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@mangeurdenuage
Maybe I've never went deep enough in the watery places of the internet, but I've never encountered a cracked game with actual malware.
It's funny that corporations actually never stopped adding more malware functions to their games in the end, they just legalized them and gave them either a gui or a false reason for people to accept them as legit.
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Ripping games and repackaging has been getting a resurgence in recent years, because of games inflating to ridiculous sizes I assume. But it looks to me that a few trustworthy and well respected repack providers have quickly emerged, and people stick with them I guess. I haven't investigated the scene well enough to tell if malware started being an issue before people learned who made good repacks.
I can imagine it being a problem during the 90s, but let's just say that by the time a cracked game ended up in my hands back then, it would have been tested by other consumers. So I guess I was pretty lucky.
> I've never encountered a cracked game with actual malware.
Dam you're lucky. The issue is that there was a time that a lot of faggots repackaged cracks from other teams and added their malware in it. But there's also corporations who did the same to fuck with people.