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Pirating games you own? (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 year ago by Doods@infosec.pub to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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This might seem stupid, but hear me out.

Fallout 3 on Epic is 39 GiB, the reason for that huge size is you're forced to download all the language packs, same story for Tomb Raider and FFXIII.

As someone with a monthly data limit of 140 Gib, and who has to share it with a family, these - unnecessary - download sizes are unacceptable and make me want - and plan - to pirate the game -which even though I didn't play for I still legally own*- and only having to download 7 GiB.

I would've complained about disk space but you can just remove the extra languages conveniently located in saperate folders**.

This also applies to single player games with privacy-invasive DRM and usability-hurting DRM***, and for people who hate the idea of DRM in general.

*Own as a service and a using license.

**Unless you are tight on disk space and cannot fully download the game before removing the files.

**DOOM 2016 didn't work on Linux duo to the DRM being incompatible with proton.

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[–] OboTheHobo@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only argument for piracy being bad is that it is stealing because they lost a sale they would have otherwise gotten. You already bought the game. Therefore, there is no lost sale. There's not a single moral argument against it now.

That being said, your ISP can't tell the difference, so make sure you use a VPN (especially if torrenting)

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And that argument is BS anyway, because there's no such thing as "potential profit" even though companies say there is.

When I pirated the most games I had no money. If I didn't pirate it, I'd go play on the street or whatever lol. Not going to buy what you literally can't.

Same goes for denuvo and the "always online" for single player games crap. I'm not buying any games using those on principle.

[–] OboTheHobo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I don't disagree, I only brought it up because it's the only argument that holds any merit (even if little) and is made irrelevant in this case.

[–] OboTheHobo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I don't disagree, I brought it up just because it's the only argument against piracy that holds any merit at all )even if little) and is, in this case, completely irrelevant anyway.

[–] MoogleMaestro@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People say use a vpn, but it seems to me like most vpns don't allow torrenting.

[–] OboTheHobo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

As far as I know ow most paid VPNs allow it, a lot of free ones don't. I can say from experience that Windscribe allows torrenting, although there is a 10gb limit per month on free accounts (there is a way to get around that tho)