User blog comment:Dzylon/Why pirate Terraria?/@comment-4106342-20120115192448

There be a certain... honor amongst digital pirates. Sure, there's the bilge rats that'll plunder yer loot soon as look at ya, but then ye have the honorable men of fortune whose good names be sullied by that lot. Digital piracy, be it by the mouth of Cpt Notch or one of the crew before him, be nothin' more than an eye on the changin' tides.

But, in all seriousness, to assume that everybody with the means has the money is willful ignorance of some people's situations. Then again, to assume that everybody who pirates is doing it because they want a free copy and not caring to know much more than that is to only present half of the cause. Some people pirate to get a free demo if the game doesn't have one, then either buy the game or uninstall the demo, OR keep the game and decide it's not worth the money which is more of a nudge to the publishers than anything. I personally did not pirate Terraria, but I may have done so with other games, gotten to the latter conclusion, and contributed money to the developers via alternative methods.

Conclusion: If you don't want to get into the nitty gritty, your case probably isn't worth making.