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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not Steam, but interestingly some Microsoft published games will unlock Xbox achievements when pirated, presumably because they built the version sold on Steam to unlock achievements on both platforms. Pirated Psychonauts 2 and got the little under half you get on a casual non achievement hunting playthrough on my Xbox account

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd be careful about that friend

With the aggressively anti-user and poorly thought out moves tech companies have been making lately, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to start using little discrepancies like that to go after people

It would be dumb, way more effort than it's worth, and likely extremely invasiv... Probably not likely, but I would've said the same about a lot that's happened in the last couple years.

But all the same, in your shoes I'd look into blocking that on the off chance it puts a target on your back

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Was years ago when the game first came out, plus am a Gamepass subscriber now anyway so "officially" have a license (yadda yadda, subject to subscription running out or them deciding to drop a game they own from their catalog). But there's always a chance I suppose