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Man in Glorious Nippon arrested for selling modified Pokéman Violet save data (www.ign.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This dude was selling Pokemans with modified move sets for up to $80 a pop and could now face up to 5 years in prison.

Is this not insane? Or do you think he could face a much less severe sentence and the 5 years prison and $30k just the upper limit for this particular set of crime?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (11 children)

There's a program that you can use to modify Pokémon data, it's fairly easy to do but it's free so idk why this dude was charging people for it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (8 children)

People were willing to pay for it. Seems completely reasonable to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

People are willing to pay for lots of things that don't need to be paid for, so I'm not sure how paying for data and pixels you could easily do yourself is reasonable

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I looked up and see that PKHek doesn't have Japanese lang supported. Plus Japan is mostly console, console gamer that is not very good at English + PC skill may need this service.

Not to mention if the guy doing this know the risks involved and charge high. Or people know the risks and don't do it leads to low supply/high demand.

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