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tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Epic wanted exclusives by pulling games from other platforms. I will never spend a single cent on Epic Games. I’m happy to spend it on Steam, especially games that I have pirated before (Commandos series for example) or indie games (Banished anyone?).
For bigger games such as Civilians, I’ll purchase it on Steam and then pirate so I don’t need to run Steam. I am a big fan of patches to remove the intro screen.
madsen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Intro screens and the like can usually be dealt with easily in many games. Look up the game on PCGamingWiki — it’s usually much easier (and less malware prone) than pirating.
derpgon@programming.dev 6 months ago
Fun fact, many intro screen can be disabled via program flags, those are put there due to faster testing, and usually not disabled due to either laziness, the way the SW is tested, and/or because the devs have some empathy for the players not wanting to watch 15 minutes of crap - like it’s “made for Nvidia”
lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
My partner has a bunch of AC games and it’s pretty much a ritual at this point to delete the launch screen logo files from the game’s data folder.
For other games like CS, there’s a flag to bypass the whole launcher which is really nice 👌 if only more games did that