i haven't played a pirated game since i got a knock off copy of sonic adventure 2 for the dreamcast and couldn't complete the damn game because of an error that occured on one of the last levels, every time i went into a certain room the floor disapeared and robotnik would just fall for 2 minutes then die.

i ended up buying the actual game later for a tenner and completing it so alls well that ends well.

I don´t pirate console games, but i do with most of the pc ones. The only ones I buy are the ones I think are worth of my money, like civ. Here were i live they cost something like $60, instead of $49,99, and here that is a big diference. there are games that don´t even come here, like civ IV exp, so I had to buy pirate or don´t get at all. If I were to buy all of my games I would be bankrupt, so if I had no choice I wouldn´t have buy a third of my games, and I own close to 50. I would get a official spore, cause I like Will Wright games, but now I find out that the drm installs itself in my pc and can damage it. There´s also a three install clause, so I probably will get it pirate, unless something change till it cames out.

here in my country ps3 and xbox360 games in the virgin megastore cost 100$ and sometimes about 109$ if the game is newly released (ridiculous i know), but since the ps3 can not be pirated a lot of people i know (me included) are waiting to buy one once that happens.But in case the ps3 never gets hacked I plan to buy one next summer and just coordinate with my friend that we don't buy the same games and exchange them,since both of us can only afford 2 ps3 games per year at these prices.

edit:If the ps3 games are made available here at 60$ I will go buy one now.

I just got back from russia and I swear.......95% of all movies, games, music are pirated, no jk. the pirated games are all much cheaper ($5), they're cracked to work without a disc AND they're usually hacked for extra content and come with mods already installed (for example, nfs carbon already had the extra/hacked cars on it). on the downside they all contain viruses lol