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Ironically, this is the type of behavior that will make me STOP buying a company's products. They're obviously doing this because they think their losing sales

Ironically, this is the type of behavior that will make me STOP buying a company's products. They're obviously doing this because they think their losing sales - which they probably are on net. But I wish more people would stop buying products from companies that try to ruins people's literal lives over - essentially - a rounding error to the company's bottom line.

gjsman-1000 2y ago
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- onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago
  Nintendo's success during the Switch era is completely orthogonal to their recent overly zealous litigation.
  - pezezin 2y ago
    It is not recent, they have been like this for decades.
tourmalinetaco 2y ago
I haven’t bought a Nintendo product in almost a decade. My life is better for it. Previously I avidly bought every MH, every Pokémon, would have bought the Digimon releases on Switch too. A fair portion of the recent Zeldas too. Nowadays I play pirated games on my 3DS and am quite happy, far happier than I had been paying Nintendo only to fuck over the things I enjoy. My impact may be small, but that hardly matters because at least I‘m putting my (lack of) money where my mouth is.
m3kw9 2y ago
I think this move hurts yourself more than the company. There are more level headed ways to go about it but this one ain’t it
hbn 2y ago
I'm not so sure Switch emulation makes up for a "rounding error" The truth of the matter is powerful computers are getting cheap and accessible. Emulators can run Switch games better than the Switch itself - I've seen plenty of people who are playing the new Zelda at 60fps while the Switch can barely maintain 30. How many of those people paid for the game? I'd guess very few. Not to mention Nintendo has had a few cases where their new, major release leaked online a week or 2 before the street release date. So players are now in a situation where you can very easily play games earlier and with better performance thanks to emulators. There aren't real alternatives to Nintendo games, if you want to play the new Mario or Zelda game, Nintendo is the only one who is offering it. That is to say, these are people who would otherwise be paying customers that aren't giving them any money. I'm sure emulators cost them millions of dollars.
- onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago
  > How many of those people paid for the game? I'd guess very few. In many countries that doesn't matter.
  - consteval 2y ago
    To the company and to you, the consumer, it does matter. If they stop making the games you would care, and everyone pirating the games would also care, because clearly they like the games. Extrapolate this and then there's no good games anywhere, ever again. That's the only logical conclusion of this line of action.

gjsman-1000 2y ago

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onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago
Nintendo's success during the Switch era is completely orthogonal to their recent overly zealous litigation.
- pezezin 2y ago
  It is not recent, they have been like this for decades.

tourmalinetaco 2y ago

I haven’t bought a Nintendo product in almost a decade. My life is better for it. Previously I avidly bought every MH, every Pokémon, would have bought the Digimon releases on Switch too. A fair portion of the recent Zeldas too. Nowadays I play pirated games on my 3DS and am quite happy, far happier than I had been paying Nintendo only to fuck over the things I enjoy. My impact may be small, but that hardly matters because at least I‘m putting my (lack of) money where my mouth is.

m3kw9 2y ago

I think this move hurts yourself more than the company. There are more level headed ways to go about it but this one ain’t it

hbn 2y ago

I'm not so sure Switch emulation makes up for a "rounding error" The truth of the matter is powerful computers are getting cheap and accessible. Emulators can run Switch games better than the Switch itself - I've seen plenty of people who are playing the new Zelda at 60fps while the Switch can barely maintain 30. How many of those people paid for the game? I'd guess very few. Not to mention Nintendo has had a few cases where their new, major release leaked online a week or 2 before the street release date. So players are now in a situation where you can very easily play games earlier and with better performance thanks to emulators. There aren't real alternatives to Nintendo games, if you want to play the new Mario or Zelda game, Nintendo is the only one who is offering it. That is to say, these are people who would otherwise be paying customers that aren't giving them any money. I'm sure emulators cost them millions of dollars.

onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago
> How many of those people paid for the game? I'd guess very few. In many countries that doesn't matter.
- consteval 2y ago
  To the company and to you, the consumer, it does matter. If they stop making the games you would care, and everyone pirating the games would also care, because clearly they like the games. Extrapolate this and then there's no good games anywhere, ever again. That's the only logical conclusion of this line of action.