Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I recently switch to Linux and the only way I was able to run some of the games I already bought was to pirate them because of the launcher. I hate game launchers.

I play a lot of older AAA games and piracy has been a life saver. I tried playing Assassin’s Creed 4 with a legit steam copy and couldn’t even play offline because of the stupid Ubisoft launcher. With a pirated copy, you skip the launcher and get a better experience than a paying customer. Just stick to reputable groups like fitgirl and you’re fine

Accusing someone of being and/or defending a child predator (or stance) is a serious, potentially life ruining action. Without context I can’t assume it was warranted or that you were unfairly banned given our current social discourse where people flippantly call people “pedos.”

Point is we only have your side and no clue what was actually said. Just something to consider.

Yeah pirating games is way sketchier than pirating movies. I used to do it when I was a kid, but nowadays I know enough to avoid random .exe's. That's basically just volunteering to be a part of a botnet.

Also, most of the games I'm personally interested in are online multiplayer titles. Playing pirated games online can be very difficult or basically impossible, depending on the game.

Game piracy certainly isn't dead, but there are valid reasons that it's less popular.

I'm in agreement. Old PC games like pre-2006 are fine, but anything newer than that, especially GFWL and beyond, i'm just not comfortable downloading executables for. Even repacks seem mega sketchy to me, so I'm fine with waiting for steam/gog sales.