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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Boredom and Nintendo

« Last post by Adrock on April 16, 2024, 03:06:31 PM »

You and your boyfriends first made the claim that piracy hurts game sales before me.

Your logical fallacy is [ad hominem].

BTW, this started because you first claimed that piracy is morally correct. There's no point in discussing this further when you've Neo-dodged every criticism about the original claim.

Stealing implies someone had something taken from them. Piracy never takes the original game away from the dev, it just makes a copy. You're talking about nintendo like they're a starving indie company when they're the richest company in japan period.

Your logical fallacy is [strawman].

They have sold over 140 million switches, made over 1 billion dollars of profit on software sales and the switch is on pace to become the best selling console of all time. I think they won't lose sleep if a few million pirate their games, especially as the switch has been pirated day one.

Your logical fallacy is [special pleading].

Won't lose sleep? Nintendo literally sued Yuzu into oblivion because of people pirating Tears of the Kingdom.

If piracy hurt sales as you pretend it does, the switch would of failed.

Your (informal) logical fallacy is [false dilemma].

At least someone here comprehends how piracy preserves old games. But tbh yall sound like boomers who bought the "you wouldn't steal a car" anti piracy campaigns, and can't move on and accept that publishers do a piss poor job of providing access to their legacy titles.

LOL, no one was saying otherwise (though there's more nuance than you presented). The difference is you're the only one claiming its "morally correct".

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Boredom and Nintendo

« Last post by Evan_B on April 16, 2024, 11:39:46 AM »

Piracy is a blanket term that encompasses theft. Emulation is a more specific one that applies to all of the points that you’ve raised. Emulation implies ownership, and once something is owned, it is the right of the owner to distribute/emulate it at their discretion.

When one can no longer buy something, they have reason to emulate.

Also, resorting to homophobic name calling as a means of positing the superiority of your perspective is petty and immature. Do better. You came here for reasonable discussion because you felt shut out of other communities.

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TalkBack / Re: Indie World Presentation To Air April 17

« Last post by Dinar87 on April 16, 2024, 11:15:27 AM »

Pizza Tower and SilkSong

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TalkBack / Re: Kudzu (Switch eShop) Review

« Last post by melaniewalker on April 16, 2024, 12:15:32 AM »

Best review I've read so far of this game. Thanks

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TalkBack / Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Switch Port Tech Review

« Last post by Khushrenada on April 15, 2024, 07:04:25 PM »

Why? Just because the Simple Machines copyright ended 14 years ago according to the bottom page of our forums? Are you telling me that it doesn't mean Simple Machines shut down in 2010 because they realized what they'd made was perfect and they couldn't improve on perfection?

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TalkBack / Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Switch Port Tech Review

« Last post by UncleBob on April 15, 2024, 06:54:19 PM »

lol.  It happens.  We need a forum upgrade.

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TalkBack / Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Switch Port Tech Review

« Last post by Khushrenada on April 15, 2024, 06:44:42 PM »

WHAT?!? Twist ending! Wowzers. Didn't notice I had pressed that while banning a bunch of spambots on my phone. I didn't think about checking the log.   

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Boredom and Nintendo

« Last post by Adrock on April 15, 2024, 03:47:51 PM »

There has never been a single case of piracy hurting a games sales. Ever. I dare you to prove me wrong.

Your logical fallacy is [burden of proof].

As a passionate fan of Nintendo, I wish they'd announce and release some really cool sequels for series I love like Mario, Metroid and Fire Emblem ... which I'll then be justified to pirate because they are a greedy **** company that doesn't deserve my respect!

LOL, the hoops some people jump through because they can't admit they simply want to steal.

Companies aren't your friends. I view it as a purely transactional relationship. I exchange money for goods and services, and if a company doesn't or no longer provides those, they don't get my monies. My respect doesn't keep their lights on.

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TalkBack / Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Switch Port Tech Review

« Last post by UncleBob on April 15, 2024, 03:35:54 PM »

Why is this stickied?

You'd have to ask the guy who did it... 🤣

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Boredom and Nintendo

« Last post by Luigi Dude on April 15, 2024, 02:24:03 PM »

LOL! This thread...

As a passionate fan of Nintendo, I wish they'd announce and release some really cool sequels for series I love like Mario, Metroid and Fire Emblem ... which I'll then be justified to pirate because they are a greedy **** company that doesn't deserve my respect!

Seriously, and some of you wonder why I get so angry at times.  If you go on some of the larger video games boards on Reddit, 4chan, Reset Era, this type of attitude is extremely common.  In terms of big publishers, Nintendo by far is the best at delivering a constant supply of games as well as updating new installments in beloved series, and yet many act like they're the worst publisher in the industry who deserves to be pirated.

I mean, the fact that we keep mentioning Metroid Prime 4 is already proof enough.  When they decided to make a new installment they originally gave it to Namco Bandai who was going to make it at their new Singapore studio.  Well when development was going terrible, they then took it back and gave it to one of their own internal studio's Retro to make, which delayed the game several years and probably untold millions to do.  Let's not forget the fact that Retro's previous 2 Donkey Kong games outsold the entire Metroid Prime series COMBINED.  They took ones of their own studio's that could have worked on a more successful IP, but had them work on one of their lower tier ones instead. 

Any other publisher would have either outright canceled Prime 4, or just had Namco Bandai finish working on the mess they were making and see if they could pull a fast one on consumers like Microsoft tried to do with Redfall around this time last year.