Why do people upload cracked steam versions of games that also released on gog and already have a DRM-free installer?

So they can inject their versions with malware.

I saw Fitgirl say that Steam versions are easier to patch later on. GOG patches seem to be a pain in the ass. I guess at least for her repacks.

Cause fuck DRM. And sometimes because updates and game version on steam are different (e.g. skyrim version on steam support more mods than gog version)

It's the achievements for me. Achievement Watcher doesn't work on GOG games installed offline.

I usually grab clean steam files on cs.rin and "crack"(my vocab sucks) the games by myself by using goldberg emu. Problem is the games I want isn't always uploaded and updated unlike Scene releases so I instead download from them if this is the case. Scene release aren't pre-cracked when you download them. You'd still have to copy the steam emu on the game directory first before you could run it.

Also, anyone who owns the game on GOG could just share it by downloading the offline installer on GOG Galaxy. There's no cracking happening so I think it's not Scene's job to upload DRM free games. We already have gog-games and torrminatorr doing that.

I guess the reason why Scene still cracks steam games that are also released on GOG is because of tradition. Plus, it's nice to have some other options.

I know that 15years ago on the scene usually they cracked games for bragging rights so no DRM version was no fun hence you would find mostly the cracked version uploaded by the scene.

I don't know if it still operates this way.

On private trackers, it's because # of uploads is one of the things that gives you a better user class. There's other benefits too.

Wait, gog still exists? I remember that pos when it first showed up.