You’re right, this was more common in the warez days. Nowadays, I generally trust Pirates. If you’re stupid and download a game from some rando site, and not a trusted repacker then you deserve what happens.

If you’re paranoid, stick to clean steam files and use Goldberg.

This is my go-to for anything that doesn’t want to run:

https://github.com/FanderWasTaken/wine-dependency-hell-solver

I’ve switched a few friends to Linux and whenever they have trouble running a game outside steam, I just send them this. Hasn’t failed yet. While I, like many other Linux users enjoy scrolling through logs: this is easier.

I’ll just leave this here… https://massgrave.dev/

It was indeed. My apologies. I guess the article walking back the ban didn’t get as much traction as the one banning it.

Canada already banned it. Wish I’d got one sooner

Well if they’re gonna charge those prices, they’re probably gonna opt for Denuvo and then we can’t pirate it. But if enough of them do it, then we might see a concerted effort into breaking denuvo