Nintendo Is Suing To Shutdown Major ROM Websites

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Nintendo Is Suing To Shutdown Major ROM Websites

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Looks like candy is going to have to get a real job now..(instead of him reading my posts and pretending to ignore them)

We've seen what they do to youtubers merely using footage of nintendo games. Now they have gotten more cocky and going after the proper bad guys who are leeching from the game industry and then blaming EB Games for the loss of profits of developers.

This is a great opportunity for EB Games to have special retro game stores that stock old gaming machines and secondhand titles that are out of print. (similar to game traders back when it was about vintage games)

No need for people to go to steam for that stuff when Nintendo can just do digital retro gaming. Retail (with second hand games) still not doomed! :up:

In the future when everything is "games as a service" and the government makes it illegal to own a console because psychologists say it's harmful to kids due to "gaming disorder", people will miss the days when you owned the cartridge and played the original. That's when the second hand market will boom. Nobody wants shit emulator crap if they can see and play the originals. (Unless the game gets remastered and shits all over the original by enhancing it and/or adding some extra content as companies do now regularly for those who missed the boat the first time the game was released) The guys who can port the games well will have jobs and more money goes to the developers who made the games so they can continue to survive despite the rampant piracy in the internet age. (free to play games like Fortnight has devalued the average game title's value since kids now flock to those games even if the graphics look like crap from 2010 and then expect all games to be virtually free now, which has ruined the market for real games which have premium quality and forcing companies like EA to just ditch projects if they are not like those free to play games that 5 year old kids love)

BTW I still support piracy when it's used as a last resort. But there are bad and good ones. The bad guys just try to use it to make money and the others just preserve history. We have to look at who is harming the incentive to make retro games available second hand. And imho it's the guys who pirate as a weapon to hurt the competition. I only do it to play games I already bought or intend to get when they become available. It's all about balance. The greed of the consumers vs the greed of the corporations. If people want to play old stuff they should have to find it secondhand and buy it if the game isn't available on shelves anymore. If none exist, then piracy is justified especially if you already bought it and owned it but the hardware no longer works (ie the console died). Nobody is getting harmed in that instance.

Original developer got his money, you get to play your game that you owned again without having to dig out the old systems, and others who were not even alive at the time get to play it to see what games were like back then with hardware limits of the era. (maybe they like it so much that they donate money to the creators to do a sequel and give the retired game developers a chance to work some more and improve on the game and even expand on the ideas. Or fans can make decent clones to give the fanbase something like it to play if the creator died)
"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." -Shigeru Miyamoto
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