Am i a bad person for getting most of the games i played on pc pirated 🧐

If you really love the game, then you would support it

Do you have average or above average income?

Can you save at least hundreds of $ monthly?

Do you have a credit card?

Can you easily buy games in your country/city?

If "no" is your answer for all, you are not a bad person.

If either you are broke, have bad experience with DRM while legally bought or it's only AAA games then no. With the first and last option you are not causing the developer pain, and its just the publisher with the latter. If its DRM its their own fault since DRM is no issue for pirates but a whole annoyance for people who buy it legally.

If you’re doing it for “try before you.. BUY” then no.

If you haven’t bought a game before then... probably.

Well i love skyrim and after i played it for years i bought it on steam when it was on sale just for the sake of having the original but other than that i just think if i had to buy every game i played id end up playing a lot less games 🤷🏻‍♂️

@AymanH ok you sound like a bad guy now :3

@Codex404 If publisher isn't doing enough money selling game, then developer will certainly feel the pain too. Even assuming that developer got paid upfront and does not get cut from the sales, then he still will have harder time finding publisher for his next game if sales for previous weren't good enough.

I think that games in low income regions are sold mostly dirt cheap with region lock, so unless you are poor by your country standard, they should be affordable, especially if you wait. I earn above average in my country but still wait at least one year before I buy (mostly) and sometimes don't buy at all even tho I'm considering. I really see no excuse for piracy with games, assuming you have some income.

@AymanH If you play less games, then you will have more time to work or educate yourself and get better job, so you can afford games.

*Closing a torrent client*
Yes, you are alone 😶

@lazyDev Dude! Sharing is caring!

The FBI wants to know your location.

buy games if you can. help the broke devs so they can buy games further 😄. or food or whatever.

I used to pirate most stuff because i didn't have a credit card back then but now i support all the devs and have paid all the devs i pirated from 😅. reason specified by @HaxK20

@Haxk20 it's not so simple.

Look at it this way. If you couldn't (or wouldn't) afford to pay for the game then you wouldn't have bought the game so you wouldn't have played it. So piracy or no piracy, the devs wouldn't have gotten any revenue anyway. In that case you playing the pirated game is actually good for the devs because it would've (maybe) turned you into a future customer and also possibly a fan who would tell others about it and so do free marketing for the devs. So it's not that bad a thing honestly. Piracy is a major factor in building large fanbases among lower income groups or kids or whatever.

Of course, when it's easy for you to afford it but you still pirate, then yeah, not so good.

I buy so mutch shiti game ... I need try it before buying because im poor

I have multiple games on my wish list that are basically just "pay for it so that I have a clean conscience downloading the ISOs and playing it in an emulator". :D

@Haxk20 nope, he probably has his reasons, but I love to find the only person who is using my app.

@rEaL-jAsE breaking the law is not per definition bad. If I drive through a red light in order to save a child from a burning house it is not bad in my opinion.

Most indiedevs rather have you pirate their game than buying it from a site like g2a. It all really depends on the alternative.

@Haxk20 fair enough.

Wow you consider 2013 to be the opposite of modern. I feel legit old now.

For me old games are anything before 1998 or so. So the original XCOM would be an old game. 1998 onwards you had stuff like StarCraft and Diablo 2 and KOTOR and all which I definitely consider modern. Highly recommend those games btw.

@RememberMe pre 1998 is classified as retro

@Codex404 Speaking of G2A, if any of you here were to have an account on it, know that they recently started charging their users for not logging in (after 180 days).
They will definitely end up in court for that, but a heads-up can't hurt, eh.

Source: https://techspot.com/news/...

@irene No worries, only SMG1 and SMO (I have SMG2 already).

@Jilano tbh people using g2a deserve paying. Buying keys that have probably been bought in an illegal manner.

@Codex404 Fair enough! I can't wait to see the thieves complaining because they got some money "stolen" though :D

@irene SMG1=Super Mario Galaxy, SMG2=Super Mario Galaxy 2, SMO=Super Mario Odyssey

@irene I didn't test it yet, but this emulator claims to work on Linux and I read that SMO runs fine on it: yuzu-emu.org