Are PC games mostly pirated?

[ShadowCaptain]

Software like Adobe Premiere and Photoshop and Sony Vegas are pirated more.

 

CC is probably helping though making it MUCH more accessible than having to sell your kidneys, dog AND house to buy some photo editing software

[Askew]

CC is probably helping though making it MUCH more accessible than having to sell your kidneys, dog AND house to buy some photo editing software

 

Yep, CC is a great idea because you can get the whole Adobe ecosystem in one place for one monthly/annual rate that isn't even that expensive.

[OozyGorilla]

I only pirate games when there's no easy way to get them anymore. Best example is Halo 2 for Vista. Can't buy a brand new copy or download it anywhere.

[Brandonsr]

Games are dirt cheap, especially on PC. So I have no reason to pirate games.

[lunchboxdeluxe]

I used to, but I got tired of all the garbage you have to put up with getting cracked copies. Sometimes things wouldn't work right, they were a pain to patch...

 

That and I grew up and became a fan of voting with my dollars.

[deVIZtation]

I don't pirate. With steam sales, the same money I would have spent on a game for a console, I could get roughly 5-10 games.

[Pomfinator]

Out of all the things that can be pirated on a PC, games are actually surprisingly low on the list.  The most pirated are definitely TV shows/movies and professional software.  PC gaming has really capitalized on the fact that one can build up a library quickly and cheaply just by joining the master race at the right time.  And piracy of games always comes with some sort of price.  For multiplayer games pirating it often means not being able to use online play, some developers even deliberately mess up a pirated copy of a title (ex. Game dev tycoon, all your games will have rampant piracy), and are generally unsafe, as noted by the mining software built into an early pirated copy of Watch Dogs.

 

TL;DR, piracy is low because prices are low and risk is sometimes too high to justify not spending a day's lunch on a game.

[Nicolas]

The only game I've pirated was Minecraft and I bought it shortly after

[Nicolas Mota]

When I first bought a laptop with some gaming potential, I downloaded some titles to test its capabilities. That's how I got into pc gaming. I've since gotten free games through amd and cheap games through humble bundles and steam sales including licenses to the first titles. I'm not too hard core so the titles that become available through those routes are more than enough. I've played 1 of about 10 games I bought during this past Steam sale. Having them available is just convenient (as are cloud saves) .