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does downloading hurt your computer?

Postby dragonstrike49 » Sun Jul 10, 2016 9:55 pm

This may be a stupid question, but when I click play, it warns me that this type of file could be damaging to my computer.
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Re: does downloading hurt your computer?

Postby Atamzsiktrop » Sun Jul 10, 2016 10:01 pm

No. It only hurts your brain.
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Re: does downloading hurt your computer?

Postby Ysh » Sun Jul 10, 2016 10:02 pm

dragonstrike49 wrote:This may be a stupid question, but when I click play, it warns me that this type of file could be damaging to my computer.

It is means executable file can do nefarious thing to computer. But I think men who build this game can be trust.
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Re: does downloading hurt your computer?

Postby Amanda44 » Sun Jul 10, 2016 10:04 pm

Yeah it does do that but it's not ... it says it for reasons that are too teck for me to explain, lol, but I've been playing for over 6 years and it doesn't hurt your computer. :)

Ahh Ysh explains why. :)
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Re: does downloading hurt your computer?

Postby Salad » Sun Jul 10, 2016 10:59 pm

The file is all safe my man, it's just the client for the game :) welcome to the community by the way, hope to be seeing you around the forums.
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Re: does downloading hurt your computer?

Postby shubla » Sun Jul 10, 2016 11:56 pm

It depends what you download.
But official client download should be quite safe.
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Re: does downloading hurt your computer?

Postby Jalpha » Mon Jul 11, 2016 1:32 am

Pretty sure it's because the devs are cowboys who don't play by the rules and stick it to the man by refusing to renew some kind of Java license iirc. The default client is perfectly safe and much less invasive than something like blizzards game launching console.
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Re: does downloading hurt your computer?

Postby dragonstrike49 » Mon Jul 11, 2016 3:25 am

I saw an old projared video about this game. I don't know if this game will be for me, but it had me wanting to try it
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Re: does downloading hurt your computer?

Postby Jalpha » Mon Jul 11, 2016 3:57 am

If you can overcome the initial learning challenge it's good fun for quite some time and a good game to keep coming back to, partly because it changes so much.
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Re: does downloading hurt your computer?

Postby kaysaari » Mon Jul 11, 2016 4:20 am

Downloading HnH is fine.

Downloading thatmoviethatisn'tevenoutoftheatresyet.exe, not so much.
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