Some personal thoughts on piracy (warning - long post)

[BeefJerky]

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If you pay for the game, and it doesn't work the way it was supposed to, for example, it complains something missing and reinstalling and patches do not work, this case, I don't take it as a pirated game, even though it is...
In this case, I will look it more from a point of morality.

If your game is a bug-ridden mess the moral thing to do would be to give me my $60 dollars back. But that stopped happening a long time ago. I remember when EB and Gamestop had return policies that would result in buggy/crappy games going right where they belong: the $1 bargain bin.

What do you get now? No return policy and forums filled with idiots defending the developer by saying retarded things like, "These things take time" and moderators deleting posts with legitimate complaints.

Devs want to have their cake and eat it, too. Tough.