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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?
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Well, it seems ok to m-....
...what?!
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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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You have a very strange and illogical views on the world, Phylum. In your mind, the correct way of doing things is buying games based of how they look in media footage and not how they actually play, which, in my humble opinion, should be the right criteria for buying games. You'd easily put the blame on yourself for the game being bad, and admit that you did the right thing giving your money away to the developers who obviously failed their goal to provide entertainment to you. Your justification is that you should have known how good the game really is, despite you're having basically no means to judge it without actually playing it. (Considering the case with no free demo)
Also, I bet that you're not wholeheartedly against commercial music being on youtube to hear for free. If you were consistent with yourself, you'd feel like a thief hearing a song before deciding to buy it, you'd buy the album beforehand, and even if it turned bad you'd prefer it over hearing it first without paying the artist.
It really is the same. And "piracy is piracy" is such a weak argument, you can't even provide a convincing statement against it except mentioning a situation, where some dick who, despite having money to buy a thing he/she likes, decides to get it for free, which is not the fault of piracy, but the fault of that despicable individual.