Quite odd cpu choice for the job. True, it’s still a beast, although very power inefficient when idle. Rtx2080 on a top of that adds even more power consumption. Your gear consuming 230W with 4 disks.

For comparison my one with core i5-13500, 5x hdd, 1x ssd, but 1x nvme… 55W average over the years.

There is nothing to trust in here.

Repackers don’t crack games. It’s someone else, usually scene. Once the cracked game is available widely, repackers just do whatever they do, which is very questionable as there is constant flow od reports with problems.

So the original question stands. What’s the point of using repacks? To save 10GB on download, then to deal with unpacking for ours? How many countries still have a download limited Internet connections?

Genuine question.

Why anyone even bothers with repacks?

Just to save few gigabytes when downloading, only then to waste a lot of time messing with it or just installing as it takes forever