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I know they’re probably joking, but the Steam forums are so generally unhinged that I wouldn’t be surprised if this person is serious.

Steam is full of corporate bootlickers it’s unreal 💀

Could be a Denuvo shill?

Satire senses tingling.

“and how can they say they pirates when have no boats???”

Arrggh, you can pay and sail the high seas too.

Pay and then install the pirated version to play without the overhead of garbage DRM.

Piracy had amazing quality of life back in the day: no-cd cracks, keygens, fully patched, custom installers, no splash screen. Maybe even extras.

No one makes demos for their games anymore. I’m not gambling on whether I’m gonna like a game with the cost of AAA titles these days. Piracy is amazingly handy for that.

I’ve been calling my pirated stuff “Extended Demos”/“Extended Trailers” for ages now.

That is the number 1 reason for me too. Although steam solves this problem partially with their return policy. But I don’t want to pay the price upfront everytime, so I resolve to piracy until I know if I want to buy the game.

I’d almost agree. Steam is great with it’s return policy, but only really by comparison. The 14 days is definitely plenty of time, but 2h is not a lot for quite a few, and especially the expensive, games.

I agree but I have recently bought 2 games that offered steam demos: Xenonauts 2 and Astro Colony.

I’ve done this with games I’ve purchased physical discs for but are a pain to install on Windows 10. I was able to find a pirate site that had lightly modified games to help work on modern systems.

I do that a lot with “free” EGS games. Since I now legally own them, it’s no longer “actual” piracy

I’m more of a cracked Denuvo = no play kind of person because Empress is cooked & I don’t wanna feed their ego

I get the FitGirl repacks of Empress cracks because:

Trans girl pirates are way cooler than transphobe pirates.
Empress fucking hates it.

Plenty of people claim fitgirl is trans, but I don’t think she’s ever said she is herself

Huh. It would make sense that Empress completely made it up. Transphobes aren’t exactly smart, plenty have called cis women trans IRL before. I’ll be honest, I read this tweet and believed it: https://x.com/furmerly/status/1658138307769802752

had no clue that fitgirl wasnt cis lmao

Always figured it was just an online persona, not an actual individual person.

Tbh denuvo is so devious I think it just does that to your brain.

Who the hell is Empress? O.o

Person who cracked Denuvo. They seem pretty crazy.

Calling oneself Empress or Emperor usually does imply that, I guess

You need to be crazy to crack denuvo. It is a requirement because the software is also crazy.

Say the line, Gabe

“Piracy is not a service problem and can only be curbed by utilising SecuRom and denuvo drm. This also will make the game less compatible in the future so that people will also buy your remasters.”

Something along those lines it was?

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