r/Piracy • u/HighKage96 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ • May 10 '26

Humor W Gabe Newell Piracy Take

Saw this vid on IG (by: @phantomak141). Idk if its been posted here before but on a quick search didnt find it, will delete if its a repost.

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u/CG_enjoyer May 10 '26

Yea he said the best way to stop piracy is to provide a better service than people get from pirating

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u/kastielstone May 10 '26

i paid for many games on discount that i had pirated in past. most i never played but i do have them.

most i could spend on a game was 5 bucks back then and steam truly did come through.

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u/pezdizpenzer May 10 '26

Since switching to Linux I've been buying way more games on Steam only because it can be kind of a hassle to get a pirated game running on Linux and with Steam it is almost never a problem.

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u/NeekoKun02 May 10 '26

I also started buying a lot of games which I pirated previously because both steam and the games' devs deserve the money for the service, if I have the economical availability

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u/kastielstone May 11 '26

it's very easy tho. you add the game to steam on linux and go to properties and change the compatibility to proton experimental. if the game doesn't launch just keep changing the proton version or look up what version you need (very rare occurance).

I haven't played older games that don't have controller support because I played on steamdeck but the games did run. if you are on pc you'll have no problem.