Which game did you pira... err file-shared that you ended up buying aftwerwards?

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Pretty much my entire steam library.
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Besides the free games, these are all games I've really enjoyed that I used to pirate all the time until I had the money to buy them. BRINK especially, like, unironically. That game just scratches every single itch for me in a video game.
 

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Smash 3DS, Pokemon Omega Ruby, Super Meat Boy and probably others I don't remember. That's before I decided that console games are too expensive and that I needed the money for other things. I still buy console games though, just don't tend to buy many once I'm able to run backups in a console. By that point I feel like I've given devs enough of my money. They don't need all of it.
 

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This, I never believe people who saying they gonna buy it after trying the game. Be a full pirate or don't.
I've bought a LOT of games after playing pirated copies. I don't always touch them again but that's not the point. Feels good to give devs the £ when its deserved

EDIT: To answer the actual topic question... loads. I won't be able to list them all, but off the top of my head, all Professor Layton games, SM64DS, NSMB2, BULLY, a bunch of GTA titles, Pokémon ORAS, and so on.

Slightly related but I lived in a country that, back in the day, didn't really have official game stores and you would shell out like less than £1 for a giant STACK of a good fraction of your console's library burned onto discs that had sometimes pretty convincing prints on them. Consoles at that time used to be sold modded out of the box. I've bought legit versions of a couple of those titles, but honestly this wasn't voluntary piracy as much as it was the state of the market there/then, so I don't feel that compelled
 
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On PC, if I pirate something, I almost definitely won't pay for it ever unless it's a game that has a LOT of content (which is next to impossible to find nowadays) or if I REALLY want the online multiplayer it offers (I never play online so this is extremely rare too). After all, if I have played through the game already and there's nothing left to do that's any worth, then it's a bad game or hardly an average one, thus doesn't deserve my money. It's fine to have just story games, but those have to be great for me to buy (eg: TWD Season 2), but if you have an average story, you better have damn good content to justify the purchase.

On the 3DS on the other hand, I never pirated games at all until like 1-2 months ago. I pirated Fire Emblem Fates just to test it out before buying it because it's 40€ for the game, then 20€ for the DLC and you STILL don't get the full story unless you buy the second game version for another 40€, not gonna throw that much money in a game only to regret it! So, I test it out, sorta liked it and before I had a chance to buy it, Nintendo banned me for whatever reason, so I'm never gonna pay for a Nintendo game ever again after this. I literally had 6500€ worth of games purchased on my 2DS and only pirated one for testing purposes (hardly played for 10 hours), then got banned, as if I'd give them any more money after that.

On other consoles, mainly my PSP, I only play pirated games and used to while it was still alive, only have bought 1 UMD (Ratchet and Clank Size Matters because I liked it).
 

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Minecraft, Terraria, Dishonored, Skyrim DLCs, Deus Ex : Human Revolution, KOTOR, Year Walk... I started to buy games as soon as I got a job, and these were either games I already played and wanted to express my thanks to the devs by buying it this time, or simply games I wanted to try before buying.
 
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Goat Simulator
Skyrim
Bioshock
Left 4 Dead 2
Dead Island Riptide
Plants Vs. Zombies
Stick Of Truth
Universe Sandbox 2 (for VR)
Dead Space 2
Spore Collection
Brutal Legend
and Breath of the Wild (bought for switch after playing on Cemu)

*My next one is soon to be American McGee's Alice but I can't find them besides used resellers.

-Games I didn't buy after ...err... "trying" them out.-
Dead Island
Far Cry Primal and FC4
Disney Infinity 1,2,3. (I didn't buy because of no more online)
Lego Worlds
Resident Evil Biohazard
Yooka-Laylee
Rocket League
Cuphead (because it's hard asf)
Oblivion
Mortal Kombat X
Silent Hill Homecoming


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Only Game I Passionately Regret Buying: Call of Duty Black Ops 3.
 
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Saints row series, Skyrim ,Oblivion and Morrowind. AC black flag, AC rogue, Borderlands 1 & 2. Deus ex HR. Deus ex MD. Just Cause 2. Risen 2. Civ IV & V. Spore. Kotor 1 & 2. MGS V Phantom Pain.
 
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Yikes, did some one just use the BUY word, that is major trigger word for us PIRATES, I need to find my 'safe space' now, and try to calm down from this B U Y ...... (cry)
if we don't support games we enjoy we can expect to not have games to enjoy in the future. Meanwhile the majority of zombies (people without brains) are throwing their money to trash games like GTA 5 Online. I say trash because of the greedy nature of it all.
 

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if we don't support games we enjoy we can expect to not have games to enjoy in the future. Meanwhile the majority of zombies (people without brains) are throwing their money to trash games like GTA 5 Online. I say trash because of the greedy nature of it all.
while I don't like GTA I would not say it is a "carp" game

There are better examples of carp - games out there

like...
Assasin's creed
Star Wars BF2
Need For Speed "casino"
Destiny 2

etc
 

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A few games come to my mind that I didn't pay upfront but ended up buying afterwards because I really liked them and sort of felt bad.

Bravely Default

Bravely Second

Fatal Frame 1

Spirit Camera

Resident Evil Revelations

Mass Effect 1, 2, 3

Dead Space 1, 2, 3

Morrowind

Oblivion

Skyrim

Xcom

Warhammer Dawn of War II

State of Decay

FF9 (The PS4 remake)

Gears of War

Company of Heroes

Might & Magic X

Shadowrun Returns (plus expansions)

Wasteland 2


I guess there's more but these are the ones that instantly come to mind.
 
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There's this thread about "piracy sydrome" that really helps to understand my position on piracy. I think the thrill of having the games is the only thing I care about. I don't play them for the most part, and the ones that I do, are the ones that I end up buying (BOTW).
 
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Quite a few on 3DS actually. I'll usually buy ones I'm really interested in or want to support the dev, then keep them sealed and pirate the games anyway. Most recent would be Radiant Historia Perfect Chronolgy and The Alliance Alive.

I think I only bought two Wii U games after everything went down which were Earthbound Beginnings with a discount coupon and Paper Mario Color Splash.
 
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i lost about all my pre '95 games think i forgot to pack some when i was moving out, i payed for a lot of those, but since i can't find them, and so i lost the cd-keys...
is as complete as i know for sure
 

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Zelda ALBW, especially considering that one and the first are the only ones of the series I've appreciated; it also helps that, for 3DSi games at least, an original card put back into the box is a rather reliable backup for both the game and save :)

And 90% of my current DS collection (having sold almost everything to Game$top in 2008, after I ragequit that console after exchanging 3 defective Lites in a month and half; picked it up again in 2015)

All $ony consoles, games, and accessories I've bought in the past 2 years are the consequence of buying a 60 € PSP Street and 2 € microSD converter because "these things can have CFW on the newest version, I guess?" and finding out there have been a lot of Everybody's Golf games since the PS1 :D
(Though, while I did buy discs for games I pirated and appreciated, I have bought equally as many on name and price alone: a lot of shovelware is indeed entertaining when bought at the fair price of 0,5 to 3 €...)

Now, if the question was "Which games did you buy so that others could pirate afterwards"... I plead the fifth
 
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