There are only a few things that will make me buy a game without a second thought.
- a game by Capcom,
- a game by Kojima,
- “Overwhelmingly Positive” reviews on Steam,
- a Bundle with the game and all DLCs for under $10,
- a game with a notoriously large modding community,
- a game that a friend what’s to play in coop.
That’s about it, everything else is pirate first and if it’s actually something I’ll play I buy the game for real. I’m 400+ games deep in my Steam library of which I have maybe 20 actually completed and 5 that I regularly play. That’s literally thousands of dollars down the drain.
Imagine Optimus Prime trying to buy Sam Witwickys Glasses on EBay and encountering this captcha.
“Jo, this is fucking bullshit you guys.”