Average game cracking time is now only 75 days. Why you still buy games?

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[–]hugoman 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Why are game studios still adding drms, if they dont work?

[–]gty 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

because most sales happen in the first 30 days after game release

[–]Myrkskog 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm quite happy playing 2, 3 or 4 generation-old games on ROM or actual hardware if I can be bothered to find a telly that'll accept it.

[–]Jesus-Christ 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I play mostly singleplayers and I do crack.

[–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I play mostly singleplayers and I do crack.

Jesus Saves!

.....money by cracking games :p

[–]Tiwaking 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why buy games? Because the company that makes your game will then have money to make a better game.

Besides. Most sales for games occur in the first month of release so after 75 days is not too big a problem for game makers. A lot of developers turn OFF DRM after a certain period of time too.

[–]proc0 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can't be a true fan of a game unless you really support the creators. There are many games I've cracked in the past (pre-steam really) but I eventually bought them anyway.

[–]beermeem 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Because I have friends who work in the industry and I support creators.

Also, I think trash like you should be Trump’s next drone target.

[–]Jesus-Christ 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Cry about it.

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I cried. Now you.

[–]Jesus-Christ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm good.

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You’re bad.

You’re a very naughty boi.

[–]m68k 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Games-as-a-Service (Requirement of having a consistent PERFECT internet connection), Micro-transactions in your face, E-Sportz (everyone wants to make millionz just playing e-sportz), Red Shell spyware, broken updates, games that just flat out don’t work, poor customer service, customers getting ripped off, and of course DRM (fuck DRM).

So, fuck no. I have no interest in games today, I’m happy with what I got. I don’t even having interest in playing the cracked versions of today’s games. My feeling is, gamers will get ripped off no matter what, and it sucks to be them.

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Games-as-a-Service

If you buy a digital version of a game then you should always pirate it. Just in case the game disappears from the market. Isnt that right Silent Hill P.T?

[–]m68k 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Or LawBreakers, yet another reason Games-as-a-Service is total and utter bullshit. If I pay for a game, I expect to continue playing that game 10-20 year later. Servers to be shutdown? Let the community run servers. Worked well for Quake, yet Bethesda seems to overlook that and screw people over with Fallout '76 by claiming you can run your own server, yet that was not the case. Of course, I'm getting off topic now. :P

Anyways, yes, if you own the game, make very sure you have that cracked version, in case that publisher decides to screw you over.

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

LawBreakers

Actually you reminded of me another reason why you should pirate games that you own. If the developers patch a game which ruins it then there is no way to get back your previous version of the game unless you have a pirated version or can somehow get the base version of the game and then only patch up to the 'working' version.

[–]m68k 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Kind of like Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, where the only redeeming feature of the game is the game breaking bugs (IE: the infinite jump bug). That was fixed, making the game boring AFAIK. :P

Note: I never played Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, I only saw some people playing it.

[–]darkguy2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I never buy gamse

[–]RuckFeddit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To play online. Keep in mind the last game I "bought" was a classic wow subscription. Before that apart from some steam games that are online, I think it was Diablo 3 in 2013 or whenever it was released. This is coming from someone who is on their computer religiously. Games are just garbage now, I'll pirate if I want the single player experience.

[–]macadoum 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

People buy games mostly for multi I think. But multi can die very quickly these days. Sometimes an AAA game multi can become empty as quickly as 2 or 3 weeks.

Indie games are even worse. I only crack these sort of games as the gameplay can be very bad, undeveloped or buggy.

[–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People buy games mostly for multi I think. But multi can die very quickly these days. Sometimes an AAA game multi can become empty as quickly as 2 or 3 weeks.

Some of them can empty in less than a day...

https://gameranx.com/updates/id/156625/article/the-culling-2-hit-a-peak-of-only-2-players-in-the-last-24hrs/

Whatever the developers over at Xaviant Games must be feeling right now, I don’t want to know. The Culling 2, the most recent take on the whole-battle Royale craze, has had an absolutely awful launch -the game released on July 10th and has only hit a peak of only 249, with only two players in the last 24 hours and 0 at the time of writing.

[–]RatherSmallPotato 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I bought my first game in a decade the other day. GTA V. I bought it because I'm not a frequent "illegal-downloader" and have no idea which sources are legit and not full of aids.

[–]Spud 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't buy many games right now. Gaming kind of moved away from me, as I moved away from where gaming is right now.

Still, when I'm going to play something, I buy. Happy to do it, but I'm not buying many of the problem titles right now.

For me, gaming began to rot with in game purchases, extra purchasable content, loot boxes, etc...

Gaming used to deliver a finished product. And there were exceptions as the multi-user type games showed up. Fine. Those make sense. We buy our client, pay our service fee, and get a world, other players, and all that good stuff. I am not talking about that form of gaming.

More like how just about all gaming has morphed into something like that kind of gaming. How fewer games are stand alone, complete things. It's like they ship some portion of it to start collecting $60, then ship the rest, some dollars a pop. Hate that. Vicerally.

More to the point here, people buy because they want to play. I guess I don't always want to, but when I do, it's about a good experience in exchange for some dollars.

I sometimes buy, then get the pirated version just so I can be sure it will work and that I can play it when / how I want.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why do you buy game crack?

[–]Caroline-Burt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

why assume I still buy games?

[–]Drewski 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because I want to support the developers (I buy a lot of indie games), and I don't run software from sketchy sources such as cracked exe's. I also try to put my money where my mouth is and buy DRM free games from GOG.