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

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Genuine question, is enaulating older systems, with ROMs/ISOs you get off the Internet, considered piracy? No current systems, only older ones. Newest one is PS3. Is this piracy?

Edit: ok, thank you, everyone. I emulate very old games because it's a nostalgia thing. Games I played when I was very young and I wanted to play them again. I don't emulate anything new as I have a huge collection of physical copies of games I played on newer systems like the PS4.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It is supposed to be, technically. IIRC, you're supposed to copy your own stuff - such as BIOS and ISOs - rather than download others, which is why things like PCSX2 doesn't natively come with a BIOS.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Technically yes. But if the games are no longer even being sold I'd argue that it's perfectly fine to do it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yes it's piracy. And it's likely illegal depending on your country. But I don't think it's unethical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I personally don't think so. You're free to do what ever you want with any system that is obsolete and not supported.