can someone make a beginners guide to all this?

Not really any articles on that, but the users here love to help (some of them lol), since you're new I guess Ill start at the top..

1st - Download a torrent client/downloader, there are many types of these, and most users will recommend qbittorrent, and here's a little guide on other torrent clients, choose whichever one you prefer


2nd - Find a trustworthy site,, here's a few:

And there are many more, im just very lazy lol


3rd - Find out how to actually download the torrents: You do not click on "download", instead you'll need to click on "magnet", which will automatically launch your torrent client, which then you click "start", then the waiting begins


4th - How to install games. There are many different ways crackers have you install the crack; If you are using a repack, than most of the time all you have to do is click "setup.exe" and click install, ezpz

Than there are also drag and drop cracks, where after you use setup.exe you drag the contents of the "crack" folder (most of the time called _redist or something, and it'll tell you where in the nfo or a txt file)


5th - I guess also tell you about some recent cracking events...

  • In late 2013, a new anti-tamper solution was released, crippling the scene for almost a year, although we got some cracks from a group called 3DM, they eventually claimed piracy will die in a years time, than out of the blue an Italian group going by CPY started releasing new denuvo cracks, about 1 time a month as it was still very hard to crack- but soon the cracks came only weeks apart, and even with consistent updates from Denuvo, attempting to stop CPY, but they always blew through with ease, and before every release they gave a hint for which game they are cracking next, all fun for us pirates.

  • Just recently, a new group (or just 1 guy we dont know) going by BALDMAN released 2 big denuvo games out of no where just 2 days after one of the games releases, this was big. He then also released another v4 game just 9 days after it released, Prey.


Happy Pirating!

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