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Sure, but people were saying that 20 years ago when I made my Steam account and so far the sky hasn’t fallen. Meanwhile there are plenty of games I have the CD
by transcriptase 3y ago
Sure, but people were saying that 20 years ago when I made my Steam account and so far the sky hasn’t fallen.
Meanwhile there are plenty of games I have the CDROM for that won’t work because of hardcoded compatibility requirements, key authentication servers being offline, or multiplayer being tied to a defunct service like MSN zone or GameSpy.
- magospietato 3y agoPragmatic reality vs ideological reality in action. In a world where Steam revokes my licence to a game I have absolutely no ethical concerns about using piracy to retrieve a backup.
- beretguy 3y agoPiracy is not going to save us if the game relies on a server which you can’t run yourself. You can’t even pirate The Crew.
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