Hold on mister moralism, why do I need to not be a dick?

That is a decision each person needs to make and it is clear you have never shied away from doing so.

I’ll pirate and I don’t give a single fuck

Cool. I also pirate some stuff. Doesn’t mean it isn’t a dicky move. Especially when it is an outlet trying to minimize the detriment to consumers

I play because I can

Got it. You take things because you can. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader as to what other kind of people have that mindset

If GOG provides DRM-free, well, good for me, bad for them.

Actually bad for all of us. Because while I have a lot of Thoughts on how CD Projekt manipulate the consumer base, at the end of the day they are selling a minimally invasive DRM and often going out of their way to let me grab the games of my youth without needing to resort to torrent sites or search archive.org.

The more poeple who pirate that and the more their installers end up on trackers, the less likely newer games are to release GoG builds. Which suck from both a “I can keep a copy of this if it ever gets edited or they go under” and from a “there might be more of these in the future” perspective.

It is similar to the people who exploit regional pricing. All you are doing is making things shittier for everyone else, including you.

we’re talking about stealing from insanely big companies that take advantage of people.

No. We’re talking about wanting a luxury item and not wanting to pay for it. Simple as that.