I regularly pirated games before steam because it was convenient and cheap.

Now I never pirate games.

Okay, but the article touched on more points than just the consumer side. Do you see any issues with Steam from the perspective of content creators? Not necessarily with the platform itself, but in its cut of profits?

I attempted to put a game on Steam. I failed. I don't find Steam at all responsible for this - my game wasn't quality enough.

Totally. Steam single handily got me back into gaming on a (semi) regular basis.

Conversely, Steam turns me away from gaming. I want to own my games, not rent them with hopes Valve won't take them away from me.

Use Google. Their content is mostly DRM free and you can download games to local disk.

It made me not have an urge to pirate by removing the crap parts of drm.