(11-05-2010, 04:32 PM)Tottel Wrote: "testing" a candybar before buying it would destroy something that could have been sold to another person. In this condition it cannot be sold, so it's a loss.
Pirating a game before buying it however, results in no profit-loss for a company at all (if you buy it afterwards). If you download a pirated version and you don't like it and uninstall before even completing it, then it would be like a game demo.
Even if people buy the game afterwards, they will, most likely, buy it from sale for a much lower price (= seller gets profit, not the company, who made / published the game).
And even if you buy it for the full price, you have already stolen the game once.
And why even pirate a game that you can try out in a demo?