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Online play, remote play together, remote play, cloud saves, Steam Input, etc.

I always buy on discount, but owning things on Steam pretty much beats anything else.
For the first two, depending on the game, you can do those with pirated games too, lol.
The latter, either you can also do it, not sure, or like... it's just extra fluff that don't matter too much.

Yeah, if it's like a game that it's main focus is online play, then sure, it's better to "buy" it on steam or something, suppose the pic is more about... everything else, lol.
How many times games or anything else got removed from online stores and such for whatever reasons and you may not be able to play/watch/etc. anymore despite having "bought" it?
 

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For the first two, depending on the game, you can do those with pirated games too, lol.
For online, very dependent. If the game doesn't allow private servers, you should need a valid key to authenticate.

As for remote play together, you still need to buy a donor game.
The latter, either you can also do it, not sure, or like... it's just extra fluff that don't matter too much.
If you only play on one machine for remote and cloud saved, If not, manually copying and downloading a save every time you play is kind of a shore.

How many times games or anything else got removed from online stores and such for whatever reasons and you may not be able to play/watch/etc. anymore despite having "bought" it?
Except stuff that relies on external servers, like online matches, everything I ever bought on steam is still downloadable and playable and should be while Steam exists. Delisted games are delisted for people to buy them, but they are still there for download and play for whoever already had them in their account.
 
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Online play, remote play together, remote play, cloud saves, Steam Input, etc.

I always buy on discount, but owning things on Steam pretty much beats anything else.
parsec aside. just putting it out there that steam input works with most games. you can add non steam games as shortcuts inside steam and when you boot them up that way you can use steam input. great for games you own on other storefronts
 
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Pftht other storefronts lol. If it's not on steam it doesn't exist for me on PC. Unless it's F2P then it gets a corner on my desktop in folder marked when all else fails.
 

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Online play, remote play together, remote play, cloud saves, Steam Input, etc.
Online Play - the only thing piracy misses... most times.
Remote play together - so many ways around this. VNC, RDP, PARSEC, proprietary protocols etc.
Remote play - Just like the above.
Cloud Saves - Symlink to OneDrive or Google Drive.
Steam Input - Works even on pirated games. Also, not necessary for anything.

In summary, if you're not playing online, piracy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> rest.
I buy the games to support the devs, but sometimes the pirated version is simply better.
 
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