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This site looks kinda weird. For one, it looks much more polished than any similar site I've seen so far. They have really good SEO as well, always popping up pretty high on Google. They have a massive selection of content.

How can they still be up?

What's the catch/what's wrong with them?

Also, what do they mean by "preinstalled"? The game isn't preinstalled if I have to install it from them, is it?

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[–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From their FAQ:

Pre-installed means that the game is already installed for you, so you don’t have to. This means all you need to do is download the .zip file, extract it, and run the game. That’s it! Easy, right?

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they just call it pre-installed because they zip it? Oh well...

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah they call it pre-installed because you don't have to run an installation wizard yourself, which requires administrator permissions. So you could play those games on computers where you don't have admin access, like a school or work laptop

[–] CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

It's similar to "portable" versions of software. You just run the .exe and of you go.