Steam sales and Humble Bundles really built my library. Never gonna touch half of those games tho lol
Humble bundle, fanatical, and isthereanydeal are my holy trinity of "Too poor to buy games on Steam"
And the early explosion of bundle sites. Fanatical was BundleStars, Indie Gala, and ton others that had weekly, then bi-weekly and then seemingly daily bundles.
Oh and itch.io and GoG
They make no losses, really. The people who pirate, either can't afford it or can't access it, or are done with the bullshit and taking a political stance to disengage. They were never among their customer base, anyway.
Checked last night. Since installing the Epic Game Store (pause for seething hate) I've acquired 156 games. Haven't paid for a single one. While most will probably never get installed/played, there's some great games in there. BioShock series, Civ6, KSP, Surviving Mars, etc.
Same guy that asked for my help looking at new apartments for him. After the tour ended he asked if I could cosign. Soooo yeah, stand up guy.
Don't fortget guys: Pirating from large corporations is beautiful and moral
Small and independent artists/creators, we should always buy their content
