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Honestly, pirating anything with an executable in it is just asking for something to happen. The hoops required to mitigate these risks, especially when games mostly now are online with a multiplayer component, I can understand why game-piracy would really only be for the people who are REALLY hardcore into AAA titles. Most of the stuff I purchase now is indie and ends up being better than AAA titles, and it's cheap enough that I don't really even want to pirate it.
Additionally, lemmy just doesn't have the eyeballs that Reddit has...still. I can understand someone's justification if they stayed over there. I got site-banned once just for reporting a mod for child-predatory statements, and I literally hadn't even made a comment. Just reporting the post got me banned. So I'm over here hiding from child predators.
How does one get access to a good private tracker these days? Any recommendations?
there really is no way to know if you’ve got a virus. it doesn’t take a lot of time to develop a malware that is undetectable, especially if you target something very specific and make it be patient about it. e.g. wait a month, snatch all the browser cookies and send them to a server hosted on azure.
or every so often snatch the clipboard
there are a lot of ways to be very silent
I highly suggest you don’t use the pc you run the pirated games on for anything critical
background: I crack stuff as a hobby (never published anything), used to be a security engineer, programmer by hobby
I recently switch to Linux and the only way I was able to run some of the games I already bought was to pirate them because of the launcher. I hate game launchers.
May I ask which distro, and which scene releases you are using ?
Fedora 38 and elamigos
so you use wine ? does there exist a guide ?
I play a lot of older AAA games and piracy has been a life saver. I tried playing Assassin’s Creed 4 with a legit steam copy and couldn’t even play offline because of the stupid Ubisoft launcher. With a pirated copy, you skip the launcher and get a better experience than a paying customer. Just stick to reputable groups like fitgirl and you’re fine
Ubisoft Launcher is the worst.
Accusing someone of being and/or defending a child predator (or stance) is a serious, potentially life ruining action. Without context I can’t assume it was warranted or that you were unfairly banned given our current social discourse where people flippantly call people “pedos.”
Point is we only have your side and no clue what was actually said. Just something to consider.
Yeah pirating games is way sketchier than pirating movies. I used to do it when I was a kid, but nowadays I know enough to avoid random .exe's. That's basically just volunteering to be a part of a botnet.
Also, most of the games I'm personally interested in are online multiplayer titles. Playing pirated games online can be very difficult or basically impossible, depending on the game.
Game piracy certainly isn't dead, but there are valid reasons that it's less popular.