Pirated Steam-Rips are almost always stuck on older, broken versions of the game.
However, the developers at Naughty Dog spent over two years optimizing the PC version post-launch. By downloading a crack of the v1.0 build, you are not "sticking it to Sony"—you are playing an inferior, buggy, crash-prone version of a masterpiece. You are also denying yourself:
had a notoriously rocky PC launch with crashes and shader compilation issues. Official versions receive regular patches
Let’s get the obvious out of the way: The game itself is a 10/10. Naughty Dog’s rewrite of the 2013 classic is visually stunning. The facial animations—particularly the subtle shifts in Joel’s expression from hardened cynic to protective father figure—are the gold standard of the industry.
Pirated Steam-Rips are almost always stuck on older, broken versions of the game.
However, the developers at Naughty Dog spent over two years optimizing the PC version post-launch. By downloading a crack of the v1.0 build, you are not "sticking it to Sony"—you are playing an inferior, buggy, crash-prone version of a masterpiece. You are also denying yourself:
had a notoriously rocky PC launch with crashes and shader compilation issues. Official versions receive regular patches
Let’s get the obvious out of the way: The game itself is a 10/10. Naughty Dog’s rewrite of the 2013 classic is visually stunning. The facial animations—particularly the subtle shifts in Joel’s expression from hardened cynic to protective father figure—are the gold standard of the industry.