No one makes demos for their games anymore. I’m not gambling on whether I’m gonna like a game with the cost of AAA titles these days. Piracy is amazingly handy for that.
That is the number 1 reason for me too. Although steam solves this problem partially with their return policy. But I don’t want to pay the price upfront everytime, so I resolve to piracy until I know if I want to buy the game.
I’ve done this with games I’ve purchased physical discs for but are a pain to install on Windows 10. I was able to find a pirate site that had lightly modified games to help work on modern systems.
Arrggh, you can pay and sail the high seas too.
Pay and then install the pirated version to play without the overhead of garbage DRM.
Piracy had amazing quality of life back in the day: no-cd cracks, keygens, fully patched, custom installers, no splash screen. Maybe even extras.
No one makes demos for their games anymore. I’m not gambling on whether I’m gonna like a game with the cost of AAA titles these days. Piracy is amazingly handy for that.
I’ve been calling my pirated stuff “Extended Demos”/“Extended Trailers” for ages now.
That is the number 1 reason for me too. Although steam solves this problem partially with their return policy. But I don’t want to pay the price upfront everytime, so I resolve to piracy until I know if I want to buy the game.
I agree but I have recently bought 2 games that offered steam demos: Xenonauts 2 and Astro Colony.
I’ve done this with games I’ve purchased physical discs for but are a pain to install on Windows 10. I was able to find a pirate site that had lightly modified games to help work on modern systems.
I do that a lot with “free” EGS games. Since I now legally own them, it’s no longer “actual” piracy