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Introducing Crackpipe - your decentralized, self-hosted gaming solution! (crackpipe.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks,

our team has worked tirelessly for a year to bring you Crackpipe, the open-source, decentralized, and liberal alternative to conventional cloud-based game platforms like Steam and Origin. We're thrilled to announce that Crackpipe is now available for everyone, and we're delighted to share it with the community as an open-source project.

With Crackpipe, you and your friends can enjoy playing and tracking games on a shared file server, free from the restrictions of traditional platforms. Embracing "alternatively obtained" games, including DRM-free titles, Crackpipe offers a flexible and open approach to gaming - think Jellyfin, but for Videogames.

Take full control of your gaming experience with Crackpipe's self-hosted approach. Explore your server's game collection, securely download, launch, and play games, and monitor your playtimes and progress - all even when the server is offline. Compare stats and play states with other users on the server for added fun.

Our server features include automatic indexing of games, metadata enrichment with RAWG API, multi-user authentication, configurable logging, health monitoring, full-text search, filters, sorting, pagination, and a fully documented API. Crackpipe's high configurability ensures it fits your specific needs.

Join us on this journey to embrace a more open, flexible, and enjoyable gaming experience for all. Try Crackpipe today and share your contributions, feedback, bug reports, and feature requests.

Link: https://crackpipe.de

You can also check out our launch at producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/crackpipe

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

As a European, I honestly don't get what you're saying. Maybe it's worth thinking about not forcing your opinions and societal problems onto other people?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's okay to not know what something is. Crack pipes are WIDELY known to be drug delivery devices. That's not unique to the United States.

Furthermore, advertising your product as being used to pipe "cracked" (otherwise known as ... stolen) games RIGHT there in the name of your product is like daring law enforcement to shut you down in actual record breaking time.

If you want your company to survive such things, you pick a name that is even more clever in that it isn't.... moronic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope you realize this is the purpose of the application? Moreover, piracy is not stealing because it involves copying or distribution of digital content, while stealing refers to the act of taking someone's property without permission, depriving them of its use.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Ah well, maybe that IS uniquely American, the concept that depriving a company that makes digital content of their sales, depriving them of the use of that money they'd otherwise have, IS stealing.

I'm not defending those poor digital content creators, mind you. But your words here tell me you are both European and young. Be careful out there, ok. The people that make the laws don't agree with your definitions, and that means you gotta be ready to explain to them why what you did was totally allowed and decent.