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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Exactly; this just needed an emulator like goldberg

Bethesda games usually don't go for heavy DRM stuff (beyond the basic steam DRM), because it impairs modding (especially injection / nonofficial modding, stuff like SKSE for skyrim)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have to applaud Bethesda for this decision, it is something that is very nice for the end user.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really is a big move, since it likely cost them millions in early sales.

I probably would have bought it already if I couldn't find a crack, but now I can pirate and wait for a nice sale.

I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tbh what you're doing is exactly what I did too with Skyrim. Downloaded a crack played for probably 1k hours and then bought it just to play 1k more

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It was developed by ID I believe, bethesda only published the game.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And is developed by ID software, not Bethesda Game Studios. Bethesda the publisher has different tactics when it comes to games not developed by BGS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It had denuvo but the game shipped with a denuvo-less exe so it was "cracked" day 1 lol.

Mighta been the 2016 doom but regardless it was funny lol