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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 55 points 10 months ago (8 children)
[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No subscription fee to use Steam. Games are available to download and play offline. 3 clicks of the mouse to buy, install, and play a game. It's so damn easy to use Steam, I don't miss buying physical PC games and I certainly don't miss rolling the dice on russian cracks.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 16 points 10 months ago

Steam also has so many features that cracks usually can't or don't offer. Friends system, anticheat, workshop modding, cosmetics, multiplayer (although this is actually a case of it usually being locked behind Steam), fast updates, Proton, just to name a few.

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