[citation][nom]jerm1027[/nom]Most people who are anti-pirates are corporate sheep. Online piracy isn't actually pirating, it's sharing. How did the original get obtained anyway? It certainly wasn't stolen from a secure server; it was purchased. And in every Read Me or .nfo file, there is always a message to support the devs. Now Piracy is also becoming more about power to the consumers since a popular trend to is milk consumers, inflate prices, cut quality and essentially screw over the consumer for larger profit margins.[/citation]
Well there have been several cases recently where the versions being 'shared' on the internet were unfinished developer versions distributed before the game was even being sold. That's pretty scummy.
I have sympathy for pirates only sometimes such as when the only way to get the proper product is to do something illegal such as in Germany or Australia, and the corporations deserve to take some blame for that for not standing up to bully governments, but how can corporations stand up to governments more when so many people just automatically hate all corporations for no good reason. People should be more discriminating about who they punish. In my experience, most game companies try to do a really good honest job, and when there is someone blatantly trying to scam people, anyone can spot it quite easily by looking at the review score or reading a few user reviews. There isn't much need to illegally try before buying anymore. Anyway I hope people who tried this game for free and liked it, try to spend some money on micro-transactions, just to support the developers at least.