I actually would confess that I pirated FFXII because it "released" on the internet before getting to store shelves. I have since bought a real copy (especially because I needed to be able to keep revisiting the even game when a new hopefully PS2 compatible console is the norm) so the whole idea that pirates never buy what they have pirated is flawed.
"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)
"WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
