Why do High-End PC owners get pirated games?

[bystander]

lately the guys making the games especially for PC are doing a really bad job e.g. NFS Rivals bad game so I pirate sometimes because you want to see how it plays before spending your hard earned cash.

There is nothing wrong with waiting 1-52 weeks to buy a specific game. After the release, find out what bugs there are, and decide if it would be best to wait. And just because there are bugs at release, doesn't mean the game will remain a problem. It'll be working within a month. If you can't afford new releases, stop buying them.

These excuses ring hollow to me.

It sounds more like gaming/pirating addiction.

 

[Mythos_Man]

I mean, I can understand a guy who owns an old dual core with an old graphics card due to financial reasons downloading pirated games. But I see a lot of last gen i7 owners with high end graphics cards complaining on pirate sites about how the game is not working properly or something. If you are able to buy a 2000+ dollar rig, why would you not spend like 80 bucks on a legitimate game which would not only work perfectly but also allow you to play online? I kinda feel sorry for the developers who spend sometimes years working on a great game that then will get pirated versions downloaded onto such High-End PC owners. Why?

So why don't you have a seat and tell us what YOU were doing on a pirating site?

I have been downloading pirated games lately mainly because of financial reasons, I am currently dependent on my parents' income and have not even an allowance, all I have is a shared broadband connection and a mid-range PC so all I can do is download and play pirated games. When I did have the money not long ago, I only bought original ones, mainly because I wanted to play them online(which I believe is the main reason to buy original). Believe me, as soon as I am financially sound again, I will buy, at least, the games I've downloaded from pirate sites and have been enjoying for the last 5 years like BF3, BF4, Mafia 2, Assetto Corsa, etc... I don't know if I'll be downloading new games simply based on reviews but that's what I intend to do because I want to support the developers and their hard work no matter how many foibles/patches I'll have to go through to have the games working properly.

TF2 is the way to go. Thousands of hours of free fun. It's a pretty spectacular game.