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Limp Gawd
- Joined
- May 10, 2007
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I am posting this to tell you about my strange relationship with game piracy. There was a time when people wrote "hey, I download it to see if I like it, then I will buy it".
Not even once did I believe anyone who said that. It seemed like an excuse to me and I bet to practically everybody else. I was also a fanatic regarding digital content. If it was not in a box, it was not for me.
Things changed for me in 2013. I had a Steam account I never used (got Dirt via an amd video card purchase, redeemed and uninstalled steam). So, a friend decided he wanted someone to play with. He gifted me a copy and kept pushing me to install Steam. One day I did.
Fast forward to the present year and day since I don't want to drag this too much. I have more than 600 games (yes, of course I will never play them all, what a silly question), I am a Steam addict.
The funniest thing of all though is that I am going through the toughest time of my life in the past 4 months. I mean, like not knowing if I will have to eat the next day tough. Still, being fortunate to live in my own place and minimal bills to pay, I refuse to play any pirated game, even though I won't be able to afford it.
It's not that I didn't try, mind you. I did. I thought to myself, fuck it Chris just download the goddamn game and play it. But I couldn't. It felt like a demo! Even though it was the full thing, the whole game, it FELT like a demo just because it wasn't enlisted in my Steam collection!
And I couldn't make myself to play it.
That's that. A small piece of perhaps meaningless confession for the eyes of all you [H] to see. After all, since I read these forums for many many years, it only felt natural to spill my (gaming) guts. Sorry if I bored you, peace and health to all of you.
PS: Steam or it doesn't count!
Not even once did I believe anyone who said that. It seemed like an excuse to me and I bet to practically everybody else. I was also a fanatic regarding digital content. If it was not in a box, it was not for me.
Things changed for me in 2013. I had a Steam account I never used (got Dirt via an amd video card purchase, redeemed and uninstalled steam). So, a friend decided he wanted someone to play with. He gifted me a copy and kept pushing me to install Steam. One day I did.
Fast forward to the present year and day since I don't want to drag this too much. I have more than 600 games (yes, of course I will never play them all, what a silly question), I am a Steam addict.
The funniest thing of all though is that I am going through the toughest time of my life in the past 4 months. I mean, like not knowing if I will have to eat the next day tough. Still, being fortunate to live in my own place and minimal bills to pay, I refuse to play any pirated game, even though I won't be able to afford it.
It's not that I didn't try, mind you. I did. I thought to myself, fuck it Chris just download the goddamn game and play it. But I couldn't. It felt like a demo! Even though it was the full thing, the whole game, it FELT like a demo just because it wasn't enlisted in my Steam collection!
And I couldn't make myself to play it.
That's that. A small piece of perhaps meaningless confession for the eyes of all you [H] to see. After all, since I read these forums for many many years, it only felt natural to spill my (gaming) guts. Sorry if I bored you, peace and health to all of you.
PS: Steam or it doesn't count!