Pirating games is too risky these days. Malware has become terribly dangerous.
Well you’re not wrong about the risk, but…
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use virtual machines
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Use backups.
Problem solved.
Yes and no. If the VM has network access you can still royally fuck yourself. Also, it’s possibe your virtualisation software has a vulnerability—that way it may still infect your host machine.
More often than not VMs may protect you, but it’s no guarantee.
it’s possibe your virtualisation software has a vulnerability
If you’re that paranoid I don’t know why you’re running an executable whose source code you haven’t checked in the first place.
Free Media Heck Yeah is amazing.
When do you think this is? The early 2000s?
If you don’t know how to safely pirate games or indeed any media in 2024, it’s 100% because you don’t know where/how to look.
I recommend starting at the aptly named Free Media Heck Yeah. It started as a project on Reddit piracy and internet freedom forums but is now a gigantic independent repository of all kinds of free media.
I’m okay with just not owning Ubisoft games. Why fucking pirate garbage anyhow? Nothing published by Ubisoft, EA, or Microsoft is worth owning.
He said that for subscriptions to be more popular, people need to be “more comfortable with not owning their games”. People always forget the first part, if you take the whole quote, he’s right.
He didn’t say he wanted that to happen. But he probably do, so fuck Ubisoft and him.
I just don’t like how the whole internet built a narrative around an out of context quote.
Ok, get used to me stealing your car.
Already am
Thanks to the penny pinchers that work at Kia…
