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https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3

It's here.

That does make sense, although I'm not sure we can trust it to work like that.

And mass sharing of images/videos which has made it so much easier to connect people, specifically in one case I saw today of someone on Telegram sharing child porn. How do you even put the cat back in the box?

Because you need it to play them on Switch.

But everyone doesn't, piracy is still rampant.

I mean, PC games are constantly pirated across the world, but Steam has done things right. Switch games somewhat, although the difficulty means it's not that popular.

Because of physical media.

Sure, but that's a different issue; I agree with that. Don't forget that if you even are allowed to 'buy' them, they will close the online service for that platform in the future with no guarantee you can use it on another platform.

But you don't have the sub (cheap when sharing a family pack) so you can't play the N64 games anyway.

Right, but he sub is shareable and a pretty cheap barrier for entry... and required to play those GameCube games anyway.

So there will not be a way to play it when they eventually turn off their online service for the console. Uh huh. They were what we thought were the last bastions of protecting content/games, now... yeah, okay, they are just shooting themselves in the foot again and again here.

The person already said it wasn't because of that, no need to "perhaps" by disregarding the effort they went to.