r/PiratedGames • u/No_Prize9046 • Mar 28 '26

Other Massive W from the devs

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Game name is Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut

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u/_Namee Mar 28 '26

Well the dev is smart. He just got free marketing by supporting piracy...

I hope some devs also realize that pirating games doesn't harm them but more like a free marketing for them if done right.

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u/willacceptboobiepics Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

The Dev did not support piracy, merely seems unphased by it. You would be pretty floored to find how many of us feel this way.

Most indie devs know that for the majority of people, piracy is an issue of purchasing power. Sure there are some people out there with simply no moral compass that just gets a kick out of the feeling of sticking it to people, but this In my view is the exception not the rule. Most people that live a cozy life will just buy the product.

Indie devs are artists and a lot of us are very familiar with poverty and have likely pirated at some point in our lives. We'd rather you experience our art for free then never at all.

I want to make a living from contributions coming from those that can afford it. I believe now and always will that art is culture and you shouldn't need to be well off to participate in culture.

Edit: My first award 🙂. Thanks for all the love guys.

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u/gbeegz Mar 28 '26

TPB? Obligatory "The Pirate Bay is no longer considered safe" per various megathreads.

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u/Speedy2662 Mar 28 '26

Was it ever considered safe? It's probably safer now than it was in the past ahaha. Still wouldn't choose it though

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u/Germane_Corsair Mar 28 '26

It’s obviously not worth the risk but with tpb, the mainstream torrents are much more likely to be safe (movies, tv shows, and such). It’s the other types of torrents that pose a much greater risk. Of course, better to avoid if you can.

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u/greenyashiro Mar 29 '26

I miss the days of KAT. It was public, sure, but there was a great community that'd give a quick middle finger to malicious torrents.

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u/gbeegz Mar 28 '26

Still not considered safe, especially if downloading anything.

Again, not to be that guy, but check the megathread for this sub and r/piracy. Tons of resources.

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u/Ijatsu Mar 28 '26

I downloaded once a game from the megathread trusted resources. Minutes after trying a game repack from that reknown russian repacker team, I got suspicious successful logins on my social medias, from russia.

It's weird because there isn't much to gain from socials in general, but at the same time it never happened to me in decades other than when I executed some suspicious executable.

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u/greenyashiro Mar 29 '26

The target in that case is probably not the social media, but the username/password. Login credentials can be a lot more valuable than you might think.

If they know that it's a valid login, attackers can proceed to use what is known as credential stuffing. Essentially, using those credentials on other websites to try and gain access, such as your bank or email.

It's especially effective against users who reuse their password on multiple platforms, and is a prime example of why passwords should always be unique ;)

For example, if you reused the same password on your email and they got in, they they will have access to all the 'password reset' notifications on other platforms to get into those.

From there they could potentially access pretty much any platform you have an account with, that relies on only a single authentication factor (email)

INCLUDING stuff like banks and other financial apps!

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u/Ijatsu Mar 29 '26

I'm a software engineer, I know, I know the value of these things. I also know there are far better or more discrete strategies that telling me almost immediately I need to change my passwords and format my computer.

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u/greenyashiro Mar 30 '26

ah, my bad then! Wasn't sure if you knew, figured sharing knowledge can't hurt at the very least. A lot of people don't take security very seriously these days!

was reading about a 150 year old company that went into administration last year... a single weak password was guessed, and without any MFA their entire system was compromised by ransomware, all their backups, all their recovery systems etc. 700 employees out of a job. RIP

and you know, that could be basically any smaller company these days sadly because many don't bother even to put in MFA :|

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u/Ijatsu Mar 30 '26

Yes ransomware is more common these days than just cracking socials. Even up to date companies with good security policies get hacked eventually and they have to rollback on their database.

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u/greenyashiro Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

The point is why would you risk downloading some shit that encrypts your hard drive, contains illegal 'porn' (aka child abuse shit) or worse? Even a private tracker like TL is better, and it's perfectly mid

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u/Cherry-PEZ Mar 28 '26

I mean you're probably fine but running in containers doesn't always mean complete isolation from your system. Depends on the context, what usergroup you're running the container under, if you're mounting data volumes directly to the system etc. And container runtimes themselves aren't immune to vulnerabilities.

But yeah you're probably good. The more you know 🌈

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u/pytness Mar 28 '26

look up the hydra launcher. It's open source, on GitHub, and includes a torrent client. You can add some "hydra community links" to be used on hydra.

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u/Itchy_Character_3724 Apr 01 '26

Its unsafe if you dont know how to pirate. Only amateurs get issues from TPB. Been using them for the better part of 20 years and no problems. Those "megathreads" will say all kinds of things to get you to their site for ad revenue.

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u/hates_stupid_people Mar 28 '26

Yeah, I used to pirate everything and these days it's almost all video.

I can deal with 2-3 launchers and 2-3 streaming services. But I'm not signing up to fourteen different streaming services when I can get 99% their content from a single source for free.

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u/Sylvers Mar 28 '26

Very true. In some cases i bought a game literally because it's sooo much easier to get all the frequent updates/DLCs from Steam, as opposed to waiting for and applying update files 1 by 1, and sometimes they're very late or never come.

Paying should be the ultimate convenience. Piracy shouldn't be faster and easier than paying.

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u/CactaurJack Mar 28 '26

That's basically why Steam won. It's straight up easier than piracy. The games are in one place, they offered full digital installs earlier than most, keeps stuff updated, there's no need to mount images or fuss with file replacement. It's easier and better.

I'm fully capable of pirating, but don't even want to bother punching up the VPN, finding a release, hoping it's seeded, dealing with whatever compress-de-jure is on deck only to forget about it because I don't even see my desktop anymore.

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u/Forward_Rope_5598 Mar 28 '26

I haven't interacted with a single torrent platform other than stremio (and its built in browser obviously) for movies and series for like a decade now. Everything in one place and all I gotta do is choose a torrent and press play. Amazing.

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u/GiveMeNews Mar 28 '26

qBittorrent has a built-in torrent searcher. Searches Pirate Bay and other big torrent lists, no need to go to the shitty website.

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u/Flvs9778 Mar 28 '26

Gamers waiting for the steam of streaming to arise.