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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

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[–] Saltblue@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Pirated valheim, played 20 hours, bought the game.

Pirated baldurs gate 3 on early access, bought the game with only act 1, that's how good it is.

Pirated Valhalla, played 5 hours, uninstalled that trash forever.

Started pirating streaming services when they told me that I can't watch shit anymore because streaming service b and c took the shows, and now I have to pay two different streaming services if I want to keep watching.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's probably worth pirating games just to test play them before buying the good ones for online play

[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's also great to check if my aging pc is even capable of running it somewhat smoothly.

[–] Rubennaatje@feddit.nl 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can just return steam games within 2 hrs tho

[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

True, which again brings us back to "piracy is a service problem" which imho it totally is. I never pirate steam games.