So from the drama ive read through. Seems the devs religiously anti pirate but the final release seems to have gone off without the fear of malware being prevalent. But it seems people ran wild with the story accusing of bugs and glitches to modified code as deliberate malware attacks. I mean its always a risk so better to be cautious and all but some of it really seems to be bad faithed attacks back against the creator. Oh well like I said the release seems to be going off without people coming back with concerns. Ill grab it for that 20% off and if anything I can always go to steam directly if there is indeed a problem. I doubt theyd want a lawsuit over releasing malware and have done their own preliminary tests.
The game was, in general, extremely agressive in its "anti-piracy" measures, to the point of actively scanning the list of active processes on your device and automatically shutting itself down if it notices Cheat Engine running, for example. I haven't tried the full release, so perhaps Elzee toned it down at some point, but in my eyes any chromium project that actively tracks what programs are running on my PC WITHOUT TELLING ME IT WILL BE DOING SO raises a number of red flags in my head, regardless of what the intention is.
It somewhat reminds me of MaidenSnow Eve and the extreme disdain the developer of that game has for disgusting westerners and their vile attempts to, god forbid, translate his game, or even worse, pirate it, but I don't remember MSE ever trying to pull the same shit.
UPD: at the very least the steam version with uncensor patch doesn't seem to track active processes. I was also able to patch the plugins.js without the game going ballistic on me, as it used to.
