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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I buy steam games, even ones I've already pirated, for a few reasons.

  • Quick and easy downloads

  • Seamless updates

  • Almost all my other purchased games in one place.

  • Cloud saves

  • Durability, just knowing my games will be available to download on my next PC for the foreseeable future.

And I pirate just about everything I watch mainly because I'm not willing to play musical subscriptions to watch the shows I want to see at the end of a long day.

If the film industry had a service that offered a similar experience to a Plex share, I'd pay quite a bit for it. But instead they have this system designed to extract maximum value from every viewer, and I'm tired of it.

Gabe Newell was right on the money when he said piracy is a service issue, not a price issue.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To add onto this, when someone who can't afford something pirates something, there is no lost sale because there never was a sale there to begin with. It didn't take any money away from the company since they were never going to see any money from that person.

With that said, the only piracy I partake in is for archival purposes, and like you I buy Steam games regardless because it's too convenient like you said.

[–] filister 12 points 1 year ago

And if you really like a game, why not supporting their devs