It's not reasonable to expect to pay any less than the developer asks for their product. Especially when It's something as cheap as $10. And if you are seriously pirating the game of an independent dev as the other reply suggests, then you are an asshole.
if you look at the dates on the posts you'll notice that his explanation came after my inquiry. And I don't know why youre acting like I'm picking in them, the game hasn't been discontinued yet, so *if* they had pirated the game off of an independent developer, I would see plenty off issue with that. Seeing as they didn't, I still think asking the author to release it for free is a bit distasteful, but expressing concerns about the games release and choosing to only play the free demos is entirely up to them and I have no issue with that. I don't see why you take my comment to be anything more than a discouragement of wrongfully pirating an independent product, something I even said in the original comment, may or may not be what they did, which evidently they didn't.