As someone who almost entirely emulates their games with the occasional pirated PC game, I’ve now spent about $150 on Steam games in the first month I’ve had my Deck. I can only imagine the bank they’re making off of people who are already used to buying their games. I’m officially ensnared. I haven’t been this excited about gaming since the original Xbox came out 21 years ago.

  • shaunydubBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I avoided Steam for years, only used it for Football Manager as no other option. Always been a mostly console gamer. Then I got the OG Steam Deck and now have nearly 600 games in my collection…a lot of them not even played and a good portion games I played And completed several times on console like Mass Effect, Skyrim, Fallouts etc.

    So Valves strategy works.

  • JrDeveloper12BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I remember when I first got my Steamdeck I swore up and down that I wouldn’t buy a game cause I already had a library of 2000+ Roms. So what more could I want to play! I had a ton of Wii, PS2, GameCube, and even Switch Games!!!

    …Then the Summer sale happened a couple months later and some of the games I like were pretty cheap…

    Then the Autumn sale, and a couple more games that I liked were on sale…

    …I have now spent a combined total of $300+ on games from Steam (and even then, that’s buying them specifically when sales happen)

  • CitricDolphin_BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve always preferred to own games on Steam because it feels more permanent than anywhere else. I’m never gonna lose access to my account, I’m never gonna have to worry about new hardware that’s not backwards-compatible, and I’m never gonna have to deal with weird launcher migrations (Origin -> EA).

    For a while there the Switch become my platform of choice because of its hybrid nature, but Valve has managed to rope me right back in with the Deck. I’ve even re-bought some games just to have them on Steam.

  • rj18ArjunBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I feel you. I just got my steam deck today and I’ve purchased more games (around $30-$50 on sale games) than I ever have in my life. And I feel good doing so! I’m finally not pirating, I have my game saves forever in the cloud, and my achievements can be seen to everyone!

  • br3nn88BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Piracy is always going be a concern and people will always do this, … however is the price is right, and not over the top more people will purchase for the ease of installation, updates, bug fixes etc :) …

  • eMPeBe_YTBBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I buyed gta v on for steam deck and already had the game on epic when was free

  • 210evanBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve already spent 1k in games cause of the deck