• LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    i mean, i don’t like pirating. i get a shitton of “free” (okay, minimal cost tax-subsidized if you want to pedant. probably a dollar a month that I’m gladly paying anyways) games from the library. i buy maybe one game a year.

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      12 hours ago

      Steam sales:

      Humble bundle deals:

      GOG giveaways:

      itch.io’s existence:

      FOSS games:

      Modded total conversions of existing games:

      Browser/F2P games:

      I mean libraries are awesome, but let’s not say pirating is the only option to get content on PC for cheap/free.

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        11 hours ago

        You didn’t even mention Epic’s giveaways or the games that come with a month of Amazon Prime. If you needed a gaming library in a hurry, there are great games given away for free or cheap on PC all the time.

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            1 hour ago

            I was going to buy my wife the latest Lara Croft trilogy for Christmas a few years ago and then epic gave it to me for free so I had to actually think about her gift