On: Blizzard's pulling of Warcraft I and II tests GOG'...

[jack_pp]

Drive scarcity? I was playing pirated WC3 20 years ago, on pirated battle.net. There's no such thing as scarcity for old games. They will forever be available as long as there are seeders.

[red-iron-pine → jack_pp]

yeah but now i have to trust some random magnet link and hope it's not gonna drop some sort of rootkit on me. and yeah okay there are ways around that like using an old laptop or heavily sandbox'd VM.

but now i'm not just snagging a file, i'm creating an entire workflow. i'll just pay for the actual, clean binary

[throwawaymobule → red-iron-pine]

All of gog's offline installers are signed and do a hash check on any external .bin files they ship with.

The impact they've had on bundled malware in pirated copies of their games can not be overstated.