• atmur@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    225
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Selmafudd@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    84
    ·
    1 year ago

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

      • atlasraven31@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

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

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      25
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Azrael@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        15
        ·
        1 year ago

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

      • narshee@iusearchlinux.fyi
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Akagigahara@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          12
          ·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            it’s a bit of a shit situation because i can’t really come up with a way to decide how long the free return window should be on a per-game basis, surely if you make it depend on the game’s standard playtime they’ll just make the main quest 30 minutes long and make all the actual content side quests

      • atlasraven31@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

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

    • violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • notepass@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      26
      ·
      1 year ago

      “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?

  • SpaghettiWolf@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    36
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • wtry@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      20
      ·
      1 year ago

      “BuT THe DEVeLoplErs WoN"t GEt PaID” They weren’t getting paid before, it just steals from the billionaire CEO

    • skozzii@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      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…

    • threeduck@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • saigot@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        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.

      • SpaghettiWolf@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • 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.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    1 year ago

    If I love a game enough, I am eager to support the devs. I also know that buying an AAA game doesn’t support the devs, it supports people like Bobby Kotick and Randy Pitchford.

    So when it comes to AAA games, either I pirate the game, or…

    … in more recent years, I don’t pirate the game.

  • jcdenton@lemy.lol
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    1 year ago

    Buying a game on steam gives you achievements cloud saves easier proton integration and the ability to play online

    • pancakes@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      ·
      1 year ago

      Also the ease of use, automatic game updates, and supporting game development.

      DRM makes me not want to support the game development.

      • chickenpotpi@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        1 year ago

        Sometimes id rather use a cracked version of a game even if i own it, just so i dont have to deal with ubisoft’s, and EA’s horrible launchers. Unless the game gets actively updated or has multiplayer.

        • skozzii@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          One day these shitty developers will learn people are happy to pay if it’s convenient.

          Most developers have figured it out, seems like just a few executives who don’t understand video games.

          Slowly these people are retiring and the world is becoming a better place.

  • DickFiasco@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    1 year ago

    apology for poor english

    when were you when denuvo is cracked?

    i was sat at home eating smegma butter when pjotr ring

    ‘denuvo is crack’

    ‘no’

  • skozzii@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 year ago

    Imagine thinking Denovo worked…

    Maybe a stupid boomer executive working at a game studio…