April 27th 2026 seems like a wrong choice. I’d go for something like 2023 and work up to 2026. A minimum account value should also be a factor.

The team that has been doing these Hypervisor cracks allegedly already said they have a solution for this.

Have a read: https://fitgirl-repacks.site/hypervisor-guide/

Under “What’s inside those cracks?” answer #2:

The Crack/Bypass itself

Consists of EXEs/DLLs, which does the actual Denuvo bypassing + other additional DLLs, like Goldberg Steam emulator to get past the underlying Steam protection.

Those files work only for specific game versions, for which they were made. They won’t work on different game version or other games.

So I guess they still need to do some manual cracking instead of just “running it with Hypervisor”. Looking at the amount of Hypervisor repacks by FitGirl that are upcoming or have already been released, it seems it does make the cracking much easier. (I don’t know specifics though).

The good and unique thing about Lutris is that it has a bunch of user-made install scripts that make Wine/Proton installation much easier, often with only a few clicks.

Heroic on the other hand is almost exclusively for the Epic/GOG/Amazon Luna stores. It does however have a way of installing a non library game in its own Wine/Proton prefix, but it doesn’t have the install scripts that are often required for extra tweaks and changes that are needed to make some titles playable.

The only added functionality, the easy creation of Wine/Proton prefixes and the Wine runner manager, can also be found in Bottles. So I wouldn’t call Heroic an alternative, as both Bottles and Heroic only offer half of what Lutris offers.

There’s a few countries in the world where your desire for freedom can not be made illegal. This means that in some countries, escaping from the cops is perfectly legal as long as you don’t commit other crimes during your escape like destruction of property or violence towards cops. There’s literally no extra charge that can be added. (Although I’ve heard of judges being less lenient with sentencing for the original crime in these cases)

You don’t get their badge and gun, but you do get your freedom, which I value infinitely higher than their fancy pieces of metal.

I liked Lutris for Battle.net games like Diablo.

As long as there isn’t a game of chance when paying real money it’s all perfectly fine. That’s already how it is right now in GW2 for my country. You can’t buy the keys to the lootboxes, but you can get them from map completion. And you can also just buy gems and get that mount skin license thingy.

In gw2, I’m assuming you mean that you can’t gain black lion keys?

But you can buy gems?

You can gain them from map completion but you can’t buy them using gems. Gems can be bought for IRL money though and used for anything that isn’t randomized.

But also, why do we even ban gambling? To protect people from that which is an obvious abuse and manipulation of their senses to seal their money? Fair trade being allowed.

As I said, in my country it’s not illegal or banned. I have gambled on local gambling websites before. It requires a business to have a gambling license here, which isn’t something game companies seem to want. (I guess this would also set a precedent for other countries to tackle this sort of gambling.)

So then why does the definition of gambling have anything to do with randomization? Would it be better or worse if there was no randomization? To me, that seems irrelevant.

You can’t gamble if there is only a single outcome.

Hmmmmm. I wish there was a good answer for this stuff.

Maybe ban any sort of IRL money purchases of anything that has randomization and borders on gambling. I guess if it gets banned in the EU and US the rest will probably follow.

It’s my country that chose to do it yes. And no, I’m old enough. Any sort of gambling requires the provider to have a gambling license (and it must be 18+).

The lootboxes don’t even need to provide something that can be sold for real money. As long as there is randomization it’s gambling. Most games block such lootboxes from being sold in my country because it’s the easiest for them. In Guild Wars 2 I can’t even buy a lootbox that only contains untradeable armor dyes because it’s randomized.

I can sell and buy. I’m from a country in the EU.

And yeah, I can still “play the markets”. And I can also trade with those shady gambling services.

Can I axe you a question?

Loot boxes have been illegal in my country for quite some years now.

For CS I can’t buy any keys and open the boxes but I can buy the weapons on the market.

Not really no.

Be sure to check out KeeperFX if you haven’t already.

And there’s a still inactive community at !dungeonkeeper@lemmy.world if you’re interested.

(I posted this message in the other thread a few days ago.)

But with guns.

I might believe this if it weren’t for Terry being the number one shorthand name for Terrence.

Lol

If they don’t price it like a computer, companies would just buy them and not even buy games.

Imagine if only Need for Speed racing games were allowed to exist, or the only allowed shooter game was Call of Duty.

Fuck Nintendo.

Yeah this trend of little stupid stories they add is stupid and unfunny.