OP, modified to add piracy section
DDS stands for digital distribution services
But support the developers if you can.
Devs: please just buy our game, we can’t afford to self release so we chose one of these DDSes.
Pirate: *pirates game
Pirate: Ya got a Patreon? No? Oops.
I pirate relentlessly, this is tongue-in-cheek, just to try to dissuade snarky responses, I know where I am.
I pirate AAA, I buy indie.
How to convert me to Linux from Windows? Spez. He started it all
I’m generally pretty much in agreement with the idea that online services are crap because you don’t really own the things you buy, but honestly I’ve been buying physical media since the 80s and pirating since the 90s, and the oldest games I currently have easy access to are ones I bought on Steam. I’m not a collector or an archivist or anything. Those just aren’t hobbies that interest me, and I move a lot, and don’t always take care of my stuff, and freely lend things to unreliable friends, and frequently wipe my drives to try out new Linux distros, so at this point even if Valve probably won’t be around forever I still expect my Steam games to last longer than anything else I could get. Steam is really the only reason I ever buy games at all anymore.
You can move your home directory to a different drive so that you don’t lose everything when you switch distros.
Yeah, I know, but I like starting with fresh dotfiles. It gets rid of all the weird settings changes I’ve made and makes the install really feel clean and fresh. I do have important stuff backed up. I’m just overly aggressive about removing unimportant stuff.
I’m actually about to do this this weekend. I use Arch on my laptop and Pop on my gaming desktop. I’m going to switch my gaming desktop over to Arch. The only thing I’m going to keep is my docs folder. Everything else is getting nuked.
I used to almost exclusively pirate because I couldn’t afford much of anything. Steam has actually enabled me to purchase most of the games I use since I can wait till they’re on special and cheap. There’s also a huge amount of indie games that would never have seen the light of day if they could only release on physical media or through their own website or whatever.
no Steam isn’t perfect, I would like Valve to take less of a cut but in terms of making games more accessible, I think they’ve done a decent job.
No shade on my fellow pirates who still exclusively pirate and don’t want to feed the corporate beast.
What’s the last thing?
Someone answered: https://lemmy.world/comment/8062838
Big(gest?) piracy forum
Mostly steam stuff, each game has its specific forum post with info on who cracked the latest versions of a game and whatnot, links to download methods and there’s also plenty of piracy related projects (like creamapi, goldberg, etc)
I’m not sure if you’re familiar with fitgirl-repacks, but most of her repack pages actually points to the cs.rin website for game updates
