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    2 months ago

    Back in the day I would use NO CD cracks for games I legit owned because I just didn’t want to have to change discs all the time when switching games.

    DRM tends to negatively affect paying customers more than pirates, so I could easily see legitimate owners still using cracks to remove DRM that is causing them issues in their legally obtained game.

    • @Laurentide@pawb.social
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      122 months ago

      I made .iso files and mounted them in virtual drives to do the same thing. I could have used cracks but I didn’t want a virus and I still had the delusion that doing things “fairly” actually meant anything.

        • @mholiv@lemmy.world
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          22 months ago

          Back in the days of windows xp and Alcohol 120% it didn’t. I remember having like 12 virtual disk drives each with an independent iso just to avoid swapping disks.

    • @gerbler@lemmy.world
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      22 months ago

      When I bought Fallouts 1, 2 and Tactics from EB like 15 years ago I couldn’t run them even with the disc in the drive. The shitty securom was broken and refused to recognise the disc. It was only thanks to pirates that I was able to crack them and play the copies I fucking paid money for.

      DRM is cancer.