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Kotaku encourages piracy
- Thread starter MilkLizard
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Edgelord79
Gold Member
The games are Nintendo's to do as they wish. They don't need a reason for anything as they own the IP.
People can stop supporting Nintendo of they don't like it, but we know that's not going to happen.
Sleepwalker
Member
I mean yeah, they can do whatever they like with their IPS. I will emulate them until they give me a convenient way to play them on their hardware.
Truth be told I don't really revisit old games nowadays anyhow, but yeah
cartman414
Member
Maybe not enough for them to justify buying the system.
Not everyone will be able or interested to buy a given system at a particular time frame. I've had to pass up a few limited products to save money.
An article justifying piracy of modern games does not invalidate the positives of emulation regarding preservation. Both things (piracy of readily available new games bad, preservation of discontinued games good) can be true!
Illegal != immoral.
Again, not everyone who wants it now had the opportunity, the awareness or the interest in picking them up at the time. This goes for any piece of media all the time.
Holammer
Member
PC Gamer joins the fray.
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
This thread is about the article justifying piracy of modern games.
If you want to beat the dead horse of the positives of legal emulation, feel free to do it on your own time. Doing it in this context definitely stinks of apologism for the article. Articles like this do not do any favors to emulation and just put it in a bad light.
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Utherellus
Member
How dare we buy Nintendo games and rip it into the emulators so we - consumers can get far more better experience because original hardware is inferior af.
Bad consumers. Bad. We all should suffer exactly the way Nintendo has intended.
And for individuals bashing emulation, I have a quest for you: Help Nintendo in court. Coz they have been losing countless cases against emulator devs for decades.
Bad consumers. Bad. We all should suffer exactly the way Nintendo has intended.
And for individuals bashing emulation, I have a quest for you: Help Nintendo in court. Coz they have been losing countless cases against emulator devs for decades.
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KeepYourHeart1989
Banned
If this is encouraging piracy then every girl I've ever been with endorses Christianity
ManaByte
Gold Member
Strider Highwind
Banned
I knew this would be a thread on there. When I read that article I was like wait….did that just happen lol?
Draugoth
Gold Member
Pretty sure Kotaku journalist got impressed by the performance and how fast the game got working and decided to make an article on it without realising he would be endorsing piracy.
Either way, some internet articles arent going to impact on this game sales numbers overall, specially with the overall reaction.
01011001
Banned
since less powerful already released PC handhelds already get close to that... yeah... I bet it will run them better.
Draugoth
Gold Member
Steam Deck would still need to emulate those games. So games that run like crap would likely still run like crap.
01011001
Banned
uhm... WHAT? emulation can enhance performance of games you know...
and since basically every other switch title has unstable framerates and dynamic resolutions this is very much something that emulation can really help with
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Skifi28
Member
Do they specify which piracy they refer to? Maybe they mean high sea piracy.
Gifmaker
Member
All zero of them
PhaseJump
Banned
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
nush
Member
ReBurn
Gold Member
It's been talked about here a lot already. It took over some of the early Steam Deck threads for a while. A lot of "better Switch than the Switch" talk has already occurred.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
That's Kotaku for ya. Anything to get clicks. And goes to show you what kind of writers they have.
Imagine if a movie site came out and said "Hey movie lovers, No Time to Die has good quality copies on Movie Stream site X".
You'd think the movie site is scum. And thats how you should treat Kotaku. A site with zero value, so it comes down to weird anti-industry content.
The fact the site was born from parent company Gawker should be enough for you to know what kind of gaming content they'd produce.
Imagine if a movie site came out and said "Hey movie lovers, No Time to Die has good quality copies on Movie Stream site X".
You'd think the movie site is scum. And thats how you should treat Kotaku. A site with zero value, so it comes down to weird anti-industry content.
The fact the site was born from parent company Gawker should be enough for you to know what kind of gaming content they'd produce.
Lethal01
Member
This is an article specifically promoting piracy. No point bringing in the fact that you COULD get it legally into this.
Lethal01
Member
They are literally thanking pirates in the blog.
It's a shitty thing to do whether it hurt sales or not.
KeepYourHeart1989
Banned
See? This is what internet forums are for
justiceiro
Marlboro: Other M
I have a friend that is playing in PC because the game on his switch got frame drops. Not even Nintendo funded games can run well on this machine.
Some people would go over every kind of hurdle to play Nintendo games, but to not touch Nintendo hardware.
Some people would go over every kind of hurdle to play Nintendo games, but to not touch Nintendo hardware.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
C'mon.
How many people bought VCRs, CD burners, or download emulators to just make back up copies of legit movies and games they bought.
Oddvintagechap
Member
It’s the same thing. The exact same rules apply. Doesnt matter how old the game is.
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
It's interesting that some people seem to be really bent on playing devil's advocate for Kotaku.
Athreous
Member
Please, by no means I want to promote piracy... Please, don't ban me but let me know if this is wrong, so I can delete/remake this post...
I love Nintendo games, I owned almost every console they made... But right now, all my Switch games are being played on emulators... My hands get numb using the swicth for some reason (the same happens with my ps vita), so instead of using my portables, I prefer to play the games using Yuzu... The games work great, and being able to play in 4k and 60 fps most of times is just great, something that I'll prolly never reach in a Nintendo console...
I love Nintendo games, I owned almost every console they made... But right now, all my Switch games are being played on emulators... My hands get numb using the swicth for some reason (the same happens with my ps vita), so instead of using my portables, I prefer to play the games using Yuzu... The games work great, and being able to play in 4k and 60 fps most of times is just great, something that I'll prolly never reach in a Nintendo console...
Oddvintagechap
Member
I connected the switch to my OLED 4K 65inch TV once. “Never” touched the console again. I always buy Nintendo Systems just in case I ever want to play Pokemon again.
TrueLegend
Member
But Kotaku is still not as low as Nintendo. And we have Hideki Kamiya's word for it.
carlosrox
Banned
100%.
Graphics whore morons need those few extra pixels and no frame drops for a game to be acceptable.
Fuck pirate scum.
martino
Member
An accurate reporting of something possible is not encouraging it when it's nowhere said in the article in the archive i read.(at least not for dread on switch)
Still have doubt , can you not be stubborn and read the real intention from the words of the guy you are not in the head :
Still have doubt , can you not be stubborn and read the real intention from the words of the guy you are not in the head :
what is forgotten is unrelated hate or agendas with the subject here make people stubborn and sure of their interpretations and process of intent from void.
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Barakov
Gold Member
nush
Member
and we get our regular confirmation that they are trash waiting to be taken out.
Kazza
Member
Cryio
Member
I always thought about this topic. Like, I'm currently playing the Sly Cooper Collection. I would gladly buy it if it was available on PC. But the games are only available on PS2 and PS3. Can you even buy them legally from somewhere, aside from other people on eBay / Amazon / etc?
The answer is No as far as I know. You can't repay the developer / publisher currently. So I'll keep playing them on RPCS3 at 4K60 with 16xAF and FidelityFX CAS.
The answer is No as far as I know. You can't repay the developer / publisher currently. So I'll keep playing them on RPCS3 at 4K60 with 16xAF and FidelityFX CAS.
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Nintendo's handling of old games is very bad, Kotaku is right. I should buy a WiiU to play old Nintendo games because that games are not available on Switch. Even if they are available on Switch I have to rebuy it. At full price if they are not too old.
Nintendo is indefensible on piracy.
Nintendo is indefensible on piracy.
Holy fuck, man, ice cold.
Just a reminder to everyone endorsing piracy, the mods have stated you will be warned. Tread carefully, guys.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
They think their audience are intelligent adults except if it has to do with racism, sexism or any other issue that they do want to beat you over the head with.
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AlteredForms
Banned
People actually hold Kotaku’s dogshit opinion in high regard?
radewagon
Member
"One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue, the easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”
- Gabe Newell
Piracy offers available downloads of all the classic Metroid games playable on current gen hardware. Nintendo does not. You need to hunt ebay or used shops for legacy hardware and/or titles.
Piracy offers a superior experience of the newest Metroid game even though Nintendo released a console refresh, like, literally to coincide with the new Metroid title.
Piracy good vs. piracy bad seems like the wrong discussion. Newell's right. Irrespective of price, why is piracy offering a better service/experience for the Metroid fanbase than Nintendo?
- Gabe Newell
Piracy offers available downloads of all the classic Metroid games playable on current gen hardware. Nintendo does not. You need to hunt ebay or used shops for legacy hardware and/or titles.
Piracy offers a superior experience of the newest Metroid game even though Nintendo released a console refresh, like, literally to coincide with the new Metroid title.
Piracy good vs. piracy bad seems like the wrong discussion. Newell's right. Irrespective of price, why is piracy offering a better service/experience for the Metroid fanbase than Nintendo?
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