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These days I generally pirate the single-player content I purchase anyway. Anything that requires Origin, Epic, uPlay, or any other cancerous software to be in
by causi 5y ago
These days I generally pirate the single-player content I purchase anyway. Anything that requires Origin, Epic, uPlay, or any other cancerous software to be installed gets paid for and promptly pirated. I trust the Pirate Bay more than I trust Ubisoft.
- kranner 5y agoI do the same thing for my Kindle purchases. Luckily I have a Paperwhite whose serial number works with DeDRM to strip DRM for all my Kindle purchases (except Hindi books which are not downloadable for some reason).
- RealStickman_ 5y agoYou could also use the PC kindle app to download books and strip their DRM. That might be easier than transferring every book back and forth. (I use the kindle 1.26 version. It requires an additional plugin to convert the new amazon format, but works with DeDRM after that.)
- kranner 5y agoThanks for the tip, I haven't tried it with the PC Kindle app! An additional issue with (most) Hindi books is that they aren't supported on the Mac app, so they don't even download into the app's storage, let alone as standalone AZWs for manual transfer.
- firecall 5y agoDont you worry about Malware, Viruses and suchlike?
- causi 5y agoNot from reputable uploaders. It's about reputation, and people like, say, Fitgirl have a hell of a lot better reputation than Ubisoft or EA.
- jjkmk 5y agoIf you use a private tracker you will usually be fine.
- everyone 5y agoWhat good private trackers still exist and are possible to join?
- vmception 5y agoTL, must be run out of an embassy or Transnistria lol
- nopeacefortorp 5y agoAccording to https://opentrackers.org/torrentleech/ https://opentrackers.org/torrentleech/ account creation on TL is currently open, but unfortunately when I try to create an account via Tor enabled Onion Browser on my phone nothing happens when I push submit. Even with most permissive JS settings in the browser. Sad times.
- vmception 5y agotry a normal VPN then? I hope you are aware that bittorrent is bad for Tor, maybe they are helping you. when you get in, you need to seed something, if you are worried about torrent activity on your network, try to seed something benign like a linux distribution.
- everyone 5y agoDoesn't sound like he is trying to torrent over tor.. Just access the tracker website. I use tor to access several of them cus they are blocked at an ISP level in my country, and tor-browser is a convenient workaround.
- throaway46546 5y agoGGn
- jjoonathan 5y agoYes. From Ubisoft. It's the pirated version that lacks the rootkit ;)
- malka 5y agoyou mean DRM and anti cheats ?
- realusername 5y ago> Dont you worry about Malware, Viruses and suchlike? Nowadays DRM are running in kernel mode so I'd say that the pirated version is safer in a lot of cases ...
- fragsworth 5y agoIs that really practical these days given the frequency of updates developers put out for their games?
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoI don't want to be forced to install one-way updates just to play a single-player game. Apple's iOS App Store has normalized how updates can remove and disable (or just break) features, and there's no way to downgrade.
- causi 5y agoI don't buy games in a broken state hoping they'll be good later. Either I wait until they're done or don't buy them at all.
- lobocinza 5y agoAnd I refund if it's bad and I didn't know it in advance. Steam refund experience has been great but they started warning me about "refund is not for trying games". Good things don't last forever but they day they start to BS me I will go back to piracy or give up on DRM titles.
- lenkite 5y agoMore like "frequency of bugs" developers put out for their games. Best to buy only once the "GOTY/Definitive/Special edition" is released and all DLC's are available and when it's a couple of years and 50 patches old - including patches fixing the patches. And when the game is on holiday discount sale. The game is then smooth and playable with no blood-pressure inducing defects and doesn't need too much Googling/forum-posting on asking what went wrong.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoIt seems there is a window of ideal time. You've described when that window opens. It closes as OS's evolve out from under the last patch. Steam in particular appears in no hurry to require games be playable after any initial QA.