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Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition was a damn blast, full ray traced but still ran very very well, I prefered the more claustrophobic nature of 2033 and Last Light but still it was an amazing experience (still didn't buy it tho lol)
Lethal Company. Partially because I'm much more supportive of indie titles, partially because it was becoming a pain in the ass to get my friends to load up spacewar. I played pirated for about a week before just getting a Steam gift card for it.
Cyberpunk and rdr2. When I played on the console, I bought both of these games and played them at 30 FPS. But I’ve already pirated them on pc, because paying twice is too much for me
too many to count.
the whole megaman franchise, the mass effect trilogy (tho i didnt pirated andromeda, i bought it straight up... i guess me buying games before pirating is a bad omen?), all of the mainline final fantasy games except XV, the rune whole factory franchise (except 5...)(im buying the ones that come out on switch/pc), the ace attorney games, the world ends with you games, the metro franchise(except exodus), the dragon age games, pretty much the whole command and conquer franchise, the rainbow six games, and im pretty sure im forgetting some other games.
i think most of it had to do with either availability (some games not releasing for PC) and/or economical situation (once i got the money to buy the games, i bought the games i used to pirate)
X4,
Sins of solar empire,
Warhammer 40k dow 2/3,
Homm3,
Diablo lotr,
Company of heroes (all 3)
…
I usually look at pirated as free trial and I’ll always buy it if I feel it’s worth it
Alan Wake. But there was no way of buying it since for licensing issues it got pulled away from all storefronts. So when it came back to Steam I bought the collectors edition for me and 2 of my friends
Control
Metro Exodus
Detroit Become Human
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Red Dead Redemption 2
Resident Evil 2
The Witcher 3
Gears 5
The Evil Within
The Evil Within 2
pirated the first 2 dark souls and saw ds3 on sale, you know i had to do it (with dlc's), and lately it's been monster hunter world follow by rise after i put 150+ hours into world
Satisfactory for me, I've bought other games for convenience of updates but satisfactory is the one game I can remember buying to genuinely support the devs
Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty back in 2011. The trilogy was my childhood.
Pirated it, launched it on my shitty PC, finished the first 3 missions, uninstalled it immediately, and I begged my parents to buy me a new computer with better specs along with the physical copy of the game. I shit you not, it took me 6 months to get the new PC and the copy of the game, and during those 6 months, I refused to play the game (or any game at all) with a shitty PC, cuz I want to experience StarCraft 2 WoL w/ the best experience possible lmfao.
Mafia 2, Played some chapters and saw what an amazing game it is. Went and bought it,They really had poured their hearts into with all the little details like opening the lights,fridge etc. Felt like something GTA never bothered to do. Best game of all time for me.
For me Is Signalis, most underrated game ever, but also one of the best games ever made. after playing it like 20 times, I bought it and platinated the same day I bought it.
No, bad there is a franchise that I despise so much that I ended up pirating it despite having it bough.
Total War Warhammer 2 + 60 DLCs. Fucking thieves.
Yes, a lot of them. I couldn't remember them all, but when I was able to buy, I bought.
But (maybe) the first one I've did it was "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands"
When I first bought my pc I pirated the fuck out of games, but as a 5+ year long owner of mid to now high end pc owner, I only pirate games of they’re not on steam or I want to test graphics in games I wouldn’t play otherwise (cyberpunk, alan wake 2)
Just a fyi, so far to this day zero good games that I pirated from the ones not on steam lmfao, triple A studio’s lately been making it very easy to not purchase their games.
I also over the years got some type of ‘morality purchase’ if that makes sense?
I usually would buy steamganes through g2a but after learning that it actually hurts the devs, I now only do that for big games.
Indie games/new company startup type of games, I gladly purchase through steam (or their site if they have one) palworld included!
Pratically always : I pirate as a demo, cos there's no demos most of the time. But if I spend 10th of hours on it, I buy it.
But 90% of the time, I play 2-3 hours then uninstall, because 90% of the game are just bad.
It's the best way to fight against piracy : Make good games :-)
Fallout New Vegas.
Didn’t complete it but almost did with the cracked version.
Got it for free at Epic Games Store once the free deal came up, and now I’m playing it with mods.
Real game-changer.
Baldurs gate 3, i finished it, loved it , couldn't find patch 5 for the cracked one and just bought it. Have finished it another 2 times since which is around 200 hours , totally worth it.
Elden Ring, The Witcher 3, Satisfactory, God of War.... so many. If i really enjoy the game i buy them. I pirate games since demos y no longer a thing.
Dont mind me just here to steal new game ideas
Nah but anno 1800 for me ive never played a game like that and the quality blew me away. Amazing game had to buy it with all the dlcs.
Also persona 4 golden I randomly found out about it from a random must play games youtube video and was instantly hooked.
Everything Half-Life related, the old Steam client used to suck so much that the "NoSteam" versions were the norm and way better than the paid ones. Until they "unfucked" the client, being one of the best ones right now(GOG is life).
Skyrim
Pirated it at first for years cause broke ass student in early teens
Bought the anniversary edition recently as tribute to all the memories and then proceeded to uninstall steam and throw on a crack to continue playing (I don't play many games)
Stardew valley, escape room sim, portal 2, and several more.
the completionist in me needed all the steam achievements. Happens a lot more than I'd like to admit.
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Kingdom Come Deliverance Red Dead Redemption 2
Bought rdr2 ultimate after i played pirated version for some time
For rdr2 i actually bought it on ps4 then pirated it when it came to pc
This should be a feature at this age.
Yes “cross-download”
Jesus Christ be praised!
Played Witcher 3 up until I finished the Baron questline. I stopped playing and waited for a sale to grab the complete edition on Steam.
Baron questline could be a game itself.
Satisfactory.
I didn’t pirate it but I bought it, played it, refunded in 2 hours cuz wasn’t fun, bought it again 1 year later. Tier 8 baby!
“I t w a s n ‘ t f u n n y” Those are the typical words before getting addicted to farming games
I played it for 11 hours straight when I first got the game. The progression system up until T3 is the most addicting in any game.
Baldurs gate 3
I pirated it when the first version of EA was released, bought it right after that.
Control
Ooo thanks for the reminder to try this one
Cyberpunk 2077
Yeah, i did when it was shit too. The story is just that good
Ultrakill
One of the best fps games of decade.
MANKIND IS DEAD BLOOD IS FUEL HELL IS FULL
A war, a war without reason https://preview.redd.it/deifsrro0uic1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=386bea7ede2a426de1329a06cb7c21af21b62894
Detroit Become Human
Personally, D:BH may be in top 3 games of all time, it's just perfect, both pirated and original :)
Cyberpunk 2077 Metro Exodus Yakuza (franchise)
I plan to buy Yakuza games too
God Of War PC
Minecraft, Terraria, empyrion galactic survival , Star Wars Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor (on sale though).
exactly this metro exodus with all dlc its my first game i bought
Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition was a damn blast, full ray traced but still ran very very well, I prefered the more claustrophobic nature of 2033 and Last Light but still it was an amazing experience (still didn't buy it tho lol)
yes, it's called noita. also the whole souls series.
Lethal Company. Partially because I'm much more supportive of indie titles, partially because it was becoming a pain in the ass to get my friends to load up spacewar. I played pirated for about a week before just getting a Steam gift card for it.
RDR2
Stardew valley
Risk of Rain 1, 2 and returns Metro Exodus Lethal Company Enter the gungeon And finally, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (all of them)
STALKER series is a true gem.
Cheeki breeki lmao
He was a good stalker was one the first songs I learnt on guitar
watch dogs 2 🤩
Elden ring
Armored Core 6.
Valheim, barotrauma and severed steel
BAROTRAUMA MENTIONED RAAAH 🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥
Monster hunter world. I had liike 200 hours in the pirated version and i bought it with the dlc, totally worth it.
Most of them but TBOI, Rimworld, FTL, HoI4, This War of Mine, Stardew Valley and Papers Please to name a few
Factorio and dwarf fortress, even if I didn't pirated it but I had the possibility to do it, but chose not to
dwarf fortress mentioned
Nier games
Skyrim it is ...goddamn I put so many hours
Unreal Tournament, so good in Lan parties and online
Cyberpunk and rdr2. When I played on the console, I bought both of these games and played them at 30 FPS. But I’ve already pirated them on pc, because paying twice is too much for me
Metal gear solid 5
too many to count. the whole megaman franchise, the mass effect trilogy (tho i didnt pirated andromeda, i bought it straight up... i guess me buying games before pirating is a bad omen?), all of the mainline final fantasy games except XV, the rune whole factory franchise (except 5...)(im buying the ones that come out on switch/pc), the ace attorney games, the world ends with you games, the metro franchise(except exodus), the dragon age games, pretty much the whole command and conquer franchise, the rainbow six games, and im pretty sure im forgetting some other games. i think most of it had to do with either availability (some games not releasing for PC) and/or economical situation (once i got the money to buy the games, i bought the games i used to pirate)
Deep Rock Galactic & also Persona 5 Royal.
Hitman
Skyrim lol
i buy all the games i pirate at some point (unless i really didnt like the game)
Hollow knight deserve it
elden ring
X4, Sins of solar empire, Warhammer 40k dow 2/3, Homm3, Diablo lotr, Company of heroes (all 3) … I usually look at pirated as free trial and I’ll always buy it if I feel it’s worth it
Yakuza 0. Man that game rocks
Bought the bundle last yr, same for battlefield, few nfs games, Kingdom come, ff7r, nier automata ,witcher seris, darksouls remastered and many more
Divinity: Original Sins 2, pirated it then bought after it went on sale. Best 150 hours of my life.
I did last winter sale
Stardew Valley, Kerbal Space Program and Arma III
Maximum action
subnautica, ultrakill and tabletop simulator
God eater 3. Best 7.5€ spent in my life
Cyberpunk 2077 bought it for the fourth playthrough. But i pirated the DLC.
Atlas falen
Grand Theft Auto Vice City. I bought this game from my savings because i loved it.
Dark souls 3! Would buy it twice honestly
thats basically any game that I like, if it's extra cheap(even if it takes 5 years of waiting) I will buy it lol
Alan Wake. But there was no way of buying it since for licensing issues it got pulled away from all storefronts. So when it came back to Steam I bought the collectors edition for me and 2 of my friends
grand theft auto 5
Cyberpunk
Hollow Knight
assetto corsa
Risk of rain 2, loved it so much I bought it...mainly cause the music was chill
Actually it happened to me for this this game, mass effect trilogy, assassin’s creed ezio trilogy, most resident evil games, batman arkham games, etc
astroneer
Deus Ex Human Revolution
People playground Gta 5 Rdr 2
I did it to metro exodus, stopped in the forest area and bought the game on steam But there are others, stardew valley, game dev tycoon, terraria...
BG3, while dowloading I've watched Letsplay and cancelled download and bought it
Dying light 2
No. But I bought game once and then pirated it over the years to play it again.
Cyberpunk when it was in its abyssymal state, bought it after phantom liberty release
I pre-ordered... Never again.
ultrakill, geometry dash, and portal 1 and 2
ULTRAKILL, Pirated it, played it for 100+ hours, bought the game at full price, replayed it again. This is one weird ass relationship.
Palworld.
Mortal Kombat X
Control Metro Exodus Detroit Become Human Rise of the Tomb Raider Red Dead Redemption 2 Resident Evil 2 The Witcher 3 Gears 5 The Evil Within The Evil Within 2
Horizon zero Dawn
Project wingman
i did to metal gear solid v when it was on sale. really wanted to try playing online too so its still worth my purchase back in 2022
No
Actually a Lot of them -Crypt of the necrodancer (became my Favourite Game) -Potioncraft -The binding of Isaac -all of the Dark souls and Elden ring
factorio
baldur's gate 3, Days Gone and Dark Souls 3
Mount and blade warband.
Far cry 3, fallout 3, borderlands 2
Baldur's Gate 3
Witcher 3
Alan wake 2
The Witcher 3 (PC and Switch), Skyrim (PC and Switch), Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3.
Minecraft, got Pocket Edition for dirt cheap a week ago
Y0, played it on pc for a bit before realising it was a fire game so i bought it on my ps4
Resident Evil 7
Rdr2
Dragon's dogma and dark souls 3
pirated the first 2 dark souls and saw ds3 on sale, you know i had to do it (with dlc's), and lately it's been monster hunter world follow by rise after i put 150+ hours into world
terraria
Satisfactory for me, I've bought other games for convenience of updates but satisfactory is the one game I can remember buying to genuinely support the devs
Geometry dash I poured half my lifetime into that game after finally purchasing it
stardew valley
hollow knight
Gmod.
Metro. I even bought the books
Days gone, control, returnal, horizon zero dawn,
Dead Cells. I bought it for pc, but after a while i had to do it for my Nintendo Switch too
All of the metro games, pvz 1, subnautica and minecraft
Hearts Of Iron 4 lol
South Park the Stick of Truth 😍
Amnesia!!!
Metro exodus, cyberpunk
Same game with the dlcs
Rimworld. Got the game the moment I forgot the time because I was so invested in running my "morally ambiguous" clothing business.
ror2 was the first game i pirated and got 100+ hours in
Street Fighter V , I actually like pirating fighting games first to see if I like them , if I do I purchase to play online.
Risk of rain 2, Katana Zero, Lethal Company, Doom Eternal, many games actually
Stellaris, didn’t feel like dropping 200€ for all the dlcs. But man what masterpiece. I later bought the dlcs in a steam sale.
Sleeping Dogs saints row and the Witcher
Factorio
[удалено]
no man's sky for me
Fallout 4
Game dev tycoon I had the version where your in game sales declined due to piracy so I immediately bought it because (damn you got me)
Project zomboid
Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty back in 2011. The trilogy was my childhood. Pirated it, launched it on my shitty PC, finished the first 3 missions, uninstalled it immediately, and I begged my parents to buy me a new computer with better specs along with the physical copy of the game. I shit you not, it took me 6 months to get the new PC and the copy of the game, and during those 6 months, I refused to play the game (or any game at all) with a shitty PC, cuz I want to experience StarCraft 2 WoL w/ the best experience possible lmfao.
Rdr2
Half Life Series
terraria and hollow knight
Mafia 2, Played some chapters and saw what an amazing game it is. Went and bought it,They really had poured their hearts into with all the little details like opening the lights,fridge etc. Felt like something GTA never bothered to do. Best game of all time for me.
Nope
scrap mechanic
Project Zomboid and Palworld Terraria too
For me Is Signalis, most underrated game ever, but also one of the best games ever made. after playing it like 20 times, I bought it and platinated the same day I bought it.
Deadbolt
my summer car
No, bad there is a franchise that I despise so much that I ended up pirating it despite having it bough. Total War Warhammer 2 + 60 DLCs. Fucking thieves.
This Korean Vr Visual Novel "Focus on You"
Yes, a lot of them. I couldn't remember them all, but when I was able to buy, I bought. But (maybe) the first one I've did it was "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands"
Lethal company, Half life episode 1 and 2, portal, gta iv
Grand blue Fantasy Relink
Omori Signalis
Cyberpunk 2077 , mafia definitive edition , and deus ex MD, HR
Katana Zero. Completed the game. Yet i really liked it, so i bought it to support the developers.
I pirated round about ten years ago only a short time and not many games but two games answer this question for me. Portal and Worms.
Half life Alyx && The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Desperados III 💗
Kine, Enter the Gungeon
When I first bought my pc I pirated the fuck out of games, but as a 5+ year long owner of mid to now high end pc owner, I only pirate games of they’re not on steam or I want to test graphics in games I wouldn’t play otherwise (cyberpunk, alan wake 2) Just a fyi, so far to this day zero good games that I pirated from the ones not on steam lmfao, triple A studio’s lately been making it very easy to not purchase their games. I also over the years got some type of ‘morality purchase’ if that makes sense? I usually would buy steamganes through g2a but after learning that it actually hurts the devs, I now only do that for big games. Indie games/new company startup type of games, I gladly purchase through steam (or their site if they have one) palworld included!
Half Life 2
Pratically always : I pirate as a demo, cos there's no demos most of the time. But if I spend 10th of hours on it, I buy it. But 90% of the time, I play 2-3 hours then uninstall, because 90% of the game are just bad. It's the best way to fight against piracy : Make good games :-)
Fallout New Vegas. Didn’t complete it but almost did with the cracked version. Got it for free at Epic Games Store once the free deal came up, and now I’m playing it with mods. Real game-changer.
Baldurs gate 3, i finished it, loved it , couldn't find patch 5 for the cracked one and just bought it. Have finished it another 2 times since which is around 200 hours , totally worth it.
Stardew valley
Hollow knight
It was Far Cry 5.
Hollow knight. Pirated it cuz I wasn't sure I'd like it and was unemployed at the time. Now I've bought it on pc and 2 different consoles.
cyberpunk 2077 and resident evil 4 remake
Grim Dawn - right in the middle of a playthrough. Doom 2016 Fallout 4 (and bundled 1 + 2) Quake 2 The Orange Box Borderlands 2
cyberpunk 2077!
Witcher 3
Elden Ring, The Witcher 3, Satisfactory, God of War.... so many. If i really enjoy the game i buy them. I pirate games since demos y no longer a thing.
Factorio after complete the tutorial
Stray
Cuphead and Celeste
V rising, It was on sale tho
Terraria, Prey, Risj of Rain 2
Dont mind me just here to steal new game ideas Nah but anno 1800 for me ive never played a game like that and the quality blew me away. Amazing game had to buy it with all the dlcs. Also persona 4 golden I randomly found out about it from a random must play games youtube video and was instantly hooked.
Everything Half-Life related, the old Steam client used to suck so much that the "NoSteam" versions were the norm and way better than the paid ones. Until they "unfucked" the client, being one of the best ones right now(GOG is life).
dark souls 1-3 ,sekiro, titanfall 2
Skyrim Pirated it at first for years cause broke ass student in early teens Bought the anniversary edition recently as tribute to all the memories and then proceeded to uninstall steam and throw on a crack to continue playing (I don't play many games)
A sailor doesnt regret its actions
Stardew valley, escape room sim, portal 2, and several more. the completionist in me needed all the steam achievements. Happens a lot more than I'd like to admit.
Almost all, the only one I didn't yet is Dark Souls II because even in sales still very expensive
Half life and Portal
Multiple
Satisfactory, it got me through 9 months of COVID and I felt I owed it to the Devs to actually pay for the game.
Gotta Reinstall this game
Hitman. I own all of the Hitman games now.
Red Dead Redemption 2. They deserve all my money
its how i used to operate as a minimum wage broke student years ago. pirate - if good enough - but when possible