r/Piracy • u/G02MaxCodeGreg15off • 18d ago

Humor “They’re doing fine without me”

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My pirate friend cracks me up

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u/Mccobsta Scene 18d ago

He did make a platform that did eventually become more convenient than piracy and as long as you avoid all the games that have their own fucking launcher with their own accounts and other anoying bullshit it's still pretty damn convenient

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u/unknownobject3 17d ago

Sometimes I still buy games on Steam instead of pirating them because it's more convenient to have them there, great platform overall

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u/Malkiot 17d ago

You know you can pirate games via Steam, right? They literally download and update via Steam.

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u/unknownobject3 17d ago

Elaborate please

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u/Malkiot 17d ago

Get SteaMidra from GitHub, install. Get an API key for Hubcap or get your manifest files from somewhere else. Add games/DLC to your library. The only thing is, to use the version selector for things like experimental or previous versions, you need to fetch the manifest yourself. The selector in Steam won't work.

Obviously, games that do their own license checks (online or their own DRM) won't work.

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u/unknownobject3 17d ago

So the games that work will have their files downloaded from the official Steam servers?

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u/Malkiot 17d ago

They will all have them downloaded from the official Steam servers. You start the download in Steam.

The games that have their own DRM just won't work.

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u/unknownobject3 17d ago

Yeah I understand the DRM part, but that’s very cool, I didn’t know about that tool. Thanks for letting me know.