It’s a cracked version of the game that has been heavily compressed to reduce download size. This is why the installer will eat a lot of CPU resources during installation. While you probably won’t be banned, I would generally avoid playing these games through steam as a precaution. Usually multiplayer doesn’t work normally anyways.

I wonder when the employees knew. From the news it looks like the closure had been decided on the C-level.

I would not be surprised if a new studio springs into existence from this.

Lemmynsfw uses a custom version that that removes the blur for nsfw images but that’s it I think.

It is still very young and I don’t yet see any advantages over Rust, except that they want to have out of the box interoperability with C++. Let’s see where they are in 3 years or so.

Oof, imagine having to put a single 9 into your SLA. You would be laughed out of the room in a commercial setting.