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This is going to sound weird but, how can I pirate the games that I own ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.ml

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So, I have a pretty big games collection on steam and the majority of these games are offline single player games.

And sometimes I fear just losing access to all of them !

I had quit piracy entirely in the 2010s during the golden age of streaming, but now I'm increasingly alienated from it all.

I could hunt down the crack for each and every single game I own but I would like to know, is there a better way ?

Could I just crack my offline steam library and play my games offline forever ?

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[-] yote_zip@pawb.social 83 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is what I do. I don't like DRM in games that I own, and even just today I was helping a user that got blocked from playing a game that they own because the EA DRM breaks itself often on Linux. I wrote a Linux-specific guide for it but the procedures should also work on Windows with some imagination. The exact methods may vary per game but for the vast majority of Steam games you'll only need to crack Steamworks API protection off of it.

(warning: guide is long. Sections 5 and 6 are the most directly related to actually cracking popular DRMs off a game)

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago

Thank you that looks like a fantastic resource Here is a pirate coyote https://i.imgur.com/IKMTSb4.jpg

[-] yote_zip@pawb.social 10 points 11 months ago

Hell yeah, that's awesome. I hope the guide can be of use - I often reference it myself when I forget how to do something, so hopefully I can keep it up to date with whatever my current knowledge level is.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

This is excellent.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago

There are quite a few games on Steam that come without any DRM, or one that can be easly circumvented without additional tools.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

You might find a few of your games on that list, which will make this whole ordeal a lot easier.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

That doesn't sound weird at all!

[-] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago

Alright so if your game is just protected by steam drm its easy to crack just download the goldberg steam emu and the steamless drm remover from csrin

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Yeah, has any one developed like a 'best practices' users manual? I mean, I'm coming from the golden age of piracy (talking limewire, napster days). I don't want to make a dumb error.

[-] yote_zip@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago

I wrote a guide on using community tools to break every common DRM off by yourself here, specifically sections 5 and 6 for just the DRM instructions. It's a little bit complicated to get started but it quickly becomes trivial once you get in the rhythm.