Piracy is piracy. You can't say that because you did it one time and it was all fine that it's an ok thing to do. You can't pretend that pirating something isn't wrong by separating yourself from the "bad" pirates. How do you know that you would have purchased the game at the time you pirated it? As you said, you only bought it because it was awesome.
Let's talk about the time I pirated Cube World. I had seen footage of the game, and thought it looked really awesome. I was aware it had its shortcomings, but I was determined that I wanted to buy it. At the time I had no way of actually paying the money, so I pirated it. I was sure that I was going to follow it up with money one day. It turns out the game was really dull. I hardly even ended up playing it, and definitely never purchased it. Piracy saved me $15.
Was that an ok thing to do? Of course not, and I acknowledge that I did the wrong thing. Do I regret pirating it? No, it saved me money! If I had waited until I had a means of purchasing it, I would have seen that the game was a lot less than I originally thought, and has had really patchy development. Instead I downloaded something I had no entitlement to.
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