the redditor he wants targeted) and some of the page's html
but thats the username of the OP who posted it to the copypasta sub. I guess they could have changed it but that is a lot of effort for such a low-tier blow, nobody from here is gonna go to reddit, make an account if they don't have one, jump through the karma hoops to message, and then say what? "Don't cum 2 4chin ever again"
Don't try to defend him, just call him a gay and tell him to go back.
jesus frick newbie go back.
Extreme cringe.
hey dude i laughed at your post and thought it was clever when i read the last part, dont listen to those other guys there just butthole
fricking losers i could probably fricking murder you cucks in real life and u wont do shit seriously frick off or ill report ur post and u will get banned for being a moron Black person
RIP morons who like moronic games.
Right
So GOG or pirate from now on
Or do your research
My research says to pirate everything.
>research
>A crystal ball that tells the fricking future
Most suckers that bought this probably thought "it's steam so it's safe" lmao
It says on the store page that the game requires uPlay. Anyone who saw that and still bought it deserves this.
uPlay doesn't even exist anymore. Hasn't for a while now.
Then you're doubly stupid if you bought a game that requires an account for a service that doesn't exist anymore.
They literally just renamed it.
I prefer to blame the companies and not the ignorant customers. The world won't get better if you constantly give the butthole companies a pass and blame the victim. Yes, people should do their own research, that doesn't absolve Ubisoft from being shitheads and it doesn't absolve valve for not doing more to explain why going off platform for your DRM is going to suck.
Yes, but make sure to back up everything
This. Storage is cheaper than ever, and this won't remain. Buy hard drives and back up everything you like if you can afford to do so.
>and this won't remain
what won't remain ?
>Storage [being] cheaper than ever
He's probably right. Economy is looking bad for the next decade and there will probably be horrifying wars that disrupt international trade. But will that be in 5 years or 30? idk.
we just can't stop winning
Based. Nintendo did this already. So how is this a precedent?
When did nintendo do this?
Funny how none of them replied to you.
With those Mario remasters, IIRC.
>Yes, anyone who purchases a digital copy of Super Mario 3D All-Stars while it's available will be able to re-download the game from the eShop after March 31, 2021
except that's completely wrong you butthole
they never did. they're just spouting nonsense because ninty dosent like fangames or their music being uploaded
is there an actual reason for this? im assuming it must be more than just some licensing agreement running out because most games delisted from steam stay available indefinitely unless there is some major technical issue
Publishers have made efforts to link single-player to online components to cripple pirate copies (and legal copies for games they won't maintain anymore, but that's a plus).
Far Cry 3 DLC and DLC for other games will be inaccessible as well.
Based. Following Nintendo's anti-consumer footsteps
lmao how is any of this legal
Laws are for goys.
So are pirate chads pirating games or licenses?
I think a person is fully justified to pirate any game they purchase on steam, just to keep as a backup.
You can't trust corporations.
irrelevant.
Hardly any shit is even worth pirating anymore. I'd rather just emulate old games.
I just want a DS and PS2 1g1r torrent, and I'm set, already have them for every other system that matters.
Licenses. Is stupid but that's how it works because copyright shit.
>he thinks ownership is real
Copyright holders get to decide the ways in which their products will be (not) sold.
Steam sells licenses for games, not games.
Your license for a game can be revoked at any time for any reason.
For some reason, no recompense to the consumer is required for this, which is the part I don't understand.
>Your license for a game can be revoked at any time for any reason.
This doesn’t seem true, and if it is I doubt it’s very legal. You can’t just offer goods or service for a cost and then be able to suddenly revoke it without the end user breaking some part of the EULA
>I doubt it’s very legal
clearly ubisoft thinks otherwise. there's no doubt some language in the tos that says you own jack shit that can be deleted at any time. even if you can contest it, it will probably also have something that forces you to go through an arbitration kangaroo court or something to further discourage people
They honestly need some laws that require TOSs to be shorter and more digestible for the average consumer. No one reads these 6 page documents full of legal jargon.
>No one reads these 6 page documents full of legal jargon.
That's exactly why they're the way they are and there's sites like https://tosdr.org/ that give you dot points
Pretty much every EULA/TOS/etc is illegal, just no one bothers to challenge it because no one person has the funds to run through court bullshit for years of stalling outside of literal million/billionaires. And they don't give a shit to do that because they have nothing to gain from it.
Companies knowingly write whatever the frick they want because it won't be challenged unless it's particularly egregious and they can't have their pet lawyers drag a case out forever.
Also non-3rd world countries usually have laws that axe shit like this without providing the consumer some kind of recompense. It's only in legal wastelands like the US that shit like this flies.
>This doesn’t seem true, and if it is I doubt it’s very legal.
it is written in the eula, but the thing is, the eula isnt legally binding.
like the part where you cant be part of a class action lawsuit etc. those things are straight up impossible.
>Your license for a game can be revoked at any time for any reason.
The absolute state of digitalcucks lmao
why are you giving steam shit for this? it's not their fault ubisoft are behaving like this
Weird to blame steam for FC3 when the base game will still be accessible from steam after the ubisoft shoah but the DLC must only authenticate via ubsoft so it will be gone forever
because it means steam agreed to deal where this is a possible outcome which is unacceptable. otherwise they could file a lawsuit.
cope and seethe timmy
>For some reason, no recompense to the consumer is required for this, which is the part I don't understand
because lawmakers' bills are paid for by modern day robber barons
Lawmakers ARE robber barons. They always were. Magna Carta, this massive progression towards liberty and individual rights, didn't come about because the people wanted it. It came about because the robber barons wanted it.
Steam sells perpetual licenses, which are contracts that are, as the name suggests, perpetual. There are a few elements that could cause a contract to be legally terminated in the United States, but this is a problem with the U.S. and EU not having any digital ownership laws in place. It's in the same position as streaming, which technically isn't legal, but we do it anyways.
This is just for purchasing. I can still download the game if I have purchased it in the past.
Only acceptable answer. Steamgays are so pathetic
That's what the oldgays were trying to warn you dumbasses about. Everything you buy on Steam is just a license to use it. You never owned any of it.
That's true even of physical copies by the way. Even when you buy a physical disc, according to the DMCA you don't actually own that disc, you've just purchased a license saying you can have the disc at your house and play it in your computer/console.
Sure, you can't expect to own the IP, only a single instance of it is all you have.
However, that license is perpetual until you lose the disc. Not applying the same standards to a game because it's stored in your HDD rather than a CD is bullshit.
>That's true even of physical copies by the way. Even when you buy a physical disc, according to the DMCA you don't actually own that disc
I believe you but can you post a proof?
He's completely wrong. You absolutely own the disc. Just because you own a physical manifestation of an IP doesn't mean you own the IP. The people arguing HURR DURR YOU DON'T REALLY OWN THE GAME EVEN WHEN YOU BUY A PHYSICAL COPY may as well be claiming you don't really own you car because patents are a thing.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
>The first-sale doctrine creates a basic exception to the copyright holder's distribution right. Once the work is lawfully sold or even transferred gratuitously, the copyright owner's interest in the material object in which the copyrighted work is embodied is exhausted. The owner of the material object can then dispose of it as they see fit. Thus, one who buys a copy of a book is entitled to resell it, rent it, give it away, or destroy it.
There's your proof he's full of shit.
you agreed to the terms and conditions goyim! you just bought a license! dont forget to preorder the rerelease and remastered versions!
>you agreed to the terms and conditions
Bunker hons actually say this and think this...
Because you never own the fricking game. You just bought license they can revoke anytime.
>you never own the fricking game
But I do. I have Far Cry 3 in my basement. It just forced me to use Uplay.
Because it has never been tested in court.
There's no good reason for this system.
its legal because nobody will challenge them.
Are you going to go to a judge for a 10 bucks game?
The funny thing is that physical games are also a license, so yeah frick those guys
But why are they doing this? So if you instal it the game will just not run? I don't get it.
Everything connects back to ubisoft severs which they are shutting down
Oh, so it gets checked on Ubisoft too? That would explain it. There must be some sort of work around. I mean, I don't expect Ubisoft to do that, but I'd imagine there is a way to bypass the Ubisoft check.
These games are years old and already cracked so it sucks for people who paid for the games but they're not going to be wiped from existence
Unless you're on a console where Ubisoft are only shutting down multiplayer servers but not the authentication servers
b-but i haven't played it yet...it's in my fricking backlog. I PAID FOR IT
>Blood Dragon is fricking dead
Now this is personal
Blood Dragon is a standalone game. No messages about it being inaccessible in the future in its page.
if you buy ubisoft or EA shit you deserve this to happen. you should have known what you were buying into
Isn't there some kind of EU law about prohibiting this sort of bullshit?
>want to play Forza
>don't care for open world meme
>the latest mainline installment, Forza 7, isn't available for purchase anymore
I don't understand.
Piratechads win yet again.
why would you buy an ubisoft game made in the last ten years
the last good one was AC2
maybe For Honor was okay but I wouldn't dare touch it for shit like this
What the frick are you guys talking about? You will obviously still be able to play the Singleplayer like normal. They will just shut down the Online Services.
see
DLC is an online service. My point still stands.
no it's not
that's like saying every game is an online service because you bought it online
it's obviously not true because there are games you can play offline even without logging into steam
Nintendo does that all the time, ubisoft didn't get the memo that it's only okay when Nintendo does it.
Online services include accessing DLC you paid for
pirating Chad's I have question. How do you deal with pirate versions of the games have tons of bugs?
Example Company of hero's 2 the pirate version has so many bugs you can't even beat single player.
Pretend you're in a universe where that game doesn't exist and find something else. There is always something else available that actually works.
DO WHAT YOU WANT 'CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE
YOU ARE A PIRATE
And that is why real men pirate.
Tech illiterates can get bent.
Real men raise another man child especially if the man is white and child is black.
Stop buy ubishit games, they're barely games. No one will care because anyone not a moron doesn't buy this garbage.
irrelevant
not in France, get better consumer protection
>we don't want to bother having to use the most minimum of server usage for the stupid bloatware DRM we designed and achievements and all that junk on our game, it's just not worth it anymore
>alright so we'll just get rid of those
>no just delete the game from existence frick it
absolutely BASED so frickin sick
people really got on activisions case when bobby kotick was goin wild but I always thought it was ubisoft who was always on the cutting edge of just absolutely buttfricking their customers
1/2
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The government successfully raised a generation of consumer morons
> The government.
You are literally so conditioned by corporations, you can't even assign the blame where it lays. Say it with me: corporations are responsible. They lobby governments and manipulate ones they cannot. Corporations are NOT YOUR FRIENDS. Nintendo is not your friend. Sony is not your friend. Ubisoft are not your friends. Fricking Walmart is not your goddamn friend. The reason why we have such shit governments is that corporations own them in all but name.
Practically quoting WEF
huh?
The "you will be happy" meme
oh
Every pc homosexual has a PC with no disc drive already. So I don't know what you are talking about.
Not him. Not true.
>t. PC homosexual with a PC that has a disc drive
It is true. Look at every single PC release. Nobody makes physical versions except for maybe Rockstar.
>Nobody makes physical versions except for maybe Rockstar.
This release has two physical copies. One in the israeliteel case with a optical disc, and a USB drive.
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>dumb indie game has a gimmick physical limited run
Not a real argument.
Cope.
Cope with what? That a game nobody's ever heard of got a random physical release?
>game nobody's heard of
Bait. Don't reply to this post.
>i-it doesn't count if it's not a game from papa microsoft!!
>Get BTFO
>Double down on being a moron
Just stop. It's embarrassing.
>Promised a DRM free copy
>Get a steam voucher instead
That's a Microsoft game though
>limited run games
don't make me laugh anon.
Thankfully every PC is capable of piracy.
>Every pc homosexual has a PC with no disc drive already.
Fricking what? My PC has a disc drive.
We are the minority anon, people either don't have a disc drive anymore or outright don't own a PC anymore not even a fricking laptop
You are the minority, when I built my new PC I didn't see the point of one. All my games are digital and they don't even include discs in physical pc copies at the store anymore. Having a disc drive is moronic now.
Except for those with already large physical collections. Or indeed DVD/Movie collections. The interesting thing about it was how quick and forced the no disk thing became. It was planned, that much is obvious. They even told us that it would lower costs. Instead, they went up.
>Every pc homosexual has a PC with no disc drive already
I could say the same about how every consolehomosexual only ever bought a digital-only version, but your mental illness wont stand for that
What kind of personal computer doesn't have a bluray drive
most that aren't gayming laptops or grandmas prebuilt
Almost every single one, the frick are you smoking?
so what third world shithole are you posting from?
ironically only poorgays with the walmart special are the ones with DVD/blu ray drives these days
Atleast they own their shit.
Shit like this is why I've moved away from vidya. During the height of the pandemic era. I decided to sell nearly all of my vidya consoles and games except for my Switch, modded N64, modded SNES classic, and modded Wii.
Ended up getting $5K for everything as I overcharged the frick out of some rarer items.
RIP vidya, I'll rather go full /vr/ than deal with the shit that is slowly approaching the industry with digital-only homosexualry.
Why would this gay be happy? Clearly he is not buying physical to begin with, so why does he seethe? How does the option and existence of physical copies effect digi only gays? Why cant we just have both options?
>buy disc
>contains full version of game
>still requires online check-ins
>disc becomes worthless paperweight after servers go offline
>this is somehow better than digital
games would be cheaper and consoles would be more powerful if we ditched physical games
Except it does not most of the time. I have never connected my console to the internet
there's nothing about physical that stops it from happening though. if you're really upset about ownership then you should b***h about that instead of about physical games going away.
>games would be cheaper and consoles would be more powerful if we ditched physical games
the should but they won't because publishers can simply keep the money they save on not having to physically create and ship games
some large publishers like T2, EA, nintendo, and sony probably would, but I don't think all of them would.
>games would be cheaper and consoles would be more powerful if we ditched physical games
Then why do digital copies cost the same price as physical?
they have to price them the same or else retailers would flip shit and no longer carry their products
That's just an excuse. The real reason is the publishers like prices where they are and love to raise them as far as they can get away, like all these bs editions that give out a single skin or weapon in game that was just cut out of the base game but because it's in a separate edition makes the game cost increase by $20.
>games would be cheaper
No. Games would continue to be the same price, or more expensive, because that just means more profit for these companies.
>consoles would be more powerful if we ditched physical games
No? Are you genuinely fricking moronic? Your fancy new consoles don't actually play games off discs, they haven't since the switch to BluRays.
>No. Games would continue to be the same price, or more expensive, because that just means more profit for these companies.
maybe for call of duty or gta, but for smaller more niche games companies would be more likely to price them lower to appeal to a wider crowd.
>consoles would be more powerful if we ditched physical games
whatever money is saved by not including the disc drive can instead be spent on other components, hence more powerful.
Just shut the frick up already.
You are truly underage if you think going full digital will make a significant decrease in prices. Its always better for the consumer to have multiple options. Also consider harddrive space and being able to delete and reinstall as you please. Sure, who can redownload from whatever service you bought from, but you will always have shit like OP image as a possibility.
>dont make physical copies that require online checks
Wow, so hard.
>Games would be cheaper if we ditched physical
BECAUSE THAT'S WORKED SO FRICKING WELL WITH GAMES GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE ON THE FIRST DIGITAL ONLY CONSOLES LMFAO
Yeah. That must be why games went up in price while digital sales have multiplied exponentially. Because that will make them cheaper. Big daddy corpo said so. You fricking dumbass twat.
>Tfw zoomers will never EVER get to live the good era of the internet
People blame iphones, but I blame Facebook for truly ruining the internet.
iPhones gave access to facebook anywhere, anytime to evvery dumbass/normalgay, the fall of the internet was iPhone that's not even up to discussion.
Facebook convinced people to merge their real life identities with their online ones. It did the bigger damage.
They should have watched Serial Experiments Lain when they had the chance.
sus
Holy shit
and that whould have been far more self contained if you didn't have a fricking tracking deice with you all the time helping to "document" and widespread it.
You're right about the privacy, and facebook DID kill both privacy and common sense but ultimately it was iPhone who "put a facebook on every hand".
If there had been no Facebook, the worst smartphones would have unleashed is an eternal september.
>Told people throughout the 90s and 00s to not give out your details online
>Some reptile looking twink makes a website specifically for handing out your person info
>All those people who told you not to give info give their info willingly.
There were several factors building up to ruin the Internet but they were kept quarantined in cages. The smartphone was the fricking idiot that decided to open up those cages. The smartphone is basically if the nobles/clergy of the late medieval era were right about the printing press.
> 2011.
> Good era.
Nah. For that era, you have to go back to before Google. That was when it was a wild west with forums and chatrooms and P2P the likes of which would simply bet people arrested now. Once all that got indexed, the lawmakers stepped in because they knew where to find everyone. It's ironic, but the very tool that made the internet accessible, ended up destroying it. By the time web 2.0 and whatever was foisted on to people, everything was already corporate and shit.
t. Gen X.
>tfw I was there
And I enjoyed it to the fullest while it lasted
The issue isnt digital distribution as much as is DRM, with stuff like GOG you can download an exe of it and save it.
This. I've never owned a game more than when it was an exe that didn't require stupid third party launchers. Take FTL, Or Starsector for instance. Sure I might not be able to "sell" them in a sense, but why would I want to? I own them forever, can make infinite copies, and I don't even need to worry about keeping my CD key for them. A game that respects your freedom is one worth keeping.
that's how I feel, I have copies of DRM free games in multiple places, I don't need to worry about if X service goes down because I can backup my games as much as I want to, it beats having to rely on a disc which is a single point of failure
physical copies are kind of a meme when games are always released in such a state you have to install day one updates immediately anyways for the game to even function half the time, let alone all the actual gameplay bugs. But it would definitely be nice if companies started offering physical "definitive editions" of all their games after all the updates and DLC's once they have completely stopped supporting them. As long as its discounted based on how much content you already own and only a couple bucks if you own everything I wouldn't see any issue
It's so strange to me how people simply no longer want to own anything or have control over their possessions. Everyone wants to just rent shit/digitally download/stream things that are at the mercy of some multinational company. People don't even want to have privacy anymore as they willingly broadcast their private information to all these companies across the internet.
Maybe the World Economic Forum is right. Maybe the majority of people will be happy owning nothing.
I think they are, for right now at least. Space is going to be an issue for the generations after us if the housing issue is still a thing. New houses are smaller and there is a big push for less space. It isn't necsesarily a bad thing to want less stuff and take up less space, but it is also not a good thing to set as the nominal. Once these people who advocate for less realize they are getting screwed they'll wisen up (I hope). So glad we are not like them though. They'll learn, most likely the hard way.
>overpopulation is terrible! We need to save the earth!
>our workforce is aging, we need more Africans to do the jobs we don't want to do and they will definitely pay for social security! We'll just import people from every 3rd world country with a higher birthrate.
it's indeed crazy how people continue falling for this bullshit.
The majority of people have never been good at long term thinking. The ability to defer immediate gratification for a greater reward later is the biggest and most consistent marker of successful people and can be demonstrated with literal toddlers but amongst most people they take the lesser but immediate reward.
Young people want to rent, pay subscriptions, borrow, buy now pay later, etc. etc. because it gets them immediate satisfaction. They don't consider 1 year, 2 years, 10 years later when they'll have been paying out 60% or more of their paycheck for 10 years with nothing to show for it. People eventually grow out of this mentality, the itunes generation buys vinyls for instance, we shall see what the spotify and netflix generation do after they realise they've wasted their money.
Normie:
>wtf this is not ok
bot army:
>It's actually not that bad
>eh, it doesn't bother me at all
>un.... it's necesary because of x
>stop being so entitled
>you're racist, fascist, transphobic
I wonder if people interact on the internet anymore. Everyday it's the same ukraine flag basedgay or trump boomer talking the same arguments and defending the same shit over and over.
john is far from a normie
Quick reminder that Musk halted Twitter acquisition because according to insider documents, big amount of traffic and posts are just bots.
ubisoft games aren't even worth a pirate
I've always been of the opinion that ubi was by far the shittiest AAA company around anyway
Amerigolems
This isn't a new precedent, Dirt 2 got removed even if you "owned" it
No it didn't?
Yes it did, I'm talking about Dirt 2 not Diry rally 2 moron look it up.
No, it didn't, you moron. It also works on my steamdeck.
Please learn the difference between a game being delisted vs a game being removed entirely.
there was another precedent, studio vegas was sold in argentina for like a quarter of a dollar by mistake and they took away the license from those that bought it
To think I just bought Deus Ex for a dollar on GOG
>buy game
>money stolen
Wtf?
>mfw I own every single game and game companies can't do anything about it
imagine buying ubishart games. they've been begging you to pirate their games for a solid decade.
>pirates own their games more than paying customers do
kek
can you pirate games on linux ?
You can't play games on linux period.
Yeah, just like on Windows.
>Taking away a game with a mixed and mostly negative review
>A game that has been on the platform for years and that very few people liked or played
Big deal, I get the principle behind it though it'd be more shocking if they were pulling a game that people actually liked and played regularly like if they pulled AC: Odyssey or Origins.
This is how it starts you moron
>IT BEGINS
It began years ago, and you've been saying it began since then.
I hate this reality. I still have my original copy of Yoshi's Island and Secret of Mana. Secret of Mana even still has my original save last time i booted it up. Now everything will either be revoked so it can be monetised again in future or you're access will be removed if you commit some thought crime. Who wants to live like this. It's ridiculous to say but i want to own shit
It's not ridiculous my friend, it's not...
>morons actually pay money to rent games from steam
You get what you paid for, digitalcucks.
I don't think it's a first, plenty of games with an online only requirement on Steam are completely dead with no survivors.
It's still bad, though. Moldman was right. Although you really shouldn't be giving any money to Ubisoft, just pirate their shit, it's shit.
>Assassin's Creed MP
Man that hurts to read. Had so much fun with the multiplayer for these games. RIP
Learning to make your own game has never been more important
Ubisoft? The same company that just had a presentation where they showed off Skull and Bones their upcoming pirate game and the tagline is literally " Long Live Piracy"? kek. kekmao even
Well at least you're not telling me I'll be happy.
Why does Steam allow this? Is Ubisoft still releasing games on Steam?
What the frick Gabe?
Actually, funnily enough, no Ubisoft has gone full Epic.
Physical Media chads win again. Entire Petabytes of Pirated Games chads win again.
We warned you.
Ubisoft quit Steam and took the Epic payout.
This is just Ubisoft shutting down a verification server for these old games which had been sold wherever (Steam, Uplay, physical box) and stealing your money because NONE of the options will verify anymore.
it has to be automatic. still imagine giving a frick about seeding. are you worried about the law? worried about data caps? worried about your limited connection?
Are there cracks for the dlc yet? Seems like most pirated versions of games come with the full game. Where exactly would I go if I just want to keep playing the dlc I already own?
what the frick you can get fricked pirating games?
You could always get fricked pirating games if you download a latestgame.exe from an unverified website.
there's no such thing as a verified pirated game site. there's some that would seem more trustworthy, and some that definitely aren't.
yeah that is very good advice. everyone should follow it, even if it means spending $100 on a refurbished office pc or something. most people here will ignore it anyway.
I WARNED YOU ALL
I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE DANGERS OF (ALWAYS) ONLINE / DIGITAL STUFF
physicalbros
piratechads
how we feelin
>buy physical versions of games to show my support
>pirate games that are no longer being sold
Feels good
I pirate games. If i like them I buy a physical copy if is available. even for old ass roms I pirated.
I' may start doing the same for bluray soon since there no so much games left I like. censored movies and removed from platforms is the new thing as well. save those physical movies.
to me physical is just too much for movies. I have way too many I feel like I should have copies of and don't feel like having a massive stockpile of physical disks, so I just have troves of pirated copies of stuff I like. the best part is no one cares if you pirate older stuff, which is mostly what I like.
I know. but movies they are cheaper and more normie friendly so other people can support this stupid hoarding.and call it less childish. a collection my family can enjoy as well.
talking about downloaded ones. I started sorting/multiplexing my files a little ago. I had like 3tb of unsorted shit. what a tedious job, specially when you're autistic about audio tracks
>autistic about audio tracks
have you tried tagging software like picard or beets? I personally keep a relatively simple organization system then just use picard to tag all my music since it's accessed through ncmpcpp(pc)/poweramp(phone) anyways.
>PLEX
>adams family
based
>no adams family values
unbased.
>Ubisoft
It is acceptable to pirate the ubisoft shits.
couldnt ubisoft get taken to court for this? arent they fr*nch?
WHITE DEVUR YOU SUFFER FOR FAT MAN CRIME NOW , AHAHAHA
And Ubisoft playing morons will keep buying their games and dlc instead of punishing them, then blame the company for what they allow them to do.
But then again if they had standards they wouldn't be playing Ubishit games to begin with.
>ubishit
I am not surprised.
Why even pull these games
>Giving more credibility to pirating
They always do it to themselves. Same thing with the Movie/Anime industry they have literally ALWAYS done it to themselves
Anime industry old problem was that it was just so inaccessible that people pretty much had to pirate. Now the problem lies more in a combination that anime is just fricking expensive relatively speaking to what westerns pay for shows coupled with localizers being absolute cancer that put their political agenda into their translations or just choose bad choices as a frick you to fans as some weird power trip
Ubishit isn't even worth pirating
WHY DONT THEY JUST GET RID OF THE DRM THEN TO AVOID THIS WHAT THE FRICK UBISHIT
ITS NOT LIKE THESE ARE NEW AAA GAMES
>don't want to go all-in on PC due to the lack of phyical options
>Steamies tell me that I'm moronic
>even though I want to OWN the games I BUY
>this shit happens
I own loads of delisted games and they all work.
Just dont support ubishit bro 😉
>I own
No, you don't.
Not that anon, can you explain why the delisted games work on my machine and steamdeck?
Just pirate.
That's what I do.
I consider purchasing a game a form of donation at this point.
I buy your game if I like you/how you run your business.
If I don't like how you run your business I pirate your games, no matter how good they are.
Simple as.
Where do you pirate your games from?
Nice try, glowBlack person
the pirate bay and free games dot com
The only thing you own is a disc, they can still pull this same shit.
At least on PC I can crack my games.
i literally only buy games under $5, $10 most, and pirate everything else.
they're literally not even being subtle about it
EA now forces you to play Dead Space (2?) through their launcher off of Steam and I've heard people were having issues with the authentication code because the switch doesn't know it's a legit product? Either way this trend is just ramping up and yes pirate everything.
Are you serious? are they really going back to older titles just to add DRM?
i remember when they did that. anons explained it was because of the online multiplayer component that demanded you install Origin, but on the install process you could refuse one of the prompts and it would install the older (original) Steam release of the game. EA still forces mandatory Origin install for anything released during the many years they quit Steam, though. Dragon Age 2 through today.
>even if you bought it
sounds like a lie
>ever buying a digital copy of a game versus a physical one
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ZOOMERS AND THEIR moronNESS FALL PREY ONCE AGAIN
is not zoomers alone frogposter, is 3/4 of the millenials onwards that don't even know how to PC anymore.
Netflix and Spotify gave the final hit to what it was left of the internet post-Facebook.
Friendly reminder that piracy is not only okay, it's objectively the moral choice
Muh digital future was ALWAYS a scam. You're paying full price for games that sooner or later they'll take away from you.
It just gets worse every day.
And people actually cheer for these anti consumer actions and the loss of freedom.
I hope all ubisoft games get cracked immediately from now on.
So let me get this straight
The game is bring delisted on steam
People still KEEP the game, like all the other delisted games, and they can install(?) it on their accounts
But because the game relies on ubisoft's own online servers/DRM it wont launch
So all of this is ubisofts fault?
Then why are people blaming valve?
>>Then why are people blaming valve?
There are many anti-steam homosexuals (false flagging snoyggers).
Paid shills running PR for Ubishit.
unironically ubishills deflecting
>Then why are people blaming valve?
Because valve likes to play pretend that all games on steam are created equal when in reality they just sell licenses that could have any bullshit in the 200 page long EULA you need to agree to AFTER buying it. They also don't even do their due diligence to ensure that the publisher correctly marks the game as requiring 3rd party DRM or not. And even when it is correct and up to date they relegate it to a small box well below the "fold" as they say so as not to be off-putting to any potential marks, I mean customers.
>Because valve likes to play pretend that all games on steam are created equal
Since when? They literally tell you when a game is using 3rd party DRM and many don't even have any DRM so you can just copy the game files from the steam folder and everything works. They also warn you about 3rd party launcher bullshit too
Check when games are brand new or pre-order. They often don't have the box, or it's the wrong box. It's only post launch, after someone complains that they chase the publisher for an update. THEY should be VERIFYING the content on their content delivery platform but they don't.
Also, it is hardly acceptable to put "Requires agreement to EULA" with a pop-up (that often fails to load) with 200 pages of legalese where buried on Section 17, paragraph 23 subsection iii that they reserve the right to discontinue the authentication servers at any time. That shit should be front and god damned center. Saying "Uses denuvo with 5 machine activation" doesn't adequately inform customers of the downsides and potential pitfalls.
Imagine your doctor prescribed pills and the side effects which may include blindness were buried in a click through EULA accessible through a QR code. Frick no, even in america you have to print that shit front and center on the box.
Well value is main reason we have game launchers.
Steam should honestly tell ubisoft to frick off and kick them off the entire platform if they're going to deceive customers like that.
The thing is Ubisoft already fricked off back in 2019 when they went to bed with Epic.
There is literally a HD version that you can buy, so buy that. Don't cry over beans that are in store for to spill.
I haven't bought an ubisoft game since Far Cry 4, and that was on a steep discount and only because a Battlefield buddy wanted to co-op.
Far Cry 5 was better, but I'm not supporting them anymore, their attitude toward their customers is genuinely one of the most disgusting I've ever seen. Like a step below EA. I mean, maybe not even a step below anymore, since I can still download ancient ass games and patches from EA.
Holy shit, UbiSoft is actually worse than EA now. Imagine fricking up that much.
Daily reminder that giving Ubisoft money in any way or form is morally incorrect.
Everyone has a moral and civic obligation to pirate their games
My borderline-normie sister in law has been very insistent about her games being paid-for as much as possible, but I've gotten my brother (who's much more on the ball) to exploit her love of Assassin's Creed and her issues with Ubisoft's DRM homosexualry to get her redpilled more and more on piracy.
>reputation in toilet after breakpoint, FC6, hero shooter ghost recon, etc
>hmmm, how do we fix our reputation?
>I know, we'll stop allowing people to play games they paid for, regardless of storefront
>genius!
how do I scan for malware if I pirate often
>*clears throat*
ANY GAME THAT REQUIRES A CENTRAL SERVER IS IMMEDIATELY IS ON DEATH ROW. THEIR FATE HAS BEEN SEALED FROM THE START.
>BUT THE GAME IS POPULAR
DOESNT MATTER, THE MOMENT THE GAME MAKES LESS MONEY THAN IT TAKES TO KEEP THE SERVER RUNNING IS THE DAY THE SHUT IT OFF
>PIRACY WILL SAVE US
WRONG, PIRACY CANT DO SHIT WHEN IMPORTANT ASSETS IS LOCKED TO THE CENTRAL SERVER. HIGHLY SKILLED CODE CRACKERS WILL BE NEEDED IN ORDER TO REVERSE THE ENCRYPTION
FRICK EVERY PUBLISHER THAT DOES THIS SHIT
GAMES AS A SERVICE IS A LIE AND SHOULD BE COMPLETELY ILLEGAL
>YOU DONT OWN ANYTHING
YES YOU DO. WHEN YOU BUY A GAME IS CONSIDERED A PERPETUAL LEASE. SO IT WILL NEVER EXPIRE. SO PUBLISHERS WHO SELL GAMES UNDER THE LINES OF PERPETUAL LEASE BUT ITS ACTUALLY LIMITED IS COMPLETELY LYING TO YOUR FACE AND HAS BEEN PROVEN IN COURT
Correction: perpetual license not lease
Can you give me a source on the perpetual license
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_license
Long watch but it clearly explains how games as a service and companies purposely killing games could get them in serious legal trouble if presented to the courts in the right way. Since companies are selling you a limited time license disguised as a permanent perpetual license. Hasn't been tried in court yet, but similar things have that show it was with the consumer in the winnings
The blurring of line between product and service is deliberate and specifically because while the law may say when you sell a product to someone that product is now theirs to do with as they wish it absolutely does not say anyone is ever expected to provide a service in perpetuity. Especially in the US. There's this little sore spot in history called "slavery" which makes courts and legislators very, very reluctant to mandate an obligation of servitude and especially so in perpetuity. You could argue companies are exploiting that but the resolution there is the legislative branch, not the judicial branch.
The US can frick off in this issue. I think it would be better to focus on Europe since they have stronger consumer protection laws.
The hope is that if Europe sets a standard the rest of the world will follow.
This.
American consumer rights laws are fricking dogshit, because America is full of morons.
We unironically need Euros to step in and put a stop to this shit.
Australia would also be acceptable, as this anon says
After all, they already got us refunds.
I think you guys would be surprised how similar consumer protections are between the US and Europe. Maybe you should go read the Uniform Commercial Code for the US that pretty much all states have ratified and encompasses consumer protection laws rather than just making up America doesn't have consumer protection laws.
absolute cope, you wouldn't even have a refund button on steam if it weren't for the EU and ACCC
>you wouldn't even have a refund button on steam if it weren't for the EU and ACCC
False. Neither the EU nor the ACCC mandates a refund for any reasons other than the product doesn't work, the product was falsely advertised or the product is not fit for purpose and America has those exact same protections too.
The way the law is interpreted differs greatly depending on the legal system.
In the video
Ross does explain that you DO own your software. This has been proven in Canada and Europe. In the US its harder since there hasn't been a specific court situation specifically talking about ownership of software and game companies would rather like it if it stays like that
There is hope
>SO IT WILL NEVER EXPIRE
until they decide it does.
See
In a legal sense it should never expire but game companies do which they could get sued for blatant false advertising
>if I sell you a car and then decide I'm no longer gonna support producing your car. I can't go to your driveway and smash your car to pieces
>if I sell you a car and then decide I'm no longer gonna support producing your car. I can't go to your driveway and smash your car to pieces
How convenient that the electronic system is classified as a service, and can be shut down at any time. :*~~))
I love this autistic boomer like you wouldn't believe
>tfw AC Brotherhood’s multiplayer servers are getting shut down too
I haven’t played in years but I remember that shit being super fun, maybe I’ll trying playing again before this dumb shutdown.
AC4's Wolfpack mode is fun. I tried to play it the other day on PC and it was completely dead but when I tried on PS5 I was actually able to get into multiple games. I was surprised.
I’ll have to try that out on my Series X, it’s a shame that Skull & Bones is shaping up to not be like AC4.
Just need to wait for some based Australian to sue Ubisoft, their consumer laws are pretty tight and I doubt this is legal there.
Do it for us, based aussies
I am sure that EU is also interested in that too.
go woke become scum apparently.
I will not be purchasing ubisoft game in the future
Ubisoft has been woke for half a decade anon.
It's 2022, not 2016.
>Inaccessible
As in you can't play it at all after you bought it?
Yes. Ubisoft uses always online as DRM. So you won't be able to connect to Ubisoft servers and the game refuses to start.
afaik its because ubisoft is shutting down the servers.
thebig issue should be singleplayer games that have always online, but brand warriors will always turn it into some corporate defense party.
Internet is dead
The consolidation of the internet and its effects have been a disaster for mankind.
That was caused by the massive increase in internet users in the early to mid 2000s which was caused by smartphones and social media
>thread about game licensing, digital distribution, and scummy business practices
>drags in "muh old internet" whining
cry about it zoomer
not everyone who isn't whining about the old days of the internet 24/7 is a zoomer you troglodyte
being born in 99 doesnt make you a milennial nor a nineties kid zoomie
>buzzword buzzword buzzword
cope homosexual
It pains me that Trials is ties to ubisoft.
Is it really a precedent or 'new low' if it's been done before?
I could've sworn i remember the Accursed Farm guy saying this exact thing happened to some racing game.
It's happened in the past many times. There are a few articles then everyone forgets about it again.
It's happened to countless games, this one is getting attention because Ubisoft has been shit for like a decade and now they're shutting down their last good (single player) games which their current games are just a copy of
how does this benefit them though
what is the point in doing this
They don't want to pay for some authentication servers in a building in france
oh that makes sense, thank you
how can I pirate safely on PC ?
Be born between 1956 and 1998.
Any time before or after that and you're shit out of luck, you're probably too dumb for piracy.
will encrypting my drive help
No.
I'm sorry anon, but your stupidity is terminal.
I was born in 1999 do I qualify???
>tfw i seed torrents longer than ubisoft sells games
what kinda vpn you using pal?
I'm using a seedbox
i like how they're trying to split steam apart like with netflix but its just not working
Probably doesn't help that all the companies that are splitting off are AAA devs that make nothing but fricking junk.
>AC Liberation
Technically, nothing of value is lost.
It's also a bonus if you buy the AC3 Remaster which is not going anywhere.
More importantly, you can pirate either release, the original or the remaster, and considering this is a Ubisoft title, you should.
>inb4 buygay
shiggy diggy, specially for Ubisoft games
this won't fly in europe. they way they see it, license or no, you bought it you own it, end of story. only americans get shafted like this, an inevitable consequence of the freedom they love so much.
Wasn't this game just on sale for the summer sale too?
Ten years from now on, when you buy a game you'll have a time limit on your ownership. When time's up you lose the game. They're moving towards this model so they can instead sell you monthly subscriptions to have access to games. You can already see it now and it's gonna get even worse. I play csgo with an bigshot at a western gaming company and that's basically the plan. They don't care about backlash, gamers are gonna pay anyway.
what the frick
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
serves them right, for paying to bugisoft for anything. hope bethesda does the same
>Remaster is PS4/Xbox only
>Sony threatens to retire servers and make games unplayable
>threads full of damage control
>nintendo actually does retire servers and makes games unplayable
>threads full of damage control
>Ubisoft retires servers and makes games unplayable
>PIRATE THAT SHIT!
This is why cancer like subscriptions dont exist on PC
Ubisoft are also shutting down less on consoles
This sets a bad precedent that may even ruin steam profitability in the long run, why are they letting it happen? Is there something not being told? A new version of the game free for everyone?
This makes buying games unsafe in steam and doesnt make sense to pay full price for a game anymore if you can just pay a cheaper subscription on places like that windows store, a shoot in the foot.
>why are they letting it happen?
because this has literally nothing to do with steam. This is entirely Uplay's fault
the only thing steam could do is acquire Ubi and put those games on its own servers, but that's not happening
Wait, they need servers to run liberation?
Wasnt it singleplayer?
Serious question: can I refund my ubisoft games? I purchased all of the Far Cry and Assassin Creed games during the summer sale two years ago.
I have yet to play a single one, because they're on my backlog, and now, I won't be able to play half of these games or their dlc after September. Games that I fricking paid for...
> Angry paypiggie squealing.
Ahh, the sound of another dickhead crying. Music to my ears. Lad, maybe learn how to pirate. You c**ts are so fricking moronic, that is actually something you seem to need to do: learn how to do it. No wonder you all get angry at pirates. It makes you feel small, under endowed, and pissed that people can enjoy something you paid for. So you don't want them to have it, because you yourself are that incompetent that you don't know how to join them. So you are, in essence, the perennial snitch. That's how much of a shit person you are.
I'm listening to pirated music right now. I also have several terabytes of pirated entertainment(games, anime, movies, etc). I just think it's silly how you homosexuals get so smug doing something that everyone else does without a second thought.
Wasn't me who made the post. It was me however that noted that you sound like a fricking c**t. Also, I call bullshit. I bet you own a Switch library and DVDs of weird furry gay pornos from niche Jap retailers in pink boxes. Unopened and sealed, of course. You stink of corporate reek, pal. Because that was an odd, and completely meaningless post to be getting upset about and now suddenly pretending to be one of the boys.
>schizoid rambling
cope
What is the alternative?
>Buy overcosted hard copies. One accident and your shit is gone.
>High-seas games. Denu seems to get stronger and groups seem to go into rent (see Codex).
Play old games.
Steam was a mistake. It put physical market to death and now we have this dystopian bullshit with no alternatives
Pirate and play old games.
PC games were in a much worse situation before steam
Right before it, yes, after a vast golden age current pc gaming can never hope to reclaim because most of its appeal and genres that flourished on it are dead. Now its just a cheap option for indie and drm riddled console ports from years earlier. The fact you have really only one, at max 3, major storefronts proves how much such an open platform as rotted.
Yeah bro I wish I could go back to the era of GFWL and securom
how do you do fellow oldgays
Not him.
>Yeah bro I wish I could go back to the era of GFWL and securom
This but unironically. I never had a problem with it.
>because most of its appeal and genres that flourished on it are dead
and this is steam's fault......how?
>cheap indies
>when said cheap indies are the ones reviving these dead genres
hollow knight revived metroidvanias
hotline miami brought back the 90's pixel artstyle
sakuna revived farming
shovel knight revived platformers
cuphead revived boss rushes
issac, gungeon,necrodancer, deadcells, slay the spire, etc defined the roguelike genre
now we're getting indie management sims and rts
and yet, pc gaming is deader than ever, right?
To add to your point, most indies are available on multiple sites often including straight from the dev with little or no DRM. It's AAA games that only get released on a single storefront for the most part
>Now its just a cheap option for indie
I dont get why consolegays still think this is a valid argument when steam indies are the closest thing we have to the flash game boom back in the late 2000s. looking at all the bad anime porn on steam reminds me of newgrounds back in the day
I prefer Steam
>paying for ubishit
you're better off with nothing
>instead of having infinite copies supplied instantly at any time you'll have to cherish the one copy you have, and if you lose it that's it, you'll have to procure another one
I'm talking about physical media by the way
Piracy is the only fully pro consumer thing in the world. Pirates get you the product with the least amount of resistance possible. Moralgays get dicked down by corpos and ask for seconds. Only purchase games from studios you fully trust and support and make sure you do not overpay.
Arent they just shutting down online services? Like multiplayer and all those shitty "complete this challenge in sp game to earn ubipoints".
It's still bad but your sp games will still be playable.
If you buy games from Ubisoft you deserve to get fricked. They haven't made any games worth buying in over 10+ years.
>Bro trust me more stores are good because competition or something
If you buy anything on Steam that may or later will require an external software license you are a moron
This is why it's actually important that the company publishing the game doesn't manage the launcher and vice versa
What's the go to website to pirate games now? I used to use blackcatz but they're long gone.
No wonder why so many games from this series were so cheap during the last sale. Fricking israelites.
I'm so fricking hyped for God of War
>Steam contractually sells a permanent license to digitally owning games on Steam
>This license can't be revoked
>Uplay and Origins games on Steam actually sell you a license to owning a license to another third party DRM
>Such license can actually be revokee
Never buy Ubishit, EA or Epic games
>only on Ganker do people make pirating their identity
And only on Twitter do people make who they want to frick their identity. Your point?
This shit along with planned obsolesence is why pirating is the only logical path to take. Why would anyone besides npcs want to put up with this? If its not the government fricking us its the corporations yet alot of people dont care. The future is so bleak. May God be with us all.
Americans should be prohibited from owning Gaming PCs
PC gaming turned to shit when americans jumped into it. Stick to the consoles, burgers
>you will be a midwit