Yup. This is also why I stopped buying Nintendo products.
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ceiphas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
and because of an attitude like this, my family wil never buy anything from nintendo again.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Veraxus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This has been my stance for decades. They’re worse than Ubisoft when it comes to immoral and unethical treatment of their fans and customers.
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I do get the Ubisoft hate, but at the very very least, they don’t shut mods down. There are still mods being actively developed for games like Ghost Recon 1 and Rainbow Six 3.
They can still get all the way fucked for pulling The Crew.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
They've been like this for decades.
ceiphas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My last Nintendo buy was a wii for homebrew…
tahoe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just buy used. You get all the goodies without supporting their shitty practices, while not even having to deal with the ethics of piracy. It’s all win.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Honestly, pirating Nintendo products should be considered an ethical obligation at this point, just to spite them.
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You know what they say; if buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.
Asafum@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Same. I’m not buying an entire console just for Zelda.
Same with Sony. I’m not buying a PS5 for final fantasy.
Fuck you Nintendo. Fuck you Sony.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I just downloaded the entire GameCube library on my seedbox yesterday, SNES, NES, N64, etc are next.
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not even just out of spite. In a way its another form of “voting with one’s wallet”. It will affect their sales, and if their heads aren’t too far up their assess (like, sitting on their own shoulders), they’ll finally get a clue.
But I’m not holding my breath.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pirated copies of old ROMs that Nintendo doesn’t sell anymore cannot be counted as “lost sales,” so that really only replies to their latest releases.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Personally, I think I’d rather not even give them the word of mouth of having played their game. There’s so much out there to play, and plenty of it doesn’t come from a company doing lousy stuff like this, even if it’s second hand.
KRAW@linux.community 2 weeks ago
So you only play indie games? Because that’s basically the only way you avoid “companies doing lousy stuff.”
Voyajer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If there’s any time playing only indie games is viable it’s now. We’ve had high quality indie releases outpacing how fast you can play them for a few years now.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Pretty much.
More specifically, I only play new games that I can pay the author for directly. That tends to be pretty indie.
And then I play a crapload of abandonware.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
More and more lately, but not exclusively. I have an increasingly long list of things that are deal-breakers for me, and I haven’t run out of stuff to play.
AlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.com 2 weeks ago
Why bother? Paid, non-transferable cloud backups, low-spec hardware that wears out in a few months, over-hyped/half-finished games (assuming they're ever released), back catalogs that aren't available if you don't subscribe or repurchase every generation... Just skip em.
If you want AAA games, there's plenty you can play mobile or on PC (or both), or if you specifically want indie, there's plenty of them too on Itch.io , individual websites, and steam (among many others; GoG, HumbleBundle, etc). You frequently don't even need to pay for these games, since a lot of them are free or via user-decided donations (mostly re: indies).
Hardware that can run them range everywhere from GPD handhelds to Steam Deck to any number of either's competitors, and they also function as more than just game machines since they run either Linux or Windows.
Nintendo who?
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
You can also get an Odin 2 for $299, that runs quite a bunch of Switch games plus every earlier generation of games too.
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nope. I’d still have to buy games somehow and I’m fucked if I’m paying a tenner less for second hand because Nintendo games rarely drop in price. Also not paying full price. If anything I’d buy a hacked switch and pirate the games.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’ve got 500gb of games on my switch, about 10 of them were bought…
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good for you mate. I have about 20 and I hardly ever play the damn thing. There hasn’t been enough exclusives on it that has made buying it worthwhile and I don’t play handheld ever so I just buy multiplat on pc or ps5.