>>46719There is never anything ethically wrong with pirating a game for any reason. If you need to pirate because you can't afford it, that's okay. If you want to pirate even though you can afford it, there's nothing wrong with that, either.
Piracy is never wrong, but supporting independent devs is always right, so just do that if and when it becomes feasible for you.
I was a hardcore pirate who's mostly turned to buying games, but piracy is one of the best things about modern technology. I still pirate most of my books and movies, but like Gabe Newell said, piracy is a service issue, so I also have found it more convenient to buy things from Steam and GOG on sale most of the time at this point.