Ever used Pirated game properly?

I always pirate games, i only buy for online expiriance, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Counter Strike, these are the games you must buy, but bullshit like Skyrim and other singleplayer shit must be pirated because the developers made a piece of shit which is not worth the money

It is called demo.
Lacks of Demo could kill the buyer decision.

Last game I pirated is Game Dev Tycoon because I don't have a credit card to buy it from the dev's website. When it will release on Steam, I will buy it.

Yep. But mostly it was a case of, this game was too expensive/unavailable licensed than (years ago) and is affordable now.

Certainly gotten out of the habit as they've made legal avenues simpler than pie (and having an actual salary doesn't hurt). However, last year I did pirate a copy of Neverwinter Nights Diamond but used my legit CD key from the game manual-- I simply couldn't find my original disc >_<

A public thread where people admit they're downloading illegal copies of games, movies and music albums ? Brilliant idea guys, keep'em coming. You might want to write down your home address aswel to facilitate things even more.

I used to do it a lot a few years ago before I had any real way of earning money, But now that I do have a way (Note "A" way, As in, "Donating" Plasma a couple times a week) I just buy the games on steam (Including some of the games I previously pirated).

That doesn't mean I have completely stopped, I still do it from time to time to make sure I like the game first (For games that don't have demos) and if I don't currently have the money (I really need to learn patience :/). But not all that often, and when I do, I make a point not to play to much of the game, Just enough to get a good taste if I really like it or not.

Edit:
Here is an example where it actually helped the Company-
My Brother Pirated Half Life, Half Life 2 (and its episodes) for me (Before I even knew Steam existed), and I played and really liked them, However, Half Life 2 was buggy so I went looking for a place to buy the games, and found Steam. At the time Portal happened to be Free to everyone, and I got it. About a week later, I collected enough money to buy Half Life 2, a few months later, another game, and in December, I bought the Valve Complete Pack. Following that I preordered Portal 2. Coming along to today, I have bought ~300 games, and will buy many more games to come. Plus, I gotten friends on Steam and they have paid for games.

I'm not exactly saying Pirating is good, But in my case (and many others), The company's have gotten quite a few more sales because of it. So don't just assume ALL pirate's are horrible people that don't care about anything and just walk over everyone, as that simply isn't true.

Well, I played a pirate version of Castle Crashers. I really enjoyed the game, but had several bugs. I thought that the Steam version had fixed this bugs. I bought without any discount, i didn't regret.

no, I buy all the games I want and so should you. DRM, DLC and all the other horse sh*t exists because of people like you :/

I gotta admit I usually pirate games, but there were two occasions when I felt the need to support the developpers. First after playing Amnesia I bought Penumbra, and second when I bought the second witcher after playing the first.

I always pirate. Right now I got 12 pirate games installed... Like I would pay for games...

I haven't pirated any game since i joined Steam.

I only pirate a game if I can't find any legitimate ways to acquire it. (other than $100 ebay copies)

Played a pirated version of fallout NV ended up buing ultimate edition after like 2 hours playing pirated version :D

Closest thing I've done to what you stated was pirate a tv show and then later buy it.

Just finished downloading a bag of potato chips

Pirating since the early days of C64 (yes,im THAT old) and buying what i like so along many others,i am part of the reason why Gaming has become a multi-billion dollar business.
What i just wrote is fiction and only for public amusement,you have to forget everything after 24 hours or you will be sued for copyderp infrigment or whatever

What's a pirate? I prefer to ninja games.

Help us, help us, we need help!

I used to be a huge pirate, then I met steam and made good love to it.

Am I reading this properly? OP thinks he's the chosen one who bought a game after pirating it? Breaking news, exclusive, never before seen?

Yes, it pretty much happened to everyone. Unless the person doesn't wanna buy games to begin with, or his wallet is so full he loves to throw money at everything.

Games that I pirated and then bought include Alan Wake, Borderlands, Chaos on Deponia (god, I love this series), Primordia, Superbrother: Sword and Sworcery EP and XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

I had tried Morrowind once and didn't really like it. Friend told me all the issues I had with it were not in Skyrim. I didn't want to buy the game and end up not liking it, I also wasn't sure if my laptop could run it. Downloaded the thing, played it for around an hour as I had only intended to use it as a demo. My computer ran it fine and I liked the game. I bought it and its DLCs and have since played it for 200+ hours.

If the game had a demo I would have simply tried the game that way, then bought the game after.

Yes, I always try them before even thinking about buying them. Last one was deus ex : hr, finished it cracked before I bought it :))