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Nowadays, the absolute vast majority of games that I play are shit tbh.

This is why I pirate games first to try them out. I wanna be very clear that if I think a game is good I buy it, no questions asked.

However, since most games don't have demos or trials, I don't want to feel like I've wasted money so I look to piracy so that I can try them out before making a purchase.

AITAH?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If there is no demo that's on the devs. Also you could just refund on Steam, that's what I do, can't be arsed to download the game twice really. If it's good it stays, if not down it goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of people talk about the steam refund policy however I just don't trust that I will get my money back even though it's a "non questions asked" kinda deal. If I've given them $80 for a game, they can easily decide to just keep it...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also time sensitive, and sometimes I end up wasting a couple of hours just tweaking settings, and character customization

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Simple solution: don't do that until you've decided to keep it