[duped]

> I would have loved to pay for both underground games but I was forced to pirate them since there was literally no other option.

The alternative is to play a different game, which is what the media rights holders want you to do. Or buy it at a second hand shop or off a collector. People aren't mandated to sell you something in the form you want, and you aren't entitled to buy it.

Like I have a growing collection of scifi books that are out of print. I don't complain that I can't pirate the ebooks in order to read them, I look for them where they can be found.

[throaway5454]

So it's not immoral for a rights holder to manipulate you into buying more product...but it is immoral for me to continue to use the product I want, even after the company has made it impossible for me to compensate them for it?

[duped]

I didn't make any comment on morality, and there's no "continue to use the product" in this entire discussion. It's "buy an old product that a company doesn't sell"