I am interested in how pirates on the internet (which i am not) would get there hands on the files to a game, just, for example, Baldur's Gate 3, without torrenting? Now, I have heard tell of a place where these nefarious no-gooders would do this, for example gog-games.to. But, once they have acquired the file, what steps to these pirates take next? I have heard that .bin files come with these illegal files? How would one approach using those bin files? All out of curiosity of course. Thank you!

  • 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    The archive you download from gog-games includes some data files and a setup.exe. You launch the setup, tell it where to install, and wait. Once it's done, you launch the game from the start menu, and enjoy. There's no magic to it.

      • 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Keep in mind that the files received from this site are identical to the files you would get on the official store. That's why it's so beautiful.

        • blakeus12 [they/them, he/him]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          now, let's say, just hypothetically, that a would-be pirate's download from 1fichier "Failed" with no error message. What would that dastardly scoundrel do?