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That's my policy as well.

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I'm mostly willing to purchase games which specifically need a legit version for some of its features. This mostly applies to internet play.
The ones I'd purchase for this reason are Team Fortress 2, TrackMania United Forever: Star Edition, Left 4 Dead, Unreal Tournament 3, and many more. I hope this year's Steam Holiday Sale benefits me as to purchase the first two on the list at least.
I'd like to point out that most of the games I named are made by companies that actually care about the gamers, and mostly benefit them with a lot of new stuff and unlockables.

But mostly I'd like to support many indie developers. These are the ones who really deserve our money. Especially because some of them have made their products DRM-free. I would've purchased World of Goo or Braid despite the fact that I have completed them already. I am currently playing Machinarium, so I don't think I'd be purchasing it, but I may buy the game's soundtrack to give my support. It's really cool and well done, and I listened to the EP now included in the game.

And it's obviously true that people buy more games when they have lower price. It's been demonstrated in Garry's Mod's 50% discount sale: the game has sold the same amount of copies during the sale than it had done during its whole existance
Steam is an important distribution platform for this cases: since it's digital distribution, the distribution costs are almost null, so a discount offer doesn't affect manufacturing negatively at all.


I put that in spoiler in case you're not interested in my opinion about music, and only care about games comments here

As said before, scene groups now encourage gamers to buy the games they download if they enjoyed it and want to support the developers. And we all should do so too. If possible, of course

The user below will not read all of what I've written down (oh, wait, wrong thread )

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(This is just wrong... it's supposed to be 3 Mb/s...)

another option: only after i played the demo.

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It's pretty useless, costs a lot, and I need to spend my 200 bucks as smart as possible.
I'll take it.

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