I’m trying to understand, since it’s DRM-free, can I buy it and share with many people so they can play it on their PC? Or there’s something that prevent me to do that?
Does it mean that pirating GOG games is easy as transferring to other machine?
If so, I wonder why pirate sites like FitGirl still use cracked Steam version of games, why don’t just share GOG version?
I can think of two reasons the scene doesn’t use GOG when the GOG version is always available. One, the Steam version is likely to be updated more recently. Two, the pride of breaking a lock rather than going in the unlocked door.
Third, and this is just unfounded speculation, but since you have to trust the crack anyway and let it by your security software, maybe it’s doing something on the side? Scene don’t work for free. You’ll never really know until it slows you’re computer down, or does someone obvious.
On the other hand, technically Mac software is also DRM free as you can just copy the .app, but they do work stuff out so this can be defeated. But ideally Mac stuff is super simple. The .app is basically a container (like a zip file) that contains everything the application or game requires. It’s a fundamentally better system. Windows users souls be asking why they don’t get the same treatment. Portable apps and games have always existed but it’s not standard on Windows. And it’s a shame.
“Scene don’t work for free”
It’s been ~35 years since I cracked games but we most certainly did everything “for free” back then (or, “for bragging rights” as it were).
I seriously doubt things are that much different now. I’d wager you’re one step removed from “the scene” and only seeing shady repacks from scammers.