A good resource for games is cs.rin.ru , occasionally depending on the game and how the matchmaking and multiplayer works they will post Online cracks that actually allow you to play online.
Its usually few and far in between though and definitely not normal to allow online if its cracked.
the only game i play online aside from carball is left 4 dead because it was 5 dollars and somehow it will never not be fun to shoot all those zombies and listen to zoey spam laugh
if the game has LAN, then it's typically possible to use that to play online (via a P2P VPN service like Hamachi, Tunngle or GameRanger). If it allows dedicated servers, those can also be used (as long as the game's popular enough for someone to host them).
However, if multiplayer can only be done through the centralized servers of the devs/publisher, it gets a lot more complicated - in some cases people figure out how to essentially emulate the server connection with their own private ones, but for a lot of games it's not possible to play them online.
So most older PC games are perfectly viable, since having LAN and dedicated servers was pretty much mandatory back in the day, but a ton of more modern multiplayer games had those features stripped out.
Are people who torrent games able to use online features, or justppay totally offline?
A good resource for games is cs.rin.ru , occasionally depending on the game and how the matchmaking and multiplayer works they will post Online cracks that actually allow you to play online.
Its usually few and far in between though and definitely not normal to allow online if its cracked.
oh cool ill check this out
the only game i play online aside from carball is left 4 dead because it was 5 dollars and somehow it will never not be fun to shoot all those zombies and listen to zoey spam laugh
if the game has LAN, then it's typically possible to use that to play online (via a P2P VPN service like Hamachi, Tunngle or GameRanger). If it allows dedicated servers, those can also be used (as long as the game's popular enough for someone to host them).
However, if multiplayer can only be done through the centralized servers of the devs/publisher, it gets a lot more complicated - in some cases people figure out how to essentially emulate the server connection with their own private ones, but for a lot of games it's not possible to play them online.
So most older PC games are perfectly viable, since having LAN and dedicated servers was pretty much mandatory back in the day, but a ton of more modern multiplayer games had those features stripped out.
Thanks for the answer
yeah most of the time i play story-focused games rather than MMO, plus i suck at online play anyway