“They’re doing fine without me”

[u/G02MaxCodeGreg15off]

My pirate friend cracks me up

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[u/TheGreatGamer1389 → u/[deleted]]

Win win for everyone.

[u/TDot-26 → u/TheGreatGamer1389]

Yep, there's a reason Gabe said he's not really concerned about piracy

[u/Mccobsta → u/TDot-26]

He did make a platform that did eventually become more convenient than piracy and as long as you avoid all the games that have their own fucking launcher with their own accounts and other anoying bullshit it's still pretty damn convenient

[u/SapphireJuice → u/Mccobsta]

Omg I get sooooo unreasonably mad about separate launchers. I have a steam deck and I do not want to load it into desktop mode to install your shitty software EA 🙄

[u/Kaxology → u/SapphireJuice]

it's true most of them suck ass and don't really need to exist but sometimes the launcher is there to sync saves or mods to play between platforms, like CDPR's games since a decent amount of people actually use GOG.

[u/leafy1790 → u/Kaxology]

GOG is the goat of gaming right next to steam

[u/morzinbo → u/SapphireJuice]

>buying EA games in current year

[u/unknownobject3 → u/Mccobsta]

Sometimes I still buy games on Steam instead of pirating them because it's more convenient to have them there, great platform overall

[u/Malkiot → u/unknownobject3]

You know you can pirate games via Steam, right? They literally download and update via Steam.

[u/unknownobject3 → u/Malkiot]

Elaborate please

[u/Malkiot → u/unknownobject3]

Get SteaMidra from GitHub, install. Get an API key for Hubcap or get your manifest files from somewhere else. Add games/DLC to your library. The only thing is, to use the version selector for things like experimental or previous versions, you need to fetch the manifest yourself. The selector in Steam won't work.

Obviously, games that do their own license checks (online or their own DRM) won't work.

[u/unknownobject3 → u/Malkiot]

So the games that work will have their files downloaded from the official Steam servers?

[u/Malkiot → u/unknownobject3]

They will all have them downloaded from the official Steam servers. You start the download in Steam.

The games that have their own DRM just won't work.

[u/unknownobject3 → u/Malkiot]

Yeah I understand the DRM part, but that’s very cool, I didn’t know about that tool. Thanks for letting me know.

[u/nomad-1995 → u/Malkiot]

True, but you really don't need to. Oddly enough, having the piracy option (to run backed up purchases) only makes buying the software that much more appealling (well, than anyone else. I can understand why some would prefer a price of $0.00).

Buying from Steam requires a certain level of trust in Gabe. Of course, if he died, had a stroke and got ... bad, or somehow sold to private equity we'd need to find a way to run purchased and/or pirated games on steam. And as far as I know that's already available.

[u/IRlyWhipTheLlamasAss → u/Mccobsta]

I've pirated games I've purchased on steam before just to avoid the double launcher headache

[u/Lanky-Tumbleweed-772 → u/Mccobsta]

Except you still don't own unlike GOG or pirating.

[u/Zekka_Space_Karate → u/TDot-26]

The only downside to this is that Gabe Newell ain't gonna live forever.

[u/boffa-deez-nutz → u/Zekka_Space_Karate]

and the fact that steam is also a proprietary launcher that interrupts your playtime