Gabe has a point. I can pretty easily accept that piracy is a non-issue for valve. More than anything, Gabe realizes that antagonizing pirates is a losing battle because of how easily offended PC gamers are to any notion of wrongdoing.
I also agree part of the problem is that the pirated product is in many cases better than the bought product. The biggest 'better' will always be a pricetag of $0, all other benefits are a subset of that. Like anything, there is a lot of nuance to piracy, and the reasons that people repeat online as justifiable or even noble reasons for piracy are kind of embarassing.
At the same time, the topic of piracy has been beaten to death over and over. I'm not sure what to get out of this other than Gabe panders to PC gamers by showing that providing a decent product on decent terms is appealing to consumers?
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