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Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies
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There are relatively few people who "crack" the games and the community around it is very verbal. Some people go deep on inspecting things, and if something gets found they're added to a list of untrusted sources. From what I've seen it's hard to get that trust back.
So yeah it's definitely a risk, but not a super dangerous one. Especially if you use Linux and a VM