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Steam: The Antidote for Piracy?

By james_fudge

CrunchGear has an interesting editorial penned by an admitted fan of pirated games who sings the praises of Steam. Naturally the author wishes to remain anonymous so that he doesn't get in trouble, but this also allows him to be honest about his activity.

In the article he acknowledges that he has a lot of excuses that may or may not be fictitious; games costs too much money, he'd have to drive to the store or wait for a game to come in the mail, he'd have to make sure he didn't lose his retail disc code or he'd always have to have his disc in a drive for some games. But he acknowledges that all of these excuses are not really appropriate and that Steam handles games best. In fact of the few games he has paid for both he got from Steam - Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).