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82 points

Arrggh, you can pay and sail the high seas too.

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44 points

Pay and then install the pirated version to play without the overhead of garbage DRM.

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5 points

Piracy had amazing quality of life back in the day: no-cd cracks, keygens, fully patched, custom installers, no splash screen. Maybe even extras.

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27 points

No one makes demos for their games anymore. I’m not gambling on whether I’m gonna like a game with the cost of AAA titles these days. Piracy is amazingly handy for that.

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17 points

I’ve been calling my pirated stuff “Extended Demos”/“Extended Trailers” for ages now.

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8 points

That is the number 1 reason for me too. Although steam solves this problem partially with their return policy. But I don’t want to pay the price upfront everytime, so I resolve to piracy until I know if I want to buy the game.

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12 points

I’d almost agree. Steam is great with it’s return policy, but only really by comparison. The 14 days is definitely plenty of time, but 2h is not a lot for quite a few, and especially the expensive, games.

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3 points

I agree but I have recently bought 2 games that offered steam demos: Xenonauts 2 and Astro Colony.

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9 points

I’ve done this with games I’ve purchased physical discs for but are a pain to install on Windows 10. I was able to find a pirate site that had lightly modified games to help work on modern systems.

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2 points

I do that a lot with “free” EGS games. Since I now legally own them, it’s no longer “actual” piracy

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