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There is no buying games anymore. You rent them now until the servers are down or Microsoft makes a new windows version.
The exception to this is GOG -- They, and publishers/developers that release on their store, should be supported whenever possible.
Not perfect, but miles above the alternatives.
Shoutout to the game devs selling on itch.io too!
I stopped buying from there once I got a steam deck. If they had a native client I'd go right back to the majority of my purchases from there
Yes I've done heroic or bottles or whatever. Not worth it