Only torrent AAA games if you can afford to (if you can’t, go nuts).
If you pirate an indie game, that developer might not be able to afford to make another. Try to use a demo (or even the ol’ steam buy and refund) to check the game in that case.
AAA studios generally make their money from shitty business practices these days, so 100% feel justified in pirating those if you want to play them.
Demo or pirated they still don’t get money mate…
Pirating is usually used as a demo, lots of people still buy after trying a game through torrents. Lots of indie devs gush about pirating actually boosts their sales. You’re looking at this from the wrong perspective.
Downloading a demo helps engagement statistics which feed recommendation algorithms
Pirating helps pirates.
Not casting any kind of judgement, just pointing out who benefits
(Disclaimer I pirate shitloads, just not indie stuff)
Many games don’t have demos, and that’s only if you use store fronts that utilize that. Demos ar also limited and barely get you out of the tutorial, so hardly actually long enough to judge if the game is good. Same with with 2 hour return scumbag tactic… that’s even worse than pirating lmfao. A return is just abiout the worst metric you could give them… and demos that don’t lead to a sale is a good metric how…?
Pirating leads to viral marketing.
And you’re the the person giving people who torrent correctly a bad image. Fuck people like you.
Buy only software you need/want. Torrent helps. The amount of As is irrelevant.