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No. If a game doesn't live up to your expectations then that's life.
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That's life, and there are people who accept the life as shitty as it is sometimes, and there are people who try to change the life to be better that before. I am definitely not the former.
The goal of the developers is to make money from the player's entertainment. When somebody pirated a game he's not sure about and it turns out it's shit, what do you think he does with it? He won't play it anymore, delete it making the copy erase from the existence. He won't have any good memories of the game (The strongest memory would be "This game wasn't worth my money") and he definitely won't be entertained, thus the developers have failed their task. Should they really get money for a bad job? Does it matter that they worked hard if the result was below average? The outcome would be basically the same as if the game had a (equally bad [that's not always the case, e.g. Sonic 6 had a demo that was supposedly more polished than the final game, which caused a confusion and people thought the game is good because of it]) demo, yet you demonize it.
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Given that you're taking something that isn't yours (we've already established why saying you'll pay later isn't adequate)
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I do not agree with how you "established" that, it's more like taking for granted from the start. And by "later" I don't really mean long periods of time. It really doesn't take long to download the game and check if it's any good. Even if the subject doesn't have money to pay for it, let's say it's an African kid, who spent his all money for a cheap computer and he is basically broke and with no job, there's no scenario when he could give money to the developers. I imagine Phylum and MM standing behind the poor kid's back and shouting at him whenever he tries to get some entertainment, legal or not. Let's also say we still consider the situation where kid will actually pay, when he has any money.
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I feel like you are the one who should be explaining why that should ever be ok, because I'm yet to see you put pen to paper on that.
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Well I think your feelings are wrong on that one. I don't need to explain that something that doesn't hurt anybody can be ok. Piracy is both, there are people who hurt and don't. That is a wrong with people, not with piracy. Demonizing piracy is like demonizing entire humanity for WWII. It's just groundless.