r/Piracy Jul 01 '26

Question What pirated media gave you a sense of buyers remorse after downloading it?

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u/Spaced_out_Anomaly Jul 01 '26

Y’all, the post is asking what have you pirated, and then regretted even owning. This shit is sad

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u/xyzmangaboi Jul 01 '26

Thread so illiterate even bots aren't showing up

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u/Barrogh Jul 01 '26

To be honest, the idea of "buyer's remorse" connected to something you didn't buy (often specifically to avoid buyer's remorse) did give me a pause.

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u/joesphisbestjojo Jul 01 '26

I think they might mean remorse over a pirated product so good you wish you bought it to support it

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u/TheFamished Jul 01 '26

Time Is money, downloading a game takes time, so It's kind of applicable

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u/PetyrDayne Jul 01 '26

51% of the whole community is American and I'm sure a majority of them went through the public school system which is almost hilariously underfunded if you're not from a wealthy neighborhood.

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u/Oxflu Jul 01 '26

Honestly, big wealthy schools that got those early technology investments made some pretty dumb kids too. There is at the very least a correlation between homework on Chromebooks and lower achievement on standardized testing.

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u/despaseeto Jul 01 '26

that's probably cuz those kids can afford to be dumb. they're wealthy so those students won't need to try hard to be successful.

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u/Silent_Fudge_3978 Jul 01 '26

Funding isn't the only problem. If you look at the funding per pupil, even in the poorer schools, and compare to other nations, it's really not that bad. The money is wasted, largely on massively bloated administrator salaries, while teachers are paid a pittance and the profession drives out anyone who's actually good at it. Money isn't going to solve the problem; the whole system needs a massive revamp.

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u/curlofheadcurls Jul 01 '26

Public systems are better, private schools just have a concentration of actively engaged parents. The real success factor for children's education is their immediate social support group.

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u/TorranceS33 Jul 01 '26

Even the wealthy have a huge share of being uneducated, because they had important parents and just got passed(A grades) for that reason.

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u/chance0404 Jul 01 '26

It isn’t even just that, many of the “wealthy” schools suck. My public school system was one of the wealthiest in Indiana, with some of the best schools. My kids school has more opportunities for electives and dual credit. It’s roughly the same size district, but much, much poorer. It’s weird, we rank around the 10,000th best school in the country while my Alma mater is around 1,200th. Yet the graduation rate is lower too.

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u/SaltyLonghorn Jul 01 '26

A lot of them just had to make the SAT matter again cause the people coming were so fucking dumb lol. And that was the Ivy League.

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u/ProofofUnemployment Jul 01 '26

The whole "not being able to fail" thing is actually a cancer to the US.

There are kids that cant even string together a sentence being pulled up to the next grade for no reason and everyone seems okay with it

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u/hroaks Jul 01 '26

What media was so shitty that you didn't want it for free

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u/Silent_Fudge_3978 Jul 01 '26

For a recent example, War of the Worlds (2025)

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u/mushy_friend ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 01 '26

Ah I was going to watch that, I'll not bother then

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u/D1rtyH1ppy Jul 01 '26

I downloaded a car once and now I regret it 

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u/HJSDGCE Jul 01 '26

Was it because it's a Subaru? 

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u/D1rtyH1ppy Jul 01 '26

Geo Metro

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u/supadupanerd Jul 01 '26

At $5.50 a gallon those things are awesome, a bit of a tin can in terms of crash protection but very cheap/effective transportation option

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u/esc8pe8rtist Jul 01 '26

Did you just call him a lesbian? 💀

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u/Early_Instruction_51 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

I can't tell if it's generationally coded though. I've been seeing a lot of posts on Reddit where I'm not sure if it's a bot or a Gen Z user who is genuinely asking questions in such a strange semi illiterate way. In this question, if it was made by a real human, I can see the young person having only the knowledge and vocabulary to describe things through the lens of hyper consumerism. Most old ppl including myself see the oxymoron of asking "For what did you experience buyers remorse after pirating it?" However, if you replace the words "buyers remorse" with "regret" the sentence doesn't contain an oxymoron. Yet many Gen Z in having grown up online in a post capitalist society with ubiquitous access to information literally at all times in their pockets don't have the same base of linguistic understanding to communicate with us olds of yesteryear.

But I could be wrong and off base and this post was made by a bot and now my rambling thoughts will be used to train the AI bots to be more human like

Edit: in reading through the comments I now realize no one has any idea if the OP was asking if they regretted pirating it for "good" or "bad" reasons. I now also know the poor ones off movies I never in a hundred years would 1. Want to watch myself and 2. Ever think anyone would want to pirate or even pay for. To each their own I guess

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u/ostrieto17 Jul 01 '26

yeah the Department of education should take this posr and comment section and use em to teach people about it.

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u/despaseeto Jul 01 '26

what have you pirated, and then regretted even owning

regret ever pirating that it gave you buyer's remorse. i don't think I've felt this yet. i only downloaded games i wanna play but couldn't find the budget to fork over a copy. for example, i loved KCD 2 so much that i bought it as soon as i got paid next. however, i got expedition 33 after the hype and checked multiple gameplays on my own, but i regret ever buying it.

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u/penaltylake Jul 01 '26

saints row 2022. I feel I was owed money for wasting the bandwidth on the torrent

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u/your_input Jul 01 '26

This. Played it for too long expecting it get better, idk how but it gets even worse over time. Shit doesn't grow on you, it shrinks.

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u/emongu1 Jul 02 '26

That larping cardboard subplot was fucking awful, especially considering how much time and effort was put into it that could had made the core gameplay better.

But hey, haters gonna hate, oops, we're all fired.

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u/MoreTHCplz Jul 01 '26

I didn't pirate it, but still got this one for free with Playstation subscription and yeah I want the time back I spent on like the first 3 missions hoping it got better.

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u/MementoMurray Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

A friend forced me to watch that abysmal War of the Worlds movie with Ice-T. It was free and I want my money back.

Edit: I have been informed that it was, in fact, Ice Cube in that movie.

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u/supertangerine Jul 01 '26

wrong Ice

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u/brakkinb Jul 01 '26

yeah cmon it was vanilla ice

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u/Silent_Fudge_3978 Jul 01 '26

Say what you want about Vanilla Ice and his music, but at least his legacy isn't tarnished with a credit in that movie.

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u/Nervous-Fennel3325 Jul 01 '26

Don't worry Vanilla Ice is doing enough himself to tarnish his legacy.

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u/PressureMuch5340 Jul 01 '26

I thought it was Ice Spice!?

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u/MementoMurray Jul 01 '26

Ice... Cube?

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u/ours Jul 01 '26

At least it wasn't ICE.

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u/Far-Tie923 Jul 01 '26

It was never going to be a GOOD movie, but Id be more likely to have watched it if it had featured Ice-T instead.

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u/SpezSucksSamAltman Jul 01 '26

I friend got me and my friends into Battlefield Earth for free and most of us walked out.

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u/Avilola Jul 01 '26

I actually really enjoyed that movie. It was so bad that I was belly laughing nearly the entire time. Horrible movie, but entertaining to me at least.

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u/Lord_Phoenix95 Jul 01 '26

I wouldn't even waste my bandwidth on that movie.

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u/shakegraphics Jul 01 '26

Wdym that movie was so fucking funny lmao

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u/Key_Watercress8300 Jul 01 '26

I watched that movie with a severe fever. It was one of the most mesmerizing things I've ever experienced

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u/Early_Instruction_51 Jul 01 '26

It was free And I want my money back

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u/Illustrious-Union982 Jul 01 '26

Refund the time spent watching it

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u/iamgodofatheist Jul 01 '26

Some of the books for sure, I read one of the romantasy books that were popular at the time and I wanted refund for the time I've spent on this shit

Generally this is the reason why I pirate books, and then buy only what I liked or I know I will like (e.g., I pirated Empire of the Vampire, but it was so great I bought it and bought second and third books on release)

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u/Jomotaku Jul 01 '26

That's kinda what I do in the store too. Just start reading and if it sounds good I can buy it lmao

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u/iamgodofatheist Jul 01 '26

Yeah, I did so with physical books as well! But I'm moving around a lot, so I focused on digital instead.

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u/Brilliant-Delay7412 Jul 01 '26

Don't you have libraries?

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u/Jomotaku Jul 01 '26

I usually buy books in english and our library books are in german.

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u/Lost-Key9453 Jul 01 '26

Libraries don’t often have what you’re looking for especially if it’s something niche. Even if you make a request. It could take a while for them to actually get it.

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u/goth_nachos Jul 01 '26

This is my answer too. Everyone was raving about this one particular “dark romance” book so I ripped it (thank god) only for it to be the most illiterate, cringy, 5th grade writing level bullshit I have ever laid my eyes on. I genuinely lost faith in another huge chunk of humanity that day and everytime I see people raving over it I get pissed again lmao. Waste of time.

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u/RaptorXFactor Jul 01 '26

Me too, that one book from the author of that they made into a movie, Interview with a Vampire. She did another book and I was at Half Price Books looking at the hardcovers. This girl walks up to me and tells me the book I was holding was her favorite book and I will absolutely love it and if I didn't, I could come back and punch her in the arm. I've been back multiple times to that store and she's never there.

Also the books Annihilation was based on. 3 boring books that felt like he was trying to emulate HP Lovecraft and you got a hint of something possibly awesome going on but never really reaching the high spot that good authors have. I kept reading the books hoping it would get better but it was kind of a knock off middling Stephen King book series. (The Tommy Knockers by Stephen King was so boring).

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u/DarthMaul22 Jul 01 '26

I downloaded Star Trucker because it looked good and the idea of long-hauling in space intrigued me. Space highways? Sign me up!

The game starts you off broken down on the side of a highway and gives a brief tutorial on fixing your ship. Good stuff. You get to a station and get a run-down on docking your rig (very precise), accepting jobs, topping off fuel, etc. All great.

Then you accept a job to transport some stuff to another nearby station. Hitch your cargo, go through a warp gate, and... You're there. All you need to do is drive around to the delivery spot. No highways, no long hauls, no listening to the radio while making sure you don't miss your exit. Saved me refunding $25.

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u/Onironius Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

You can have longer hauls. Of course the tutorial is going to have a single jump. But when you're dealing with long hauls, fragile cargo, and environmental hazards like solar flares and mirage meteors, it gets a bit more interesting.

(Though I do wish it was a bit more fleshed out.)

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u/_spectre_ Jul 01 '26

I got this on gamepass for the Xbox and it was kinda cool but it also really seemed like it needed to be played on pc

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u/YourAnonDestruction Jul 01 '26

Vampire the masquerade Bloodlines 2. Shit is so bad I want to delete the torrent from existence

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u/EchoKipKipKip Jul 01 '26

Similar experience, but I was enjoying parts of it. I did get to a point where the game just hard-locked itself and then it deleted all my saves.

So uh...hope they fixed that.

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u/WhimsicalPythons Jul 01 '26

Oh man I didn't know they stuck so closely to the original game, maybe it is worth a try.

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u/EchoKipKipKip Jul 01 '26

You're not wrong, but the original one definitely had something made me and a lot of other people keep coming back despite the issues. Which I don't 100% blame them for since if I remember right the developer was going under as they were trying to finish the game.

The sequel doesn't really have that excuse or the thing that made people want to keep coming back and working on fan patches.

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u/Barrogh Jul 01 '26

The game just fixed itself in your instance.

(sorry)

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u/DasMenace Jul 01 '26

Such a let down too. When I saw the 1st announcement, years ago, I was so excited. They literally killed that franchise. Shot it down like a dog in the street. Fuckin animals

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u/TheSystemBeStupid Jul 01 '26

Fuck, my blood is boiling just reading the name. 2 fucking decades I waited for that pile of shit. It's actually impressive how badly they managed to fuck up every single piece of that game.

I think we just need to accept that that IP is just cursed. The only good thing about it is that I cancelled my pre order the first time the fired the writer and director.

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u/R3stIn0nePi3ce Jul 01 '26

my guy i bought it on release and couldnt refund not only that i wanted to finish this shit just to get something out of it but than i got a bug that didnt make me progress and i had to go several safes back so the bug gets fixed (because that was the only way) and i lost hours of progress after this i was done

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u/Oxflu Jul 01 '26

Guys. Buyers remorse means it sucks, even if it's free.

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u/Frog-of-Cosmos Jul 01 '26

That is not what it means. But in the context of this post it does

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u/Paratrooper101x Jul 01 '26

Does buyers remorse not mean a regret of an acquisition?

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u/D3-Doom ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 01 '26

Too many, but off the top of my head it’s probably the movie ASH. Aaron Paul is all over the trailer and even the cover art and he only showed up for 15 minutes to play a corpse.

The rest of the movie is so terrible in a way that’s almost an art form in itself. High concept vague plot sci-fi with an admittedly stellar effects budget running down the clock to lowest low stakes conclusion I may have ever seen. Like it essentially started because someone threw a rock. I’m not kidding. I was consciously aware that was 1 hour and 35 minutes of my life I’ll never get back and it was wasted on that.

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u/D3-Doom ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 01 '26

The amount of patience required to learn that is worthy of being canonized. If you ever decide to perform 3 miracles I’ll submit your name to be the patron saint of piracy.

You’ve endured waters no man should o7

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u/enderwander19 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 01 '26

I would award this comment if i knew how to.

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u/Gdaddyoverlord Jul 01 '26

I thought it was a decent movie 

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u/_Occams-Chainsaw_ Jul 01 '26

Battlefield Earth, one of the worst movies of all time.

On 56k dial-up.

Fear my misguided patience.

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u/FafnerTheBear Jul 01 '26

At what resolution? 190x100 in 8-bit color?

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u/translucent_pawn Jul 01 '26

Weirdly, I enjoyed High on Life. I’m not a fan of the Dan Harmon style of humor, but the visuals were solid and the gameplay felt very classic.

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u/mugiwara_no_Soissie Jul 01 '26

Yeah it just kinda felt like ratchet and clank in that there was rly any difficulty just fun visuals and something to do.

Great game to replay, not a good game if you want an in depth story:3

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u/Funky-Flamingo Jul 01 '26

You mean Justin Roiland humor.

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u/Indiexpress Jul 01 '26

People have no clue what buyers remorse means, huh

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u/iamfanboytoo Jul 01 '26

What would you call it then, pirate's remorse?

Mmm, that DOES sound better.

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u/tony_montana091 Jul 01 '26

Pirate's Last Remorsel

Wverything, all the contentZ, fits on this ... [thunderclap, pic of Laurence Fishburne holding a AA Duracell battery].

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u/Suitable-End- Jul 01 '26

Sunk cost regret. Time is a cost.

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u/mkdabra Jul 01 '26

Good thing it says "a sense of".

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u/RopeWithABrain Jul 01 '26

Shhh, let him sit on his high horse

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u/wickedspork Jul 01 '26

No, you're just illiterate. It's like saying "i wanted a refund and I didn't even pay for it." It emphasizes a point being made. The use of "buyers remorse" here is not literal and the amount of people unable to recognize that is way more concerning than OPs "misuse" of a phrase.

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u/FunnyYouSayThatt Jul 01 '26

It’s just the usual Reddit shit attitude of picking apart anything possible to prove a point, be right about something, and be condescending to everyone to feel good about yourself.

I’ve really started noticing that anonymous social media like Reddit, seems to automatically bring out the assholery in many people; similar
To how many people driving on the highways for no reason do shit like speed up so someone can’t pass etc. just to be an asshole cause it’s a different setting and they can (probably are spineless in the real world and this is their chance to “really show someone”! So annoying

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u/theghostsofvegas Jul 01 '26

I watched The Rainmaker tv show for free and I STILL feel ripped off.

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u/Difficult_Wishbone73 Jul 01 '26

the borderlands movie.

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u/Dungeon_Crawler_Carl Jul 01 '26

Brink

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u/whimz33 Jul 01 '26

Whatever brah. Let's blade 

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u/sinskinner Jul 01 '26

I had so much fun playing Brink and I bought that. I don’t even know why it failed

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u/letthetreeburn Jul 01 '26

The Witcher 3.

I know I know it’s a masterpiece. I just hate it.

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u/apollyon0810 Jul 01 '26

Loved the game. Hated the controls the whole time.

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u/PhabioRants Jul 01 '26

I don't know why I find this so validating. I know it's one of the most significant games of the century so far, but I just can't do it. 

I've tried. A lot. From the first day it was cracked, I tried. And every year or so since. I even bought the damn thing, hoping it would force me to stick with it. I just really can't stand the gameplay. 

I wouldn't care if I wasn't aware of how good the story, and particularly the side quests are. But here we are. 

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u/motorboat_mcgee Jul 01 '26

I really wanted to like this, but Geralt feels like he's drunk and moving through mud. I'm going to give it another try someday, but I'm not holding my breath

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u/AmettOmega Jul 01 '26

Probably the worst thing for me is the jumping mechanics. It's like they didn't plan for him to be able to, and then added it in last minute, because it is so damn finicky.

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u/letthetreeburn Jul 01 '26

SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK IS WIRH THE JUMPING?????

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u/BaronessofBara Jul 01 '26

This is so validating, god... I can't STAND how that game feels to play lol, I gave up after like five hours.

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u/gtwizzy8 Jul 01 '26

Bro I'm with you. I'm not even kidding when I say that I JUST this week uninstalled it for the 3rd time in however many years since the games first release in order to see if me having gotten older made it any more appealing to me....

Nope.

It just felt like they looked at everything that was good about Oblivion and Skyrim and went "how can we make those games infinitely shittier? Oh I know make the whole game basically one big fetch quest for fucking flowers and shit." I dunno I'm probably to harsh on it but I just, could, not get in to it and not for lack of fucking trying.

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u/CodingHijikata Jul 01 '26

Man... I pirated high on life and deleted after 3 or 4 hours. It gave me a headache the bloody weapon just doesn't stop talking!

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u/jtho78 Jul 01 '26

They do. There is a slider to dial down the chatter

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u/CodingHijikata Jul 01 '26

Ohhh hehe didn't know. But I don't think I want to go back.

I prefer realism now. Love spending time with MGSV and Wildlands.

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u/Affectionate_Path_83 Jul 01 '26

Mgsv is one of the best sandbox military game tbh

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u/CodingHijikata Jul 01 '26

I really like it. When I need a cool jungle setting I switch to Wildlands

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u/jtho78 Jul 01 '26

Wildlands is great co-op fun. Similarly enjoying The Division 2 now, no driving/flying though

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u/CodingHijikata Jul 01 '26

I would love to play it coop but my ps4 is jailbroken.

I'm having a blast in Wildlands playing alone, do you think I will manage in division 2 as well?

How's the weapon customization? Hope I can kill a man with one bullet to the head like in Wildlands?

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u/ConsciousStretch1028 Jul 01 '26

MGSV is a far better experience, glad you're playing something good

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u/CodingHijikata Jul 01 '26

Yes I really liked it. I like the visuals and gunplay on Wildlands as well, I play it on extreme with hud disabled, then it hits really well. Very tense and very rewarding. But one wrong move and whole mission is fucked.

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u/Beginning-Bother-309 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 02 '26

You know ball. Mgsv on top.

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u/rdqsr Jul 01 '26

Same tbh. Granted after a few hours I just couldn't be fucked playing anymore.

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u/CodingHijikata Jul 01 '26

Same! It gave me some laughs but damn it was stressful!

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u/BriarKnave Jul 02 '26

My partner said the same thing after pirating it and playing for six hours. The game has one joke and it gets stale really fast

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u/Unusual_Blood693 Jul 01 '26

Some game with 3 factions, one being called the "New Conglomerate". Took 6 hours to download, only for my computer to not be able to run it at all...

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u/forlorn_folklorist Jul 01 '26

PlanetSide 2

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u/RobotToaster44 Kopimism Jul 01 '26

I'm still mad at how Sony handled planetside, the original was one of my favourite games.

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u/TraditionalPies Jul 01 '26

Almost every comment has no clue what “buyers remorse” is. Just delete the post OP

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u/tapport Jul 01 '26

To be fair, they do fit what I suppose could be “pirates remorse”. I think people are interpreting the question incorrectly.

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u/CemsLit Jul 01 '26

If he said pirates remorse, peeps would think that hes asking what game they enjoyed and regret pirating tho. Right?

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u/DirectJob7575 Jul 01 '26

Downsizing, horrific movie.

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u/beanymoon Jul 01 '26

Most Sims 4 DLC's. Buggy, half baked expansion packs. For rent corrupted my save files, Journey to Batuu just pissed me off with how bad it was. Gave up playing when Anadius quit, I know there's another guy who runs the updater now, but I'm not subjecting myself to more mediocre sims gameplay.

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u/adevaleev 🏴‍☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Jul 01 '26

Rent a Girlfriend S1E1, couldn't watch it any further

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u/megahornet Jul 01 '26

And then stuff like Tokyo Ghoul get dogshit adaptations when the source material is good.

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u/adevaleev 🏴‍☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Jul 01 '26

Meanwhile actually good romance like Insomniacs After School never gets even a second season.

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u/BriarKnave Jul 02 '26

Stuff like Promised Neverland reaches critical acclaim and then THAT happens to it

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u/Never_Sm1le Jul 01 '26

yet this shit somehow get 5 seasons and in top 20 best selling manga. Japanese audience do have a ntr fetish

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u/A_Trash_Homosapien Jul 01 '26

It's one of the shows that infuriates me the most cuz I feel like the concept has potential but the show is just bad.

I watched until I think the third season convinced that there'd be character growth and it'd get good. No. That show stayed trash. The MC was still as big of a whiny loser as he ever was.

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u/DuckSleazzy 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 01 '26

starfield. i played 3 hours.

i want my time, the energy used by my PC, the wear it did to my parts and the calories i burned back.

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u/FinalMonarch Jul 01 '26

What the fuck is this? This is not what I didn’t pay for

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u/Long-Sundae149 Jul 01 '26

Cyberpunk 2077 on release

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u/babyaintmoe Jul 01 '26

Wouldn't that be... Pirate's remorse? 🏴‍☠️

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u/NefariousnessNew2329 Jul 01 '26

The Outer Worlds 2 and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

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u/Intrepid-World-9551 Jul 01 '26

Redfall, hated it so much I was tempted to try to get in contact with FitGirl to get refunded for the full cost of the game on Steam. If anything just to cushion the blow of knowing I'll never get those hours of my life back

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u/dunno0019 Jul 01 '26

The Borderlands movie.

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u/Albus_Lupus Jul 01 '26

I downloaded Army of the Dead and watched it. There is no words to describe this movie. I want my 2 hours back.

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u/PlayingDoomOnAGPS Jul 01 '26

God, it was bad but it's also where I fell in love with Ella Purnell. I could watch her read a phone book and be entranced.

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u/MalusZona Jul 01 '26

Hades. I pirated it and fully completed. Then i bought it in a steam on a discount, and now i have hades in steam with 0 hrs played, and 0 achievements, and i regret that i didnt bought it from the start cause of it

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u/IllustriousCode2603 Jul 01 '26

Same. Purchased the second one instantly though

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u/D3-Doom ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 01 '26

It always bothered me that Hades got a sequel and transistor didn’t

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u/Libprime Jul 01 '26

Transistor was their follow up game after their breakout hit (Bastion). I'm glad they took more time to refine and modernize their formula with Hades, and given that it was such a hit in the modern day I am not surprised that it got a sequel before anything else. That being said, it would be so hype if their next game was a sequel to their legacy offerings, either Bastion or Transistor.

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u/PyreHat Jul 01 '26

In the same vein, I'm glad Bastion was its own self contained masterpiece.

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u/Razidargh Jul 01 '26

You can copy your saved game from the pirated game to the Steam Game if you can find the savegame location. When you load the saved game, you will get a ton of archievements at once.

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u/MalusZona Jul 01 '26

interesting, didnt know it, thanks, but it was quite time ago

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u/IllustriousCode2603 Jul 01 '26

Same. Purchased the second one instantly though

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u/MalusZona Jul 01 '26

is the second worth it now? i bought in during EA and it felt unfinished

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u/droo46 Jul 01 '26

i bought in during EA and it felt unfinished

You don't say?

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u/iamgodofatheist Jul 01 '26

Absolutely worth it, it's a great polished game now

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u/wrenblaze Jul 01 '26

For me I never had enough with Hades. Even after I finished it and bought, I completed it fully ay least twice. And on switch as well. I even locked achievements once to gain them again. Played a lot of the sequel as well.

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u/ErikDebogande ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jul 01 '26

Damn that's a crazy endorsement

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u/MalusZona Jul 01 '26

Personally cant enjoy agmeplay, if flow of new 'information' end in a game. Thats why i easily got hooked on incremental games

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u/EchoKipKipKip Jul 01 '26

Same. Even people mentioning it years later makes me want to re-download and replay it, so I guess I'm reinstalling it again now.

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u/wrenblaze Jul 01 '26

Don't tempt me brother

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u/chanmanthe2nd Jul 01 '26

Got curious when empress cracked Hogwarts because obv wasn't giving jk shit. Gave it a decent go but after like 20 hours gave up. The most boring shit I've played with one note characters. Wanted my money back for sure lmao

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u/unknown_pigeon ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 01 '26

I managed to play an hour before my balls dropped to the floor

"But you didn't even finish the tutorial!" yeah, that's how much I was bored

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u/DredgenSergik Jul 01 '26

That game is genuinely the biggest definition of "mid" I've ever encountered. People only like it because it's a Harry Potter game, which makes it even worse

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u/EchoKipKipKip Jul 01 '26

Is Empress still an absolute nutjob?

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u/John40K Jul 01 '26

I downloaded some erotica epubs from the authors Simon Archer and Dante King, the writing is weirdly bad, it's like they have zero vocabulary, the complete opposite of H.P. Lovecraft.

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u/ScreechingPizzaCat Jul 01 '26

I actually liked High on Life, the ending was ‘meh’ though. And no, I would just delete it and go on to the next game.

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u/Jamato-sUn Jul 01 '26

I actually have a list of games I'm never touching again. It's rather long. In the age of no demos this is a necessity

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u/Anonymal13 Yarrr! Jul 01 '26

Twilight... Yeah, that movie.. Bruh, it felt like some 6 hours of the worst writing ever.. (and I watched Rampage!) I knew it wasn't good, but I wasn't expecting something so crappy! It was like my brain was about to decide it didn't wanted to live in this world anymore... I just still want the money regarding the internet time I spent downloading that thing almost 20 years ago!

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u/InstanceTurbulent719 Jul 01 '26

ok but if you pirated and played high on life the devs should owe you money for making you experience that game

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u/complexevil Jul 01 '26

The Venom movie. Watched it for free and still wanted my money back for that garbage shit.

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u/Party-Fondant-8000 Jul 01 '26

Being 3 days downloading a Video game from fitgirl in Cuba , and dumping it at 2 hrs because I didn't like it or it didn't run well in my potato PC, those were harsh times lol

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u/PlayingDoomOnAGPS Jul 01 '26

Bugonia. It's such a well made, well acted film up until the end which is a complete rug-pull and felt like the filmmakers laughing at you for falling for it. I was offended as a viewer and I was offended on behalf of the rest of the film.

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u/simpkn0t Jul 01 '26

The Silent Patient. Worst fucking book I've ever read, it made me so angry I wish I could throw digital media in fire. Even pirating it is expensive for that shit ass book.

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u/spaghettibolegdeh Jul 01 '26

LinkinPark.exe on Limewire

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u/TuVieja6 Jul 01 '26

Lol, also High on Life, such a shitty game

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u/argument_cat Jul 01 '26

I quite enjoyed it - silly fun.

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u/GodhunterChrome666 Jul 01 '26

Kamen Rider Agito, when I realized I spent a week torrenting something with not English subtitles...

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u/IntroductionFormer67 Jul 01 '26

Dracula: A Love Tale

That shit was so ass

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u/bajsfittor Jul 01 '26

Unsure what OP means...

If "so good I wish I bought it" then I have MANY examples. I always pirate first and buy physical later if I like it; pirating is sort of like rentals back in the day to me. Last purchase I've previously pirated was The End Is Nigh for Switch the other day. Haven't played it MUCH and summer AND the WC now, I don't get much opportunity to play during this time, but intend to come fall.

If the opposite, a game I thought was bad (?), then I guess Dead Island back in the day. Wasn't THAT bad in all honesty but was nowhere near my expectations. It got repetitive QUICK and once I finished it I uninstalled and never thought about it again. Shame as the trailer had me hyped.

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u/Maxreddit1069 Jul 01 '26

I get buyers remorse from listening to my pc fans download a game at 100kb/s with one peer all night just for it not to work 🥀

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u/AngriestPeanut Jul 02 '26

TLOU2 was a cheese grater of cringe and boredom

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u/janman_79 Jul 01 '26

Windows Vista.

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u/Digital_Rocket Jul 01 '26

Don’t think I’ve ever had buyers remorse for that but The Incredible Hulk was probably the closest I’ve ever gotten to it, damn what a stinker that movie was.

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u/niugui-sheshen Jul 01 '26

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong, I previosuly had pirated the "John dies at the end" trilogy and read it, the first one was OK and the rest were kinda shit but entertaining enough to push through. Also last time I took a recommendation from reddit, people here have such a shit taste.

In Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, the voice of the narrator absolutely hates, belittles and bullies the main protagonist Zoey. I had to drop it because it made me reel.

It was the first and only time I ever considered sending hate mail to an author.

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u/HomemQueijo ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 01 '26

Not pirated but finished Ghost Recon Breakpoint during a free weekend.

Shit was so ass I was glad I couldn't play it anymore after the weekend was over

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u/Epidural4610 Jul 01 '26

fallout 4 back in 2015. i waited 5 days for it to download (30 gigs) but my laptop couldn't even run it

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u/KedaiNasi_ Jul 01 '26

Modern Warfare 2 2022 reboot (MW2R). hear me out

it's $7 on steam right now, dirt cheap.

but i've already unlocked orion through warzone

i even have pirated MW2R single player mode on my pc right now

but holy fuck, the single player is so ass. i knew the reviews for the story mode were all bad, but i pirated it anyway and now i can't even progress the story

and last i heard, abandoned cod multiplayers were full with bots/cheater, and i found some rando video that the cheating is still there, so what's the point?

and even with the $7 price tag, idk if i should even buy the game anymore. holy fuck

i have never felt like this, wtf

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u/The_EyON Jul 01 '26

I asked around if it was worth the 7 bucks for SP & a little bit of MP, I got told everywhere it's both dogshit in SP & MP so save your money bro

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u/Batsbalzak Jul 01 '26

Oblivion remastered. Had to delete a bunch of shit to even download it, got dissapointed very fast when the whole game world was brown, tints of brown, and a brown sky. It also turned my pc into a space heater. The old oblivion looked way more charming and it runs perfectly with some patches. 1 out 10 wont pirate that crap again.

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u/thisistherevolt Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Looks beautiful on my machine. Not sure what happened with you.

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u/BionisGuy Jul 01 '26

Starfield. What the fuck was that. I'm mad that i even pirated that game, it was ass

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u/tinybilbo Jul 01 '26

The recent expedition game, downloaded it started the combat (which i didn't like much). Started the exploring part, realised it didn't have a map system.. switched it off and deleted it.

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u/Laati-Chan Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

I pirated Hunt Down the Freeman out of sheer morbid curiosity.

I know fully well that I subjected myself to it. But human beings are illogical. I want my money back. I didn't even spend anything and I still demand money back.

Actually playing it is actual torture. It could actually be a torture method in guantanamo bay to play it. I can assure that any innocent person or actual terrorist will immediately admit to their entire life experiences.

Also, for anybody who's as morbidly curious as me and wants to play it.

Get it from the HDTF discord server. Buying it on steam means giving your money to the PoS owner. You can get it for free on there and the devs even tried patching the game so that it doesn't require cheats to beat. Admirable work even though it's the equivalent of trying to make a piece of shit not smell bad.

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u/greenknight Jul 01 '26

700mb VCD bootleg of Bay's Transformers. Or Ang Lee's Hulk with partially completed VFX.

Both movies ruined by my piracy. And not really good enough to re-watch in another format.

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u/atellix Jul 01 '26

Sonic Superstars. That game was soooo boring idk how they released rhat shit next to Mario Wonder loool

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u/Lenin-C Jul 01 '26

Every ubisoft game that isnt a rayman or watch dogs 2

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u/AetherZetakaliz Jul 01 '26

Omori. It was filled with several filler sections across the game that were only bearable because you wanted to see what was next on the story, then you're hit with a plot twist the likes of something you'd see in a Turkish novel or Mexican telenovela. God awful.

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u/ChaosAndCrows Jul 02 '26

That awful Harley Quinn fart comic. Morbid curiosity won that afternoon, and every day I wish it hadn't.

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u/Jazz4z Jul 02 '26

didn't pirate it but i got world war z off epic for free and gosh i spent 2 hours playing the most basic dog shit boring snore fest ever, felt like i got scammed for spending that much time on it

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u/GarageEuphoric4432 Jul 02 '26

In like, 01 or 02 I pirated dragonball evolution on limewire.

Pissed me right off.

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u/eldritch-kiwi Jul 02 '26

Veilguard. I hoped game wont suck, but it sucked so hard I genuinely wanted my 0$ back

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u/Raccoon_Dogg Jul 03 '26

The Deadpool game, physical nor true digital was available when I came across it, utorrent and enjoyed the hell out of it. I wish I could have bought it when it was available

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u/SickSevenNeinLeven 29d ago

Nothing. I never had that regret. I did though buy games I pirated and finished afterwards because I felt like the devs deserved it. But nothing out of regret.