Steam Deck Users are PIRATES!
8I want to have a Steam Deck or a Steam Deck-clone someday in the future.
"Typical Steam Deck user activity to be honest."
Apparently, the typical activity is playing Nintendo GameCube games. I mean god forbid that people are playing great games in their system of choice, right?
"If it wasn't for Nintendo games, what would most of these people even be doing with that machine?"
Oh, I don't know, play Steam games? I mean the name Steam is right there on the Steam Deck, and Steam has a pretty big library of games. A lot of which you can even buy at super cheap discounts.
"People pirate their games because they can."
Most often, yes, but those people also tend to be really broke like me.
"They'll do it until the end of time no matter what Nintendo does as evidenced by the Switch era."
Yes, people do pirate on the Switch era. Think whatever you think of those people. That doesn't dismiss the fact that Nintendo games prior to the Wii U are straight up way too expensive.
"As far as what people can afford, if they're buying Steam Decks to emulate stuff, their price complaints are irrelevant."
If we're talking about Steam games, you might make that argument, but the same cannot be said to GameCube games that can be over $50 or even hundreds of dollars, and it requires an original GameCube console.
"Nah, it's an ability issue. If there's a will, there's a way."
If that is the case, then there would be way more pirates than there would be people who buy games, right? What kind of dumbass would resist the temptation of getting free games?
"Them bums are pirating a game as we speak, and why? Because they can."
Yes, a lot of pirates pirate games because they can. That still doesn't dismiss the fact that piracy of games highlight a major problem in the gaming industry. Games of the past are now lost in time due to licensing issues or consoles that are no longer in production.