Is GGG installing spyware/malware on your computer?

April fools next year, every weapon turns into Oni-Goroshi and they comment on absolutely everything that happens in the game without ever shutting up.

Oh god.

LOL

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FULL_SYNTEC wrote:

Malware are usualy very small in size...they dont need lot of code

yep, some 100 kilobytes. so they generated 10 gigabytes+ of random ones and zeros in this huge content.ggpk to hide them and additionally zipped it to shuffle the bytes to hide them from virus scanners too.

Be aware that they also silently activate your camera and mic while you're playing.... next time try to say "OK GGG ALTF4"

Games today... eh? Massive gigabytes patches with spyware spying on everyone and everything;) where r those times where good games were on 3-4 Floppy disks and didn’t need internet and still pulled 100’s of hrs of game play;) like UFO: enemy unknown or Syndicate....

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Anteo12 wrote:

Be aware that they also silently activate your camera and mic while you're playing.... next time try to say "OK GGG ALTF4"

I did and it worked.

i got some new porn videos. Not sure what/who downloaded those. Must be from POE patches. not bad!

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I_NO wrote:

yeah and alligator people are real

No but Lizard people are.

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Arrowneous wrote:

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I_NO wrote:

yeah and alligator people are real

No but Lizard people are.

I thought it was crab people.

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ZombieOtter wrote:

Please explain these ridiculously large patches?

Something is seriously wrong about what is going on here.

Hell no. PoE is written in:

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Chris wrote:

C++ (recent 2011 standard) with DirectX. (source here)

That was from 2012 so most likely a newer version of C++ today.

Thus it is 50% real C code and 50% bloat from the ++. The higher the programming language (further away from the cpu assembly language) the easier to write big complicated programs but the more compiling inefficient it is and thus more bloated.

But I can see that with the Menagerie in core now that alone explains a lot of the game size increase. It's interesting to walk around and see all the captured critters, but only once or twice, so all that eye candy is a big code waste.