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I've been using emulators for decades. Yuzu were making money on current gen Nintendo content, no one would pay for them patreon money if Nintendo did make the

by pipes 3y ago

I've been using emulators for decades. Yuzu were making money on current gen Nintendo content, no one would pay for them patreon money if Nintendo did make the content for it. I'm fine with them being shutdown. What I'm hoping is that the yuzu team haven't ignited a wider crack down on emulator Devs who provided their work for free.

rowanG077 3y ago
Which is precisely what is happening now.
didntcheck 3y ago
What's morally wrong with making money on it?
- pipes 3y ago
  Not so much moral, but I don't think piracy is good for the game industry. And the primary use case for yuzu is playing pirated Nintendo games. I doubt a significant percentage of users are playing games they bought legitimately. In short they are making money from enabling piracy of Nintendo games.
  - ranguna 3y ago
    In short, they were allowing the distribution of pirated content on their patreon only discord server. That's what allowed Nintendo to win this time. Nintendo has tried for ages to take down emulators, and this time it was tropical haze's fault for siding with Piracy. It has nothing to do with console reverse engineering.
    - crtasm 3y ago
      >allowing the distribution of pirated content on their patreon only discord server Their discord server was open to everyone last I looked, did you mean a patreons only channel on there? What's the source for the claim about pirated content being distributed on it?
  - LightHugger 3y ago
    Arguably if everyone pirated everything it wouldn't be good for the games industry, but objectively piracy is good for the industry. It acts as competition to encourage companies to improve their service (see: gabe newel, "Piracy is a service problem"), it preserves historical games that companies otherwise would just delete, leaving nobody ever able to play them. It's good.

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I've been using emulators for decades. Yuzu were making money on current gen Nintendo content, no one would pay for them patreon money if Nintendo did make the

by pipes 3y ago

rowanG077 3y ago
Which is precisely what is happening now.
didntcheck 3y ago
What's morally wrong with making money on it?
- pipes 3y ago
  Not so much moral, but I don't think piracy is good for the game industry. And the primary use case for yuzu is playing pirated Nintendo games. I doubt a significant percentage of users are playing games they bought legitimately. In short they are making money from enabling piracy of Nintendo games.
  - ranguna 3y ago
    In short, they were allowing the distribution of pirated content on their patreon only discord server. That's what allowed Nintendo to win this time. Nintendo has tried for ages to take down emulators, and this time it was tropical haze's fault for siding with Piracy. It has nothing to do with console reverse engineering.
    - crtasm 3y ago
      >allowing the distribution of pirated content on their patreon only discord server Their discord server was open to everyone last I looked, did you mean a patreons only channel on there? What's the source for the claim about pirated content being distributed on it?
  - LightHugger 3y ago
    Arguably if everyone pirated everything it wouldn't be good for the games industry, but objectively piracy is good for the industry. It acts as competition to encourage companies to improve their service (see: gabe newel, "Piracy is a service problem"), it preserves historical games that companies otherwise would just delete, leaving nobody ever able to play them. It's good.