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> Where's the harm in piracy then? Nintendo and other video game companies don't want to have to compete with their past products. They want you to pay full pr
by autoexec 2y ago
> Where's the harm in piracy then?
Nintendo and other video game companies don't want to have to compete with their past products. They want you to pay full price for their new games right now because it makes their sales figures look impressive. Older games too often lack the microtransactions, paid DLC, ads, and data collection that can enable companies to continuously extract money from their customers.
There are enough old games in existence today that a person could spend their entire life playing quality video games, be fully entertained, and never once touch a recently created title.
It's harder to keep coming up with new games that people will feel is more worthy of their time than older games. It's easy to just make sure that gamers can't access those great older games so that they're forced to put up with whatever expensive consumer-hostile garbage is on offer right now.
Companies currently have the freedom to keep burying their old games making them unavailable unless/until they choose to overcharge consumers and force them to pay again and again for ports and shitty/censored remakes of the same games they paid for before. They'll fight to keep that freedom.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago> There are enough old games in existence today that a person could spend their entire life playing quality video games, be fully entertained, and never once touch a recently created title. I cynically wonder if this is part of why these copyright laws will never change. People would buy fewer games if it were easy to play the good user-respecting classics. Can't have money go down, must maximize profit and sales.
- smusamashah 2y agoI feel thankful to China. They don't usually have any regards for copyright, and that has allowed those cheap retro handheld consoles. They most often come with 1000s of games on a micro SD card. You have to stop import of those things, sue those Chinese makers or something to get rid of them. More power to them I guess.
- ajsnigrutin 2y agoI mean sure, but if I eg. pirate eg. Pokemon Blue (the original game for the GB, afaik, unavailable on anything that you can buy from nintendo today), and play that, I pirated it because I wanted to play that exact game (since i'm already pirating, i could pirate something newer for the same price of "free" if I wanted to, but no, I want pokemon blue). Assuming that I would buy (and pay for) whatever the newest pokemon game for switch instead is a stupid assumption. If they want people to buy old games, sell them old games. Put a gamboy emulator on the switch, put a rom-store inside it, and charge a few bucks for a game. There are many other media where you could stay with the old... books for example, there are many more out-of-copyright books than a person could reasonably read in a lifetime, but you still want to read some newest freshest bestsellers, not just the Mysterious Island from jules verne (which is actually available to buy, even if it's out of copyright!)