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Genuinely baffled that there are people out there that think emulation is “wrong”. Emulation is a civic good, full stop. To assert some kind of moral high groun
by VerminOctopus1 3y ago
Genuinely baffled that there are people out there that think emulation is “wrong”. Emulation is a civic good, full stop. To assert some kind of moral high ground against emulation is absurd.
These multi-billion dollar corporations cannot be trusted to maintain their digital storefronts or the ability to play games into the future. This has been shown time and time again as Nintendo et al. have shuttered eshops, dropped support for consoles, and removed titles from circulation. Video game history and its preservation fully depend on emulation efforts from the community.
- timwaagh 3y agoYes I'm aware switch games won't be forever and that's sad. I wish Nintendo was a little better in that regard. But I do not subscribe to the idea that these are multi billion dollar corporations and hence we can do basically whatever we want to them. In reality you are not hurting the CEO of Nintendo much but instead the ultimate beneficiaries ie Japanese grandmas whose pension fund happens to hold Nintendo shares.
- red1reaper 3y agoThe idea of a pension depending on shares of a company can be argued to be morally dubious way to do pensions.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y agoPensions are all bankrupt pyramid schemes who need new suckers (workers) to pay in so the scheme can pay out to the retirees.
- timwaagh 3y agoThat really varies by region
- _piif 3y agoAgreed. Especially today where games are often bound to digital stores which are essentially a ticking time bomb. What happens to all your bought games once the owner loses interest and shuts down the store + online services? Unless you are able to emulate them they will most likely be gone forever, lost to history.