For me the answer is 847 USD over 14 years …

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    5 hours ago

    $0.00.

    I never buy games on Steam. If you buy it, and can’t keep it, you don’t own it.

    I have Steam for a handful of free titles. The rest I buy from GOG.

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      5 hours ago

      That is wise. I wish they had more than the old games and the handful newer ones. Their moment will come when gaben signs off and steam will enshittify

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        1 hour ago

        Yeup, it’s probably an inevitability. I’m big on GOG and pirating, any sort of digital preservation.

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          I was a pirate since the 80s. I even financed my first sports car with warez-cds 😁 But steam does have its merits. Don’t worry about updates. As only the major games get updates by pir8s. But as steam’s DRM is trivial, it’s kinda easy-piracy. I already have like 50TB downloaded. If they ever go nuts I’ll download all my favourites and write a script to un-drm them.

          And I would love for gog to have current games too. Would stop buying at steam, but 99% of what gog has to offer I already have on steam for many years