Already cracked

8-bit DRM-removal patcher program music plays
3 command prompt windows pop up in the background and quickly disappear.
"Fuck. What were those?"
- Shhhhhhh…
  Just let your main HDD get encrypted.

The fact that the game hasn't been fully released yet and they are including a DLC if you buy the premium version, is just asking me to pirate it.
- From what i've seen of the game, it's not even worth the bandwidth to pirate it.
- There is nothing inherently wrong with DLC, and I'm tired of pretending that there is. If you think the base game is over-priced, then by all means complain about that - but if both the base game and the DLC are worth the price they're asking for it, then there is no harm done (and some advantage) in having modular buying options.
  
  Sure, if the DLC isn't cut content from the game. That's the problem. If they have already developed the content, then it should be released with the rest of the game, for the price of the game. DLC, should it be developed at all, should be an expansion beyond the original scope of development funded by the excess profit from the game.

Meanwhile, I’m just happy to see quality content on GamePass again.
- Right? Looks like their Bethesda purchase was the best investment for new content. Starfield, Hi Fi Rush, the Quake II remaster (we don't talk about Redfall).
- You misspelled cash cow content

Oh shit this is good news, I looked at it yesterday and it's $120 here and instantly thought fuck that I'll wait until it's cracked
- What kind of country are you in that a game cost $120!?
  
  Australia, they love price gouging us here. Just went and checked steam again, the premium version is $170..
  
  Probably a country where the dollars are worth a different amount.

Eh. By the time I have hardware that can actually play Starfield, it'll be a GoG giveaway.

Maybe I'm just old but $70 base is too much for any game let alone one from a studio with known issues
- Games have been the same price for over thirty years, they've not changed with inflation and production costs have skyrocketed. To an extent the increased market has helped keep costs down for the consumer but it's not unreasonable to see prices shift upwards.
  
  What about the cost of disc media that's absolutely disappeared? That was a huge chunk of the overhead. Logistics to get the copies to all the stores, etc.
  Now it's just electricity and servers to download from.
  Do you ever notice that no one ever talks about all the advancements that saved money? Of course not, cause then they'd never be able to justify continually hiking the prices up.
  
  The customer base has increased more than a thousandfold. If anything prices should go down.
  
  Yeah my parents were paying $60 for NES games for me... Which is why I had like 3 NES games. The only reason game aren't $180 now is competition... And reproducibility vs size of market... And physical media is cheap or non-existent. Ok there are a few reasons, but still...
- Eh, to me I usually just convert it to $ per hour of enjoyment. Will I get 10 hours of enjoyment? 100? 1000?
  If it's a great game and I think I'll get 1000 hours out of it, even if it's $70 that's like $0.07 per hour.
  Compare that to paying $30 to go see a 1.5 hour movie at the theater and you're doing pretty darn good I think. Even if you only get 10 hours out of it thats $7 an hour for entertainment vs the $20 an hour for a movie.
  
  $30 for a movie is insane
  
  I've paid 15 dollars to play risk of rain 2 for 500 hours. I gurantee you there is no triple A studio in the world that would get that many hours out of me nor would their game be even double that price
- Smash Melee cost $86.48 on release when accounting for inflation.
  
  I wouldn't buy smash bros for 90 bucks either
- As opposed to the $60 they have been since the NES was the hot new console?
  
  I don't buy $60 games either mate
- I always found it kinda funny how gamers rage about the poor quality of games, but bugs with Bethesda is almost an expectation
  
  Do you really get that vibe? I feel like a lot of people refer to Bethesda games as a buggy mess. There's the whole Bugthesda thing.
  I think all the mods designed to improve performance have helped the reputation a bit but I still wouldn't play Fallout New Vegas on a PS3 due to the bugs.

If you can't afford Starfield, how can you afford a computer capable of running it?
- Where do you think all my money went
- Chuckles in dark ski mask.
- In my case, it came with the computer. I still haven't even decided if I want to play it or give it to a friend.

I never pre order games
I never buy games full price
And I definitely do not buy Bethesda games before playing them and seeing how broken they are and if I enjoy them.
I never ever bought a Bethesda game before cracking it and playing for at least a few hours. Bethesda just does not deserve it.
- And I definitely do not buy Bethesda games before playing them and seeing how broken they are and if I enjoy them.
  I never ever bought a Bethesda game before cracking it and playing for at least a few hours. Bethesda just does not deserve it.
  I mean if a demo isn't being offered what else can you do?
  
  Buy it on Steam, play for 2 hours, full refund if unhappy? Trying out games has never been easier these days.
  That said, I'm in full support of pirating first and buying if you continue playing. I probably have hundreds of hours in Skyrim, but it only shows a few hours on Steam because I did exactly that 😋
- 20 hours and it's not so broken

- How much of a toddler do you have to be to not understand that video games were 50-60 dollar for decades? Also, can you give a single example of something that costs $70 but can entertain you for 500 hours? I don't believe that's a thing outside a good video game.
  
  All kinds of sports equipment falls in that price range and can entertain you just as long, if not longer
  
  https://youtu.be/jI2zxBAIepI
- You clearly don't understand development if you are so worked up over day one DLC.
  Development has always worked in stages.
  Imaging being so tilted over a small DLC meanwhile games like BG3 get "released" after 4 years of development which the largest team seen on any one game and it was still basically unfinished mess.

Lol, without reading the caption I just assumed this was a shit post comparing Johnny Depp's likeliness to Jack Sparrow, and I laughed pretty hard at that.

The real cost isn't the game. It's the new computer you'll need to play it.
- Runs on steamdeck...
- Playable FPS at 1080 with RTX 3060Ti?
  
  not everyone has a 3060, as of right now im on an rx 6500 xt.
- That's just life in general

If you don't want to sail the high seas you can also get it on xbox game pass for like $10 for the month once it's out for the plebs in like a week.
- Microsoft own Bethesda so I'd rather give them 10 bucks then 120.
- This is the only reason I'm playing a pirated copy. Fuck MSFT for releasing Sept 1st and then punishing any Game Pass users who didn't want to shell out $35 additional for digital content that isn't even released. I'll transfer my saves once my Game Pass version unlocks.
  
  You can transfer your save ?
  
  Can't transfer saves.
  Imagine being so upset that you aren't getting something you never paid for. Get a fucking grip, kid.
  
  For sure, just some people can be a bit hesitant about downloading a cracked version so I'd rather them give as little money as possible if they still wanna play it.

It was cracked two hours BEFORE early access launched lmao

That ghost mullet in the second pic, though 😄

- The irony

I'm just pirating it ahead of time to make sure my PC can run it
gotta make sure every part until the end works properly btw
- You now you can ask for a refund on PC right?... Right?
  
  Yeah as long as you don't play more than 2 hrs, Is that long enought to really benchmark it? I've been hearing it takes a few hours at least to really get into the open areas

Apparently it's bundled in with AMDs new cards. I've been itching for an upgrade for a while now, and I could finally get away from Nvidia

Bruh that's funny

Shit, just spend $1200 on a new PC and it's freeeeeeeee...I'm so poor now....

PSA you can still get Gamepass Ultimate for cheap. This is your last opportunity to stock up (I think September 14th is the cutoff).
Find some cheap Xbox Gold cards (sites like cdkeys or eneba). It's a little trickier but cdkeys usually sells the cards from the Turkey region super cheap but you have to redeem over VPN.
3 months of gold converts into 50 days of Gamepass Ultimate. Depending on the price you should be able to get 3 years for $200 or less. Careful to not go over, you can't redeem past 3 years.
Edit
PSA #2
If you already have Gamepass take part in rewards. You can earn enough points throughout the month to self fund your gamepass subscription or other purchases for free (I cashed in my rewards points recently to get that dope Starfield controller and the Starfield early access upgrade).
Here's my 4 main avenues for points:
Xbox mobile app: go to your profile icon and do everything in the rewards tab. I usually leave Vampire Survivors idling on my PC for the PC game task.
Edge mobile app: click the search icon on the home screen and scroll down to the news stories, click through them. Till you get your mobile & edge searches (think it's about 20). Then go up to the top right menu and open rewards. Do everything in here. The top 3 items you usually have to actually do (quizzes and polls). The rest you can just click into and back out of.
**Bing mobile app: ** click rewards and collect the daily check-in points then click earn to read. Open a news article and scroll to the bottom, it'll open the next article (you need 10 of these).
Xbox. Get the rewards app. Do everything in here. Mostly just clicking boxes. Go to the Xbox activities box in the bottom right, you'll find some rewards to earn in games. There's also a daily 50 for earning an achievement. Rare Replay gives you an achievement for every game you open and Killer Instinct has several quick achievements for every single fighter.
It sounds like a lot but the mobile app stuff only takes about 10 mins. I usually do it while I'm waking up in bed and the Xbox stuff takes another 10 minutes usually do this before work.
If you max out your points you can easily get $15-20 a month.
- Game pass is pretty nice ngl, until they change the rules and remove all the fun games and I go back to getting the games through other means
- Are they banning buying via VPN on that date? I bought the 3 years in Turkey for very cheap and was planning to do that again in a few months.
  
  They're stopping the gold conversion program all together on that date. Top yourself up to 3 years right now. I don't know about buying through Microsoft over VPN though.
- Fuck that service. Starfield is available for free on pc just try it there .

The issue is with the size of the game (120gb + patches later) and with the other (graphics card, cpu and ram) requirements.
- I just looked it up. That's not running on my computer lol.

Somehow not even bothering to play games became even more satisfying than pirating them. They're not getting my money OR my time haha! Edgy
- i just pirate games just to look at them in my file list

The crack was really fast. It has no DRM right?
- Steam only AFAIK

$20 for a two hour movie ($10 per hour) sure
$70 for a game ($7 per hour if you only play 10 hours) no way.
Though I am a fan of pirate first, pay when they fix the bugs. The low quality of games at release and the whole seemingly 10 year pre-release cycle sucks.
- You pay $20 for a two hour movie? Holy shit!
  
  Guess he talking about theatre visit
- I don't pay for movies either lol
- $20 for a movie is way too much and it also doesn't require $1000 hardware to watch it

The expensive part for me is, that I need a new machine to run it. My good old GTX 1060 doesn't cut it anymore. No crack can help me with that. (Unless the crack manages to optimize the engine.)
Well, I cross my fingers for a GeForce Now release of Starfield. Otherwise it will have to wait a bit.

yarr harr fidel di di...
- ...download it all and play it for free!
  
  You are a pirate!

I’m waiting until the good mods come out

I mean, i don't buy a game just to try it out. Only if i like it for hours.
- You can refund steam games if you play less than 2 hours
  
  Now that's nice!

In my country it costs 46$

Naw fam I’ll pay $10 to play it for a month on Gamepass and either beat it in that time or lose interest and never go back. And cancel gamepass on October 5th

Play this song while you plunder
- I prefer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27mB8verLK8
  
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"We have our heading..."

Never pay full price for a si.ngle player game. If anything there will be an improved version later on.

Lol man I generally agree with the hive mind, but on this particular point I never will. With the singular exception being a complete lack of availability, I will always view pirates as being cheapskates that are totally cool with theft. Try to justify it all you like, in the end you are receiving a product without paying for it. Just admit what you're doing.
- It is theft, i just don’t give a shit about corporations. If it was a small indie games studio sure but fuck Bethesda, and fuck capitalism.
  
  Heard.
  
  So you have no problem with DRM right?
- Theft is when someone actually loses something. Piracy is copying things
  
  Bingo. Also I was never going to buy Starfield anyway so Bethesda isn't losing anything.
- As long as you admit that selling a game that doesn't work is also stealing money. They're selling an incomplete game for the price of a complete game.
  
  No I will not, because it is not. If you are unable to wait until feedback has returned on a game and you happen to be unhappy with the quality of the product then the only thing you are a victim of is your own stupidity. Do you think non-extended cut films are theft as well?
- If I can't afford it, I should be proud of stealing it.
  This escapes me. If you want to be a graphic designer and everyone uses Photoshop, so you pirate it to get experience so you can get a job because nobody cares that you're a GIMP expert, okay. I get that. In this case, vote with your wallet. Play a different game. It's not the 1980s. We have too many great options.
- It's literally not theft. There are other reasons why I disagree with you, but that's the big one that really takes the weight out of your argument. The owner is deprived of nothing.
- Its literally not theft though. You are making a copy not removing anything.
- Most of us are cheapskates that take advantage of the law. At least in the US you are allowed to try out the software for free for 30 days, and you buy if it's worth the $$$, delete if not.
  
  At least in the US you are allowed to try out the software for free for 30 days
  Do you have a source for this?

PIE ASS
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  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

Gamepass is a dollar.

20 year old child energy post.
- Thank you for your insight, DrDickHandler.
  
  Oh shit, my urologist is on Lemmy?
- Nah for me it's almost 40yo mortgage, family and high cost of living energy
  
  I feel like I've been called out by this comment.
- Yes, and?
- I just turned double that thank you very much.

Hell yeah, game devs don't deserve to be paid for their work 🤡
- They've already been paid. Bethesda doesn't have profit sharing.
- So it's okay to steal because someone else is stealing more than you?
  
  Am I taking crazy pills? Thieves are claiming the moral high ground?
- Which dev did you write your check to?
  
  Mike from QA. He's a good guy.
  
  Since you're ostensibly a pirate, it stands to reason that you wouldn't understand how buying a game works.
- As if they do lol. All the money goes to the high level managers/shareholders.
  The ones doing all the work get paid a small flat amount.
- ... Do you think workers in a car factory don't get paid until someone actually buys the car they helped build? All the devs have already been paid!
  
  Given how video game studios work, also probably laid off
  
  And how do these companies make the money required to pay the salaries of their employees?? 🤔
- they been paid a salary this whole time. you think they are waiting for the sales to start trickling in so they can finally feed their family?
  
  And again, how did the company make the money to pay them that salary? Way to deliberately misunderstand my comment.