Ever since I got into PC gaming circa 2006, I've never been a fan of game launchers, so every time I ran a game that had to show me a dialog box or a launcher of any kind before going straight into the black screen, it just annoyed the fuck out of me. Of course, things kept getting worse and worse, and nobody cared until the Stop Killing Games movement, which is still not good enough to allow us consumers to own the games we purchased.
I just like my games to run as soon as I double-click the desktop icon, man! I don't want constant updates from the stupid fucking cloud with stupid fucking seemingly-cutesy-but-actually-cringey-and-user-unfriendly messages like:
And of course, with every update, you bet your clueless fucking ass that they're just hoarding more and more personal data, and installing more spyware (AKA anti-cheat software with kernel-level access) while you're waiting for the update to complete in order to play a fucking video game.
At least with GOG Galaxy, I can easily download an offline installer for a game I bought, and not have to use the launcher ever again. After I deleted my Steam account, I had no way to access the games I bought, so no wonder customer support kept warning me as if I were some kind of clueless noob. In this situation, Gabe Newell's cocksuckers would say something like, “Well, why did you delete your account, then, dumbass?!” Well, you fucking retard! Because I'm a fucking pirate, and I can always get the games I bought for free, and I don't care about spyware-infested online gaming, got it, bitch?
If corporations only care about profit margins, underpaid employees, unpaid overtime, job interviews that lead nowhere, etc, why would I give a fuck about their retarded copyright laws or their retarded “You wouldn't download a car” ads? And before you bring up Mr. Goldberg's Steam emulator, I'd still have to download and install Steam and the whole fucking 9 yards, and I just don't want that! I don't want to have to sign up for every fucking fart on the planet just to play a fucking video game! I have 96 terabytes of storage! I can store my own shit. I don't need any cloud fucking service ever! And even if I lose all my data, I don't give a fuck. I'm a big boy! I can handle my shit!
That's one of the main reasons piracy will never ever die. I can simply download an ISO file, mount it, install the game, and play. No login required. No data-harvesting involved, no stupid fucking draconian End-User License Agreements, no nothing! Although the one EULA within the game can easily be ignored, since it's good practice to block Internet access to the game executable file anyway.
In my opinion, piracy is the perfect tool for knowledgeable consumers who want full control of everything they purchase online, so while some cowards on YouTube claim to be against it because they're afraid of not getting their pathetic ad revenue, I bet you a million bucks that they pirate shit left and right and they're proud of it.
The only YouTuber I know who openly advocates for piracy due to frustrations with Netflix, EA, etc, is Louis Rossmann. Obviously, most people would say that since he owns a business, he doesn't care about YouTube's pathetic ad revenue, but personally, I just despise people who have no problem forsaking their principles for the sake of making corporations richer, and pretending that they have no choice but to respect the platform's abysmal community guidelines. Like, assholes with 200K subscribers or more, nobody's telling you to show us how to crack apps or games or anything like that, but at least grow some fucking balls and admit that piracy is the only solution to guarantee that our digital goods can work whenever, wherever, like Shakira would say.
Oh, and from a moral standpoint, Steam is just fucking evil, man, period; they encourage fucking gambling like it's the fucking apocalypse! Kids left and right become addicted to opening stupid fucking lootboxes while their brains haven't even fully developed yet. Which is why when I see pathetic thumbnails like this from some retarded ad-sponsor-and-merch-revenue-obsessed cunt of a YouTuber:
I can't help but remember George Carlin saying, “Can we kill some of these motherfuckers?” Generally speaking, whenever some retards on the Internet with an audience start glorifying a public figure like Gabe Newell, I know they're just jumping on the fucking bandwagon for views and ad revenue; they literally have no opinion of their own, and so if mindless gamers like the CEO of Steam, that automatically means the CEO of Steam is a decent human being, which is fucking absurd. How can a CEO promoting gambling and fucking the heads of multiple generations be a decent human being? In what world does that deserve applause and admiration? Give me a fucking break, ya fucking common-sense-lacking retards!
All in all, I shouldn't be surprised, since most YouTubers are obsessed with money, so it's no wonder they try to sell you shit left and right even if it means they can be the most disgusting obnoxious pieces of shit on the planet with no self-respect whatsoever, not to mention the contradiction where, some YouTubers pretend to care about consumers, and yet all they do is try to get their audience to buy more stupid shit. It's fucking unreal!
But anyway, Steam fucking sucks donkey balls, and any service that sells video games as digital goods and shamelessly holds them hostage under the guise of convenience, it really doesn't deserve your money or time or respect. With piracy, you don't have to worry about geo-restrictions or a validation server for an old game becoming out of service or any weird sneaky predatory anti-consumer crap like that. Piracy is the only way to truly own digital goods, so greedy evil profit-obsessed corporations should just deal with the fact that it's never ever going anywhere.