Piracy is an accessibility and quality control problem, not a cost one.

That depends on who you ask, lol.

You're just parroting Gabe Newell as though what he said is gospel.

He's a great man with a lot of good things to say, but this simply isn't true.

If you're paying for something you can get for free while the business selling it to you is making egregious profit, you may be a sucker.