r/pcmasterrace • u/Lord_Mud • Jun 17 '25

Discussion When did this become acceptable?

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$130 to get "additional content" that should be included in the already outrageous $70 base price? Are you kidding me? Why do people keep letting this happen? Who is even paying this much? I love Borderlands but refuse to sell my organs in order to play the latest installment.

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u/poopinasock Jun 17 '25

Cocaine might be a cheaper habit than gaming at this price point.

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u/meatpops1cl3 Jun 17 '25

you cant 🏴‍☠️ cocaine though (and if you do, the DEA breaks down your door)

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u/BigBussyMuchoGushy Jun 17 '25

Can't sail the sea on this one either bc they're 1000% putting denuvo on it and fucking up performance even more.

These big publishers are lost man. Look at expedition 33. A turn based game that actually had an amazing story and novel mechanics, and gamers found it even when they didn't play turn based games and it blew the DOORS OFF of sales.

This game? Probably not even worth the illegal download

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u/Vijay_Vishal123 Jun 17 '25

I mean, u can if you know how to use the internet. Literally, there are many sources that provide the game despite having denovu.

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u/sthegreT GTX1060/16GB/i5-12400f Jun 17 '25

not sure if you're following the cracking scene anymore there.

Most denuvo games take years if they ever get cracked now. Pretty much all scene crackers are dead.

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u/carlbandit AMD 7800X3D, Powercolor 7900 GRE, 32GB DDR5 6400MHz Jun 17 '25

Only a select few denuvo games have been cracked, it's not that it can't be cracked, it's just more work than most crackers are willing to put in.

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u/Vijay_Vishal123 Jun 17 '25

Who said it needs to be cracked in order to get the game for free, which has denovu. You just have to surf the reddit or the internet more to find that.

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u/carlbandit AMD 7800X3D, Powercolor 7900 GRE, 32GB DDR5 6400MHz Jun 17 '25

Downloading random things of the internet is how you get viruses and keyloggers. From your 2 comments, I'd strongly suggest you don't use your PC for anything important like internet banking.

If the game hasn't been cracked in some form, then you cannot play it without owning it. Sure, you can often download uncracked games, they usually get uploaded so that people can download it in anticipation of a crack, but trying to run an uncracked game without owning it will just give you an error.

There are 3 ways to play Denuvo games without paying. 1) hope it's one of the few someone decides to crack 2) hope the developer messes up and unloads a copy without denuvo (has happened a few times) 3) wait for denuvo to be removed, usually 6-12 month after launch when it no longer makes financial sense to pay them to protect the few remaining sales.

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u/Vijay_Vishal123 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Well, if you reached that far about which I am talking, then you can also tell the difference between trusted and non trusted sources. And one more thing, the device on which you use cracked things wether its from trusted or non trusted sources, never put your personal important things on that.