Now this isn't much of a surprise as anyone who has seen Valve/Steam the past few years probably suspected they're like most other big name companies, cucked to china and deep state politics. I don't know how many people use steam here or would care, but I have noticed the past year that steam has been cracking down, must like any other forum or place where you once thought you could speak without facing the internet KGB.
I have been banned several times from my steam account, for over 3 months each time, for slight mention of anything the left wants to censor.
A chinese user on the forums who was trash talking the USA and the west in general, and saying China was number one, has cured the virus, and the virus comes from the USA. I dispute it, saying that the virus came from China, and faced a 3 months ban from some cuck loser working at valve's customer support. Many others were banned for even remotely disagreeing with the chinese users. Pages and pages of banned users and only the chinese users remain unscathed, despite breaking valve's rules.
Of course the left and China are never held accountable and rules don't apply to them, and are bent to oppress us.
Today I was seeing a lot of anti-trump posts. I checked one with a lot of activity talking about the election (almost all of it being anti-trump) and I said that the left has pushed the russia hoax for 4 years and has the balls to call us conspiracy theorists when we have video evidence of election fraud. Within the day every non-cuck was perma banned, all non-cuck posts were deleted, and this was again done by valve customer support.
It's clear in the past few years if not longer, they have been sucking up to China and appealing to their cancerous population and government more and more, at the expense of the rest of the world. The gaming industry is pretty much hot garbage especially when it comes to any large companies, all of them have sold their souls, so I say, don't feel bad about pirating games or movies or any other piece of media. Fuck them all.
Also of course FUCK CHINA FUCK GLOWIES FUCK GLOBALISTS FUCK COMMIES AND FUCK RIGGERS! Also fuck Valve.
Maybe the problem is giving money to steam.
Maybe you should stop
Gamers aren't know for high IQ levels or spines. They will rant and rave about a company and how evil they are for adding 3 dollar pink dildo microtransactions, but then buy whatever next game comes out by that very company anyways. It's why everything just gets progressively worse and worse.
Just like the rest of the world, it's a frog in boiling water.
OP, you just basically criticized yourself.
I don't buy many games, and I refuse to buy from most companies at this point. Never pre-order, never buy into stupid flashy marketing.