AITAH for pirating games before buying them? (lemmy.world)

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Nowadays, the absolute vast majority of games that I play are shit tbh.

This is why I pirate games first to try them out. I wanna be very clear that if I think a game is good I buy it, no questions asked.

However, since most games don't have demos or trials, I don't want to feel like I've wasted money so I look to piracy so that I can try them out before making a purchase.

AITAH?

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[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Don’t trust the software company to do what they have made legally sound claims to doing, and that hundreds of thousands of people have said they’ve done.

But do trust the script kiddies writing crackers not to install invisible keyloggers and ad trackers.

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