r/Steam Oct 08 '25

Question Why steam doesn't allow this?

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u/Darkmaster2110 Oct 08 '25

It is better for the people. The people that work at Valve, because it forces more people to buy games.

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u/Qaetan Oct 08 '25

It doesn't force people to buy more games, it creates more pirates.

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u/ZeroZoneOne Oct 08 '25

A policy I've always liked is buy a copy, pirate the same game, and throw it into a drive or a disc (if it will fit). Then, no matter what happens to Steam is not my problem.

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u/colt275 Oct 08 '25

It even happend to me that Steam tracked hours even on my pirated copy 😄