When is it okay to pirate a game? (giveaway inside)

It is okay to drive a car and use electricity even though it ruins the environment and threatens real life as we know it.
It's legally not okay to pee against a tree even though nobody sees you. It is okay to pee your pants though, so lets all do that.
It's okay to have a home. It's not okay for a person to build a house where he wants even though the planet belongs to everybody.
It's okay for the government to literally waste tax dollars on stuff they know nothing about. It is not okay to not pay tax.
Everybody should have the right to eat. It is not okay for a homeless kid to steal bread from a rich supermarket because he would starve otherwise.

I guess it depends on what you actually mean with "okay". everything has a good and a bad side.

What about people like me who live in such "African country" without the ways to pay Online! and yet if they can pay online is too expensive.
a simple game of 10USD = 1800DA then imagine a game of 50 / 60USD :/
I'm sorry to say that, but I love Games mostly the Strategy Games and my only way is to download a cracked version without being able to play multi ofcaurse.
obviously I add these games that I loved on my "wish list" so i buy the games one day, when I can.
u will tell me that there is free games! YES there are hundreds but until today every free games I try is "PAY TO WIN"

Maybe in the case that the game has been removed from sale or whatever, but in every other case? No, that's just you stealing from the people who spent hours of their time making that product. If you don't have the money okay, you still don't need the game and it's still stealing. I didn't have any way of expanding my game library for years, I survived.

To make sure my computer can definitely handle the game, so therefore using it as a demo (this is seriously missing, I hate the fact developers nowadays don't give you a chance to try out their game before buying it - there are some betas, but very few games do it).
I used to pirate games that I was extremely hyped about (Dark Souls II) when I did not have the financial means to purchase them, nowadays I just mostly avoid AAA games altogether.

When it's not on Steam.

I would download cars if i could

When the dev is called Phil Fish

It saddens me that "when you don't have money to buy the game" is the second most popular answer. The only time I'd say it's ok to pirate is when the game is no longer available for purchase or isn't available in your region.

I'd say it's acceptable if the game is highly unlikely to ever be commercially sold again. A lot of old console games and licensed games fall into that category.

It's the only practical way to play many arcade games.

It's never ok. You can try to justify it however you want, but it is still wrong. Unless the developers, publishers, and whoever else owned part of the game say "If you can find it out there, then take it!" then what you are doing is wrong. Doesn't mean I've never done it or that I won't do it again in the future. Just means it is wrong. Stop trying to justify yourself and embrace how shitty of a person you are.

Well, I would mark "NEVER!!!" but "when a company stops selling that game"... well, if the company doesn't even care about selling the game anymore, we shouldn't care about buying it also.
I'm a programmer and if I used to sell something I stoped selling... I wouldn't bother if someone pirated it... I think I would even put it free somewhere (like Blizzard did with Starcraft). But I may be wrong... CRACKING a game is also unsafe, so I would try to find a free DRM free version of the game!
Another answer would be: The game to Pirate is ONE PIECE! (yes, I thought you were giving away this pirate game! :P )

If there's no demo. Did you enjoy playing it? Buy it. Did it suck? Delete it. I've been burned too many times by screenshots and videos being nothing like the actual gameplay.

If it's not available in your region. There's no sale to lose there.

The only way I'll pirate a game that I could otherwise buy is if it has harmful DRM. Dear devs/publishers: If I like your game I would like nothing more than to buy it, but if your shitty DRM has a chance of causing damage to components of my PC or the disc itself you're not getting my money.

Otherwise if it's just a matter of "I don't like the devs/publisher" I simply don't play it period unless someone decides to gift me a copy. Of course, there are some devs/publishers who's games I won't even play if someone tries to give it to me (EA, Ubisoft, Paradox, etc.)

Unfortunately for your poll, yes is not a proper answer to "When ?" XD

Depends on your morality.

People who download "warez" dont belong to any target group of buyers even if the industry always likes to make us believe
People who doesnt have money or doesnt want to spend it....they wouldnt buy it anyway
most is only downloaded because its just there... not for any particular reason

I am a 90s kid... that means i download everything when i was young but there has never been a plan behind
It was downloaded because it was there ...that's all

the huge Starwars fan will always go to the cinema he will probably download it because he can not wait for it...but he will somehow pay for the movie ...whether by buying a bluray or DVD or he will go to the cinema later again ...there are only a few who do not <- and again no target group

Piracy actually only promotes sales and does not lower them
on TV shows you can see very well... the whole illegal streams and downloads actually only ensure that the series will be successful at all ...especially worldwide
Even the people who do not pay because they just do not want it and get for example a great movie-collection..promote the sales only in a different way....somewhere the stuff has to be stored ...so they need to buy hard disks, blank CDs and so on

So the answer to your question
-> always
There is nothing against it but much for it ^^

When your salary is $250

When your conscience goes on vacation.

When game devs are OK with pirating it - like with Hotline Miami 2 in Australia some time ago.

Also If you live in country that treats age rating too seriously and because of your age nobody will sell you game you want to play. I mean - if you are breaking law already - why not take one step further :)

Never.
If you can't buy a certain game, just buy another.
If it's no longer available. If your copy broke. I you can't afford. Doesn't matter. It's never a valid reason for piracy.

Overzealous DRM. Steam's own DRM is fine, out of the way, low impact.. not true with all others.
No longer available, or not available in your region at all.
Insane pricing for your region. (If it's a $50 US game and they want $100 in Canada, well FU)
Sometimes to demo, though I normally see what I need from videos and such.

Thats about it that I can think of. I don't pirate many games, most of what I have is exclusively due to the first half of the second reason. I've found most games with the crappy forms of DRM are not games I want in the first place, likewise overpriced stuff.

Plenty of good reasons posted already but mainly is if you can live with it then sure go ahead. At the end of the day you make the choice for whatever reason it may be.

• I can't get the game where I am, either it's not being sold anymore or I can't get it in my country
• If it's very expensive I wanna be sure it's worth it, no amount of reviews is gonna tell me if I'm going to enjoy it
• The company has done a lot of shitty things and I can't buy the games knowing that, but I still want to play their games (screwing over their workers, using kickstarter money for other games on other projects etc, etc)

The area I 100% spend money is foreign games that have gotten localised (Japan mostly). They're only going to continue providing it out of their own country if they can see the profit being worth the effort of translation and distribution to an overseas market. So if I want more of that game I gotta pay for it (if i'm not sure i do pirate it and then buy if im interested, cause overseas refunding is a bitch and not worth it)

I usually pirate a game when it doesn't has a demo so I can try it out. See if I like the game, and whether it runs on my PC or not. If I like the game, I uninstall the pirated version and buy a legit copy when I have the money. If I don't like it, I uninstall it and move on.

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here in Mexico 90% software are pirate.