>>15909775I was a pretty ardent supporter of Steam for the longest time but eventually I started to feel like it was the antithesis of the sort of PC gaming I grew up on. The Steam Deck seems to be the foreseen conclusion here, where a proprietary DRM and social networking platform has been encapsulated in console form while still calling itself "PC gaming".
Valve's massive stranglehold on the industry has basically killed all qualms I have about pirating, even though gamers turning to pirating is ironically part of what's forcing devs to appeal to normalfags and ESG-score analysing investors resulting in the decline of gaming.
