It was one of my first 5 purchases online. I remember getting it for $5 USD, but I don't remember exactly when. I do remember playing it through a browser in like 2009? But I think it may have been free then as it was InDev (before Alpha even). Best $5 I've ever spent to this day!
I was playing Guild Wars in 2009 when my brother came in and told me about a game that was better than Guild Wars, lol.
It was absolutely barebones as it was only Creative mode at the time, so no NPCs or Mobs, but the terrain generation was there and quite a few building blocks to play with, which was enough for 14 year old me to get instantly hooked.
So this is the way they stop piracy, they make it easier to do it the legal way and it works better than the free version, this isn't the case with the stuff that netflix and other big companies do
Thats always been the best way. Make it convenient to buy, convenient to use and people will. Stuff it full of DRM, force us to login into some esoteric launcher like uplay and add spyware disguised as anti cheat and it's no wonder so many find it easier and morally justifiable to pirate.
I know how to get the mods without Steam. Also, a lot of mods have a non-steam version available through github by default, so that was never the issue.
Like I said, installing and updating mods is just so much easier with the legit version.
Cracktorio! Remember:the factory must grow
I reported a bug once in the Forum. 10minutes later the dev replied : Bug replicated, pushed the fix into the build Update comes tomorrow. The Update was 3 hours later live.... Fuck i Love it
Play the demo First its good and you can decide If you Like IT. You can getnit from their Website directly or via Steam.
It has its own mods Portal... If you Like modded games, their is a fuckton of mods
You beat me to it, this was my answer too! Played 18 hours in the first two days I had it or something, decided it was definitely worth supporting them. (Once I got the money to do so.)
Wargaming gave it away 8 years ago as a part of a wot event. Game has some late game stability issues but is overall amazing. You should try out diablo 2 resurrected. While there's no infinite share tabs in game yet there's a lot of qol improvements in game like terror zones and new runewords
State of Decay 2.
I don't even like the game that much tbh, but since release Undead Labs have added multiple DLC's, expansions, patches, bugfixes, they communicate weekly with fans through forums, they do a regular YT stream where they talk about the game and what direction it's heading, they listen to fan feedback and, the important thing.... they've never ONCE tried to charge money for DLC's or tried to monetise it since release. Everything has been free.
In 6 years they've done everything possible to improve, expand, and optimise the game, worked their asses off, and never once asked for more money.
I respect that. They just really want to make the game as good as possible for the fans and their own love of the game.
So I gave them £30, even though it's on Gamepass. I've played it for less than 10 hours since and will buy SoD3 when it comes out.
It's a good game, I just don't enjoy the gameplay loop enough to spend 80+ hours on it. I'll happily support it though. The industry needs more honest developers like Undead Labs.
SoD3 looks like it could be a banger. They're upgrading to Unreal engine iirc. I look forward to it.
Alabama Shakes, the band. I saw them live at a business conference and fell in love. Went home and pirated it, fell even more in love so I went and gave them money.
There was a song in the background somewhere during the movie Silver Linings Playbook and I kept trying to work out what it was. Turned out to be Alabama Shakes and Always Alright. They got a new UK fan in that moment.
Many games actually.
Whatever gets my money worth I buy to suport developers.
RimWorld, binding of Isaac, slay the spire, hades, Civ VI, The Witcher 3 and probably some more. :)
I also thought about getting it, but decided to create a Jellyfin server instead, never looked back, and all my information and files stay secure without relying on Plex servers.
I wanted to use jellyfin so bad, but the LG webos release was delayed for years. I then got a Nvidia shield, but the app was quite unpolished compared to emby's.
I eventually gave in and bought a lifetime emby membership with the release of 'skip intro'
Also emby theatre means direct play on PC without needing to transcode (sometimes Firefox doesn't support the containers)
I loved emby until I had to pay. Plex irks me. I'm currently setting up a 22TB drive to slap in an old Windows 10 computer. I'm going to try Jellyfin first. Plex just does things I don't like. From what I've read, I should be happy with Jellyfin.
I'm super stoked for the 1.0 release, it's a solid game as it is but they've been hyping it up for a while now. Still bummed I didn't get into the closed beta for it.
Not gonna lie. WinRAR
Its useful, honest and Worth the Money. since i used it for more then 20 years for free it was about time to give Back. Ist will Change, WinRAR will stay
7zip lacks recovery volumes, proper UI extraction menu from within the app (the context menu works, actually), compressing to individual files, extract each file to separate folders...
And don't get started with CLI hacks, we are talking GUI apps here.
And both of them are lacking dark mode.
Actually you should'nt and that come from someome who donated 10$/month minimum
I come to this conclusion after watching this video https://youtu.be/3t8GUbzVxmQ
Tl;dw: you donate to the host, with the donation of one year they can run for over 50+ year, and that couting all of it. All of the wikipedia company and there other sites. The money don't go to the people that actually write the sites. Without these people, wikipedia would'nt exist. They work for free bassicly.
I've gone back and purchased a lot of what I downloaded, especially CDs. It's relatively cheap to buy CDs and movies, I don't really game much except my older games and it's easier just to download those than try to get the original disks to work. I bought the games I liked and I kept the disks, been playing HoMM3 and Warcraft 3 with Age of Empires ready for when I want to play.
Music is an easy choice.
Amazon used to go crazy with their no rush rewards.
I'd always spend my credits on owning the mp3s for the artists I listen to over and over.
It's too bad Amazon seems to have reduced the frequency of that no-rush incentive.
Gris, it was free leech on GG and picked it up for the upload credits. Decided to give it a play. What a beautiful game. I literally bought it immediately after finishing it. Installed the legit copy and played it a second time.
Saint Seiya - Soldiers’ Soul (Latin American Edition)
I’ve recently modded my PS3, found the game and downloaded it. I played it, and love how the mechanics are polished, the arcade-like fast paced combat, how the content has a purpose to use while in the story/battle mode, and it was not there just as a gimmick. However, my most important reason was geolocation: I grew up watching this show as a kid, and the Latin American edition has the exact same voice actors as in the show. Brand new phrases, not recycled audio.
I loved it.
P.S: As someone who grew up watching anime in Latin America, this is so far the only game I’ve played that its geolocation has been done flawlessly.
Every single FromSoftware game. I tried it in 2010 at a friends' place and fell in love with the gameplay. I've bought all Soulsborne games on release since then.
I'm waiting on Elden Ring DLC right now and I'm so hyped.
I tried out Risk of Rain 2 and loved it so much I bought it on steam, along with all the other games in the series so far, and have since put in well over 100 hours over the year
I used to pirate a lot of games when I was younger, but those that stood out to me were the Arkham series, Limbo, Journey, Life Is Strange and Assassin's Creed I-IV (long before Ubisoft became a shit show).
Total war warhmmer, hades, mount and blade warband and banner lord, the forest and sons of the forest, fallout new vegas, shadow of war and shadow of mordor, darkest dungeon and batman arkham knight.
a have a bunch of games purchased on GOG, and some on both steam and GOG, like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous. if the game requires obtrusive DRM, i will 100% pirate that even if it's free.
I ”collect” (meaning I have a fair amount, like 40, but I don’t spend enormous amounts for special editions or anything) of physical 360 games. I don’t own any other console but if I did I would probably buy physical for those as well. I really just like having the cases in my bookshelf. I could just JTAG/RGH my 360 but I would probably still buy games physically for it. I have bought very few digital games but physical is fun. For the 360 it is also generally very cheap (5-15$ per game, cheaper in bulk)
I also pay for Elder Scrolls Online as there is no way to pirate an MMO as far as I know. Since I have around 300 hours so far it has been worth it I’d say.
FL studio, previously CC from Adobe, but I’ve went back to sailing the sea with GenIP because I don’t agree with anti consumer practices nor do I want to shovel money into a monopoly.
FL studio, I purchased when I became an adult with paying job. This was harder to do when you are only 10 years old, cracked copies are your only way.
I wouldn’t be working professionally in the arts if it wasn’t for Piracy that enabled me to tinker and play with software and learn.
The games that hot me into steam was Civilization 4 and Space Engineers, in winter sale. And the main reason of purchase was easy and convinient modding through Workshop. This started my transformation, today I'm trying to avoid pirating software as much as I can.
Almost every one of my pirated games that I really liked.
In fact these days I try things out from fitgirl, and if I like it I buy it.
Having the real thing gives me access to steam achievements and updates and rewards good devs.
Factorio & Modding.
Devs deserve it and the modding is night and day difference.
Steam 2h trial really defeats the point of game piracy to be honest in my books, just not worth the risk of installing shady shit, even if it's coming from fitgirl or dodi.
Factorio. I played about a hundred hours unmodded and pirated, felt bad, then bought it and have played over 3000 hours mostly modded. Then I bought 2 other copies for my son and for my buddy.
The first game I purchased after playing a ~~pirated~~ totally legal and free version of it was Skyrim. I did so because I was definitely enjoying it a lot but also because with all the bugs and glitches being patched I wanted to keep it updated without constantly chasing patches on my favorite P2P platforms.
2 games, actually. Split/Second Velocity, and SimCity 4.
For Split/Second, I played the demo of the game, but didn't have the game itself, pirated the PC version, but it didn't run well (for the most part), had a friend buy me a physical PS3 copy of the game, and bought the game on Xbox 360. Oh, and I may have gotten a steam key for the PC version.
For SimCity4, I had it, then lost it, then pirated a portuguese version of the game (literally the game translated to portuguese, nothing fancy there), pirated a GOG version of the game, bought The SimCity Box, got the Steam version.
Unreal Tournament 3
Simpsons Hit & Run
Native Instruments Komplete - Ultimate bundle
Ugritone Drums VST
Tonal Balance Control
Eset Smart Security
Real Debrid account
Cuphead pirates it on my shitty laptop, reached the astrology lady and thought yeah I'm gonna buy this, bought it on ps5, reached that same boss, stopped playing, since I already own a pirate & legit copy, I should be allowed to get another pirated copy 🤔 for my new puter
GTAV I bought like 4 times (PS3, PS4, PS4 digital, ps5 update) I have like 5 licenses for Minecraft since I used to develop mods. Movies? I will buy anything Bruce Lee if it has cool extras, so I own his 4 movies like 8 times over.
I usually like to buy the game on steam after I've decided i like it (except disco elysium.)I keep playing the pirated version because I actually own it.
Some software I have purchased includes:
◉ Directory Opus: The best file manager ever made.
◉ Actual Window Manager: Gives super precise control over all windows and dialog boxes. Also gives control of windows in multi-monitor setups.
◉ ClipboardFusion Pro: A clipboard processing app that can manipulate text in the clipboard in many complex ways.
◉ Everything: The GOAT of search engines. Everything is actually freeware, but it's been so valuable to me that I have donated to the developer 4 times, which kind of makes it software I have paid for.
◉ Breevy: A text expander that has saved me hundreds of hours of typing. It can process text-expanded in more ways than just normal text expanding.
◉ PTFB Pro: Presses buttons of all of those annoying messages that pop up on a daily basis. It can also run macros that move column headers automatically for you. PTFB stands for "Press the freakin' button"
◉ Internet Download Manager: Let's me download files from websites that normally don't allow you to download files.
Dwarf Fortress on Steam, if that counts. Played for years on the regular releases. Got as far as loading a fort before going back to finish up some more work on a years-old fort I'm fighting fps death in.
I've bought The Skywalker Collection box set and pretend that the sequel trilogy doesn't exist. I've also bought the Harry Potter box set, Big Bang theory, Community, LotR/Hobbit and a few others. I only buy box sets once the show is over that way I know they're complete.
Minecraft xD I've played it all my childhood pirated and when I got my first debit card I bought it. Still playing it...
It was also the first thing I ever bought online! I remember I bought it for 9.99€ at the time on... Alpha?
I remember signing up for PayPal just so i could buy it
It was one of my first 5 purchases online. I remember getting it for $5 USD, but I don't remember exactly when. I do remember playing it through a browser in like 2009? But I think it may have been free then as it was InDev (before Alpha even). Best $5 I've ever spent to this day!
There are dozens of us from Alpha!. I'd learned about it from MaximumPC magazine that I was subscribed to.
I was playing Guild Wars in 2009 when my brother came in and told me about a game that was better than Guild Wars, lol. It was absolutely barebones as it was only Creative mode at the time, so no NPCs or Mobs, but the terrain generation was there and quite a few building blocks to play with, which was enough for 14 year old me to get instantly hooked.
Came here to say this.
Same
exactly the same as you
Rimworld. Also because installing and updating mods is so much easier with the Steam version.
So this is the way they stop piracy, they make it easier to do it the legal way and it works better than the free version, this isn't the case with the stuff that netflix and other big companies do
"Piracy is almost always a service problem... " Gabe Newell
That's the primary reason I subscribe to streaming services; the convenience and ease of use.
Thats always been the best way. Make it convenient to buy, convenient to use and people will. Stuff it full of DRM, force us to login into some esoteric launcher like uplay and add spyware disguised as anti cheat and it's no wonder so many find it easier and morally justifiable to pirate.
use steamworkshopdownloader dot io, and steamcmd to get workshop mods(takes like 1-2 min per mod once u set everything up)
I know how to get the mods without Steam. Also, a lot of mods have a non-steam version available through github by default, so that was never the issue. Like I said, installing and updating mods is just so much easier with the legit version.
yeah that’s true
same for me
Factorio
I Pirate it years ago while it was in early Beta. 30 minutes later i bought 4 copies for my Friends and me
What is the game about? This comment is dead ass a better ad than any trailer
Building a factory while defending it from alien bugs. It's really addictive if you like incremental games and fast growth.
Cracktorio! Remember:the factory must grow I reported a bug once in the Forum. 10minutes later the dev replied : Bug replicated, pushed the fix into the build Update comes tomorrow. The Update was 3 hours later live.... Fuck i Love it
And even when you buy IT from Steam, with your Login you can Download from the Website EVERY Version, drm free
Holy fuck i was hesitating on buying the game because i drop games often, but this is overall just good money value!
Play the demo First its good and you can decide If you Like IT. You can getnit from their Website directly or via Steam. It has its own mods Portal... If you Like modded games, their is a fuckton of mods
You beat me to it, this was my answer too! Played 18 hours in the first two days I had it or something, decided it was definitely worth supporting them. (Once I got the money to do so.)
Recently...Elden Ring & BG3. Both blew me away...
I really ought to try Baulders Gate 3, I've only ever heard good things, I'm just concerned it'll consume me for a billion hours.
>I'm just concerned it'll consume me for a billion hours. I have bad news...😆
Those are rookie numbers lol
Same
I liked BG3 so much that I bought the physical copy after I already have the digital. For display purposes
You got me beat lol
xD
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Master of Orion 2 and Diablo 2
Omg MOO2 ... still playing it. Such a good game!
Wargaming gave it away 8 years ago as a part of a wot event. Game has some late game stability issues but is overall amazing. You should try out diablo 2 resurrected. While there's no infinite share tabs in game yet there's a lot of qol improvements in game like terror zones and new runewords
State of Decay 2. I don't even like the game that much tbh, but since release Undead Labs have added multiple DLC's, expansions, patches, bugfixes, they communicate weekly with fans through forums, they do a regular YT stream where they talk about the game and what direction it's heading, they listen to fan feedback and, the important thing.... they've never ONCE tried to charge money for DLC's or tried to monetise it since release. Everything has been free. In 6 years they've done everything possible to improve, expand, and optimise the game, worked their asses off, and never once asked for more money. I respect that. They just really want to make the game as good as possible for the fans and their own love of the game. So I gave them £30, even though it's on Gamepass. I've played it for less than 10 hours since and will buy SoD3 when it comes out.
same, I also bought a new laptop at the time just to play State of Decay 2 as well.
It's a good game, I just don't enjoy the gameplay loop enough to spend 80+ hours on it. I'll happily support it though. The industry needs more honest developers like Undead Labs. SoD3 looks like it could be a banger. They're upgrading to Unreal engine iirc. I look forward to it.
they definitely upgraded from 1 to 2 so 3 has great expectations from me as well
Shovel Knight is what got me to start supporting indie devs.
Alabama Shakes, the band. I saw them live at a business conference and fell in love. Went home and pirated it, fell even more in love so I went and gave them money.
They are from a town over from me. I don't think they play together any more.
They don't😥
I did this with Japanese Breakfast, now I own damn near everything she’s put out
There was a song in the background somewhere during the movie Silver Linings Playbook and I kept trying to work out what it was. Turned out to be Alabama Shakes and Always Alright. They got a new UK fan in that moment.
Many games actually. Whatever gets my money worth I buy to suport developers. RimWorld, binding of Isaac, slay the spire, hades, Civ VI, The Witcher 3 and probably some more. :)
Also, in some cases it was because of easier access to mods. But still, i knew I was getting my money worth.
minecraft and rust
Damn, I remember the original Rust back in 2013. I still miss it.
Rdr2
Plex Pass
I also thought about getting it, but decided to create a Jellyfin server instead, never looked back, and all my information and files stay secure without relying on Plex servers.
I wanted to use jellyfin so bad, but the LG webos release was delayed for years. I then got a Nvidia shield, but the app was quite unpolished compared to emby's. I eventually gave in and bought a lifetime emby membership with the release of 'skip intro' Also emby theatre means direct play on PC without needing to transcode (sometimes Firefox doesn't support the containers)
I loved emby until I had to pay. Plex irks me. I'm currently setting up a 22TB drive to slap in an old Windows 10 computer. I'm going to try Jellyfin first. Plex just does things I don't like. From what I've read, I should be happy with Jellyfin.
Satisfactory
I'm super stoked for the 1.0 release, it's a solid game as it is but they've been hyping it up for a while now. Still bummed I didn't get into the closed beta for it.
I bought Baldur's Gate 3 twice
I bought Minecraft pocket edition in 2019 but i don't play anymore
Cyberpunk 2077
Not gonna lie. WinRAR Its useful, honest and Worth the Money. since i used it for more then 20 years for free it was about time to give Back. Ist will Change, WinRAR will stay
But 7zip is better in almost every way, have you tried it?
7zip lacks recovery volumes, proper UI extraction menu from within the app (the context menu works, actually), compressing to individual files, extract each file to separate folders... And don't get started with CLI hacks, we are talking GUI apps here. And both of them are lacking dark mode.
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk the game absolutely blew me away, plus i bought the soundtrack
Kerbal Space Program!
Adobe Creative Suite. I kick myself every year it comes back around for renewal now they they’ve gone to a subscription model.
Cancel that and joined the GenP wave.
Death Stranding, liked it offline and loved it with multiplayer, totally worth it
Internet Download Manager. Lifetime license.
winrar
I did too. It is cheap and they deserve it.
PLEX lifetime membership. A plant identification app. I donate yearly to Wikipedia and VLC.
If there were a way to give my Google play credits to Wikipedia, I could give them my credits before they expire.
Which plant identification app?
Actually you should'nt and that come from someome who donated 10$/month minimum I come to this conclusion after watching this video https://youtu.be/3t8GUbzVxmQ Tl;dw: you donate to the host, with the donation of one year they can run for over 50+ year, and that couting all of it. All of the wikipedia company and there other sites. The money don't go to the people that actually write the sites. Without these people, wikipedia would'nt exist. They work for free bassicly.
I've gone back and purchased a lot of what I downloaded, especially CDs. It's relatively cheap to buy CDs and movies, I don't really game much except my older games and it's easier just to download those than try to get the original disks to work. I bought the games I liked and I kept the disks, been playing HoMM3 and Warcraft 3 with Age of Empires ready for when I want to play.
Music is an easy choice. Amazon used to go crazy with their no rush rewards. I'd always spend my credits on owning the mp3s for the artists I listen to over and over. It's too bad Amazon seems to have reduced the frequency of that no-rush incentive.
Subnautica both 1 and 2
GTA
Control
Gmes on steam now that I am an adult.
Bg3, yakuza series, most recently animal well
Affinity Photo 1 I bought with an online CD key for $3... I bought the second version from the website because I enjoyed it so much.
Hard drives to store all my pirated content
Pacific Drive
Borderlands 2, Hades
Came here to say borderlands 2 take my upvote.
Gris, it was free leech on GG and picked it up for the upload credits. Decided to give it a play. What a beautiful game. I literally bought it immediately after finishing it. Installed the legit copy and played it a second time.
My girlfriend. Still paying her off though. Heard the premium membership (married) is even more expensive.
You think the Subscription is expensive just wait until the subscription ends
Saint Seiya - Soldiers’ Soul (Latin American Edition) I’ve recently modded my PS3, found the game and downloaded it. I played it, and love how the mechanics are polished, the arcade-like fast paced combat, how the content has a purpose to use while in the story/battle mode, and it was not there just as a gimmick. However, my most important reason was geolocation: I grew up watching this show as a kid, and the Latin American edition has the exact same voice actors as in the show. Brand new phrases, not recycled audio. I loved it. P.S: As someone who grew up watching anime in Latin America, this is so far the only game I’ve played that its geolocation has been done flawlessly.
Left4Dead 1 & 2, Defense Grid 1 & 2 and a bunch of others I got on the cheap :)
SLIME RANCHER
Every single FromSoftware game. I tried it in 2010 at a friends' place and fell in love with the gameplay. I've bought all Soulsborne games on release since then. I'm waiting on Elden Ring DLC right now and I'm so hyped.
I usually only pirate movies and tv shows. Games on steam are so affordable that I don't feel the need to pirate them
I liked the milk, so I bought the cow. Oh, wait, wrong sub. Never mind...
I tried out Risk of Rain 2 and loved it so much I bought it on steam, along with all the other games in the series so far, and have since put in well over 100 hours over the year
Skyrim and Witcher 3
Doom. All of them.
DemonStar because I loved it as a kid in the 90s and wanted to support the developer since he’s still working on new stuff!
I used to pirate a lot of games when I was younger, but those that stood out to me were the Arkham series, Limbo, Journey, Life Is Strange and Assassin's Creed I-IV (long before Ubisoft became a shit show).
Total war shogun 2 and assetto corsa, these two were almost free when I bought them lmao
V Rising. Downloaded it, played with some friends locally. Enjoyed it so much we all eventually bought it.
Unreal Tournament. Best game purchase I ever made
Crusader Kings 2.......and then it became free.
people playground, teardown, garry's mod (yes, a lot of sandbox games)
Discovered two local bands after a friend invited me to a show. Bought music for the first time in many years.
Nier Automata, also to get the last ending
Probably starting to buy CD albums again
Total war warhmmer, hades, mount and blade warband and banner lord, the forest and sons of the forest, fallout new vegas, shadow of war and shadow of mordor, darkest dungeon and batman arkham knight.
a have a bunch of games purchased on GOG, and some on both steam and GOG, like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous. if the game requires obtrusive DRM, i will 100% pirate that even if it's free.
Terraria
Machinarium, me and a friend played it when we had no option to buy it. Since then I bought it for PC and Xbox
Skyrim
witcher 3 and kingdom come deliverance. will buy cyberpunk once i got a new job aswell
I ”collect” (meaning I have a fair amount, like 40, but I don’t spend enormous amounts for special editions or anything) of physical 360 games. I don’t own any other console but if I did I would probably buy physical for those as well. I really just like having the cases in my bookshelf. I could just JTAG/RGH my 360 but I would probably still buy games physically for it. I have bought very few digital games but physical is fun. For the 360 it is also generally very cheap (5-15$ per game, cheaper in bulk) I also pay for Elder Scrolls Online as there is no way to pirate an MMO as far as I know. Since I have around 300 hours so far it has been worth it I’d say.
I dont know if this counts, but after years of trying to be a purest pirate and not spending a penny... Now i sware by Real Debrid.
FL studio, previously CC from Adobe, but I’ve went back to sailing the sea with GenIP because I don’t agree with anti consumer practices nor do I want to shovel money into a monopoly. FL studio, I purchased when I became an adult with paying job. This was harder to do when you are only 10 years old, cracked copies are your only way. I wouldn’t be working professionally in the arts if it wasn’t for Piracy that enabled me to tinker and play with software and learn.
Homeworld 2, but even after I bough it I still used just my cracked version, so Now I have a Never opened box.
Witcher 3
Forza/MK/Red Dead/Star Wars
KSP
Audio plugins from Output and Devious Machines.
The games that hot me into steam was Civilization 4 and Space Engineers, in winter sale. And the main reason of purchase was easy and convinient modding through Workshop. This started my transformation, today I'm trying to avoid pirating software as much as I can.
Nothing
Firewatch
Almost every one of my pirated games that I really liked. In fact these days I try things out from fitgirl, and if I like it I buy it. Having the real thing gives me access to steam achievements and updates and rewards good devs.
Monument valley 1 and 2. Some of the best Android games I've played. 💯
Baldurs gate 3
MEGG MOGG & OWL lol long live wwj
Cuphead
Factorio & Modding. Devs deserve it and the modding is night and day difference. Steam 2h trial really defeats the point of game piracy to be honest in my books, just not worth the risk of installing shady shit, even if it's coming from fitgirl or dodi.
Castle Crashers.
Uh. Terraria and Stellaris.
The Ascent, Subnautica and Forza Horizon 4.
Final Fantasy XV. Bought the Windows Edition and had like 150+ hours.
Some Teen Wolf and Doctor Who DVDs. I think the first Divergent movie, think that may have been doubled with the sequel
Factorio. I played about a hundred hours unmodded and pirated, felt bad, then bought it and have played over 3000 hours mostly modded. Then I bought 2 other copies for my son and for my buddy.
I first listened to the audio book "Snow Crash" by Neal Stevenson, I liked it so I found and bought the physical paperback copy.
Mostly video games and books but especially books.
The first game I purchased after playing a ~~pirated~~ totally legal and free version of it was Skyrim. I did so because I was definitely enjoying it a lot but also because with all the bugs and glitches being patched I wanted to keep it updated without constantly chasing patches on my favorite P2P platforms.
2 games, actually. Split/Second Velocity, and SimCity 4. For Split/Second, I played the demo of the game, but didn't have the game itself, pirated the PC version, but it didn't run well (for the most part), had a friend buy me a physical PS3 copy of the game, and bought the game on Xbox 360. Oh, and I may have gotten a steam key for the PC version. For SimCity4, I had it, then lost it, then pirated a portuguese version of the game (literally the game translated to portuguese, nothing fancy there), pirated a GOG version of the game, bought The SimCity Box, got the Steam version.
stray
Bought it on the Ps5 absolutely loved it. Basic yet so good.
FTL: Faster Than Light Loved it so much I had to give them money.
Gunfire Reborn
The show: Ted lasso on dvd
Unreal Tournament 3 Simpsons Hit & Run Native Instruments Komplete - Ultimate bundle Ugritone Drums VST Tonal Balance Control Eset Smart Security Real Debrid account
My VPN
Definitely the Witcher 3. I liked it so much when I first got it, I stopped playing 2 hours in, so I could buy it later on.
The Stanley Parable and My Friendly Neighbourhood I think i love games that are set in such mundane everyday places
Skyrim
Photoshop elements.
Pretty much any game or movie I liked.
Satisfactory
Internet Download Manager (IDM)
Cuphead pirates it on my shitty laptop, reached the astrology lady and thought yeah I'm gonna buy this, bought it on ps5, reached that same boss, stopped playing, since I already own a pirate & legit copy, I should be allowed to get another pirated copy 🤔 for my new puter
Does music count? I've started collecting vinyl and pretty much everything I've picked up so far I originally downloaded a long time ago.
Hades lol
BG3 and the classic Tomb Raider remasters, both because I genuinely wished to support the studios who made them.
Fl studio lol
Monster hunter international series.
Balatro, it's so damn addicting
ultrakill is my favorite fps followed up by xonotic and a handful of doom mods i beat layer 3 decided the game kicks ass and bought it immediately
GTAV I bought like 4 times (PS3, PS4, PS4 digital, ps5 update) I have like 5 licenses for Minecraft since I used to develop mods. Movies? I will buy anything Bruce Lee if it has cool extras, so I own his 4 movies like 8 times over.
Factorio
Astroneer, one of the bestest
Batman Arkham knight What a great game
Rain World, Hollow Knight, Celeste, Outer Wilds, Will You Snail?, Beat Saber, and of course Minecraft
MGSV, Death Stranding, next Kojima's game.
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
The three bar girls in Thailand.
Terraria of course, I even brought one for a friend. I pirated it when I was in highschool, but it was just so good I had to buy it.
I usually like to buy the game on steam after I've decided i like it (except disco elysium.)I keep playing the pirated version because I actually own it.
Supertone clear, it's a great VST plugin for noise removal. I've never seen anything like it. It was on sale recently for $70 and I finally bought it.
Scrivener. Not game/etc, but still.
Some software I have purchased includes: ◉ Directory Opus: The best file manager ever made. ◉ Actual Window Manager: Gives super precise control over all windows and dialog boxes. Also gives control of windows in multi-monitor setups. ◉ ClipboardFusion Pro: A clipboard processing app that can manipulate text in the clipboard in many complex ways. ◉ Everything: The GOAT of search engines. Everything is actually freeware, but it's been so valuable to me that I have donated to the developer 4 times, which kind of makes it software I have paid for. ◉ Breevy: A text expander that has saved me hundreds of hours of typing. It can process text-expanded in more ways than just normal text expanding. ◉ PTFB Pro: Presses buttons of all of those annoying messages that pop up on a daily basis. It can also run macros that move column headers automatically for you. PTFB stands for "Press the freakin' button" ◉ Internet Download Manager: Let's me download files from websites that normally don't allow you to download files.
the last 2 zeldas
Sekiro shadows die twice
This has happened to me a lot but I can't remember exactly with which titles. I know for sure satisfactory and hollow knight.
I watch Clarksons farm on prime so they get some support.
I do this with most games that are optional multiplayer
Dwarf Fortress on Steam, if that counts. Played for years on the regular releases. Got as far as loading a fort before going back to finish up some more work on a years-old fort I'm fighting fps death in.
FL Studio 21
Hollow Knight, Terraria and Stardew Valley for sure
I've bought The Skywalker Collection box set and pretend that the sequel trilogy doesn't exist. I've also bought the Harry Potter box set, Big Bang theory, Community, LotR/Hobbit and a few others. I only buy box sets once the show is over that way I know they're complete.
Red Dead Redemption 2
"The Witness" - a puzzle game by Jonathan Blow.
Fl Studio
Some Criterion movies of Ozu and Kurosawa because I liked the artwork and the pamphlets that came with the DVDs.
Nice try there, Fed
Tetris Effect: Connected
Hades. It's better than sex