Piracy is not a “middle of the road” position. In our niche of the web, here, in the haven of the nerds reddit wasn’t nerdy enough for, piracy is a non-issue.

For a large amount of the population, it is still a criminal offense and in their minds treated as stealing (in parts ofc thanks to corporate propaganda), not as a logical answer to a consumer(and small creator)-hostile Intellectual Property Rights legal system.

At least, Steam has some pretty good followers should they enshittify. Gog, humblebundle and epic are all poised to take over should steam shit the bed.

They aren’t quite there yet, but at least you don’t need a subscription for any of them and can just add them to a unifying launcher like heroic etc.

I don’t know how Canada does taxes in advertised peicing, but if you were looking up USA pricing, make sure to calculate the tax into it, because the advertised price in that german grocery is including taxes.

Stop using AI slop