How do you guys pirate everything you play? I tried downloading Elden Ring, but it was both a hassle to set up and the download speeds were miserable. I was afraid of going through all that work just to frick it up because I didn't edit the files correctly
TL;DR bestow some millennial knowledge on me Gankerros, I'm moronic
torrents
I was doing direct download before since everyone says torrenting requires a VPN. Can I get away with torrenting raw?
Direct Download requires some extra steps at the end like Steam Cleaning and finding a steam emulator. I think I picked the harder method
>torrenting requires a VPN
only if you are american
Only my country cares about copyright? Frick me
I was in the megathread and I was following the steps but I got scared by the VPN warnings. I'm going to give it another shot with torrenting, but I'm discouraged after direct download went poorly
Elden Ring. Rentry.org from the Reddit Mega. I tried to use CS.RIN.RU as a Direct Download site but it was a bit miserable
is direct download any better? what's your guarantee that your ip won't be logged and confiscated by investigators?
Direct download supposedly doesn't have the same risk due to being hosted or something? As long as the person who posted it is trustworthy then you're supposedly in the clear
Fuuuuck. I guess it's fine if I do it once since it'll just be a warning. I'll get aa VPN if this first attempt goes well
Frick these guys then
I'll get back to you and let you know how it goes
holy shit
Let me put it this way
direct downloading = ISP gives no fricks unless it's CP or something and even then, they'd have to be informed most likely
A torrent is literally a file that has a bunch of data that says 'moronic homosexual zoomer wants to download this file, share it with them' and then all the other homosexual zoomers upload it to you while you download. The problem is a torrent can be tracked and people like to send out letters to ISP saying 'at 4pm on may 1st, the following IPs (hint yours is in there) downloaded/uploaded the following torrent of which we own the copyright to. Either remove their access or we sue you for allowing piracy on your ISP'
So they send you a letter
DD is safer and usually faster but riskier as if the download stops, a lot of sites don't let you download it from the point you had, you need to start over.
Hint: use jdownloader for the direct downloads
Nah a lot of ISPs will cut you off. Some countries just let them send out warnings since it's not really possible to prove an IP = used by you outside of a police investigation
holy fricking...
cs.rin.ru isn't fricking hard
also kek at using reddit
https://fitgirl-repacks.site/elden-ring/
There, the actual site for that repacker
Use this
https://paste.fitgirl-repacks.site/?37965c2b91ce6f3d#39JzAkXk6gKFbQPGwtCcT34av7txvXWbsL6U8hpac5b5
Torrenting is fine. If your internet is shit, then you're fricked
Go here
https://fast.com/
Tell me what the number stops at
And if you're in a shitty country, don't torrent. Torrenting will fricking get your ISP cutting you off
> Wants russian hackers/botnet on your computer.
> Wants Chinese hackers/botnet on your computer.
hrmmmm.
>uses reddit
>a site known to be owned by the Chinese
Good boy, you keep on barking away for your masters
At least you can double check on the sources there, plus if you really want to be careful about pirating, running your piracy on a virtual machine would be the best.
>not having a separate winblows PC for your dubiously sourced games
> Those dubiously owned games can be accessed to hack your other devices in the same network.
What now chud?
Air gapping
It stopped at 17 mbps btw
well that's why your download is slow
Elden Ring is roughly 49gb on a torrent I found
you're looking at least 6 hours
>buying any game from a company that purposely left the ability to run RCE on PC because it's not the console so it's not important
Please, next tell the zoom-zoom to only use a fricking chainsaw to shave his hairless twink balls
Fricking hell. Thank you man. From the link you sent me I just open a OneDrive and download fg-01 through fg-07 plus the setup.exe? Any steps afterwards I should be aware of?
It'll rape your computer when it's unpacking. Literally. If your setup is shit you won't be using it for a few hours. It's just how repacks work
That said, onedrive links don't work with jdownloader and cannot be resumed so while it would in theory be the fastest, if you're likely to drop internet a lot, I'd avoid it as the first one is quite a lot. Also do one file at a time. Doing them all will cause problems
Those shit repackers are bitcoin mining in the background, that's why they take so long.
thank you herr empress, your massive lady balls heaved heavily as your masculine, overly large, even for a man, typed that manly message.
No, they're using moronic compression algorithms like PAQ-8 or freearc which have extremely high compression ratios but have a massive compute tradeoff.
A convenient excuse eh? "oh it is really is thrashing your cpu decompressing, its totes legit" to cover up the mining.
>requires some extra steps at the end like Steam Cleaning and finding a steam emulator.
the what? I've been pirating my entire life and i've never heard about this shit ever lol.
Torrenting with VPN is so that naughty criminals who would like to access your computer do not hack your shit through IP grabbing it.
I heard it was because your ISP gets all pissy and emails you. How likely am I to get fricked by my provider or have my data stolen?
Also for torrenting how is fitgirls? I've heard the name before and I think repacks download quickly?
Depends if you are torrenting abandonware games that are not on the market or not sold in your country, things like Elden Ring and shit might get your ISP triggered if you live in non-piracy (for personal use) friendly country like US or UK.
Most UK ISPs don't actually care except BT because they are terrible no exceptions.
UK ISPs are a strange lot, too incompetent to do anything but at the same time willing to drag their heels and fight against the government.
So long as you aren't a seeder or downloading the latest and greatest movies or some shit you'll never be touched.
>but at the same time willing to drag their heels and fight against the government
It is insane
>oi ISP, crackdown on piracy cos I say so as the governor
>no, frick off
>DO IT FGT
>no frick off, make it law to do so as i'm not doing shit otherwise (except good goy BT)
>ffffuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkkkkk
Your ISP will email you if you rawdog a torrent, first time is usually a warning. If you don't want to commit to a year, just sign up for a month of whatever VPN and get as much downloaded in that time as possible.
Been torrenting for almost as long as I've been on Ganker. Just checked and my torrentleech account is from 2006. Never had issues.
The definitive version of NFS MW requires mounting an iso. It runs perfectly on my steam deck.
>first time is usually a warning
FUD homosexual have a nice day. EVERY time is a warning, they have nothing on you. ISPs don't give a frick, scaring away customers is bad for business.
>and emails you.
They're just trying to scare you. Every lawyer will tell you there is zero (0) legal basis for them to take you to court.
Unfortunately, fear is stronger than logic and most people pussy out.
Just get a VPN. All the big names have frequent sales where it ends up being $20 a year or some shit not even worth caring about.
No, you're actually fairly safe in America. Its people in Germany or Japan that get piracy letters. I think Canada has been cracking down lately too.
>dragging the game's exe onto steamless and then overwriting steam_api.dll with goldberg is hard
Please tell me you're not serious.
Why do you even need steam?
Am i missing something?
Just download torrent elden ring
Install
Dubble click .exe
Turn off peer discovery and your ISP won't b***h at you even without a VPN. qbt let's you choose to turn it off and on on per-torrent basis.
what's so hard about inserting the crack into the game's library?
t. born in 1998
You're one of those smart zoomers, you don't count.
It’s like following a cooking recipe. I know you can do it, just look it up
Like many such cases, I stopped playing video games in my early 20s.
Then in my 30s, I use my money to invest back into gaming as a feeble way to reclaim some nostalgia of childhood in this cold world.
I've been honestly shocked how easy pirating has become.
I still buy stuff on Steam when it's cheap.
holy mother of fricking zoom-zoom
What the frick are you trying to pirate and where the frick did you get the links from?
Go to piracy megathread on reddit you frick. Only useful part of that shitshow.
open your mouth
ER without the Online patch? Really?
A combination of extra virgin olive oil, salt, black magic, basil and a fully functioning computer.
damn, I just realized mounting ISO's with daemon tools hasn't been a thing for a while. Now those were the days
>not burning your own disc with alcohol 120%
>alcohol 120%
Nero burning ROM
ER in special is worth buying zoomzoom but you can always torrent anything
Fellas, I think we're back
when you run the game the command prompt window may pop up and then disappear, don't worry about it
it's normal, enjoy the game, do your banking on a 2nd computer, have fun it's really good
I am going to be honest with you, i didn't buy the single game for the last 20 years and pirated everything, and had 0 problems with any bank accounts or PCs
Where'd you get that torrent?
If it was from the actual fitgirl site Ilinked
https://fitgirl-repacks.site/
then you are ok
Yeah I got it from https://fitgirl-repacks.site/elden-ring/ and clicked on picrel
Should be fine
?si=tJAzlTXekKGYfhzE&t=102
complete with authentic Indian voiceover for legitimate content
the file check just makes it so you can check all the downloaded files are fine
Best of luck
elden ring is moronicly hard in some places and probably the best weapon is two handing the big frick off club you get in the first area after the tutorial and just beating thingsi nto a stun
Thank you brother, you're a kind soul
It's been a while since I've delved into fromsoft's catalogue, so I'm honestly excited for their bullshit
>TL;DR bestow some millennial knowledge on me Gankerros, I'm moronic
No.
Are you fricking moronic?
t. 2002
How fricking moronic are you? just use rutracker and csrinru for small games/dlc files. don't bother with DDL because most of the time they'll probably be hosted on shit sites, but the gog games one is absolutely fine, and anything that has a link to 1fitcher. hell i even flashed my own shitbox when i was like 14 after i bricked it by accident.
t 1999-tard
I'm very moronic, also born in 2002. I switched to torrent after downloading qbittorent and its going well so far, at 16% with my slow internet. I'm pretty sure after this step I just run the setup.exe and I'm in the clear, right? I appreciate you guys putting up with my moronation, I'll make you feel worse though and let you know that most zoomers know even less than me about pirating. We're less tech literate than the previous generation which has never happened
On a brighter note, if things go well over the next couple of hours and I get to play the game, I'll make a follow-up thread tomorrow. Thinking of going Strength-Faith