When is it okay to pirate a game? (giveaway inside)

1) when a company stops selling that game
2) if it has denuvo (or in older times - StarForge) but got cracked
3) When company dont exist anymore - no money for the fat right-holders moneybags
4) When localizaton choices is poor. I mean, i want to play a game with subtitles on my own language but with original voices. No such option=pirate good repack when it is done.

Bump. Its good if we play legit game but sometime pocket doesn't allow to buy then what to do

I used to pirate games constantly when I was young and didn't have money. Nowadays, I rarely pirate games (although I still constantly pirate movies and tv shows). Last game I pirated a game was Mass Effect 3 with all DLCs (I have the game, but the DLCs are ridiculously expensive and I'm not doing that well financially atm). If I pirate a game and I enjoy it, eventually I still buy the game anyway. When I made the shift from pirating games to buying games the main reason for it was that I enjoy playing online games, and you're very limited on that when you pirate a game.

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seeing people willing to buy SAW, Blur and other removed games for a lot of money makes me sick

;_;

I know I have issues but you don't have to be mean about it ;_;.

Ot: Where I live, peeps are very friendly towards piracy so it is not that big of a deal to me. If you can afford to buy it, you should. Otherwise you are just a cheap asshole. /shrug

My guess is when there is no way I can give my money to the original developer. For example:

• They don't sell it anymore and you can only get used copies
• No other way to get the game unless I pirate it.

You could say if the game is not available in your region you could, but I try not to do it since there's a chance we can get it in the future (I hope)

I think it's legitimate to get a pirated copy if you bought the game but for some reason can't play the copy you own. Can't think right now of other things I'd consider legitimate.

For me, I just wanna pirate sims 3. Not gonna pay $400+ for a game + dlc's

if you already own it or if there's no other way to get it.

I had a friend pirate binding of Issac for me because i had it on the ds but my ds broke and i couldn't access it anymore.

I buy games to support developers, so that they can keep making games. Buying second hand via eBay or GameStop does not support developers.

If a game is out of print, and only available via second hand copies at exorbitant prices ($80+), I'd rather pirate it and use my money to buy games that actually support the developers.

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Whenever.
Either pirate or don't. It's your own decision and you should not let people guilt trip you into thinking otherwise.
(And, honestly, I often have to wonder if the people claiming that piracy is evil have ever actually pirated anything. Because it sure as heck is not as easy and consequence-free as they think it is.)

Convenience honestly, I played both rocket league and tabletop simulator with online cracked and once the cracks got patched I bought them immediately.

Whenever a person wants. Doesn't matter. Most of the time a person would have never bought what they pirated anyway so in that case there wouldn't be a lost sale.

I picked "when they stop selling the game", with the additional personal note of : "Or when you own a license to the game (have purchased legit) and your media got damaged".

That said, I own several copies of Sacrifice and Startopia. Plus GoG is great for DRM-free stuff because you can simply back up the installers directly~

I bought SAW in some brazilian Store 2 years ago and the game sucks... Dunno why people request so much money for a copy.

The worst part it's that I picked SAW over Silent Hill...

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