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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

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[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I've started to pirate games again, which I never saw a reason to in 15 years. Simply because 2 hours refund window isn't enough for the crap they sell now. Performance from hell and half assed story after you left the tutorial.

Gamepass kind of stopped me a bit on that, but it's a subscription and only a matter of time till there's competition with exclusives and increased price.

Games also got too expensive, there's more competition than ever and I earn less money than my parents used to, I simply can't pay that much, yet the games start to cost 90€ upwards. So even if I buy a key, it's still 65€ or more, for an often broken game. No thank you.

[–] ogginger43@infosec.pub 27 points 1 year ago

Not to mention cracked games let you avoid the company's terrible launcher (looking at you uplay). Steaming pile of unnecessary garbage. I have cracked copies of a lot of the games I own for reasons like that, Pirated games just have a better offline experience in my opinion. Online games are another story.

[–] hihellobyeoh@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tried crusader kings 3 on game pass, I liked the game but every tube after 30min or an hour, the windows drm would have a hiccup and close the game, ended up getting a cracked version, while still paying for the subscription, never had a crash again... fuck this shitty drm.

[–] Jako301@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crusader kings 3 (just like all other Paradox Games) doesn't even have DRM. You can start the whole game without steam or the shitty PDX launcher, so no idea what you are on about. A "cracked" version is the exact same piece of software.

[–] hihellobyeoh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not a built in one, the one injected by windows store/Xbox game pass for windows.

[–] b0gl@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I just keep playing the same game I've played since 2004 and I'm fine with that.