The story could be similar for many but I’d love to read through all.
I pirates games till high school because of obvious reasons: no money. Asking my parents money for a video game directly related to burning money and wasting my precious time I could spend studying instead. For them, at least.
I always had this urge, however, to support the developers by buying a game I pirated. Not for all, but for a few: Sleeping Dogs, San Andreas, Ori, Max The Curse of Brotherhood, Limbo, Inside, etc.
Fast forward to when I was in college, I started making a few bucks writing gaming articles on the internet. I mean, how cool was that for a fresher. You get to write about games, and get paid for it? You buy games with that money and get paid again? Sweet Jesus!
So, I went ahead and bought all the games I thoroughly enjoyed during my piracy days, just to have them on my platform libraries as a tribute to the developers and also as a collection.
Haven’t pirated a game since, but man, those green download bars, with seeds you forget to stop, cracks that won’t work and that one .dll file that always seem to be missing, those were some memorable days.
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>account claiming to be a gaming journal
>“I pirated until [time period], how about you?”Nice try, feds.
from graduating college to earning my first paycheck. I only pirate those games which im not sure about but still want to play. Because my money might not be worth buying
For example my worst investment was buying Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2019 the next game came out next year only and everyone started playing that
Hmm I transitioned from being too dumb and scared to pirate games that I just bought them to being competent enough to torrenting old nes games because my pc is to shit for AAA stuff
I used to be a PC gamer, but you cannot buy PC games now days. I won’t spend money on a download that is tethered to an account, and I will not play games online. If I’m going to spend money, I expect to own something for it.
So I went out and bought some consoles. So long as it remains possible to go to the store, buy my game, pop it into the system and play without a requirement to connect online then I will buy games. I have jailbroken consoles, but I like owning the games.
A combination of me getting a job and regional pricing becoming a thing, also there’s a lot of good deals nowadays sales etc, I haven’t played video games for a while so there’s a lot of catching up to do and old games are cheap.
Mostly Game Pass on PC. As long as there is one place for most of my games, subscription is not that of a big deal. But if it changes to what happened with streaming when there are no one place to go I won’t have to pirate games. I can buy an additional one game every 3 months and that is enough for me to not start pirating games.
When I think about the games that genuinely interested me always got money out from of me. Wether I was a kid or not. That too in a third world country.
It definitely feels a lot better. It’s not like movies/shows/sports where most of the time the pirates have way better clarity/accessibility… Pirated games can be an absolute mess.
I also think this is bonus reason as to why games are so bad on release. Pretty much no PC release is perfect at launch. Even the great ones like Elden Ring wasn’t good on release then they fix it pretty quickly. Pirates have to recrack the ‘fixed’ version while the devs now added the missing loopholes that can prolonge the piracy
Why would I transition? I like money
I’m in no rush to pay money i could otherwise save, but i’ve had experiences (Dark souls3) in particular, where i had to search for an update and a crack every update just to be able to play… it’s just not worth the hassle
Dad bought pirated game discs > I started pirating > I started buying legit copies and steam games with pocket money > Bought games with salary > Back to pirating cause quit job.
Gaming subscriptions, steam key sites and not buying day 1 games make it very affordable.