• 0xtero@beehaw.org
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    24 days ago

    Good old ”download equals a sale” rhetoric still doing a lot of work in these headlines. It’s been decades.

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    23 days ago

    I have torrented Mario Kart World one thousand times since it launched and have thus cost Nintendo 70,000 dollars. If I can keep up this pace, Nintendo will be bankrupt within the next year or two.

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    24 days ago

    Fuuuuuck Nintendo. No one hates their fans more than Nintendo.

    They are bricking brand new consoles, locking their USB ports to approved hardware, charging for the tech demo that would customarily be free on an $800 device. And that’s just this year.

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      23 days ago

      I refused to buy anything Sony due to the dodgy shit from the PS3 days. And that’s anything, no TV’s or phones. Nothing. If a film is made by Sony I don’t go to the cinema to see it.

      Microsoft is the same. I have only once bought anything from Microsoft and that was a licence for a windows operating system but I can’t even remember which version it was. I know it was from before Windows7. However, never again.

      And now Nintendo is on my shit list.

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    23 days ago

    I love how they always try to pull the same bull that if the only way to obtain something like a ROM was through legal means that these companies would suddenly see a surge of millions more in revenue.

    It’s just as absurd as the people who say that thoughts and prayers alone will eventually end all school shootings in America.

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    23 days ago

    Hey FBI thanks for letting me know about nsw2u cc I had no idea this thing existed…but now I do, so thank you.

    seriously though I use the megathread and it has quite literally everything. literally the only good thing to come from reddit.

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    23 days ago

    These loss figures are always fun. Me pirating a game i would NEVER have played otherwise is not a 50€(with todays game prices, 80€) loss for the company. On the other hand there are games that i pirated first because i wasnt sure it would be worth it for me to buy it and then actually bought it when i decided it would be fun to play and wanted to support the company.

    • Sas [she/her]@beehaw.org
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      23 days ago

      I got into the Age of Wonders franchise through a burned disc by our upstairs neighbour as a child. I have bought every game (except planetfall) in that franchise by now. I’d probably never have tried that game without said burned disc

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    24 days ago

    Bummer, I used that site a lot back when there were actual Switch games I wanted to play. Guess I’ll have to get Metroid Prime 4 elsewhere when the time comes!