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Piracy

This meme is so true. How can the boxed price of a game (or software) be the same as its Steam or digital version? When you buy a game digitally, it never truly belongs to you; services like Steam or PS Store only allow you to download and play it.

20 years later, you can plug in your Atari cartridge and play, but you can’t be sure that Steam won’t go bankrupt and deactivate its servers. Thousands of people are dumping and archiving games, shows, and movies, trying to keep them accessible with their own means, while companies and lobbies label them as criminals. The companies, with their excessive pricing, instead of selling their products once, turn them into SaaS with lifetime monthly subscriptions.

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