It sounds like bluffing.

In other words, it could very well be complete and utter bullshit.

Videogame Piracy, no-install % WR strats

On the contrary, I think the incentive would be for Unity to let the pirated install keep existing because that would mean more money they can extort from developers/publishers.

An admirable sentiment.

The fact that a game is Steam-only is good enough reason to pirate it.

Yeah, YouTube was better when it was a bunch of amateur cat videos.

I always knew that funding the internet using ads wasn’t sustainable in the long run.

Nodame Cantabile has multiple seasons; you may want to check what seasons it contains. Also, public torrent sites might not have accurate information on contents.

You can add literally anything, and all Steam does is launch the executable you specify. And maybe take screenshots if you use the overlay.

Valve could actually look through the games people have added and do some sort of major crackdown, but for better or worse they seem to have left this alone. Still, though, I’d consider it a vulnerability, and I also recommend against using Steam because Steam is basically DRM. (Yes, this varies by game and can be argued over. But it still definitely tries to lock you into using it, one way or another.)

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Hot take: the internet was better when it was simpler like that.

Ah, I see.

Well torrenting is also P2P but people generally recommend VPNs for that.

If it has Denuvo it’s basically asking “please, get a pirated version if you want this, because the official version sucks”.

I would hope that’s the case, but as I mentioned in another comment, I’ve actually seen a case where a Denuvo-addled game was cracked, then the cracked version stopped working at some point (seemingly after a certain calendar date or a certain time after installation, because it definitely wasn’t based on in-game progress), necessitating an updated crack.

The game is Shining Resonance Refrain, if you’re curious.

Maybe the new crack actually succeeds at really defeating the DRM? Who knows. (Though I also remember it saying something like you gotta skip a certain cutscene or else it’ll crash. But, let’s say we excuse that.)

And I’ve seen Steam fanboys on the Steam forums who insist that the rumors of performance problems are baseless. They can go pleasure themselves with rusty cacti.

Amusingly, when I went to check whether the two addresses were the same, they were. I totally thought they weren’t. Maybe there’s some magic going on.

But hey, as long as it works.

Follow-up comment: I noticed the onion link on that site isn’t the same onion link that I’m using. Are there different zlibs or is it mirrored?

• Saving files for offline enjoyment/no dependence on internet connection.
• More player and playback options: easier rewind/fast-forward, chapter controls (for many releases), etc.
• Fewer ads/pop-ups/phishing/etc. nonsense (depending on how effective your browser’s adblockers are)
• Often, choice of subs and dubs. Generally better ones than the generic DVD release subs. And sometimes, even commentary tracks.

480

I’m pretty sure I started watching on 360p.

Yeah, I agree, I can understand wanting higher resolutions but there are diminishing returns and even 1 GB for a half-hour episode is pretty absurd.

Plus, you can’t seed what you can’t keep.