I started playing Rimworld at 11a and it was downloaded from torrents one. Sad thing, I weren't making good money last year so I decided to wait for a better times to buy it. At some point, I was shameless enough to register on forums to make some suggestions and whining. By this moment, I told about this game pretty much every friend I have. But when 15a was released I was too impatient to wait it to be uploaded to torrents and spent some bucks to purchase steam copy :)
Morale of the story: don't fight piracy, it's good for publicity and gives you profit in long run anyway (if this is not in-game pirate raids).
The discussion and encouragement of piracy is not allowed. (Forum Rule 6)
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I must confess I used the free trial version for a time too.
And since, like you, I am exceptionally tight on money, I am glad I did.
I would not have known or bought this game otherwise.
And I am sure everyone had a free trial once in a while, which did not last an hour on the harddrive with the thought .. holy heck I am sure glad I did not spend any money on this steaming pile of boomrat feces.