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gog-games is shutting down (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 180 points 5 months ago (7 children)

gog-games is a piracy site that hosts torrents for games on GOG. The real GOG isn't shutting down.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    Edit : The banner was on a different website gog-games.to

    Even on gog-games i can't see that banner.

    Neither on the official gog.

    In fact I don't see OP banner on any GOG related website. And not on any site using the same logo at the top.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Weird, it comes up for me:

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Ah it is indeed yet another gog-games domain.. Not to confuse with gog-games.org.

    Also while searching for the .to website I just saw a report of a user suspecting a malware infection after downloading a game there.

    Honestly, seeing how many websites share similar domains I would be very cautious browsing them...

    But the banner is indeed real.

    Edit : For more transparency, Here is the reddit post being suspicious about this site :

    https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/1qb0whb/goggamesto_is_safe_not/

    But there is also reports that says its safe for the games but to be careful with the ads on the site that might lead to dangerous stuff. Probably a good idea to browse with a decent adblocker at least.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    https://gog-games.to/ is a well-known site with a good reputation (but also, because Gog's games are signed, they couldn't slip malware into them without being caught anyway, which is part of the reason they have a good reputation in the first place. There's enough eyes on them that if they'd ever altered any of the game they put on their site they'd have been caught immediately.)

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