Already cracked

8-bit DRM-removal patcher program music plays
3 command prompt windows pop up in the background and quickly disappear.
"Fuck. What were those?"
- Shhhhhhh…
  Just let your main HDD get encrypted.

The fact that the game hasn't been fully released yet and they are including a DLC if you buy the premium version, is just asking me to pirate it.
- From what i've seen of the game, it's not even worth the bandwidth to pirate it.
- There is nothing inherently wrong with DLC, and I'm tired of pretending that there is. If you think the base game is over-priced, then by all means complain about that - but if both the base game and the DLC are worth the price they're asking for it, then there is no harm done (and some advantage) in having modular buying options.
  
  Sure, if the DLC isn't cut content from the game. That's the problem. If they have already developed the content, then it should be released with the rest of the game, for the price of the game. DLC, should it be developed at all, should be an expansion beyond the original scope of development funded by the excess profit from the game.
  
  Sorry I can't hear you over the noise of downloading DLC for free from the internet superhighway

Meanwhile, I’m just happy to see quality content on GamePass again.
- Right? Looks like their Bethesda purchase was the best investment for new content. Starfield, Hi Fi Rush, the Quake II remaster (we don't talk about Redfall).
- You misspelled cash cow content

Oh shit this is good news, I looked at it yesterday and it's $120 here and instantly thought fuck that I'll wait until it's cracked
- What kind of country are you in that a game cost $120!?
  
  Australia, they love price gouging us here. Just went and checked steam again, the premium version is $170..
  
  Probably a country where the dollars are worth a different amount.

Eh. By the time I have hardware that can actually play Starfield, it'll be a GoG giveaway.

Maybe I'm just old but $70 base is too much for any game let alone one from a studio with known issues
- Games have been the same price for over thirty years, they've not changed with inflation and production costs have skyrocketed. To an extent the increased market has helped keep costs down for the consumer but it's not unreasonable to see prices shift upwards.
  
  What about the cost of disc media that's absolutely disappeared? That was a huge chunk of the overhead. Logistics to get the copies to all the stores, etc.
  Now it's just electricity and servers to download from.
  Do you ever notice that no one ever talks about all the advancements that saved money? Of course not, cause then they'd never be able to justify continually hiking the prices up.
  
  The customer base has increased more than a thousandfold. If anything prices should go down.
  
  Yeah my parents were paying $60 for NES games for me... Which is why I had like 3 NES games. The only reason game aren't $180 now is competition... And reproducibility vs size of market... And physical media is cheap or non-existent. Ok there are a few reasons, but still...
- Eh, to me I usually just convert it to $ per hour of enjoyment. Will I get 10 hours of enjoyment? 100? 1000?
  If it's a great game and I think I'll get 1000 hours out of it, even if it's $70 that's like $0.07 per hour.
  Compare that to paying $30 to go see a 1.5 hour movie at the theater and you're doing pretty darn good I think. Even if you only get 10 hours out of it thats $7 an hour for entertainment vs the $20 an hour for a movie.
  
  $30 for a movie is insane
  
  I've paid 15 dollars to play risk of rain 2 for 500 hours. I gurantee you there is no triple A studio in the world that would get that many hours out of me nor would their game be even double that price
- As opposed to the $60 they have been since the NES was the hot new console?
  
  I don't buy $60 games either mate
- Smash Melee cost $86.48 on release when accounting for inflation.
  
  I wouldn't buy smash bros for 90 bucks either
- I always found it kinda funny how gamers rage about the poor quality of games, but bugs with Bethesda is almost an expectation
  
  Do you really get that vibe? I feel like a lot of people refer to Bethesda games as a buggy mess. There's the whole Bugthesda thing.
  I think all the mods designed to improve performance have helped the reputation a bit but I still wouldn't play Fallout New Vegas on a PS3 due to the bugs.