• Lunyan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is why pirating games that aren’t available to be bought anymore is never wrong

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, say I want an old need for speed game, either buy a disk for a high price that I can’t put in my disk drive-less PC or pirate it…

      Hmm I wonder which one I will choose

      • JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com
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        1 year ago

        Aye!

        OPs example also applies to games they never intend to release on PC. It’s not like I was going to buy a Switch anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Limited subscriptions can go to hell as well. Sure, I could pay $50/yr for a Switch Online + Expansion Pack (not featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series) so I can temporarily play GBA games and lose access to them forever when the service is eventually discontinued… or I could just emulate them on my smartphone/jailbroken consoles for free.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. Really though, the ultimate goal should be to enact legal protections for older video games, same as any other historically significant cultural artefacts.

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      1 year ago

      Only reason games don’t become public domain is because of IP license. So just in case the rights holder wants to revisit a mothballed IP decades after the last time it was relevant, the entire catalog of that IP is off limits