gba temp pirates why do you pirate

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If it's cheap, then I might buy it. If not, then I'll pirate it.

And as a safety measure, I pirate things before I buy them
 

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you still need to pay for storage though but thats cheap you can't pirate hard drives sd cards and computers untill a 3d printer comes out that can print that sort of thing
 

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Dev are making their games so damn expensive that its not even worth buying....
Even if people started buying tbr games cause they were at a reasonable price, sooner or later they'll increase the price so that they can make more money out of it.
So in that sense its a lose lose situation.
And arg matey

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I pirate to see whether the game is good
If it isnt, I delete it
If it is, I buy it

^ that's basically how i go about with it.
i remember downloading monster hunter tri on the wii and loving it. ever since then, i go out of my way to purchase every monster hunter title as if it was a zelda game.
currently sitting on $40 specifically for monster hunter generations.

i know its asking for the impossible but if there was demos for every game, i wouldn't bother to pirate unless i know i'd buy the game regardless.

only time this don't count for me is when a title never comes to my country. (kunio kun, taiko no tatsujin, and other games thats light on kanji)
or when i purchase a brand spankin' new game and it tends to suddenly be faulty directly after the time period for return replacement has expired. (mario kart 8. seriously, there's no scratches or anything, just one day decides to not play anymore and i wish i knew why)
 

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Many companies that produced/published old school games are either defunct, merged or have disputed licensing that hasn't been resolved; I download games that are not available on Steam, PSN, GOG, etc, so only eBay price-gougers lose out on over-inflated prices of rare/out of print games. That, and contrary to belief, the impacts of piracy on games are greatly exaggerated, I don't care lol.
 
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Because it winds people like the OP up. Even if it was a true pain (it is not and likely never will be) then actually I would probably find that kind of fun, and it would still wind people like the OP up.

No online multiplayer? I would actually care more if the devs blocked the option to change the contrast (which my monitor handles anyway).

Free stuff? Sure, more money to waste on other things. Also you don't have to keep it and can redownload it later.

Devs dying? Meh. There always seems to be enough people to make games as a whole broadly profitable. As such there will be investors to do it, and I like enough types of games that I am not going to be overly concerned if the copyright infringement set did manage to take make a niche non viable. Equally there are a lot of games out there now so even if everything stopped being made today, and also all mods stopped being made, and also somehow people forgot how to hack, and also there was no open source/freeware gaming then I would still have enough to play 10 games at once every minute of every day until I die without even scratching the surface. Let alone things I can enjoy continuously -- I listen to music many times over, films I watch again sometimes, TV shows as well, reference books I read over and over and fiction books I can stand to reread from time to time, I am probably at around my 6000th hour of tetris vs mode (I play it when watching films and such) and will occasionally pop in one of the elder scrolls series or something like it to wander around a strange world and killing things/making things.
 

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