What was the last game you ever pirated?

I can't even remember the last game i played that didn't purchased and even the ones i did i ended up purchasing later on. A good habit publishers stopped doing is playable demos of the games, that helped me make choices.

Pirated Mass Effect 3 just over a year ago because I did not want to go through the hassle of buying it and all the dlc through origin. It was an incredibly successful game, so I felt little remorse, plus I'd bought the first two on steam, so bioware didn't lose too much money on me. I needed to finish that story!!

Torrent Edition (tm) in not pirating. It's for testing purposes.
Lot of games disappoint me when I try it by myself.

I don't remember, I not a kid anymore.

I've bought GTA IV back in the day but for the love of god I haven't been able to get it running with the horribly engineered DRM called Games For Windows LIVE. I had to crack my legal copy in order to be able to play it.

AC Unity. Wanted to know whether I can run it or not.

I can't.

I pirated Games to try them out and then i bought them if i liked them :s

Battlezone II. Like many other games it is the only way to get them. Probably because of licencing issues, Mafia I'm looking at you.

Hmmm....does downloading Touhou from some site count? Well, if it doesn't, then Steins;Gate.

Minimum wage is around 350$ here. I can't afford to waste 60$ on a shitty game so I pirate to try them. But I rarely do it, last one was AC:Unity and THANK GOD I MADE A GOOD DECISION.

Uplink: Hacker Elite, I bought a copy from EB games/GameStop, acording to the dev though Strategy First the publisher never paid royalties.
There might also be some no royalty games in my desura/indieroyale library because of the publisher/distributer bankruptcy.

I do feel that copyright law should be changed such that owners (licencees) of a game can hire third party developers to fix bugs ,complete a incomplete game, bring multiplayer servers back online via 3rd party for abandon multiplayer games, hire 3rd parties to port games and software to newer and different OS's/platforms, hire a 3rd party to optimize a game, hire a 3rd party to upgrade a game to future visual standards like photo-realistic resolution or 3d, hire a third party to remove DRM, that any software touched by DRM(aka malware/bot nets) should lose all copyright protection, etc.

The last game I pirated that I actually played was Talos and Child of Light.
I ended up buying them both on steam, after I liked them though. Sometimes I pirate games to get a feel for how they play. If I like them, I just buy them on steam.

I used to... use Pokémon emulators because of the multiplayer and the competitive scene going on in there, which wasn't happening in the regular network - but I had bought those games so I don't really count it as pirating. I also downloaded Might and Magic VI before I discovered the existence of GoG years back, having lost the CDs from the boxed version - again, I don't really consider it as pirating either, more like "obtaining a back-up copy through means other than the CD."

With that being said, I don't pirate stuff because it's faster and easier not to nowadays. I don't care if someone wants a $60 luxury and pirates it because he lacks the money to afford it - and to no, I won't ever be convinced that such a thing can be compared to, say, stealing a Lamborghini.

Project CARS, saw it run well and its fun, then read the awful company Slightly Mad Studios is, uninstalled.

I tried one level of Transformers: Devastation. These days I mostly use piracy as demos (all games should have a demo), unless I am positive I will never buy the game anyway (DOA5, I'm looking at you), or the game is not for digital sale (I don't see the moral difference between buying second hand retail and piracy).

The virdict on Transformers: Devastation: nice, not worth the price, can wait until it's dirt cheap/bundled. Like most games, after all.

I pirate all the time

I'm poor as fuck, explains why im lvl 0 here too

Plague Inc Evolved, I think. But because it's a great game, I won't finish it until I get it on Steam.

i think my last pirated game was swat 4 for a lan party, so i could just share the zip and everyone is ready to go.

It's too long ago to remember exactly, but I remember that I played a pirated Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall, and I think I stopped pirating around that time. Why did I pirate? It was just a common thing to pass game copies around. I didn't think about it much. I was at university at the time, and there was a CD burner in the system room which we used.

Mass Effect Trilogy. Because i hate Origin.

Mostly all of the games I played before 2010 were pirated. I didn't played that much on the computer back then, only a few strategy games like Age of Empires and Battle for Middle-Earth. Had a PS1/PS2, and the games were really expensive here (and it was WAY MORE easier to find then pirated). In January 2010 I had bought a new computer, there were a lot of games from the previous years I wanted to play, so downloaded a few of then... I think the very last was Burnout Paradise. A few months later my friends introduced me to Steam, they used to play TF2 and asked me to join them, so I got the Orange Box in April (at full price). Then the sales started and I keep purchasing since that :P BTW Burnout was the third game I got on Steam.

But to be honest I still pirated Pokemon from time to time (just when the urge comes). Do not feel comfortable about buying a NDS just for that...

Last game? Aquaria for the PC, if you mean legitimately pirating.

I'm not sure specifically, but I'm certain it had to do with ROMs. Probably it was arcade game ROMs, for a while I was really into emulating those. I'm not sure if they would be classified as abandonware, though many indeed haven't been sold in years, or ever for current hardware.

As a general rule, though, I don't pirate anything (music, TV, games, etc.). If I can't afford it I wait until I can. And I eventually felt bad and deleted all my questionable ROMs. (I still have a couple SNES ROMs, but I went and bought the cartridges for 'em to keep it all on the up-and-up.)