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Sooo, I take it you have 0 games purchased in your Steam account then?
by Titan2189 4y ago
Sooo, I take it you have 0 games purchased in your Steam account then?
- cloogshicer 4y agoAt least there you could crack it and keep it running if the service shuts down. But I agree, the dependence on Steam is concerning too.
- memorable 4y agoI like how the OP and your account both created in 2018.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoFar easier to crack in the worst case of service shutdown. At least if you have downloaded the game. Of course also not an ideal solution.
- Thaxll 4y agoYou think people have their entire Stam lib on disk... at most they have 4-5 games.
- account42 4y agoDepends, I have a couble of TiB of Steam games installed right now but not my entire library. At least with Steam you have that option preserve the games and perhaps more importantly, pirates^Warchivists have the option to backup the game for those of us that did not have the foresight/care to do so. A potential future game that is streaming only will be gone for good once shut down.
- wincy 4y agoI know 5 torrent sites I could go to right now and download the cracked versions of every single game I own, though. That would be impossible if the binaries never existed on my machine.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoNot impossible ( as movies have shown ), but definitely a lot harder. Not to mention, cracked games deal with their own issues that make people like me hesitate ( malware and so on ).
- shkkmo 4y agoThere are significant fundemental differences between copying a video being streamed and a game being streamed. The former is just capturing the bits sent to the screen and doing some math, the latter is trying to reverse engineer code for an application when all you have access to is the UI. The only practical way to do the latter is to find an exploit in the game that gives you control over the server where the game is running. So pirating streamed games is both significanttly harder, and requires breaking more laws.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago"So pirating streamed games is both significanttly harder, and requires breaking more laws. " This is not what I intended to mean ( although clearly I left too much to interpretation ). What I thought I was saying was 'Even if there is a perfect digital lock, there is always the human component.' edit: laws part; i misread the comment
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoI have my entire Steam library installed to disc. Over 160 games. It’s less than two terabytes. I also have my entire PS4 library (purchased games only, since there’s no point in archiving F2P or PS+ games with always-on DRM) archived to a 2TB external drive.
- wilsonnb3 4y agoMany steam games don't even have DRM to crack.
- jquery 4y agoI have a large steam library and it's all locally installed (and backed up) for precisely this reason. while cracking is an option, legitimately purchased games on steam don't need to be cracked, offline mode is designed to work indefinitely - https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/864969953572102601/#c864969953730401285 https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/8649699535721...