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You can always pirate old games if you know you will never buy them. I used to buy (10 years) old PC titles (AA) from my local 2nd hand market, but then I notic
by 3abiton 3y ago
You can always pirate old games if you know you will never buy them. I used to buy (10 years) old PC titles (AA) from my local 2nd hand market, but then I noticed most of them required connecting your account to activate the game. And that is only valid for 1 account, meaning my purchase was absolutely useless. Next thing I did was to download a pirated version, and it worked smoothly on my linux machine.
- sahila 3y agoYou could also pirate new games too if that’s the route you want to go.
- hedora 3y agoI've found that some old PC titles are available on Steam, DRM free (if you're willing to futz with the install directory -- they're running open source game engines and proprietary vintage assets; you can just copy the assets out). Typing this reminds me: I should look into switching to GOG for such purchases.
- smileybarry 3y agoAnd even if they’re not, a lot of games (used to) use Steam’s DRM and then never actually called the extended license check APIs. That’s to say that a lot of times the same “steam_api.dll” that pirated games have may work for a bunch of games. I found that out a few years ago when I tested out virtualization graphics performance and wanted to avoid installing full Steam every time for my (legally purchased) games.