Well, this thread is surprising. I pirate a lot of games and I don’t feel too sad about these poor companies only selling millions of games. I like Larian but, come on.

That being said, multi-player with cracked games is a pain: it usually doesn’t work at at, sometimes it’s half broken and often it’s painful to setup. So do it only if you feel up for a challenge.

Otherwise, pirating solo games and paying for coop ones is a good balance for me.

My negative reaction to the post is due to “I don’t feel like paying for it”

“I can’t afford it”, “I want to see if I can run it”, “I don’t support the restrictive drm” are all valid reasons to pirate in my opinion, but “I don’t feel like paying” absolutely isn’t, especially if they would buy it if they couldn’t pirate it (which is the impression I get from the post).

In most cases calling piracy stealing/theft is stupid, but in these cases it actually is akin to shoplifting from a chain store

I understand it a bit differently. In sentence “I don’t feel like paying” can be hidden different things and most probably a combination of few.

Maybe “i am ashamed I can not afford it” or " not sure if friend can afford it rigth now" or just plain old 'if we really like it we might find money for it, but are not sure we like it enough and that amount of money is serious expense for both of us".

Say “I can’t pay for it now” or “I don’t want to pay for it yet” or something then… “I don’t feel like paying for it” has a connotation of “I could pay, but I want it for free” rather than even “I don’t want to pay for it” which can be taken from more viewpoints such as “it’s too expensive right now to justify paying, I’ll wait for it to come on sale” or “I’m not ready to pay for it until I’ve tried it”