Growing up, my parents only used to buy me anything (games, mostly) if I earned it. Examples include earning Student of the Month, getting "good enough" grades, or my birthday. We don't celebrate Christmas so I don't even get any presents then, just some money during our biannual religious holidays (like $20 at best). I didn't even have an allowance or job until college. I missed out on a lot of games before I discovered piracy so that's my whole story on it (not trying to justify piracy, if anyone's wondering). Now I've got enough money to buy all my games and then some but there's still some things you can do with a backup that you can't with a retail copy.
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