"I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about"
""I think it's super hard for a gamer," Ullmann tells Rock Paper Shotgun. "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about. I think it's super hard to see, as a gamer, what is the immediate benefit for me that a certain game developer, game publisher, is using our anti-piracy services." This gap, coupled with the fact that Denuvo "simply works" and "pirates cannot play games" which use it, as Ullmann puts it, are two main contributors to its negative reputation, he argues."
Let's not forget about being always-online or not being able to test different wine/Proton setups for fear of activating the DRM. Or even trying simply to run the game in some situations...
The site operator is non-responsive to ESA take-down notices and runs a backup version of the site at dodi-repacks.download.
Well, depending on where the website host is located, they may not need to comply. I wasn't aware of the backup site mentioned above, though; maybe Dodi and FitGirl are one and the same? ;-)
EDIT: Grammar.
There is a torrent floating around but availability is 20.9% at the moment.
According to the Steam store page, there's a Linux build planned. It will be interesting to see if that has any DRM.
CODEX is defunct these days. I can't seem to find a valid source of X-Plane at all at the moment.
Reported on The Register, too: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/polish_trains_geofenced_allegation/
A lot of games where either not available at all or we had robots, green blood or missing assets in them.
We even had that problem in the UK with Carmageddon. It wasn't a problem to locate the correct files, though!
I've been sailing the high seas, or at least skirting the shores, since the late 1980s when my classmates and I were swapping BBC Micro software on 5¼" disks! Moved onto PC in 1990 and carried on. I even cracked a few games back in the day :-) These days I don't pirate so much, and I have quite a collection of legitimate music and software.
However, in the UK at least, the ISPs are required to log your activity and pass on to the relevant authorities if requested. Best to use an approved VPN to be sure.
AirVPN recommended here. Compatible with WireGuard and they have a Linux client, too.
They say they are a girl in the name they use, that’s good enough for me.
Well, good for you. Probably best not to worry about what others may or may not think.
Woman and girl also mean different things, especially to law enforcement.
My guy, I can’t believe I have to point this out, but FitGirl is a woman.
We actually don't know, as their identity has never been revealed. The 'FitGirl image' is of French actress Audrey Tautou.
FitGirl only repacks; he doesn't defeat Denuvo. The only crackers within the last twelve months or so to crack Denuvo have been MKDEV and EMPRESS, both of whom are no longer active in the scene.
I used to torrent Linux ISOs, but lately I have been using the network image of Tumbleweed on a USB stick and installing over t'internet.
From a Linux user's point of view, Epic refuses to support Linux. They also refuse to support their own games using EAC on Linux (via Proton) despite EAC being Linux-compatible.
EDIT: Grammar.
Postal developer Running With Scissors, creator of some of the most infamous shooters on PC, says the gaming industry deserves “better” than Denuvo and DRM.
Quote from the article: “The inclusion of intrusive DRM softwares [sic] like Denuvo is a choice that yields an unfair punishment on the consumer,” Running With Scissors says. “Respect the consumer, make a game they want to play, and you will never feel the need to fight piracy. The gaming industry deserves a better future, fight for that.”
Toy giant Hasbro wants Activision Blizzard to put its Transformers games back on sale, but the publisher has lost them.…
This is where the argument that piracy is also preserving games stands up. Although, it begs the question why games developers do not properly archive their software.