By creating a post in our community, you agree that you have read and fully understood the posting guidelines. You agree that should you violate any of the guidelines below, your comment/post will be removed and in some cases, you will be sufficiently warned. Depending on the severity of the violation, you may get temporarily banned from posting/commenting, in some cases even permabanned. Multiple violations will result in a permaban.

These are the posts that are NOT allowed in our community:

  • Torrent links or any direct download links.

  • Question posts (For the love of god, use weekly question thread)

  • Opinionated posts

  • Polls not done by moderators or people chosen to do polls

  • Links to shady websites or virus links

  • Speculations

  • Fake releases, fake NFO’s or any kind of joke release (30 day ban)

  • Free steam games

  • Any news that is not related to video game piracy or video game DRM’s in any way

  • NSFW images or links (Permaban)

  • Youtube clickbait videos (How to download x game)

  • Any advertising that is done without permission from moderators (Referral links/affiliate links = permaban)

Regarding rule 4

CrackWatch has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to toxic conduct in comments. Any abusive, racist, sexist, threatening, bullying, vulgar, and otherwise objectionable behavior will result in moderation and/or ban. We also do not tolerate any form of doxing as well as death threats. Please keep your discussion civil.

Posting guidelines for Releases:

Separate post exists here

Posting guidelines for Humor:

We allow humor posts because we believe a small quantity of humor can improve the general mood of the subreddit. However, these are the necessary rules you need to follow

  • Humor post must not be a repost of an old humor post

  • Humor post must have at least more than 70% upvotes

  • Only 1 humor post is allowed per day

  • No NSFW humor posts (permaban)

  • During the release day and the day after a major title (Denuvo, UWP, Battle.Net), the Humor post limit will be 2 humor posts per day. On the third day, the limit is reset to one

  • Last but not least, the quality of the humor post is entirely judged by the moderators. Even though the humor post might follow the above rules, they might still get removed at the end, should the moderators be unsatisfied with the humor post.

Posting guidelines for News

  • The relevant news article must be posted as soon as possible. The allowed amount of time between the release of the news article and the post on the subreddit must be less than 24 hours.

  • Duplicate news articles are not to be posted. If one news article was already posted then that shall be the only news article on the subreddit.

  • Opinionated articles are not to be posted

  • Articles cannot be from an unknown/small/spammy website

  • These articles are going to be removed instantly: “X game confirmed cracked,” “Denuvo is killing PC gaming,” “X game cracked in record time,” or just a recap of known Denuvo games being cracked like “The latest iteration of Denuvo is cracked.”

  • Users can submit their own research findings and new discoveries, they can also crosspost from another subreddit, as long as it is relevant to the theme of the subreddit, and the research/discovery is provided with solid proof.

  • Articles must be in the English language. If it’s in a foreign language, there must be an English translation of the article

Posting guidelines for Repacks

We allow repacks to be posted because we believe they would help inform users who have limited bandwidth or slower internet. Repacks also provide some form of activity in the subreddit during those days when there are no major releases. However, we ask repackers and future ones to follow these guidelines if they wish to post their repacks.

If you wish to be on the list, you must contact moderators

Current approved repackers:

  • Fitgirl

  • M4CKD0GE

  • Kaos

  • DODI

An important note for all the repackers: We have divided your repacks into old game repacks and new game repacks.

New Game repacks:

  • Any new game that has been cracked 10 days ago or less

  • Any cracked denuvo game that has been cracked again

  • DLC and updates to the game that have been cracked 10 days ago or less

Old Game repacks:

  • Any game that has been cracked 10+ days ago

  • Any “Series” repack (for instance, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell entire series repack), even if it includes a game that would be classified as a new repack

The current limit for repacks is: 3 new repacks per day (Per repacker) and 1 old repack per day.

Please note that this rule might change if the community considers too many repacks on the subreddit, so we suggest keeping an eye on this specific rule

General rules are:

  • Obey the repack limit

  • Repacks can only be posted by the repacker or someone from the repack team itself, not from a third party

  • Repacks must have NFO-like information, don’t have to be in jpg, and can be in text, but try to make it as descriptive and attractive as possible

  • Be helpful to people who have questions and trouble with your repacks

  • Do not post repacks of uncracked games

Drama prevention

To ensure Crackwatch remains a neutral environment for all approved repackers, we ask that you do not bring your personal feud or drama involving other repackers into this subreddit. This includes posts and comments. Please inform your communities that they are not to post anything involving repack dramas in this subreddit. In addition, Crackwatch Team will delete any personal accusation, insults, or drama involving any approved repackers, and should anyone from the repack team break these guidelines, they will be sufficiently warned or if necessary, suspended from posting further repacks in this subreddit. Criticism is allowed to a certain extent, provided that it is respectful and informative. Insults will also be met with warns, in some cases, suspension from posting further repacks in this subreddit.

If your repacks are on the untrusted list, then your repacks will not be allowed on our subreddit.

If you are still unsure if your post will be allowed, please message the moderators