Here’s some on my list:

  • Red Dead Redemption 2 - I do not want to deal with the Rockstar Games launcher.

  • Tom Clancy’s Breakpoint - The game’s add-on packs feel like Ubisoft is trying to nickel and dime gamers who would instinctively buy the GOTY equivalent of a title. I do not want to deal with a Ubisoft launcher or account.

  • Zombi - According to the Steam reviews it required a Uplay login to validate the game before you play and that version of the Ubisoft service no longer exists. This seems to have been rectified but I still don’t trust it and don’t want to go through the refund process if it hasn’t.

  • Skyrim VR - I’ve already bought too many copies of Skyrim.

A bit of a “this is why I pirate” thread but more targeted at individual games.

    • Ilandar@lemm.ee
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      I’m not sure if you meant literally no free time to play video games, or just not willing to make time for a perceived steep learning curve, but if it’s the latter then maybe you could reconsider. The basics can be learnt very quickly via YouTube and it’s possible to have quite a bit of fun casually playing an hour here or there as the Rifleman class simply treating it like a milsim Battlefield without ever diving into the deeper mechanics.

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        The former; the gunplay, maps, and strategical aspects seem excellent, and it looks beautiful. But I spend about 20 minutes in gaming spread over Quake Live and FPV. SkyDive. These are perfect to just play a quick match or two.

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        Don’t know about what OP meant but for me it’s no time (or willpower) to deal with communications. Because of this I never really got into the game. I would play (and a lot) if there was a skirmish mode with bots.

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          It’s actually not a very comms heavy game now. Like some players definitely enjoy their milsim call-outs and coordinating more closely with their squad, but a lot of players like myself are just totally silent. It was added to Xbox Game Pass last year, and that has introduced a ton of more casual players.

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    A couple of Sony games because they don’t want to sell them in my country 🤷 They leave no other choice but to pirate them.

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    X4 Foundations Community of Planets Edition. Got it on GOG instead which was cheaper due to local prices. This is quite rare since usually it’s the other way around.

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    I mean pretty much anything from EA, Ubisoft, 2K, Blizzard/Microsoft, Xbox, Rockstar, etc.

    I did actually end up buying a Sony game after they dropped the account-linking requirement.

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    I got caught out by RDR2, tried playing it a few evenings ago, even signed up for a crappy Rockstar account only to be greeted by the “this game is registered to another account” message. Screw them

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      Got this when I went to play fucking Max Payne 3 a few months ago. Why the hell does a 10 year old name need a rockstar account and why is it such a pain in the dick to restore access? It was easier to just pirate the fucking game and actually own it.

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        Depends what you mean, Steam is not DRM, most of the game is sells don’t have DRM. However Steam API has a DRM feature that developers can use of they choose to.

        So what do you mean?

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          Most of the games Steam sells are also shovelware.

          Major releases typically use at least Steam DRM, and Steam itself only mentions if 3rd party DRM is included. So in most cases, you can’t know if a game uses Steam DRM until after you’ve installed it.

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            because the game itself wants to load the steamapi program library and connect to the steam client. but there is no encryption or other heavy protection involved. grab a steamemu (like the famous goldberg emu), install it for the game (basically copy/replace a file) and done

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    Red Dead Redemption 2

    RDR2 went on sale for $20 a couple of months back which was about what I was willing to pay for it, so I grabbed it then. I tried playing it and it’s just boring. WAY too much riding around on horses just getting to the next bit of action or story. I dropped it and doubt I’ll ever get back to it.

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    They’re all still too expensive for me. Like Flight Simulator 2020. I do believe the effort they put into it is probably worth 35 €. But I wouldn’t play enough for it to be worth 35 € for me. And I’m still salty about the time when they accidentally discounted it by 85 % instead of 15 % and snatched it right out of my cart when I was about to pay.

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      As an American this is exactly why I’m not as well. GOG exists, and I have a decent library to fall back on regardless. Now’s the time for us to do that.

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      Tangentially related but I was browsing the list of Steam curators and I was surprised by how many of them are dedicated to discouraging people from buying games from specific countries.

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        There’s Epic or you can buy directly from the publishers store front (e.g. EA), but GoG is the only one not forcing you to use a shitty launcher. ignore that, i missed the “not American” requirement in your post.

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          It’s difficult isn’t it. Itch.io was my other choice but again it’s an American company. It’s kind of surprising that an alternative storefront hasn’t really started to rise out of SEA + Japan and Korea considering how popular gaming is there.

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    I only bought games that cost 1.99 like portals 2 and undertale

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    I’ve wanted to try out NFS Unbound for a while now, it regularly goes down to single digit prices but I’d rather eat shit than install an EA launcher on my machine.

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      Apparently the next one wont require uplay (on steam) and will be supported on linux. I’m still not interested in it because of the trend of assassins creed becoming supermassive open world RPGs but it would be nice if it became a trend.

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          Absolutely this. I have to admit I’m seeing some things I like in Shadows much more akin to what we should have been having for the past decade but I just don’t trust Ubisoft anymore and even on Deaths’ door they can’t let the corpo scummery go and I refuse to have Uplay or Denuvo infect my computer so I’ll not play it until it’s been broken.

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      Lol I was trying to play Dragon Age games a couple months ago, and the EA app is so terrible that I couldn’t get them to run on windows. But on Linux in the proton sandbox? No problem, worked right out of the box. 😂😂

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      I played Anno 1800 with Proton a week or two ago and it worked just fine… I didn’t have to log in, I just exited Uplay when it popped up and the game still worked.

      Dunno if that’s the case for all Uplay games or if I got lucky.

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    I don’t think I’ll buy Stellaris DLC unless it’s 90% off

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    Wanted to try Hogwarts Legacy since it’s on a big discount, but found out by a review that the game has a disclaimer that it will sell your personal information. Fuck that!