User blog comment:Dzylon/Why pirate Terraria?/@comment-92.81.136.127-20120112143358

I hope you won't interpret this post as saying that I have a pirated copy.

Anyway, I've always thought that it's odd how cracked Terraria is so much more convenient than bought Terraria.

First of all, a cracked copy is portable - copy-paste it on a flash drive/zip it and email it/whatever and it works on any computer you own. Much better that first downloading Steam, then setting up account details, then (quite possibly with the stupid antivirus my PCs run) make sure the firewall doesn't block Steam, then download the game.

Then, with a cracked copy you can have as many installations on a computer as you want. Even multiple versions. 1.1 is too much for you? Then just keep 1.0.6! Want to relive the nostalgic days of 1.0.0? Go ahead, with a pirated copy you can do that - not so with the official Steam version.

Are you using Linux? No worries, a pirated copy works with Wine, but good luck doing that with a Steam copy.

If you want to play the 'official' version, you need Steam. Steam is annoying. A cracked copy, on the other hand, is standalone.

About the only advantages that the legal version gives you are automatic updates (pretty useless, you can do it manually just fine), faster updates (official version comes ~10 hours before the cracked one), mods that need the original .exe (which are illegal anyway IIRC, please correct me if I'm wrong) and a warm, fuzzy inner feeling.