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I would love to see a chart with my steam purchases over the years. There would be a huge spike up as soon as my deck arrived.
Same. I play the same 5 games throughout the year and rarely buy anything, but a few games I'd been looking at went on sale. I could've pirated them, but it was just so much easier to click buy on my Steam Deck and instantly download and play them. Not to mention cloud saves for free, remote play, and the ability to dock the thing to my 65" 4k TV.
Steam has robbed me of more money than any streaming service ever could, and I'm not even mad because they provide the best service I've ever received no matter how many or few games I buy. They recently identified one of the biggest reasons for refunds and piracy being people who want to validate games will run well on their system, especially on Steam Deck. As a result they're working on a demo feature so you can test a game before buying it.
A demo feature would be absolutely amazing.
Yeah and once I got a steam deck I got back into PC gaming and built a rig spending even more money on steam games. It's win, win for Gabe.