Pirate before you buy

Witcher 2, passed the whole game and bought a legit copy 3 of them actually for my friends.
Dark souls 1
bfbc2
Risk of rain
Terraria

Yes. Mount & Blade.

I don't think you anons really know how this works.

you're right, i should've got more precious 'hidden gems' in there like Dark Messiah and Spelunky

shit EA game for autistic people but not autistic enough to play dwarf fortress or MUDs

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mount and blade

Pirated Banner Saga 1. Finished it. When 2 came out, I pirated and beat it too. I bought it shortly afterwards because I wanted to hopefully pay for the sequel.

The only reason I buy games nowadays is if I want a new game from that studio or a sequel to the game they made.

You have to try, before you buy. Always. Problem is, that you can't try without pirating, since in current climate of extreme false advertising, you can't trust even demo versions.

Pretty much all of them for like 5+ years now. Been burned too many times by games I play for three hours then never touch again.

This. And that is providing you even get a demo. I can only think of a handful of games that even offer that anymore. I remember when it was common for games to have a few demos loaded onto them and they would usually be incredibly fun because they had to show off what the game had at their peak.

It's strange that Demos aren't more widespread. With how fast people's internet speeds are and how easy it would be to distribute demos, I expected it to be a more common thing.
I guess streaming and jewtube "replaced" demos in a sense. Still, people being able to PLAY the game and have a feel for it's mechanics is infinitely better than videos.

I think demos aren't widespread for the same reason we have to resort to pirating a game to find out of it's worth buying or not.
Because most games are shit and the developers want you to shell out the shekels as it was the only reason they made the game.
This is also why tons of indie developers lost their shit and freaked out when steam began refunding games.

Nothing wrong with Factorio. Some folks just don't like that it's early access.

Yes. If the game is shit, no buy, if i liked it, buy. Its that simple.

You just unintentionally demonstrated how idiotic buyers are by saying "because you actually thought the developer deserved your hard earned cash". The "cash" from sales never goes toward developer's favor unless the publisher is reputable, but simply no reputable publisher exists today. Buyers are idiots who think they're being morally upright yet end up contributing to the decline of video games because they're giving publishers full control

if you're going to pirate, just pirate. Don't even bother buying, sales beyond the 2 week to 2 month launch period are so fragmented they are barely even tracked. At best you get what are essentially joke headlines like "TF2 sold 3000% more than it did at launch [at 2.50 a pop]"

demos in the case of PC exist to see if your hardware runs the game, demos in the case of console sell games. I don't remember anyone bitching about nier automata after the demo evacuated their anuses

It's not about shit like that, it's about giving money to devs who make good games so they'll make more good games.

There are plenty of small devs these days who publish and sell their own shit. Not so much with AAA games though, besides maybe CDPR.

here's the problem, it doesn't look like that to the developers. It doesn't look like that to the publishers, the store, anybody. What it looks like is some late comer to their 60,554 sales is making it 60,555 (checked) after the game was knocked down to 50% sales price.

It is worthless pretty much.

I'm not talking about buying shit from Steam or any other bullshit store like that. People who buy shit from Steam have no room to bitch about consoles. But anyway, I'm talking about small devs with their own sites you can buy the game from. More money in their pocket makes it more viable for them to make more games.

I pirated Just Cause 2 and then bought it ($5) because of the Just Cause 2 Multiplayer Mod. I miss those days, goddamn it. Everything else, no, just pirate.

Reported because ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

You just unintentionally demonstrated how idiotic people who only pirate are by saying it doesn't matter if publishers get money. These people honestly believe they can do no wrong and that if a game doesn't sell, it's because the developer fucked something up or the public just didn't want it. This means that when a publisher doesn't get money from a good game, they don't hear "I stand against Denuvo" or "I stand against always online single player games." They hear "I don't care for this game" and shitcan the studio that made it. You're right that devs hardly ever see any money from sales of the game, but you're retarded if you think sales don't directly influence whether or not a publisher allows a studio to continue existing, let alone make a new game. Yes, 99% of modern games are trash, but if you don't pay for the good ones, you'll never see any more good ones.

good goy

If you don't give money to devs who make good games, how will they be able to make more games?

Yes, it's the case for 80% of my steam library. I'm a firm believer in supporting games I like, but I do not like to buy blindly.

I said specifically because you thought the developers should get some money.
Of course if the publisher was EA or something than it wouldn't matter how many times you bought Red Alert 2, you still aren't going to get a good RTS.
The games I listed all have reputable publishers or are self published.
Let's look at the list shall we.
Devolver Digital
Self published.
Self published.
Self published.
Bohemia Interactive (Shitty but they actually pay the team to work on games even after all these years)
Self published.
Self published.

The only thing you highlighted is what a presumptuous idiot you are.
No one is going to buy fucking KOTOR expecting the old Bioware team to get the money,

these devs also see similar sales patterns but due to their size sales are a notable boost for them. It's the difference between getting paid $200 in a week and getting $2000 when it comes to devs of that size.

That said, there are very very very few games really worth giving a shit about from developers of that size.

There's not many, but they exist. Dwarf Fortress, Factorio, and plenty of others I can't think of right now.

and publishers always interpret those sales into something ridiculous, a dumbed down sequel that no fan cares for and is only attractive to a mainstream normalfag audience who will then also quickly get bored of it too, they are shortsighted and don't care how long a video game franchise survives as long as it makes money immediately. This is the most important point: The publisher interprets the sales, not the developer. Publisher always overrides dev's word, and they aren't video game players. They are businessmen. It is actually fairly obvious

get better bait

Yeah, I pirated X3 reunion then bought it because I liked it and wanted to play some of the expanded content which required a legit copy

You can always tell a real difference between self-published games and games that were published and developed by two different companies. Self-published games stay pretty true to themselves and can be creative, while games with an outside publisher have to change so much to suit this audience or that so the publisher can make more money.

Sure fam.

Honestly, piracy has earned more than a few games my cash; I think the most recent one was Hollow Knight, which I also got several friends to purchase.

it would have really helped if you specified in the original post that this whole thread is only about self-published games or games that are guaranteed to grant revenue the the original devs when bought. Obviously not all games are self-published, and when people say they bought Deus ex human revolution, they are objectively fucking retards

If they give a shit about video games they'll do it out of passion. Only jews are in it for the money

Yes.

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Mafia
Commandos 2
Brothers in Arms 1

Yes.

It hasn't happened much, because most games I've pirated don't end up being very good anyway, and I get bored before I even finish them, let alone get around to buying them.

It's possible to buy PC games without Steam.

Yes. Dragon's Dogma.
I think there was another small indie title I ended up buying, too, but Dragon's Dogma is the only major one.

Games I feel like I need to buy:
I can't buy because I'm poor as fuck but if I could I would buy these games. Not at full price, but I would buy them. I would include Deux Ex, Thief I and II, STAKLER, and a few others in there, but I won't because either the developers are long dead and the money will instead go to Square Enix or some bullshit company, or I can't find a place where to buy a DRM free copy. I also won't buy old ass console games on a DRM platform, so I exclude most emulated titles.

Same, pirated to check out the controls and how it ran then bought it. Great little game.

+1
I pirated Hollow Knight cause I was curious, played a couple hours then just bought it.

Distance

from the top of my head
>undertale
>borderlands 2

At times, but usually I'll buy for one platform, and then pirate for the rest. So, like with Nier Automata - I bought it for PS4, but as soon as it's cracked - I'm pirating it for the PC.

It's far more common for me to pirate older shit, and then buy later sequels of the stuff I liked. Probably never would have given Project Diva a shot if I had to pay retail price for it - since I don't really especially care for Mikushit and I'm pretty bad at rhythm games. But I pirated Diva/Diva2nd on PSP on a recommendation (and hey, it was free) and found they were a lot of fun and extremely addictive - so I did a bit of research on more current titles and bought Future Tone with both song packs since it seemed like the best one.

Endless Space
Serious Sam HD
Deus Ex
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Shadow Warrior
Undertale
SpaceForce: Rogue Universe
Europa Universalis III
Civilization V
Daggerfall
Morrowind
Oblivion
Skyrim
Planescape: Torment
Divinity: Dragon Commander
The Longest Journey
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Heroes III of Might and Magic
Rollecoaster Tycoon
System Shock 2
The WItcher
The Witcher II

I've pretty much bought every game I've ever pirated and thought was good, at least when I was able to afford it.

I don't see anything wrong with this. If I don't buy a game because it's bad then there was no reason to give the studio money in the first place. If I can't afford it, then I wasn't gonna give them money anyway. But there is a net benefit when those poor pirates play your game they'll spread the word, essentially free advertisement. I don't see the point of denovu or shit like that. If your game is good people will buy it regardless. DRM only does more to sully the image of your studio.

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Bought after piracy:

Avoided after piracy:
And a bunch of other terrible shit I can't even remember if I tried.

Actually thinking about it, if I like a game enough I'll buy it. But I have never done the same for a movie, series, anime or album. I'll buy manga after reading it online as I'm a weirdo that hates reading comics and books on a screen.

who is this sludge pudge?

An anime girl.

I can see that. Yes, she is quite a specimen. Very nice.

Grim Dawn
PMD: Explorers of Sky Although I pirated Time

Those are at least the ones I can remember buying after pirating.

Only ones in the last couple years that I can remember. Normally I just buy games in series I know I like and skip pirating those, or this would be a longer list.

She is nice, isn't she?

Tiny senpai is not for lewd.

I can't help it user. These udders on such a petite frame drives me crazy.

trips of truth.

Let's see, from what I can remember, here are the games I pirated before I bought.
Trails of Cold Steel 2
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Deadly Premonition
If My Heart Had Wings
Jazzpunk
Recettear
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim
Ridge Racer Type 4

Pathologic.

Hyperdimension Neptunia Rebirth 1-3
Megadimension Neptunia VII
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus
Senran Kagura: Estival Versus
Trillion: God of Destruction
Saints Row II
GalGun: Double Peace**

*not installing until I get a better graphics card or am willing to play on lower settings, whichever comes first (GTX 950)
**refunded due to the game over crash.

Why her boobs in a diaper??

That's an apron.

mgsV

On the top of my head there was

It doesnt always happen, sometimes I just delete it I'm bored and dont feel like touching it again, but when theres the rare exception it makes me glad to own the game.

I bought Dragons Crown even though I didn't own a PS3.
It was worth it to make all the SJWs universally decrying the game salty. And I bought a PS3 to play it a few months later and was pleasently surprised to find it was more than a titty and ass simulator.

Same here.
I also bought Darkest Dungeon after having pirated it five different times.

Dragons Dogma

Witcher 3
Valkyrie Chronicles
STALKER SoC - Before GSC disbanded and canceled STALKER 2, I also recommend anyone to pirate this game now.
KOTOR 1 & 2 - it wasn't to help the devs but more because I was actually into the EU
Shogun 2
Metro 2033
Euro Truck Sim
Dark Souls - muh ports
Serious Sam
Torchlight 2
POSTAL 2
Mountain blade 1&2 - obvious reasons

I've only done that with Ico and Undertale, but only once it hit 50% off. There are others like old id Software games where I'd love to buy them if it wasn't for Zenimax, or shit like Cryostasis where the only option is finding a used copy somewhere.

>Cities: Skylines meh

I've probably put over 100 hours, at least, into each one of these games, so I guess I got my money's worth.

I pirated the leaked Dragon's Dogma a week before the PC release and ended up buying 3 copies of it. Aside from that I pirated -> bought:

and maybe more that I forgot about

There isn't a single human being on earth that would buy that game after playing it. It's impossible. At least make your b8 believable.

I've never purchased anime because I hate Funimation, Crunchyroll, and NISA (yes, they ruin anime, too). The nip BDs are retarded expensive, I'd rather spend that money on PC parts or other shit. I buy enough figures and other merch to make up for it though.

I'm playing RCRU pirated right now, and I really want to buy it, but it's unbelievable how shit all of the grappling characters are. I'm told it gets better but I feel like fucking breaking my controller in half struggling to collect money and XP so I can polish this turd, meanwhile I could switch to a level 1 any non-grappler character and breeze through any area.

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I only pirate games I hope are good but suspect are shit so the vast majority are actually shit and I never buy them.

Yes.

I think about the only game I ever did that with was Terraria. In the early stages of the game I was in highschool and had no money, my friend told me to play terraria, I loved it, then when I started making money it was on a steam sale, so I bought it for $5.

Other than that, I generally don't buy a lot of new games, and when I do, it's stuff that I know I'll like. Most of the games I own come from humble bundle, whether they're really good or not, it's such a negligible amount to pay.

Just about the only games I actually even pirate are older games, I always emulate, and I'll sometimes pay just for the games I believe are worth it (I've payed for SotN like 3 times.)

Pirated Hitman 1 a long time ago. Recently bought it.

Bought Fallout 3/New Vegas on PS3, pirated on PC, then bought on PC (twice because I messed up not getting GOTY edition).

Played a pirated copy of Supreme Commander a long time ago on my family computer. Loved it so bought it after building my own a few years ago.

Played tons of steam family-shared titles which isn't pirating I guess. Bought a lot of them, usually on GOG though.

Not many games I pirate and don't eventually buy. I think Max Payne 3 is the last game I pirated that I didn't buy, solely because of the DRM. But also the cut-scene shit was annoying, too.

Oh and a few porn games I pirated that I feel bad about. I will buy them too but I'm just too broke right now.

Yes I have actually, and it gave me a strong argument for emulation. I first played the Project Diva games on PPSSPP and then ended up getting the rest of the series from the PS3 games onwards. Same thing happened with Persona.

I do if I like the games. I've gotten over time several games I pirated before like:

There are more, but that's off the top of my head. I believe devs who make a good game deserve to get paid and recognized, and I will stand by that for as long as I can.

Every single thread

I bought Estival Verus and Vallhalla after pirating them, those are two recent examples anyway.

Motherfucker, you got too careless.

Yet you still gave him 6 replies.

Shortstack is a top tier fetish.

Calling out bait isn't the same thing as biting it.

Terraria
Starbound
Europa Universalis 3

If we're talking just expansions the list is significantly longer

If you say so m80.

Yeah I find it tiresome that when JRPGs are ported to Steam so many just pirate it.

The Japanese are paranoid as it is about piracy and reverse importing. But it keeps playstation the default hardware for JRPGs so whatever.

hold on faggot

Every game I bought on PC I pirated before hand, I don't trust a single word reviews say and most people are blind fanboys or casuals, i;m not going to buy on blind faith or "hype".
Why doesn't anyone make demos anymore?

I've done it like a million times. The first time I did was The Sims I think. First I got a pirate CD from my friend, after spending thousands of hours in it I just went ahead and bought the original because I thought that money was the worth the time I spent in it. I still do it but very rarely these days since there isn't many games that I like

No, never and anyone who does is retarded.

Only on massive discount/humble bundle.

Worth mentioning:

Nothing over $7.

Only because I'm a poorfag, no.

The steam refund option should pretty much do away with the pirate before you buy mentality. Though two hours may not be enough for some games.

Is this bait? How many games have you developed for free or do you admittedly have no passion for games?

I pirated and then bought Hotline Miami 1&2, The Witcher 2, Fallout Miami, Portal, The Darkness 2, Dishonored, DMC4, Skyrim, Flatout 2, Hitman Blood Money, Metal Gear Rising, Mirror's Edge, Nidhogg, Transistor, Bastion, Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac.
There are a bunch of games I pirated that I'd like to buy (Mass Effect 1/2, etc) but won't because of shit business practices and pirated version being better in every way.

The way darksiders 1 did was great.
You got to play an entire dungeon as the demo.

I pirated the fuck out of Hotline miami 1, then bought it on a -80% sale

paying full price is lame.

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Yes.

as a HUE pirate who constantly gets games FOR FREE.

I did end up buying games I liked, especially those with mod support or has some form of MP feature that isn't shit.

i bought one of the tropico games after pirating, as well as bastion, warband, the first stalker, magika, and FTL.

Man Dark Souls 1 never goes on sale

I did so with Brigador, but because It had updates.

And I waited until it was Winter Sale

I pirate all of my games and if I put more than 20+ hours into a game then I buy it when I have some extra cash.

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Yes, Risk of Rain convinced me to buy it with how fun it is and how cheap it is to buy

There's no pirate for Yooka Gayle yet, I wanted to see how bad that pile of shit was while I waited for the good counterpart with the hats to come out but I couldn't find a torrent.

I mostly buy the games i have pirated at a sale since i'm a huge poorfag, general rule for me is to never pay above 20 bux
>Mount&Blade: Warband twice and it's expansion packs
There's also games that i contemplated on buying after pirate:

You what?

Mount & Blade
Fallout New Vegas
Sengoku Rance
Terraria, don't know if it counts, I bought it on release day, but I played the pre-release version that was leaked on 4/v/ back in the day.

Devil May Cry 4
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Star Ruler
EDF 4.1
Rule the Waves
Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations
STALKER SoC
A bunch more I'm not going to autistically type out, it's not like anyone's reading this.

It's rarer that I pirate a game and don't buy it.

Most of my pirating is done on games that are no longer sold commercially or have the profits go to awful companies responsible for killing the developer. I wait for word of mouth and sales before buying.

Off the top of my head I've bought a few PSP games I've liked. Got Tactics Ogre, ダンボール戦機バースト (First Nipponese game I played where I actually read everything), Gladiator Begins, and Kenka Bancho 3 when I saw them new but cheap (I got my PSP way after the Vita's release but before PPSSPP worked. Pics related), which are most of the ones I put significant time into (I put some time into Dungeons and Dragons Tactics on PPSSPP, but they barely printed it and didn't sell it digitally). I played a lot of Gurumin, but I got the PC port for free (would have bought it otherwise).

For other systems, I bought Silent Storm after pirating, though I really only pirated that because I couldn't wait for the sale and there was a sudden sale the next month.

Early Access, idiot.

triggered

Also triggering are the fact the texture resolutions are all over the board. That vending machine thing has clean lines and a texture of appropriate dimension and scaling, but look around the scene and you see a dozen fucking things that look like they painting the models with a 200x200 texture. That thing above the doorway is probably the strongest example.

You are not triggered by the guy standing in front of the building but is behind it?

Off the top of my head.

And I'll probably buy Kenshi at some point in the next few days, because it has quite impressed me.

I've pirated various Paradox DLCs because you never know whether they're worthless shit or not at first. Recently, they have not been worth buying.

I think I've bought retro city rampage, terraria, fallout NV, FTL, dragon age origins and GTA enough times and across enough platforms to morally exempt me from paying for any future releases.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as piracy, is in fact, unauthorized copying, or as I've recently taken to calling it, unauthorized sharing. Piracy is not the act of obtaining an unauthorized copy of a copyrighted work, but rather robbery or criminal violence at sea.

Many computer users make unauthorized copies every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the act which is widely performed today is often called piracy, and many of the people who do it are not aware that it is basically copying, and not stealing.

There really is a piracy, and some people are doing it, but it is just robbery at sea. Piracy is an act of theft: an action at sea in which goods are forcefully transferred from one ship to another. Piracy is important to be aware of, but unrelated to unauthorized copying; it can only function at sea. Piracy is normally not used in combination with unauthorized copying: the two acts are basically seperate. All the so-called piracy is really unauthorized copying.

Originally bought Dawn of War: Soulstorm and realized it's full of on disk DLC preventing me from playing the other races.

Pirated every other dawn of war game until GW put the master chest containing everything for 20$, then I bought it.

Also minecraft. I played the cracked version on cracked servers for probably a couple years before I decided I wanted to have a skin and just bought it.
Game is actually great if you focus on redstone.

no

They all have the same face

To be fair Electronic Arts has coined "EA" for the longest fucking time.

Keep in mind that's a PSP game run at 3 times native resolution. 200/200 would actually be a massive texture given the PSP is only a 480p display. As for why the gachapon machine is so clear, it's a combonation of the PSP having native texture filtering (disabled in the third pic for comparison) and I strongly suspect they reused art from elsewhere given the game's logo is visible on them.

Here's the same scene on a CFW captured screenshot from an actual PSP and a modern SVN of PPSSPP, and another with PPSSPP not emulating the PSP's texture filtering (I normally play games this way, even if it is less accurate, because it has a tendency to catch text in the filtering if you play at greater than native resolution, and that's just disgusting) .

I'm aware of that and is exactly what I was addressing by responding to the user who thought that's what was being referenced. I cannot see how anyone can be on Holla Forums and not know either of those things, most people easily discern which one from context.

I got Freedom Planet as part of some Humble Bundle, and found something weird: that version is some seriously broken build, the music glitches like crazy. So I went back to the pirated version from GOG that I still had and it works perfectly! What the fuck.

undertale

Bad grammar aside, it's a good game.

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee.

Got it and its sequel on Steam.

Sadly Exoddus has some game-breaking bugs (door to Slig Barracks is closed forever) that are making me question my purchase.

I also don't consider Munch's Oddysee to be a true game in the series. It works best in 2-D.

Two decades of gaming since SNES, ive only have less than 5 day-one original buy games.

Except those day-one buy games, 99% of games in my steam library is pirate-buy. 99.99% of ps1 and ps2 is pirate.
Used games for ps3.

No regrets, i give little nick about whether dev lives or die. All i know is in my lifetime i wanna game what i want when i want.

Yeah, I did that with EU4 and Vic2 off the top of my head.

When I pirate I either play for 2 hours, get bored and delete it or love it and buy it.

Stalker, Subnautica, older Total War games, Mount&Blade.

Of course I never buy, I pirate everything, lie, cheat and steal, everything should be free, etc etc

Am I right or what my fellow mustard bros, boy I can't wait till Nier is cracked so I can steal another one, it makes me feel so good when I steal games then lecture people on how they shouldn't buy stuff, sure love those unoptimized console ports.

Oh wait my bad, its not steal its "making a copy of the existing game", right yea, SURE DO LOVE MAKING COPIES

So what game are my mustard bros copying next :D

Pirated Desync recently then bought it afterwards. No story, legit hard, don't see enough of that.

Did cuckchan go offline or something? I'm seeing posts of this quality site wide.

I think that's probably it.

More cucks learn about this place every day, it won't be long before it falls the same way cuckchan did.

It's already happening.

Exanima and Dominions 4

I bought those also, but I didn't get them after pirating. I remember buying and playing Abe's Exoddus on playstation when I was younger and got urge to replay them on PC. I don't acknowledge the existence of the games beyond the first two.

Minecraft back in 2010. I genuinely believed Notch would finish the game and add the features he promised instead of releasing the "full version" shit we got.

It's called pulling the trigger of a shotgun loaded with #000 buckshot while you fellate the barrel. You should try it, it's the perfect game for you.

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There's probably more.

You are only half-right, everything should be free as it is for you because you are a capable predator in a world of people with prey mindset who are still bound and imprisoned by morals, but you must respect their way of living because without prey, intelligent predator mindset people like you and me will run out of sustainability and others to step on, respect their values, let them believe what they wanna believe because they are useful idiots for our kind.

9/10 you forgot the :pc: flag try harder next time

Just admit you want free shit you fucking parasites.

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Usually I go in this loop:

Reminder that all marxists are this autistically retarded.

Just played Bayonetta on PC to see if the port was bad, now im not gonna play it until i buy it.

I agree, and they are on Holla Forums.

Old pasta is old

I never even considered buying a game

:>)

Crack when?

I do occasionally do that, however most of the time I don't buy games because muh proprietary software etc, etc… Devs should really go back to giving out free demos, it's easy as shit to do with digital distribution and I guarantee you sales would skyrocket due to normalfags being easy to please cattle. I remember playing the JC2 demo when I was 17 and doing that bug where you pressed the PS button and then the timer would never run out, fun times, then I bought JC2 because of how much fun I had with the demo

I can only think of one instance of this happening to me, as I'm not a filthy piratefag. I normally will only pirate stuff thats 10+ years old.

But Mana Khemia 2. The game really surprised me as I went in with really low expectations. The battle system was really fun and the crafting system was engaging. Story was kinda meh but its a JRPG, thats pretty much par for the course. I didn't even realize it was still on sale until I was halfway through it. I still have a limited edition sitting in my closet unopened.

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I didn't think this warranted its own thread. Is there a way to help support an individual without giving money to the developer? My brother might be getting a job at Ubishit soon.

Yeah I could just give him money, but that's something I could just do on Christmas or whatever.

Me too.
They probably don't release demos anymore because they have no faith in their product.

So when did you buy it? Back when it came out or did you emulate it then purchase it more recently?

I really liked both those games and the first Ar Tonelico.

When you make a purchase, you are, in part, saying that you want the industry to move in this direction.
as pirates are informed consumers, they actually have the capacity to vote with their wallets responsibly

also:
Saints Row 2
Sonic Adventure DX and SA2 Battle (having pirated the dreamcast originals)
Aquaria
the entire King's Bounty series after pirating the first one (and they keep adding to the pack on steam)
Serious Sam first and second encounter
Lost Planet
Hotline Miami
KotOR and KotOR 2
Freedom Force 2 (in fairness, I was going to buy it anyway. I wanted to make sure it didn't have the same glitch FF1 has in W7)
Deus Ex Human Revolution
EDF
Half Minute Hero 1&2 (after pirating the PSP version)
Jet Set Radio HD

and a good amount of others

Sims 4's been cracked forever

I do it all the time but I just bought Shadowrun for the Genesis after playing it on my Everdrive. Game is so fucking good I needed to own it, legit my favorite Genesis game.

Actually yeah, I really like stealth and pirated the Marvellous Misstake.

After hearing Feminist Frequency recommend it, I was weary as fuck so I looked into it personally, and it was worth the 2 bucks they were offering for a phone game.

Don't really recommend it unless you REALLY like stealth, though.

Multiple.
Dark messiah: might and magic
Flatout 2
Most of the worms series
All of Serious sam except 3 which I bought but never pirated
Bloody trapland
Age of empires 2
American conquest and Cossacks
All the Arma games
Borderlands (just the first one)
Skyrim
FEAR
Gas Guzzlers Extreme
Half life 2
Huniepop
Killing floor
L4D
Mount&Blade
Peggle
Portal 1 and 2
Saints row 2
Ghost recon
Rainbow six 3

Games still on my list to buy at some point in time:
UT2004

The opposite has also happened quite a few times, pirating a game I already own or used to own. For example need for speed underground 2 or Rainbow six: Rogue spear: Black thorn. I just don't have a CD drive anymore or the disks are damaged or even lost.

Yes plenty of times.

I pirated Fallout 4 and bought it after half an hour.

problematic tbh fam

Todd get off the computer.

user NO

maybe he just means the first game and it's two expansions EP and PM. GOG sells them bundled together so you can find torrents of that.

>Fallout 4

Probably more that I'm forgetting. I have trouble remembering which ones I pirated.

you bought ark after you pirated it ? fucking why? isn't that shit a massive grindfest?

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Growing up poor wasn't fun but renting games at Blockbuster was a great way for me to decide which ones I actually wanted to buy when I got the chance. For me, yarrharring games is like making that trip out to Blockbuster to see if it's worth buying. If it's not, well I just uninstall that shit, no big deal.

I pirated and bought
FTL (got my friend to buy it)
Sword of the Stars (got my friend to buy it)

I pirated and did not buy
Reus

I pirated with no intent to buy
No Mans Sky

What?

Fuck, I mean got friend to buy it, too. 2 copies sold after a pirate.

Endless Legend. Would never have got a sale from me otherwise with their pre-order judaism in Endless Space when it was released.

I did that once with RPGMaker I bought in a bundle because I wanted to share my games and was afraid my pirated copy would somehow tell people it wasn't legit.

Bought everything on Steam by PlatineDispositif, just because Bunny Must Die has been one of my favourite games ever, since pirating it 11 years ago. Though I know AEjuMurasame likely doesn't see a penny from the sales of the recent western releases.
On similar note I bought Cave Story+ based on liking the free flash game version.

Ys Origin, which I pirated after having bought and played Oath in Felghana. Still waiting for Ark of Napishtim to release here to buy that as well, even though I've already played it too.

Risk of Rain
DMC 3 and 4.
Darksiders 2
Monster Hunter X/Generations

lmaoing @ ur lives