This month, I bought 226 PC games for C$185.82 ($134.58)
Now are those a lot of games? Yes, it’s a silly amount of games. Perhaps I’m addicted to good deals that deliver fun.
We all have a vice, and this is mine. I don’t drink, or smoke, or gamble – but I buy lots and lots of video games.
Though back when I was a console gamer, I’d might get eight games for that price – if I were lucky.
Sure, there are risks both ways but one can be mitigated more than the other. The piracy hammer has always come down on distributors with very rare exceptions. With proper precautions (VPN, usenet, foreign seedbox, etc…) nobody would ever know or care about the private individual self hosting a media server on a closet raspberry pie.
Legally you’re covered with Steam but you have very little actual control over your collection. The ideal is legal physical media that you can digitally copy and store but that’s basically impossible these days.