His production company makes them, he created or co-created them, and is an executive producer. He’s not just a randomly hired voice actor off the street.

the most gullible man on the internet, ladies and gents

Good lord, the badness of these takes.

Your friend presumably paid for the game. This is in no way similar. Other avenues that you’re alluding to here to “try a game” seem to be things like demo CDs or game rentals. Also in no way similar. If you hucked a brick through a window and took a game from Blockbuster, sure,…

I have no choice but to pirate them

Cool take, Casual Hours Blackbeard. Super easy for you to make this about fighting EA by stealing Madden, et al, without acknowledging you’re really harming developers and other rank-and-file employees that have to put the work in to produce that stuff you’re “not stealing”.

This is a terrible take, theft is not benign and there absolutely are victims. You seem to think it’s okay to thieve from hard working developers just because the product is digital, there’s no apparent risk of violence/physical harm and you don’t have to look them in the eye when you do it.

Your view is trash.

You seem to think you’re the only person in the world who wants things that he cannot afford.  This is a problem we all deal with, usually without stealing things.

Yeah, no-one would ever lie on the internet! Def not people who pirate anyway, afterall pirates have historically been bastions of truth, selflessness, and integrity.

The weird part is you believe the OP purchased a game they completed after pirating.

How can you lose what you don’t have in the first place?

You don’t have “no choice.”  You could not play the game, or wait until it is affordable for you.  It’s not like playing a video game is a necessity.

It would be really sad if you’re a grown ass adult and saying that.

You have no choice? What a fucking cop out for being a thief. Games are a luxury. If you can’t afford them, you go without. Do you also steal other things you want but can’t afford and then blame that industry for it?

No. This, “No choice but to pirate,” is complete horseshit. You're just entitled and don't want to pay for someone else's work. But I guarantee you that is your boss said they wanted to stop paying you, you'd throw a fit.

What is it then?

You do have a choice. Don’t play that game.

You can squabble about whatever semantics make you feel better, but it’s all born of the same childish sense of entitlement. You aren’t entitled to have things other people made for free. Least of all toys and luxuries such as video games.

Peddle your bullshit elsewhere, friend.

“I don’t have a lot of money to buy games with.”

What else do you steal because you can’t afford it?

And we're supposed to believe an admitted thief? Nope. He had plenty of motive to lie, since devs universally applying these sort of anti-piracy techniques would put an end to his fun.