As someone who almost entirely emulates their games with the occasional pirated PC game, I’ve now spent about $150 on Steam games in the first month I’ve had my Deck. I can only imagine the bank they’re making off of people who are already used to buying their games. I’m officially ensnared. I haven’t been this excited about gaming since the original Xbox came out 21 years ago.
My Steam library is ~700. I pirate most every game that comes out if it seems interesting to me. But normally I end up buying them unless they’re from a crap dev or they used to be Epic exclusive. Frequently, because of the size of my backlog, I’ll download the pirated game, never install it, then buy the Steam game because it has been updated a bunch by then and its convenient to go back and forth between my PC and deck due to streaming and cloud saves. Also workshop, god damned do I love workshop. Except that one time it made me reinstall ~200GB of Arma 3 mods.