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AITAH for pirating games before buying them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 0485919158191@lemmy.world to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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Nowadays, the absolute vast majority of games that I play are shit tbh.

This is why I pirate games first to try them out. I wanna be very clear that if I think a game is good I buy it, no questions asked.

However, since most games don't have demos or trials, I don't want to feel like I've wasted money so I look to piracy so that I can try them out before making a purchase.

AITAH?

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[–] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of people talk about the steam refund policy however I just don't trust that I will get my money back even though it's a "non questions asked" kinda deal. If I've given them $80 for a game, they can easily decide to just keep it...

[–] pdqcp@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also time sensitive, and sometimes I end up wasting a couple of hours just tweaking settings, and character customization

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Simple solution: don't do that until you've decided to keep it