Is Video Game Piracy Dead?

[Gribley]

There was a time when video game trainers rule the net but now they are very hard to find.

Really because most stuff is online. Offline I think most people got bored of hacking it out, you`ll still get many trainers over at gamecopyworld if you that is your bag

[anon]

Trainers are like No-CDs - largely a memory from more innocent times when all it took to start playing was double-clicking a shortcut, the scene often released games before they were commercially available, and which copy protection they used (if any at all) was irrelevant

[Gribley]

Trainers are like No-CDs - largely a memory from more innocent times when all it took to start playing was double-clicking a shortcut, the scene often released games before they were commercially available, and which copy protection they used (if any at all) was irrelevant

Clearly we come from around the same era. I did get rid of that "installed" check on autoroute using DOS debug and also a universal VESA driver, much simpler times. Easier on the Amiga as it had memory compare built in to Action Replay so was easy to spot changes before/after security and then you could just ask it nice what functions are addressing that byte damn seems so simple now

[ash1920]

Government are serious on Issues like piracy and there are anti-piracy laws in place to curb such activities.

[tigerknee]

With digital distribution and online sales (Steam/PSN), game piracy i think is dead.

[anon]

With digital distribution and online sales (Steam/PSN), game piracy i think is dead.

Unless Steam and PSN also give games away for free, I'm not sure I see your point

[MacGyverSG1]

Hi......!
For as long as video game piracy has existed, gamers and the industry have argued about whether the practice really hurts sales of legitimate games. In 2010, the Business Software Alliance estimated that generalized software piracy costs the world $51 billion annually and half a million jobs.
Thanks.....

The real numbers are probably much lower than those. 98% of the stuff I pirate, I would never buy anyways.

[vn11]

The Switch scene is def not dead!

[SydBarrett]

Piracy will not die until everything is in the cloud and nothing is on anyone's hd but a launcher.

[antoine]

Piracy will not die until everything is in the cloud and nothing is on anyone's hd but a launcher.

like google stadia.. people are more likely to suscribe to service (tv like netflix, disney+..), streaming videogames service is probably the next step. (pay 2k for a gaming pc every 2 years, or rent a close service for 5$ a month?)