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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or Nintendo:

"Stop pirating our old games!!!!!"

Okay, then sell me one of your old games.

"No."

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More like: Nintendo, "here is an HD remake of that old game you wanted."

Fans, "We don't want to pay for old games!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Leaving this here:

https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us

Nintendo has also committed piracy of their own software, by downloading a rom that a piracy group extracted and uploaded to the internet, so that Nintendo could then can re-sell the game back to us.

If Nintendo will sell me the old games I love, I'll happily rebuy them so long as there's no installed killswitch (sorry, "DRM") that will take it away from me one day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually more like: "Here's an HD remaster of an old game that we ported previously but instead of giving you the same price as that lets just charge $60 instead."

Fans: