He said he took pictures of old xp keys in second hand shops and upgraded them.

I’ve also never bought a windows license, i still use my education licenses after university a decade ago. I have not heard of pc parts with an OEM license attached, thats why I believe you can have used windows all your life without ever paying something to microsoft.

The user you replied to probably build his pc from parts and thus not paid indirectly to Microsoft.

Yes, but the first comment asked why games are so huge o the harddrive.

I was referring to the hard drive, not the download. I think loading times increases if you have the textures compressed.

Decompression uses the cpu, so you loose performance if you compress textures.

They are not a developer anymore. They are just a game store/directory.

CSGO 2 would like a word with you