What happened to the PC games (or what happened to consoles)? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by LeylaLove@hexbear.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I got out of video game piracy for a while, but I'm coming back. One thing I have been absolutely SHOCKED by is how finding PC game torrents is actually kind of difficult from my normal sources. Now it'd be one thing if I just wasn't seeing games, but for some reason Playstation and Switch have far more uploaders and seeders on the sites. This is something that would have been unthinkable when I was into piracy. But from a quick glance, it looks like the Switch has a bigger piracy scene than PCs do right now. This was so extreme I couldn't find a torrent for Minecraft past 1.12. I found a download, but not a torrent. Or I couldn't find any of the old versions of Five Nights At Freddy's on PC, but could find them on other platforms. Things I'd consider true PC staples of the past decade with absolutely nothing popping up in my normal sources.

I'm not asking where to find PC torrents (although I certainly wouldn't mind). Are consoles actually becoming more popular to pirate for?

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[-] Astaroth@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

How does it compare to PollyMC? It was super easy to use and you can play both offline without an account but also online with a Mojang Account. (Java versions)

Admittedly I didn't actually try to play it online since I just looked it up for a nephew.

I used the Linux AppImage, just download and run it and you're good (might have to install new java runtime depending on what you have already), but there's also Windows and Mac versions.

p.s. I'm not really into Minecraft and don't know what's up, but apparently there's some drama or something and PollyMC (with 2 'L's) is not to be confused with PolyMC (one 'L').

[-] jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Its as easy if not easier. Download it from github and check it out. Its all the feautures of MultiMC with support for cracked. PolyMC is based on MultiMC so it might have a bit more feautures.

PolyMC is safe. If you read anything else, it's simply political bullshit.

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

PolyMC (one L) is not safe, not with a crazy schizo in charge. PrismLauncher is the decrazied fork of PolyMC.

[-] jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

The owner is a schizo depending on your politcal views and principals.

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

The owner is a schizo regardless.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

for anyone curious, the owner seems to be a right-wing shithead

(see how easy that was to say without being ableist and weird about it?)

[-] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, OP of this thread (me) actually has schizophrenia. Being a right wing shithead isn't the same as being schizophrenic. Schizo is just the new way people have of calling people "autistic" like people did a decade ago.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

meow-hug sorry you had to see people being shitty about it. i really wish folks would understand that mental illness does not make you a bad person, and that our enemies are bad people because they choose to be hateful bigots, not bc they're born with spicy brain.