Here's my reasoning:

- Every single person I know except grandmas and grandpas have illegal digital content: Music, Movies, Series.

- I've spent a lot of money on videogames in my life. A lot.

- I emulate games because they're mostly not available anymore.

- I'm not going to stop buying games new anyways, so emulating is mostly done for a bit of fun on the side.

- I've played a few pirate games here and there. The last one was South Park: Stick of Truth. I didn't have money lying around, and my friends and I really wanted to play it. We finished it in one sitting and loved it. The developers made a ton of cash anyways. I'll buy a copy one day (probably on PC) anyway.

- Every single person I know except grandmas and grandpas have illegal digital content: Music, Movies, Series.

- Every single person I know except grandmas and grandpas have illegal digital content: Music, Movies, Series.

I don't pirate games because I'm too lazy to do so.

That being said, there's Bioshock Infinite on my PC entirely playable and I don't remember ever paying for it.

When I was younger I used to buy pirate pc games and even 3 or 4 ds games because my parents didn't want to buy me original games cause they were too expensive, however I don't do it anymore and now I avoid to buy pirate games unless they were never released in my country or if they are impossible to find on stores.

EA mainly.



Also Nintendo stuff, since many of their games are next to impossible to get in Poland and I won't bother importing or hunting down the few copies that made its way into the country. If they don't care about offering me their product, I won't be working my ass off to make them take my money.

When I run out of legit PS+ games to play.

When I already own it. I emulate my GC games on Dolphin because 480p is disgusting in most cases.

Never. Except if you can't find the game anywhere, so it's ok (like old Snes title, ps1 title like suikoden 2, and so on...)

So only for old games i will say.

And really, you don't need to pirate a game for "trying" it, not in 2014, with youtube, test, videotest, ppl comments on the game, etc...

When the game is very old or to see any value in buying it today. Most recently I wanted to find out if Metroid Fusion is worth 7 pounds. 30MB later and no its not, deleted it after 5-6 minutes. The only other game I've emulated was Final Fantasy VI which I played to completion. Bought FFIV as a symbolic gesture on my Nexus 4 to make up for it.

When it's no longer available sounds reasonable to me as an artist myself. Unless the company is very evil like EA. In that case, it should be acceptable from the get-go. And bonus points for pirated DLC or getting it before the official launch.

Personally, though, there are games no longer available and I've pirated that I'd pay for, like FFIX, while there are others I've bought when I really shouldn't, like Diablo III. So yeah.

Personally, I hate preown games even more.  I'd either see if I can find it on the internet if I don't care about the game, but if it's a game I know is good I'll buy it.  A game like BioShock or Xenoblade.  Also reasons like multiplayer play a part, like star craft 2, which of course is a game you can't play without a valid liecene.   Also, it's not just video games, I don't buy movies or music or anything else that I could get for free.  Like I said, I was brought up poor, and didn't have the luxury of buy 60$ games when I was a kid.  Now a days, if I see a game that's worthy, I'll buy it, but if it's a five hour rehash game like a vast majority of games on the market, I see no problem.

I play almost exclusively on PC, aside from a few PS3 games and my 3DS, but that's  a portable.