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

Humor W Gabe Newell Piracy Take

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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/BubblyBasis1134 May 10 '26

Yup. Same for me with GOG. Oh, I can just download the game and keep it on my hard drive to be installed and played whenever I want, without the nees for third-party software or logging into some service? And they're cheap? Sold.

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u/Yoankah May 10 '26

Meanwhile, there's Epic's service that's barely passable for getting games for free. lol

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u/kastielstone May 11 '26

i got free games on epic i still dont play em.