Ever used Pirated game properly?

I used to before when i was very young and didn't know anything nowadays if i want a game I buy it

I haven't pirated since high school....

I played MK too, for 10 minutes. It's still installed, but I'm gonna wait for a sale to buy it, I don't know if I'll keep playing the pirated version though. Too many achievements to get when I buy it xD

I haven't pirated a game in a couple of years. When you get a big backlog of owned games, what's the point, just play those until you wait for a sale. There were plenty I pirated first, then bought. Sometimes I would stop playing a pirate copy because I knew I had to buy it.

I am tempted to just pirate Trials Evolution HD, because ubisoft has 4 achievements for the game, like WTF, should be same as Xbox. I will research the online leader boards, if they are still clean of cheaters, I will buy, if they are not, then sod them.

I did pirate some games, but all the games I loved - I bought. If I didn't love the game - I deleted it immidiatly.

The only single game I pirated, loved, and haven't bought yet is Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 which is the first in my wishlist.

i had a lot of pirated games before i started to use steam. i do have Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 still installed, not likely to going to support EA with this :D

It's some years since I don't pirate and honestly I don't feel the need for it. And it's not like I have a lot of money, I don't even have a job yet, so those who take money as an excuse for piracy should just look for sales and remember gaming isn't vital as food is. Same thing I want to remember to all those fags who buy overpriced Apple iPads and iPhones they don't need and thensay there's no money to live decently.

Apart from the random rant, the last games I "legitimally pirated" were Civ V and Skyrim, which I later bought on Steam.

I have a pretty bad computer so when I'm thinking of buying a new game and have enough money, I pirate the game to test if it can run smoothly on my computer.

also, bit offtopic, but i would be very gratefull if someone could copy folder name of MK komplete edition in steam common folder.
Trying to copy paste so i dont need to download 8 gigs with 500 kb again:D!

Edit:Nvm found a solution!

Yeah, done it many times. Super meat boy and binding of isaac are the two examples that first come to mind.

I used to be a hardcore pirate long time ago. This was before I had a computer worth protecting for viruses and before I gotten involved with Steam. Now if there is a game I want, it is usually multiplayer. Multiplayer games now days dont work well online. I do have Original War installed, but I bought it a long time ago and the disk wont install the game anymore for some reason; so I do not feel guilty for that one.

Yup. Considering the fact that my computer isn't really top notch and I'm often worried whether I'll be able to play certain game - I often pirate them, try them for some time (an hour or so) and then when I'm able to, I buy the game and play it properly.

"Ever done something illegal properly?"
What.

I used to do this regularly and still do when I'm considering buying a game at full price. If I'm grabbing a game cheap I don't bother anymore. I also do this when demos are available because in my experience demos are a fairly poor way to get a feel for the game. I've had situations where the demo works fine but the game won't launch on my machine (and vice versa). Sometimes the demo only gives you the good parts of the game and the rest is boring as hell. With a pirated game you still face potential compatibility differences but you'll at least be guaranteed to know what the real game is like.

I don't make much but I'm too lazy to look for pirated games when I have a backlog and Steam :P
I only really pirated games myself in college since we had a university-wide P2P server with probably 100 TB of videos, music, games, etc. But that was also for lazy convenience since everything downloaded at like 4 MB/s. I have many of the games I once played pirated in my Steam library now; I wouldn't mind buying most of them for memory/collection's sake. However, most of these games that I did enjoy I probably wouldn't shell out even $5/game for (warcraft, starcraft, diablo, etc). AoE II HD was an exception ^^"

Per typical steam stories, I was a pirate of pretty much anything until I saw the amazing power of a steam sale. Got about 12 games for 60 bucks, and I haven't pirated anything since.

Steam has saved me from a life of piracy. Now, instead of downloading games and not playing them, I buy games without playing them!

Yeah, lots of times. If i loved the game, even if I finish the pirated version, I tend to buy original copy in the future just so i can play it maybe one more time (which never happen :D ), but still i support the devs, and that's alright.

But there are times where i download the game, i finish it like super fast (or not), and i'm like: "I ain't giving you 50€ for this shit, better luck next time." (even if the game is alright, sometimes they don't deserve what they are asking for)

Civ III and AoE come to mind. I will say that as I've gotten older I tend to find myself pirating less. I think its just cause I don't have time to play everything I already have.

I do it all the time, at least with more expensive games, to see if they are really worth it and more importantly, if they run well on my PC.

Only time I "acquire" games is to make sure they run as demos do not seem to exist anymore

I've done it a couple times just to see if the game is worth it. Out of the times I actually pirated a game I ended up buying it. Too bad I didn't do it for all the games because I've bought/pre-ordered some really shitty games this year.

I pirated Deadpool because f*ck some $40 = 50€ :P
Just last month it was UnEpic, Defenders Quest and CoJ Gunslinger, bought them all after less than 15 min of playing. :D