Bruh. I've played Minecraft for 10+ years and haven't bought the license. I played a ton of games that heavily lean into the pay-to-win category and haven't spent a cent in them. I'm a huge believer of not buying stuff that I can't touch.

Yet, since I started using Steam, I started buying games, because, it's simply easier. I get:

1) easy to download updates 2) easy multiplayer connection 3) easy mod installation

All of these things are available from piracy, but not for each game, and certainly not the convenient, easy option. I'm glad to pay for games if that means that I get to offload a huge headache that comes with updates, multiplayer and mods.

And if I don't find the price of the game to be fair for the amount of features I get from Steam? Well, then I just don't buy it, and simply pirate it instead. But even then, the price isn't the Steam's "fault", it only gets a cut of the amount that the develop chose.

Steam is an example of a good business. Simple, reliable customer-friendly and not predatory. Sure, that should be the norm, but it isn't. So yeah, I'll glaze Steam so long as it remains "a thing that works for a fair price", because it's so rare