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Gaming Companies Flag 'Highly Skilled Hackers' as Emerging Piracy Threat (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Were the hackers before not highly skilled? Moderately skilled hackers, perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Without reading the article, I'm going to guess that crackers have gotten more skilled and the greedy as fuck leeches destroying what is still one of the most profitable industries in the world are especially freaking out about there being others than just a single megalomaniac cracking Denuvo now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tbh I’m fine with hackers wrecking the stupid micro transaction companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh absolutely! Tge likes of Zynga are a plague on mankind and developers of games with actual merit (no thanks to said developers) following their example is hugely detrimental to the quality and accessibility of games in general.