Lol if you don't have the money or any means of paying for it, I am not against torrenting.
My parents didn't allow me to play games when i was younger and I had to do it without their knowledge. I didn't have a job and even if I did I still wouldn't be able to buy games. The only way for me to enjoy games was to torrent. If it wasn't for downloading pirated games, I would have spent my childhood without them.
I have since bought most games I liked to have them in my steam library.
A lot of people really aren't able to pay for games, and I doubt the developers will go bankrupt.
Most people who can pay and the price is right will pay anyway.
I don't agree with the victimless crime mindset. I'm not perfect and admit my stance on this has definitely changed now that I'm older and work in a field where I create IP... but I would acknowledge here that just because you can't afford something and wouldn't have paid/bought it anyway, doesn't mean you should steal it. Just because you don't get caught, or the person you're stealing from doesn't know, does not make it okay. In this case we're talking about indie games which are made by even smaller devs - if anything, these are the guys who would actually get really hurt by people not paying for their games (not to say stealing from a corporation is any better).
Given the games during sales are <$10, if you can't find a way to make $10, even as a kid, then I think you can suck it up as it's not like gaming is essential for life nor a human right. For a very long time my parents wouldn't buy me gaming and even if they did I was closely monitored so I couldn't play anyway - but we still managed to survive.
I will admit the above is a bit hypocritical of me given I have downloaded things before when I was younger, but as I have grown up and older, I can really see the implications of such a mindset especially when it grows to the masses.
Maybe we just need gaming streaming services to take off again
