>>105043636
>buy game
>NO FIRST YOU MUST DOWNLOAD THIS THING CALLED "TEH STEAMMMM"
>THEN YOU MUST REGISTER WITH A VERIFIED EMAIL ADDRESS
>MAKE IT EASY! LOGIN WITH GOOOOOOGLE? LOGIN WITH FAAAAACEBOOK?
>tries to make proton account because i dont want every game i play to be directly traced to my phone and geolocated
>FOR YOUR SECURITY, PROTON NOW REQUIRES SECONDARY EMAIL VERIFICATION. WE'LL MAKE IT EASY! LOGIN WITH GOOOOOGLE???? PLZZZ
>try my old mail.com account
>cant remember password
>cant remember username
>well which one is it
>try to dig up my old steam account from 5 years ago
>cant remember username
>....
>finally after a grueling ordeal, install Steam on my computer *puke* and manage to LOG IN
>suddenly a bunch of hideous uninvited wokeslop advertisements shoved in my face
>dig through Steam menus to figure out how to turn off overlays and all the other useless "features"
>try to find the game i wanted to get amongst a mess of trash unknown titles
>a friends list? i need a friends list to play single player games now?
>YOU HAVE SPENT EXACTLY THIS AMOUNT OF HOURS PLAYING THIS GAME
>finally find the game
>its A BRAND NEW GAME called WUKONG or DRAGONS DOGMA II or some shit
>takes 10 hours to download because its 500 gigabytes
>sit there depressed watching the dowload bar slooowly incrementing
>go to work while it downloads
>finally come, primed and ready to enjoy some gaming kino!
>how do i start the game?
>oh, i need to rifle through menus some more while doding ads, find the game I "own" now and click on the big blue PLAY button
>encounter unskippable cutscenefest/tutorial intro
>can't play the game for 2 hours because i must watch cutscenes
>finally get to push buttons on the controller and "play"
>game runs like dogshit because of Denuvo
>game turns out to be shit
>barely passed 2 hour refund limit
>$70 down the drain
>uninstall Steam from my computer in disgust
>every fucking time

vs

>pirate game
>10 minute download
>double click on .exe
>play

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