Possibly really dumb question: can you do multiplayer on pirated games?
Possibly really dumb question: can you do multiplayer on pirated games?
If all parties use the same cracked version, and play on LAN, then yes.
Be very wary of malware though. I’ve had one cracked CS1.6 infect me (and all my buddies) on a LAN party at the uni dorm.
You should pay for it if you can, it’s an amazing game and it’s worth the price.
However, I believe you should be able to play it pirated online, because you could do so in Divinity: Original Sin 2 with no problems.
Pay for it.
When developers actually put this much work into making an incredible experience, it should be rewarded. Otherwise, more andore developers will trend toward F2P, P2W, GAAS crap.
As a player of the Early Access I gotta say: yea, this game is worth the price. No MTX and they’ve stated that there won’t be any.
Pay the money. Support good game developers. Pirate EA and the like’s shit til the cows come home IDGAF.
It would be a shame to pirate that game. I don’t think most games are worth what they make you pay but that game is certainly worth more than they ask.
EA, Activision and the like are not worth your money but developers like Larian or Team Cherry are not only worth your money but also really need it to make more games worth playing, without microtransactions, nonsensical quests, bloat and bullshit like that.
Wizards? After the acquisition? Yes.
DnD 5e? No.
Local co-op, yes. LAN, yes.
I don’t wanna sound like a broken record, but if there’s one game you actually spend money on this year, it should be this game.
Well, this thread is surprising. I pirate a lot of games and I don’t feel too sad about these poor companies only selling millions of games. I like Larian but, come on.
That being said, multi-player with cracked games is a pain: it usually doesn’t work at at, sometimes it’s half broken and often it’s painful to setup. So do it only if you feel up for a challenge.
Otherwise, pirating solo games and paying for coop ones is a good balance for me.
My negative reaction to the post is due to “I don’t feel like paying for it”
“I can’t afford it”, “I want to see if I can run it”, “I don’t support the restrictive drm” are all valid reasons to pirate in my opinion, but “I don’t feel like paying” absolutely isn’t, especially if they would buy it if they couldn’t pirate it (which is the impression I get from the post).
In most cases calling piracy stealing/theft is stupid, but in these cases it actually is akin to shoplifting from a chain store
I understand it a bit differently. In sentence “I don’t feel like paying” can be hidden different things and most probably a combination of few.
Maybe “i am ashamed I can not afford it” or " not sure if friend can afford it rigth now" or just plain old 'if we really like it we might find money for it, but are not sure we like it enough and that amount of money is serious expense for both of us".
I mean there are further reasons like
“I will only purchase things where the laborers are contractually obligated to some share of the profits”
I’d never pirate a product from a worker co-op, charity, or artisan but everything else is fair game in mhly opinion.
I check more often than not if they’re a co-op.
I dislike parasitic capitalists with ill-gotten wealth expanding it.
back in the day i used to play cracked left 4 dead online using garena (it was basically a game server software where users could join rooms and they would have servers. i mostly remember there being south americans/slavic people on there. was quite interesting. afaik it would use steam group servers to connect (which may could be a lan type thing but idk).
idk how it works now but i’d imagine it would be tougher now with current games acting more like a live service. if you get bored of playing with slavs every time then it’s time to buy the game.