I know they’re probably joking, but the Steam forums are so generally unhinged that I wouldn’t be surprised if this person is serious.
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Steam is full of corporate bootlickers it’s unreal 💀
Could be a Denuvo shill?
or an astroturfer.
Satire senses tingling.
"and how can they say they pirates when have no boats???"
I'm more of a cracked Denuvo = no play kind of person because Empress is cooked & I don't wanna feed their ego
I get the FitGirl repacks of Empress cracks because:
- Trans girl pirates are way cooler than transphobe pirates.
- Empress fucking hates it.
Plenty of people claim fitgirl is trans, but I don't think she's ever said she is herself
Huh. It would make sense that Empress completely made it up. Transphobes aren’t exactly smart, plenty have called cis women trans IRL before. I’ll be honest, I read this tweet and believed it: https://x.com/furmerly/status/1658138307769802752
my fave is when they e.g. tell a trans man "you'll never be a woman!", it must be so viciously validating to have someone who hates your existence be unable to tell that you were assigned a different gender at birth
had no clue that fitgirl wasnt cis lmao
Always figured it was just an online persona, not an actual individual person.
All her posts on her website are in first person. Would sure be a huge commitment to a bit. Also:
Who the hell is Empress? O.o
Person who cracked Denuvo. They seem pretty crazy.
Calling oneself Empress or Emperor usually does imply that, I guess
You need to be crazy to crack denuvo. It is a requirement because the software is also crazy.
Arrggh, you can pay and sail the high seas too.
Pay and then install the pirated version to play without the overhead of garbage DRM.
Piracy had amazing quality of life back in the day: no-cd cracks, keygens, fully patched, custom installers, no splash screen. Maybe even extras.
No one makes demos for their games anymore. I’m not gambling on whether I’m gonna like a game with the cost of AAA titles these days. Piracy is amazingly handy for that.
I've been calling my pirated stuff "Extended Demos"/"Extended Trailers" for ages now.
That is the number 1 reason for me too. Although steam solves this problem partially with their return policy. But I don't want to pay the price upfront everytime, so I resolve to piracy until I know if I want to buy the game.
I'd almost agree. Steam is great with it's return policy, but only really by comparison. The 14 days is definitely plenty of time, but 2h is not a lot for quite a few, and especially the expensive, games.
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I agree but I have recently bought 2 games that offered steam demos: Xenonauts 2 and Astro Colony.
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I've done this with games I've purchased physical discs for but are a pain to install on Windows 10. I was able to find a pirate site that had lightly modified games to help work on modern systems.
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Say the line, Gabe
"Piracy is not a service problem and can only be curbed by utilising SecuRom and denuvo drm. This also will make the game less compatible in the future so that people will also buy your remasters."
Something along those lines it was?
I agree that you shouldn't go pirating small indie titles because independent artists becoming more financially successful is the object of the exercise. But a triple-A title is free game to me.
"BuT THe DEVeLoplErs WoN"t GEt PaID" They weren't getting paid before, it just steals from the billionaire CEO
The only games I've ever pirated are the ones that have denuvo DRM ironically, lol.
Games are cheap to buy if they are good and worthwhile.
It's when the studios try and bait and switch us that I have a problem, or purposefully slow down and punish paying customers because they are disabled by the fear of a few pirates by adding worthless DRM.
I am certain there is not a single Denuvo game that the DRM actually caused them to make more money than simply launching without it..
People in the industry are being taken for a ride...
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Buying a game on steam gives you achievements cloud saves easier proton integration and the ability to play online
If I love a game enough, I am eager to support the devs. I also know that buying an AAA game doesn't support the devs, it supports people like Bobby Kotick and Randy Pitchford.
So when it comes to AAA games, either I pirate the game, or...
... in more recent years, I don't pirate the game.
apology for poor english
when were you when denuvo is cracked?
i was sat at home eating smegma butter when pjotr ring
‘denuvo is crack’
‘no’
I would, without any hesitation, just like I would download more RAM
It's a reference to a famous anti-piracy video.
Yep, always played before movies at theaters and my reaction was always the same. "Yes I fucking would."
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If I could download a car, I absolutely would.
This was always a funny warning.
it's only acceptable and morally right to get hogwarts legacy on the high seas
Imagine thinking Denovo worked...
Maybe a stupid boomer executive working at a game studio...
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