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Introducing Steam Families
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this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2024
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It's stuff like this that makes me not even think about pirating games. Imagine a company that literally just improves features and makes it easier for me and my family to enjoy the media they sell. Why the fuck wouldn't I buy from their store?
Why streaming services don't understand this, I'll never know. Seems like the games industry is riding purely on Steam's usability while the film/TV industry is speedrunning enshittification.
The only games I've ever pirated are Sims 4 (I ain't paying 1000 bucks worth of dlc) and Starfield (I still feel robbed) because Steam just makes buying games at reasonable prices so easy.
The other day I bought RDR2, player it for an hour, didn't enjoy it and returned it no questions asked
The only thing stopping me playing that game through again is the first part of it being unskippable.
Fuck that prologue.
I never got through the prologue either... but I'm a completionist, and each mission was giving me extra parameters that made things so much harder than just 'beating' the mission.