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1 year is a stretch ig (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 47 points 10 months ago* (14 children)

25 years later - PC gamers still playing it while it is unavailable for console and illegal to play on other devices.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    modern yakuza games, for example, will all be digital paperweights on pc as soon as the denuvo online activation servers go down. ps5 copies will still work as long as there is a functioning console and a functional disk.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    This is what cracking is for >:)

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Unfortunately the games that use these problematic copy protection methods have unreliable cracks (if they are cracked at all). Off the top of my head MGS5, Judgment, and FF15 all have cracks that are outdated and break with each major Windows update, which is not a good situation with respect to the PC platform's reputation for game longevity.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Windows in general isn't a good situation with respect to PC gaming longevity.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    The situation in linux is coincidentally better by these games not being native linux builds, which lets users choose older WINE compatibility environments without impacting the rest of the system, I suppose.

    https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I'm also saying that within a couple decades, I don't think windows will exist. I say this as a user of Dos and Windows for almost 40 years

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Honestly, with the current state of affairs, discrete hardware might not exist at all. Whether it's console or PC.

    We can make all the assumptions we like about the current trend, but just because we don't like something doesn't mean that an alternative we'd prefer would replace it once it fails.

    I don't disagree that Windows as we know it will cease to exist in the near future... but that doesn't mean things that are much worse aren't going to replace it instead of a linux utopia.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Lol wut? All of the Yakuza games are cracked at this point and have plenty of "distribution sources" out there, and the PS5 requires an internet connection to even use the disc drive. Don't forget about disc rot and day 1 patches either!

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    None of the games after the 2020 rebranding have been cracked, with the notable caveat being Yakuza LAD, which was not cracked but is available DRM-free on GOG

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