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No they just don't have access to the entire data set. Yes this is part of it but I as a consumer have bought tons of games I never touched on steam on sale.
Why? Because I played them pirated ages ago.
I have about 50 Visual Novels in my library on Steam and I never touched a single one. Why? Because I'm giving money to the developers and collecting at the same time. I don't need to replay old Visual novels I played as a Teen.
I will however buy it on Steam and I will buy some small trinket in Japan.

I don't really care about playing To Heart. But as soon as it went on sale I bought it. Aquaplus deserves the money. Unlike western companies it's still the same people working there after 25 years.


I played every single Age of Empires and C&C game like a madman when I was a kid, I don't need to play them again except for skirmish here and there yet I own them all on Steam.

Honestly the biggest problem I have as a consumer is the fact that I can't reward the people that made my youth better, the developers of the old games.

Every single Western Studio is a Corposlop Ship of Theseum only there in name as a Corpo Licence holder.

At least with Japanese studios I know that I'm giving money to the same people.

https://myanimelist.net/people/38224/Naoya_Shimokawa

Naoya Shimokawa from Leaf is still at AquaPlus