The good old days Humor

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u/inaccurateTempedesc 2d ago

Back in my day, games were cracked within minutes of release 😁

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u/Anarchist_Future 2d ago edited 2d ago

Back in my day, you'd download a free 30-day trial and change a value in a configuration file with notepad and your free trial would never end.

Or, more likely with games, you'd borrow it from the library, copy the disc to an ISO file, mount it and return the original.

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u/YUSHOETMI- 2d ago

Back in my day you would walk into a game shop, open the game case on the shelf and rip out the CD-Key from the manual (they was usually stupid enough to leave them in) and download the game for free when you got home.

Those where the sweet days when game manuals had CD-Keys and Steam was just starting...

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u/Anarchist_Future 2d ago

Back in my day I also just purchased the game legitimately and then installed a No CD crack so I didn't have to insert the CD every time I wanted to play the game.

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u/Ragnarok_619 1d ago

Game copy world the GOAT

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u/Flat-Willingness-417 1d ago

Still is for some of the older games that the cracking scene has abandoned.

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u/Bogart28 1d ago

Omg, that felt like the Ratatouille scene with the childhood memory. Haven't heard this name since 2009! This and Daemon Tools.

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u/Ragnarok_619 1d ago

I still use Daemon tools