Ever used Pirated game properly?

I have done it several times, but I stopped. The last one I did was MW3 for IW5M.

I used to pirate games, but games are just so cheap anymore that it doesn't seem worth the trouble.

Yep same experience with Tomb Raider :D

I always pirate games that cost more than 15€ or so. If I like them, I wait for their price to drop and then buy them. I don't have that much money to spend in a 50€ game that I might not like.

I only wanted to point one thing:

Piracy is only bad, for cases like the game "Deadpool". 5 minutes of gameplay were enough to make me uninstall it, delete the image, and never buy it, and even if it happens to appear in a bundle I buy, I'll just trade that piece of crap.

Before Steam happened, you simply couldn't find cheap games, boxed versions of even very old games still had a high price.

After Steam, and sales, and bundles... nowadays there is no real need to pirate games, if you can wait a month or 2 you will find the game at half price, add 2 more months and you're almost guaranteed to find the game at around 15$ somewhere (if you have an important backlog and can afford to wait more than 6 months, you'll get every game at 5-7$... well, except Blizzard ones)...

I had this feeling lots of times. I don't play pirated version of game if I feel that it's really good. I try to buy it then.

Worse happens, when I buy original one, i get bored easiliy.

The only proper use of a pirated game is submitting it to the "delete" button.

both. pirate and legit games

I bought ARMA 2 Combined Ops :D

Only games I pirated that worked were emulated pokemon games, tried pirating a silent hill game, tried about 5 times torrenting didn't work and took like a day each time, when i finally managed to install crashed so i never pirated games again, for real... not even to "demo" it

I used to pirate all the games before. Since i use Steam, i can't even touch a pirated game, I need to buy each and every tittle :D.

Almost every game I pirated and I liked, I bought.

Ever used English language properly?

I find the best to play pirated game properly is to building grape shots for take out enemy sail.

No, i just buy it. Because you know games are cheap.

I feel OK to install a pirated game to try it if the devs do not provide demo.
But if I like it and going to play it further I would buy it for sure.

yes, did same with hl2, and never looked back.. ive got almost 40 games in my lib now

I usually played on a friend's computer since I have a bandwidth cap, making pirating useless.

I bought a copy of FF7 on the PC a few years ago from eBay (I had it on PS1 as a kid too). Turned out it was a copied/pirated set of discs that also had a bunch of extras on it (full OSTs, scripts, FMV files, wallpapers etc etc). The seller was removed before I even complained, but I kept it all anyway AND got a refund. I didnt get FF7 again until it was released on Steam.