- they were poor and it gave them joy
- they lived in a country where it wasn't available
- they saw it had already sold 6+ million copies
- they wanted to see what all the fuss was about
- their grody older brother scratched their disc and it never quite loaded again
- they did so 15 years after its release and heard that its director, the only guy still drawing a paycheck from the publisher, was a real asshole
- they felt like it
- they bought it years ago but the mechanism that allows them to access their legal copy went away
- they won't be born for another 135 years and are accessing it via the DPRNA Global Culture Archive (Silicon Age section)
reason bein': someone already put it on there but it wasn't the latest version and i didn't want people playing the bugged shitty one. so i put a little message on there like "hey if you torrent this and like it i'd appreciate it if you bought it if you can" and a bunch of pirates went and bought it on itch, and some of em even tipped more than the price of the game
then! totalbiscuit had a problem with this so he talked about what an idiot i was in a video and exposed me to even more supportive pirates. pirates rule sometimes
I told someone to pirate my game because he tried to gotcha me for selling a game that was critical of capitalism. I hope it twisted his brain into a knot.