>waiting for a steam sale to buy a single-player gameWhy? Why not just pirate it? You clearly don't care about supporting the developers so why are you paying any money at all to be chained to a DRM service?
I like cloud saves.
Stupidity, I'd guess. Also retards who actually rely on garbage services like this human shit:>>735960175Plus most of /v/ these days are technologically inept zoomers. Piracy and especially emulation are basically alien concepts to them. Digital stores are retard proof and they have no principles so they are fine with supporting a service that censors users, pushes microtransactions and enforces DRM. They will usually try to counter this by obnoxiously claiming repeatedly that criticism of Steam means you support other, worse options like Epic because it's impossible to converse with someone who just keeps going>lol you eat poopielike a child. This is now the board where half the catalog is gacha or AAA dogshit most of the time.
why can't I care about supporting developers a little bit?
>>735960121I'm not a broke kid anymore
>>735960121Technical updates?Achievements?No risk of viruses?
>>735960121>why are you paying for your goods?im white
>>735960121Boy these Rothschild bots sure are getting desperate lol
>>735960121My backlog is big enough that waiting for sales is fine.Nobody has cleared their entire backlog so nobody should be buying games at full price.
>>735960459>AchievementsWhen this is spoken as a positive, you know this site is long dead.
And if i say that im a brainwashed gotcattle and spending (((money))) makes me feel nice, would you be satisfied with such an answer?
>>735960459>Achievementslollmao
>>735960459>Achievements?Based.
Seeing people defend DRM platforms when there are free alternatives makes me think that not only will we be moving to dongle-based cloud-connected computing but that people here will be proud to use it.
>>735960121Achievements. The only thing that matters in games. In fact, if a game doesn't have Steam achievements, I'll just pirate it at that point. Theres no benefit
>>735960121sales still support devs, or they wouldnt put said games on sale.
i'll pay that dollar or two for the convenience. it's not like it's real money anyway. just sell some cs2 case fro steam monopoly money. then buy some aaa game for 2 bucks on sale
i use to think this way but then it's just easier to pay like 5 dollars than to constantly fidget around with shit like workshop mods, cloud saves, dlc, updates, finding a good tracker
>>735961057The kind of games that would go for 5 dollar are so old that they should already have all updates and dlc in a single torrent.
I'm at the point where I'm not so poor I feel I need to get everything for free, but I'm not going to drop more than about $30 on something for an impulse buy.I'm also not so eager to play modern games as soon as possible that I feel I need to pirate them, and I appreciate not really having to deal with the inconveniences of piracy. Steam just is a very handy service, when you get down to it. >digging through torrent sites to find a good copy of Dark Souls 3 or something(and then playing it without the multiplayer features), when it's basically on sale for penniesWhy?
>>735960121it's literally easier and CHEAPER to buy a game than it would be to pirate it. you will never understand.
Just buy it on g2a if you are too dumb to pirate.
>>735960121To play on my Deck
>>735961527I don't know what that is, and it sounds low class.
>>735961563It's one of those site where you can either buy a game key for super cheap or more than what's actually on steam.
honestly gaben was right, patching pirated games is a chore.
>>735961563It absolutely is. Only third worlders use it.
>>735961628There's stuff like steamtools now that basically adds the game to your account with no licence, you can use steam to download and update, but then just use a steam emulator dll to actually run it.
>>735961246that's true but games constantly update and i delete a lot of games, if they release a big update, that huge completed all dlc and content won't have the latest update, i'll have download that, hope that it's well seeded or the links aren't down, wait for the new update to be in a separate install and hope that the hash check works for that update or redownload it all over again, hope that my saves are in the right directory or even there (cause of how pirated games save in multiple directors)of course all of this isn't a problem, but it's inconvenient. Is it 5 dollars worth of convenience where i can just click and download it on steam?
Ten bucks to the developer is still ten bucks to people who most likely made a game I enjoy.
I recently bought Omikron the Nomad Soul for 2 brazilian monis on GOG
convenience really sometimes i pirate sometimes I buy
>>735961527>too dumb to pirate.surely there is no such thing. even an 80iq quarter-wit can manage to use the big repackers' sites
>>735963602what sites?
desu it can be more convenient for my steam deck
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>>735963914that movie had too much sex
>>735960121I wish there was a way to buy a game without a sale because I pirate everything and only buy the games to support the devs (and leave good reviews).If I really like it I might buy it for a friend, but I'd rather get to just pay as much as the devs wanted me to pay.
>PLAYING games lol, what is this, 2012?
>>735960121I haven't pirated anything in over a decade and dont remember where to go or how to do it, and I dont want to risk downloading some sort of malware put in because im too tech inept to notice.Is the pirate bay even still open? I thought it heard somebody went after them years ago.
So I can show my friends my cheevos and get gamer cred
woke is paying for a multiplayer experience because you don't know any bettersmoke is pirating multiplayer games with friends so you can gift single player games to other people so that good games get rewarded instead of dopamine farming friendslop
>>735964135no, piratebay died and got resurrected by shadier entitiesmost gaem pirates just get their shit from tertiary sources like fitgirl and dodi repacks nowadays
>>735960346>assumption after assumption after assumptionGet your head out your assI can pirate games just fine. I just prefer to have them on Steam, usually because cloud saves and cheevos, and also Proton
>>735960121I pirate sometimes but if its cheap enough why not? Its not like movies or TV shows where the alternative is having to use 5 retarded streaming services with nothing I want to watch on it or hoarding plastic discs for no reason instead of just having an mp4 on my pc.
>>735960581It's literally been dead since 2014-2016.>2014: Gamergate>2015: Hiroshimoot becomes the new owner>2015: Hiroshimoot giving permanent control to /pol/-in-chief RapeApe>2016: Trump elected
>>735964454>usually because cloud saves and cheevosMy assumptions were clearly correct.
>>7359644912019 oldfag here, fuck off unc bitch.
>>735964759Not even closeHowever, my assumption of you being a massive faggot was correct
>>735964854>Also retards who actually rely on garbage servicesWanting "cheevos" and cloud saves makes you human garbage that doesn't belong here. It's just that simple. You should be actively hoping that any game that has achievements bombs and the developers go bankrupt for including such putrid filth.
>>735964937>Wanting "cheevos" and cloud saves makes you human garbage that doesn't belong here. Oh right, I forgot /v/ doesn't play video and this place is about gossiping twitter shitMy bad that I said I care about how I play my games>You should be actively hoping that any game that has achievements bombs and the developers go bankrupt for including such putrid filth.You're trying too hard to fit in and appearing as heckin basedJust stop
>>735965478>if you don't do achievements then you don't play videogamesEpic.>You're trying too hard to fit inYou don't belong here. Go back.
>>735960121>You clearly don't care about supporting the developersBut I do
>>735960121>waiting for a sale to buy a productWhy? Why not just steal it? You clearly don't care about supporting the store, so why are you paying any money at all to be chained to a capitalist service?
>>735960121>Only multiplayer games are worth paying money forI hate this normalfag mindset so much, enjoy your wasted money once the game shuts down or the community dies.
Always so happy when someone is that worried about my money
>>735965860come on, man. physical and digital ain't the same shit.
>>735960581Imagine not being able to prove you beat something on the hardest difficultyWithout proof you're just a shit talker
>>735966268you can manually set achievements on steam very easily
>>735960459retardretardretardsneed
>>735960121Some games are too niche to get the pirate copy updated.
>>735960121I don't get it either. Loyalty to Gaben I guess. Steam sales are only good for 90% off impulse buy games. Waiting a year for 20% off is just dumb.
What a dumb conversation if you wanna yarr harr pirate everything enjoy yourself doesn't mean I have to nor do I have to justify it to you. I think most conversations on this board wouldn't even happen if you could see how pathetic someone looks in real life. Imagine getting harangued by some skinny wristed weirdo with no hoes about how you buy games lmao
