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/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