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If you don't like it, you shouldn't buy or play Nintendo games.
by sevagh 3y ago
If you don't like it, you shouldn't buy or play Nintendo games.
- hiddencost 3y agoWe have this thing called a "society" which is empowered to make rules collectively. One way it is empowered to make rules.is through "laws" and "regulations". Amazingly, these things can and do work, often much better than free market capitalism.
- illusive4080 3y agoEvery action has costs. Laws and regulations will exhibit costs, sometimes hidden costs until the law is actually in place.
- Zuiii 3y agoAnd? I'm sure Right-to-repair has far more costs and that got passed. When you buy something, you own it. If nintendo doesn't want to pay for hosting anymore, the ethical thing would be to dump the server code and the levels so that players can host the servers themselves. Given how nintendo, activision, and other publishers have been acting the past decade, I really think its time for a Right-to-play law.
- CaptainFever 3y agoConcretely, I think this sounds like a combination between AGPL-like "server must have source code" and the data portability law in the GDPR.
- sevagh 3y agoAh, yes, the secret 11th commandement, "Nintendo shalt not shut down the online services of their video games."
- peeters 3y agoStepping in with regulation doesn't necessarily imply forced support. It could be more like "though shalt not claim copyright over a game thou hast ceased to support, and thou shalt remove all security barriers from thine code when thou chooseth to cease supporting it".
- CaptainFever 3y agoI agree, though I don't understand what this has to do with capitalism. Copyright and DRM is supported by laws themselves. And archivist efforts are often voluntary.
- teeray 3y agoUntil the next bean counter at a different game company entirely decides an online product burns too much to be profitable. Or maybe the store for all those digital goods isn’t quite making its quarterly targets. Right now, I can head down to my basement, jack two AAs into my Game Boy, and play Pokémon Red, a 28 year-old game. I have zero confidence that will be possible with any of today’s games in 28 years.
- crtasm 3y agoWhy wouldn't I be able to boot up my Switch game carts 28yrs from now?
- vages 3y agoBecause a lot of Switch games require downloading the finished game to be playable. See which here: https://www.doesitplay.org/switchCartsRevisions https://www.doesitplay.org/switchCartsRevisions
- Beldin 3y agoThanks! My switch is (and will remain) offline. I wasn't aware some games may not play - even some first-party games like super mario 3d allstars needs updating, according to this.
- crtasm 3y agoThat link does not say the update is required to play all-stars.
- crtasm 3y agoThat's an important point for the games it affects but there's only eight carts there that require an update to play. Any number is too many, I agree.
- CM30 3y agoThis seems a bit misleading, since for many of these games they work fine without downloading the updates. If you don't connect Super Mario Bros Wonder or The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to the internet, then version 1.0 is a perfectly playable, full version of the game. And from my experience, I can just refuse the update every time. Heck, from a speedrunning perspective it's probably better not to update them, since the updates patch out a bunch of tech that makes them more fun to mess around with (easy item dupes in Tears of the Kingdom, easy out of bounds in Mario Wonder).