How is steam even popular anymore

>piracy has never been easier
>there's DRM free game platforms
What use does it have

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>What use does it have
Cloud saves and SteamVR

steamfags are former consolecucks who need a faggy place to congregate so they can show their tranny friends what steam achievements they've been unlocking and complete their digital library of games that can be taken away at any point.

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It's quite sad that almost no stores have a cloud for screenshots (looking at you bnet, so many WoW screenshots lost when my old ssd died).

Also, Steam reviews are very useful.

>piracy has never been easier
It's not though is it. For verified game torrents you still need private tracker sites, and even though I have access to one I would never run an unknown exe outside of a virtual machine on my computer, unless it came from like github or something. And I cbf to set up virtual machine.

Convenience desu.

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why would you even need a verified game torrent. its always uploaded everywhere. They are just sekret clubs for fags. Private tracker sites are only good if your in to something obscure like old movies

schizo post

Not going to defend Epic here but a lot of these Steam features are fucking useless.

Because you don't have to wait 2 years to play RDR2

No you don't. Just download from rarbg or other trusted tracker

>there's DRM free game platforms
Steam is DRM free.
Any and all steamworks features are optional that devs may or may not decide to put in the game.

Cheaper is the big epic feature

>retard who downloaded britneyspearssextape.avi.exe from emule in 2002

>>piracy has never been easier
And yet it has been on decline since its heyday back in 2006. Barely anyone even knows that it's possible to pirate games, grandpa

This.

Everyone knows Arthur Morgan dies at the end so why even play?

Viruses, cryptolocker ransomware, bitcoin minors, botnets, spyware, password keyloggers.
No one out there is pouring through this code to ensure your 50 GB game torrent is clean.
Technical literacy for the average pirate has only gone down, and the people who are releasing these torrents are also poor expert hackers from russia whose goodwill you are relying upon.

I am a consolecuck, I don't give a shit about any of that trash.
All I want is to be able to click on something once and have a fucking game load up, Steam does that.

>it has been on decline
proofs?

But I never wanted to play it

>pouring
*Scouring wtf is wrong with my brain

>mfw piracy destroyed spore and it will never be done again aside from unfinished tranny indie games

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what? spore destroyed itself by being shit

>Technical literacy for the average pirate has only gone down
you're a prime example of this

Piracy is a service problem

Cloud, sales, Proton and -- very important -- good regional pricing.
All this is convenient. Unlike GOG Galaxy, Steam runs on Linux.

And what games have you personally cracked recently?
None? Thought so.
If I'm technically illiterate, you're worse for running untrusted exes.

Weebs, furries, egirls and other kind of autists use it as a social media plataform.

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I like my Steam profile and I like getting every achievement in a game.

>Epic was supposed to kill Steam
>Two years later Steam is more popular than ever
>Steam even got EA and Microsoft to come back
What went wrong epicbros?

>DRM free
This is such a fucking meme. It's just like gluten free, nobody knows what it is and nobody really cares save for a small circle of hipsters.

In the end, GOG is just a worse Steam for people who hate Steam and it's missing like 95% of games available on Steam without even having any good exclusives to make up for it.

>Epic was supposed to kill Steam
no. it was supposed to create a competition

You forgot steam input. Probably the best feature PC gaming has.

yeh your right haviing the option of losing 2k worth of games is a great option. People are betting money on steam running forever.

Nokia was king of the world once and lost within a year when the iphone came out. Steam sin't some invincible entity.

How are you this paranoid?

At the onset of digital games distribution a lot of people felt like they didn't really own things if they weren't physical media. Now that digital games are completely normal it may be hard for some of you to understand the mindset a lot of people had back then but it really was normal for people to say things like "if it's only a file in your computer why wouldn't I just pirate it?", it was a real problem for digital distribution back then. Steam managed to fill that gap by forming a sort of psychological attachment to their platform where suddenly a digital game was not really "real" unless it was in your Steam library, it was normal to see people care about a bunch of games on some humble bundle only if they came with Steam codes, if they were DRM free then they were just some file on your computer that you could have simply pirates and thus not "real".

Genuine question here, are you fucking retarded?

>apples and oranges
>muh paranoid schizo fears
Why are anti steamers so fucking unhinged?

So you have 2k worth of GOG games backed up to external HDD's in case the world ends tomorrow?

It's almost as if people would prefer to pay and only don't pay when it's retarded.

is right, you know.

yeah, by paying devs millions of dollars so they would release their shitty games only on their platform

games with no local multiplayer bound to steamworks