Would you pirate if it was legal?

i have only ever pirated a game for demo purposes, there wasnt a demo and i didnt think shelling out how much they wanted was right without trying it first so i downloaded a copy, turned out i liked the game so i bought it but there are other times i have and gone no that game sucks im glad i didnt buy it and waste my money

If piracy was legal? Sometimes I would pirate, and sometimes I would pay money. It just depends on what's more convenient and whether or not I think payment would be deserved.

Right now, I don't pirate at all. I pay for everything. In the past, I pirated a lot. What's changed? I'm older so I can afford to pay for stuff, plus digital distribution makes it convenient. In cases where DRM is a burden, I simply do not buy.

If "Pirating" was legal then really all it is is getting a game for free, and given that this is SteamGifts, I'd wager that practically everyone would be willing to.

Also I will admit to doing things like taking advantage of price mistakes and ability to use coupon codes perhaps on unintended products to get freebies, I wonder if people consider that substantively different than outright pirating.

I pirate games to try them out, if I enjoy the game I will buy it, if not Shift+Del even if it was legal

I'd probably use it much like I hypothetically do now. But I don't really pirate at all, ever. Honest.

I'd use it to try out games I'm not sure of or are too expensive for my tastes (not paying $60 for a certain series famous for their five-hour-long SP camnpaigns and rehashed multiplayer I don't play). After I've played the SP campaign, I delete them and buy them on a Steam sale 12 months later when I'm feeling nostalgic for a fraction of their launch price.

Gotten burned by too many preorders and too many launch purchases.

This is one of the most ridiculous thread topics I have ever laid eyes upon. Please think before typing next time.

This game takes 3 years to create and tons of dollars just for u to pirate free , sorry but have to say stuid dumb as

If you don't do it when it's illegal why would you start doing it if there was no punishment? You don't need to play a video game to stay alive and you don't need to pay full price to get a legit game if you shop smart. That being said my mate paid a ridiculous amount for Skyrim and on a AMD 7970 video card the damn game doesn't even run.

If only he had "pirated" his video card he would have known it wouldn't play Skyrim instead of paying for it!

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NO i like being on steam and somebody sad it was legial in the netherlands but i dont do it

I dont see what is the great problem with piracy, I do pirate some games, and most of them I end up buying them, If the game is good it will get lots of sell sooner or later, and sometimes pirating some games helps you to avoid buying games that you dont like and wont be worth buying

i would become a pirate and sail the high sees but i wouldnt pirate games

Yes and no, I already pirate games but I also spend all my money buying the best ones.

It wouldn't be pirating if it was legal...
I think we call it shareware, or freeware.

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• Nope, the ships are pretty expensive and it's hard to get/collect(lol?) a loyal and good crew.

Would you pirate if it was legal to pirate games? = Would you still buy games if they were free?

In my country it is legal. And yea I do, movies the most. Not games and music, I have better alternatives.

I think developers would encourage players to buy with unique offers, like items or some premium treatment. Without that there's almost no incentive to buy for many people.

Me, I think I would try and buy most of the games I like, because I'd want to see more of the games I like =)

Its practically legal in my country, but i don't pirate games. I'm pirating everything else.

Hmm. Maybe but it depends if the ships I was pirating were defended and the risk to myself involved.
Famous examples of legalized pirates or Privateers include William Kidd and Fortunatus Wright.

Also this is a dumb question, if pirating world wide was legal the digital industries would not exist or would exist on a very limited scale.

I WANT TO PLUNDER SOME DOUBLOONS

only game iv ever really pirated is halo CE

I do that all the time, so it wouldn't make any difference if it was legal

If pirating was legal nobody would bother developing games...

i actually pirated skyrim, but it was becaused i didint had the money at the time and i couldnt wait to play it, however i already bougth the game, bethesda deserved the money.

I live in India. Everything is "legal" here. Yet, unlike most of my peers, I don't pirate. At least, not games. I wait till I get the game via trade or through a sale or something. That way, I can truly enjoy the game to its fullest. Its probably this way just with me, or probably not. I'm not against piracy either, because not everybody is patient enough to wait for a sale, and neither is everybody in a position to buy games.