Think of who you're hurting before you consider piracy.

And Maxis (Sims, Spore) 😥

True, but he plays for Bayern Munich now.

Actually more like: "Here's an HD remaster of an old game that we ported previously but instead of giving you the same price as that lets just charge $60 instead."

Fans:

Leaving this here:

https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us

Nintendo has also committed piracy of their own software, by downloading a rom that a piracy group extracted and uploaded to the internet, so that Nintendo could then can re-sell the game back to us.

If Nintendo will sell me the old games I love, I'll happily rebuy them so long as there's no installed killswitch (sorry, "DRM") that will take it away from me one day.

More like: Nintendo, "here is a collection of old games that you have to pay for a monthly subscription in order to access."

Me: "that's really stupid, no thanks"

PS: it is possible to be a fan of Nintendo's and also think they are dicks about emulation and piracy and don't offer reasonable alternatives...many things in life are multi-faceted as such, and it's perfectly OK (and healthy ackshually) to acknowledge the bad in those we admire.

Does that boot taste good? What would you do if you wanted to play, for example, The legend of zelda: four swords?

Nintendo: "Emulators are piracy"

Nintendo, 15 years later: "Anybody want to buy our emulated games on new consoles?"

I don't mind the HD remakes, but I do mind the constant obsession with releasing them over making a new game or, ye gods forbid, coming up with a new IP. That, and it'd be nice if they wouldn't leave several of them locked to dead on arrival systems (like the WiiU) which just creates the same problem all over again.

But what really gets my goat is locking all the Virtual Console releases onto the shop of whatever console they're on, so when that service inevitably goes defunct they're all lost again. Those old 16 bit games aren't changing, having content updates, or getting patched. And they're just emulating them anyway, so just put a whole bunch of titles on a Switch cartridge or something and let me play them in perpetuity as long as my Switch still functions. I will not pay $60 for Mario 1 again. I probably would pay $60 for the entirety of the first party library from the NES on a cartridge.

All my old NES, SNES, N64, and Gamecube games still work just fine, decades later. But there's stuff that was on the DSi and WiiWare shops that's just gone forever, and you can never get them back.

3d printed firearms have transformed into a whole cottage industry with all sorts of variations. The ones that are safest are essentially just stocks capable of holding the parts of a firearm. The ones that are completely 3d printed are still pretty sketchy and illegal to sell

The thing people forget is that 3d printing doesn’t just enable the direct manufacturing of parts, it also enables the manufacturing of tooling for parts that would never have been manufacturable at home otherwise.

For example, you can rifle a metal tube and form a chamber using electro etching and printed tooling. Or, you can make tooling to make magazine springs

The key point to be made here is that a fully plastic gun is sketchy but 3d printing has absolutely transformed the ability to make reliable and effective firearms at home without any off the shelf firearm parts

The same type of thing is happening in the car hobbyist world. We aren’t printing cars but people are using prints to make molds, form sheet metal, align parts for weldments and manufacture low stress plastic parts like intake manifolds.

Most dashboards in cars are already 3d printed.

3d printing has come a long way, both in materials and quality. especially as you step away from FDM or resin printers. I certainly wouldn't trust a rando facebook marketplace printer who bought a creality to make a quick buck... but I would trust my own prints- mostly because I know what the materials are, and know I'll check for good print quality. reality is, though, that about the most you can print right now is a half baked golf cart chasis. if you want it to be safe... you're going to have to add a lot to it, and at that point, you might as well just buy a damn car or something.

Unions stepping up to the at for us all.

"Trying"?

They're working round the clock to develop CGI "actors".

Gonna be interesting when actors start being replaced.

Marcin Jakubowski is already doing this with Farming Equipment!

And when you download a car there's even a pimento taco -- a pimentaco -- in the glove box.

Hey, don’t knock it. My head lays down a sick dun step, some reggae and this weird steel drum Tropicana thing I’m pretty sure they ripped off some 90’s on hold music cover

Don't underestimate the FOMO factor.

Avoiding a title is simply not a consideration for a lot of people—especially if it's shitty. They're important context for meme and conversation material.

I genuinely wish this was a joke.

It won't change anything until people stop preordering games and actually wait for them to come out before shelling out a hundred bucks.

Pre-order and dlc is what has made gaming so awful lately. Game companies realized they can make a half-assed game and fill it with microtransactions and still make shit loads of money

do research before you buy something

So instead of playing, I now have to do work to figure how to spend my miniscule available time on what to play to get the most out of said time.

I'm not mocking what you said. I'm just lamenting the state of gaming.

Imma get downvoted for that but even Epic has loads of DRM free games... there's plenty of choice to buy DRM free games these days...

i really want to use gog but they don't offer regional pricing.
like for example factorio is 8$ for me on steam but 36$ on gog. Skyrim is 40$ on gog and 17$ on steam.

This is literally the genesis of GOG.

Good exception.

The phrase “Legality ≠ Morality” comes to mind several times a week. Too many people let themselves ignore ethics because they don’t think (or care) about the difference.

I mean, I wouldn't set the bar that low.

Oh for sure but for this meme about pirating old games, no one else is worse than nintendo imo

Then why don't illegal obtained keys just become banned? As long as they don't, You can't expect customers to see any problem with them.

Piracy probably generates more revenue than it destroys.

I used to make small games too for a little bit. Same.

Thank you, fellow human 🤖

One of the games I grew up playing was Silent Service. For years it disappeared, then one day GOG brought it back from the dead because they secured the rights to publish the hacked pirated copy they had been sitting on since the cold war. Without piracy, the game would have just disappeared.

How about we make a short list; Deadspace, starwars battlefront, Titanfall...

Yep, hey EA, want me to spend time buying and playing your new games instead of yet another playthrough of Burnout 3? Make a game better lmao I WILL buy it

Yeah, game companies should be lobbying for UBI for everyone

Or they pull a Nintendo "Heres a game we made 20 years ago. That will be $50"

It's still selfish behavior. Pirating something because you don't have the patience to save for it doesn't change anything.

My legal right to distribute my works how I see fit is absolutely being stolen. I'm absolutely allowed to sell my work in limited quantities.

I do LFS for funsies. Please resort to more personal attacks because the reality hurts.

Whatever little semantics you need to justify your stealing 🤷‍♂️

You are stealing my right to distribution. I've addressed this.