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[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't pirate games but after reading this, I DEFINITELY will not pirate games. If these clowns are the ones cracking/repacking the games then I do NOT trust the games to not contain malware/bullshit/whatever. Maybe I'm being paranoid but I wouldn't go anywhere near software put out by these people. They sound like the types to include malware just to frame the other group or whatever. Idk. These people are morons.

[–] miracleorange@beehaw.org 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only repacks I trust are FitGirl's, mostly because they're compressed to all hell and she's always just... kept her head down.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 points 1 year ago

That's the way. Just keep your head down and don't engage with morons.

[–] iliketrains@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nowadays I assume cracked software (unless if the crack script is fully open source) to likely contain some kind of malware and I just sandbox them since I play cracked games with bottles flatpak anyway.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flatpak is a linux package format. Bottles is a gui software that makes it easy to run windows software (especially games) on linux (it is a very good gui/management tool for wine)

Casual wine/proton W

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are a lot of other legit crackers besides these two

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought I read there's only like 1 that does DRM cracking anymore. That's not the case?

[–] totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is for a specific DRM called Denuvo. Most games don't have it, but the big titles do

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there only 1 that does denuvo?

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Anymore? Yes. Used to be more, but at this point it's basically just the shittiest person of the bunch.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 1 year ago

It appears only the most deranged of the bunch are willing to dedicate their time cracking Denuvo.