snixyz123@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoIt feels like Nintendo doesn’t want us to play older games until they say we can...lemmy.mlimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down11
arrow-up165arrow-down1imageIt feels like Nintendo doesn’t want us to play older games until they say we can...lemmy.mlsnixyz123@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareLunyan@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoThis is why pirating games that aren’t available to be bought anymore is never wrong
minus-squaremounderfod@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agobig imo: pirating AAA games at all is never wrong
minus-squareJimbo@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoYeah, 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
minus-squarelateraltwo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoOnly 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
This is why pirating games that aren’t available to be bought anymore is never wrong
big imo: pirating AAA games at all is never wrong
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
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