• TheCaconym [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The infinite refund window offered by piracy also works, mind you

    Also sometimes due to DRM/launcher shit the pirate version actually works much easier on wine/proton. I’ve downloaded cracked versions of games I actually bought in the past due to this

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      I hate to admit I had to do it with Nioh Complete Edition. I dont know but my store downloaded copy just refused to load. When it did, it had 15fps for a while and then crashed. Meanwhile, when I played the pirated version, it worked good. It stuttered for the first 20 minutes, but once all the caches were built it worked amazingly. Bummer I cant use the online feature.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve fallen so far out of the loop with games piracy.

      I gather that there are repacks now for Linux? Or do you dl the windows version then just run it through proton?

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        1 year ago

        The latter - downloading the windows cracked version and yeah, wine or proton. It works beautifully.

        That’s when there is no native linux version obviously; these days you can also find pirate versions of those when they exist (most notably on rutracker).

        I think there is one person putting out repacks especially made for Linux mind you (can’t remember their name though found it, it’s johncena141), including specific wine versions and so on in the repack, though I’ve never used them

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          Hopefully they become a little more well known. I am apprehensive of downloading from any repacker that isn’t on the Piracy Megathread or FMHY wiki.

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      I had this with the Sims, I bought and paid for the game legit but trying to run it through steam it kept trying to load the origin store for auth or something which was a pain in the ass and I couldn’t get it to run reliably.

      I ended up using a crack just because it ran without any BS!