insanity rule

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

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.

I get the FitGirl repacks of Empress cracks because:

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

had no clue that fitgirl wasnt cis lmao

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I agree that you shouldn’t go pirating small indie titles because independent artists becoming more financially successful is the object of the exercise. But a triple-A title is free game to me.

A triple-A game is only available and free to you because people like me pay for it.

If everyone acted like you, the AAA game industry wouldn’t exist.

I’m not trying to be disparaging, but no pirate should be proud of their theft.

If everyone acted like you, the AAA game industry wouldn’t exist.

Good, we’d all be better off

But then why pirate the game?

It really shouldn’t. Everything in it outside of Nintendo is a hot steaming pile of dogshit.

Beause some people really need their Star Wars or Harry Potter or whatever.

I was a Star Wars fan, but it all went downhill as Lucasarts died.

I hope the AAA gaming industry collapses

With the way they treat their workers? Good. I’m not talking about the quality of their work, I’m talking about the treatment of their labor.

If everyone acted like you, the AAA game industry wouldn’t exist.

Yeah and I want that to happen quite frankly. The triple a scene needs a major disruption.

That said I don’t trust a privileged executable from the high seas.

Please do discontinue paying for AAA games. They are not only riddled with dark patterns antagonistic to their end users, but are made on the abuse and crunch of development teams overworked and underpaid.

We can only hope the AAA industry perishes and is suceeded by indie games or even FOSS game efforts.

If you must play them, pirate them with all the rant and roar you can, but better still, find better (if lower budgeted games) on the indie market. There are some pretty amazing titles that will scratch all your itches.

The only games I’ve ever pirated are the ones that have denuvo DRM ironically, lol.

Games are cheap to buy if they are good and worthwhile.

It’s when the studios try and bait and switch us that I have a problem, or purposefully slow down and punish paying customers because they are disabled by the fear of a few pirates by adding worthless DRM.

I am certain there is not a single Denuvo game that the DRM actually caused them to make more money than simply launching without it…

People in the industry are being taken for a ride…