As someone who almost entirely emulates their games with the occasional pirated PC game, I’ve now spent about $150 on Steam games in the first month I’ve had my Deck. I can only imagine the bank they’re making off of people who are already used to buying their games. I’m officially ensnared. I haven’t been this excited about gaming since the original Xbox came out 21 years ago.
Even more than that, I just can’t buy games on other services, even if they’re a better deal.
There is built in value in the fact that my Steam games can come with me.
While you can’t really use Epic or Origin, sure, there are quite a few stores that sell legit steam keys. IsThereAnyDeal is a great source for checking and tracking them E.g, Horizon Zero Dawn, most if not basically all of those shops will give you a key you activate on steam.