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I'd go further than that, there's no valid reason to monetize 40 year old games where most of the devs are retired or dead. The law still pretends that there's
by realusername 2y ago
I'd go further than that, there's no valid reason to monetize 40 year old games where most of the devs are retired or dead.
The law still pretends that there's a transfer of value there when there's obviously not, the society has moved on.
- Sophira 2y agoFor that argument to work, wouldn't you need to have the assumption that people don't value the old games? Because people clearly do value being able to play these old games. Otherwise, emulation wouldn't even be so popular in the first place. Remember, capitalism is all finding the maximum amount people would pay in order to be able to do something they value doing, and then charging them that. Or to put it another way, it doesn't matter whether Nintendo thinks it has any value, just that you do. And the way Western governments are set up kind of facilitates that. (I'm not a fan of capitalism. Can you tell?)