User blog comment:Dzylon/Why pirate Terraria?/@comment-4026446-20120111154118/@comment-98.214.190.184-20120111233300

Unfortunately for the developers, Terraria, and actually most online pc games, the patch can be downloaded and updated manually. Also you can use a program like Hamachi and play with other friends that have also pirated the game, although there may not be quite as many people to play with, its usually a small price to pay for people who can actually find the people to play with.

Despite that, there are a FEW (about 2%) who do pirate games with the intention of only trying them, but saying pirating is okay because there's people who actually just try the game is like saying [insert similar analogy here].

I'm not going to lie, I have pirated before, but i do not promote it. Buying the games is the way game developers make their money. And if everyone pirated, they would go out of business and stop making the games we love and then where would us pc gamers be?