The only safe way to play a lot of games is to download them in full, and then run the client in offline mode.

Only, you say? 🏴‍☠️

Gabe said that piracy is a service problem. And now Steam has come full circle to enabling a new service problem. Not because people don’t want to pay, but because they don’t want the money to go to these ghouls.

That said, I’m more in favor of picking up used copies of retro games when possible.