It’s the year 20X6.

I, his inheritor, am sorry to inform you that GabeN has passed. I’ve realized that I want an even larger pile of money, and it’s come to my attention that you aren’t paying for us to maintain your account.

You have 30 days to download your content or subscribe to Steam Plus at a cheap $X9.99/mo to avoid account deletion.

You’re literally not their market. That’s why so much of what they focus on are digital only sales, consoles, deals and schemes. They want buy once at full price, never resell.

They aren’t your friends, they don’t care about you - they care about the money in your pocket.

They know they are too big to fail, so they are gonna raise prices 50% no problem.

Steam is not free. Steam is 30% cut to businesses.

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft offload their costs via yearly subscription costs as well as developers paying a protection fee to launch on their platform. Steam just has the highest protection money scheme. You wouldn’t want anything to happen to the games you’re publishing through them, would you?

I’m certain this can be disabled in windows at any moment as without it loads and loads of criminal evidence would be available for discovery and litigation against the wealthiest people and businesses across the world.

A real fear is being a worker in a world with micromanagers inspecting your workweek, 3 second snapshots at a time.

linux primary with dual boot for a windows install just because of the games that won’t work.