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Free to grab: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Rockstar Games is giving away free copies of their classic game GTA San Andreas to anyone that downloads and installs Rockstar Games Launcher.
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas… a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it’s the early 90s. Carl’s got to go home.
Head over to the Rockstar Games website and download their launcher, then install it. Once installed, click on the “CLAIM FREE GAME” banner. This promo is only available for a limited time.
Free to grab: Steam Key for Endless Space – Collection (via Humble) - 09/13/2019 07:57 AM
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#5713075 Posted on: 09/20/2019 08:59 PM
It's not free, in fact it's counterintuitive calling it "free", because it's forced through DRM and you actually don't own the game, while at the same time you let them control how you are allowed to even enjoy a product as type of a backdoor even allowing them to collect data from you, which is the complete opposite of the meaning "free".
By the way, if they would call it "Rockstar DRM" instead of "Rockstar Launcher", then it wouldn't sound that "free" anymore, right?
Are you paying for it with currency?
No, then it's free.
So let's keep these rawr SJW DRM BAD posts out please.
It's not free, in fact it's counterintuitive calling it "free", because it's forced through DRM and you actually don't own the game, while at the same time you let them control how you are allowed to even enjoy a product as type of a backdoor even allowing them to collect data from you, which is the complete opposite of the meaning "free".
By the way, if they would call it "Rockstar DRM" instead of "Rockstar Launcher", then it wouldn't sound that "free" anymore, right?
Are you paying for it with currency?
No, then it's free.
So let's keep these rawr SJW DRM BAD posts out please.
warlord
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#5713077 Posted on: 09/20/2019 09:01 PM
Are you paying for it with currency?
No, then it's free.
So let's keep these rawr SJW DRM BAD posts out please.
LMAO. ahahahahahaha rawr SJW DRM BAD that made my day.
Are you paying for it with currency?
No, then it's free.
So let's keep these rawr SJW DRM BAD posts out please.
LMAO. ahahahahahaha rawr SJW DRM BAD that made my day.
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#5713092 Posted on: 09/20/2019 09:34 PM
Are you paying for it with currency?
No, then it's free.
So let's keep these rawr SJW DRM BAD posts out please.
And don't take it personally but please keep SJ out of this discussion. It has nothing to do with it. A lot of the DRM solutions out there are effectively bad and rely on hidden device drivers that are not really device drivers at all and you can't uninstall them unless you know what you are doing. Being against it has nothing to do with SJ it's just common sense. I know it's cool to be against anything that looks remotely close to some sort of SW but all computer knowledgeable persons should be against a piece of software installing hidden device drivers (that are not device drivers) on their computer. In fact Microsoft should have never allowed such practice to be made on Windows in my book and such fake device drivers should have been considered as virus (which they are) and automatically deleted by Windows Defender.
I know you were answering to a post referring to clients like Steam requiring someone to be online to play their games and it's vastly different than other DRM solutions installing **** without the computer owner's consent (other than the consent to install the actual piece of software) and i actually agree with you and i don't mind having to log in to play my games (outside of when some stupid kids ddos Blizzard's game servers) but in your post you were kind of targeting being against DRM as a whole and i don't think i'm comfortable with that personally.
This said i never played any GTA game (for real) so i'll install the client and take a look at it. The name of the client (Rockstar Social Club) is ... let's just say rather 90ish.
Are you paying for it with currency?
No, then it's free.
So let's keep these rawr SJW DRM BAD posts out please.
And don't take it personally but please keep SJ out of this discussion. It has nothing to do with it. A lot of the DRM solutions out there are effectively bad and rely on hidden device drivers that are not really device drivers at all and you can't uninstall them unless you know what you are doing. Being against it has nothing to do with SJ it's just common sense. I know it's cool to be against anything that looks remotely close to some sort of SW but all computer knowledgeable persons should be against a piece of software installing hidden device drivers (that are not device drivers) on their computer. In fact Microsoft should have never allowed such practice to be made on Windows in my book and such fake device drivers should have been considered as virus (which they are) and automatically deleted by Windows Defender.
I know you were answering to a post referring to clients like Steam requiring someone to be online to play their games and it's vastly different than other DRM solutions installing **** without the computer owner's consent (other than the consent to install the actual piece of software) and i actually agree with you and i don't mind having to log in to play my games (outside of when some stupid kids ddos Blizzard's game servers) but in your post you were kind of targeting being against DRM as a whole and i don't think i'm comfortable with that personally.
This said i never played any GTA game (for real) so i'll install the client and take a look at it. The name of the client (Rockstar Social Club) is ... let's just say rather 90ish.
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#5713107 Posted on: 09/20/2019 11:45 PM
Please install DirectPlay. Damn, oldest old in the whole old since old began.
Please install DirectPlay. Damn, oldest old in the whole old since old began.
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It's not free, in fact it's counterintuitive calling it "free", because it's forced through DRM and you actually don't own the game, while at the same time you let them control how you are allowed to even enjoy a product as type of a backdoor even allowing them to collect data from you, which is the complete opposite of the meaning "free".
By the way, if they would call it "Rockstar DRM" instead of "Rockstar Launcher", then it wouldn't sound that "free" anymore, right?