An OLED is not what people were asking for. That was actually improved hardware, like good enough to play in 4k when docked and plugged in to a TV. I wouldn't be upset at them if their article was about how Nintendo games up releasing a new improved switch. Quantumbunny: While Kotaku is clearly idiots. The response to piracy shouldn't be raised prices to "compensate for lost sales", it should mostly be "ignore most of it, and attack the whales responsible for it via the legal system" Raising the price drives down demand or shifts demand to illicit channels. It's supply (the total pool of titles available for purchase, since the number of copies of any individual game is effectively infinite, even distributed on cards, the costs of distribution are negligible), and demand. Which is why I'm pretty "meh, whatever," over uses that may not be within the terms of the license.įormlessOne: hey, if 5% of you are going to steal the game, then a 15% price hike should cover that nicely.
BREATH OF THE WILD EMULATOR KOTAKU LICENSE
Technically, the publisher is the only one who "owns" the game, you just bought a license to play it. I mean, my experience with emulation has been playing games I've purchased a license for at some point or another, or one for which a license is not available for purchase. NeoCortex42: As if most people who play games on emulators actually own the games. The rightsholder could revoke your rights if they wanted to, and then your continued use would be against the law at that point. It's not a crime to violate a EULA or TOS. No, it's a violation of the EULA, which is not "against the law", it's against the EULA. Do with greed.įormlessOne: EULAs don't "frown on that," it's expressly against the law. You actually think prices are rising due to piracy? That's not true and most publishers are pushing their developers to add metric fark tons of micro transactions to line pockets which has nothing to do with piracy and everything to. Nintendo uses this kind of shiat to justify anti-piracy measures, and the industry happily goes along with it while jacking up prices far beyond what we should be paying because, hey, if 5% of you are going to steal the game, then a 15% price hike should cover that nicely.įormlessOne: Horizon: FormlessOne: t3knomanser: why not play it on an emulator? I know that technically EULAs frown on that, but fark 'em It's shiat like this that justifies the ridiculous extremes of security theater attached to intellectual property, and the ridiculous prices we pay as "insurance" to cover the actuarial legerdemain that says "we'll lose X dollars to piracy," and, ultimately, shiat like the DMCA. I'm not white-knighting Nintendo - I'm tired of entitled assholes making my life harder. You do realize that Nintendo won't come to your home and fark you right? Worse yet, the article somehow justifies the piracy because PCs are so much better than the (less-expensive, stable) console that, really, it's Nintendo's fault - that "Nintendo has to face given the relative technical inferiority of its current console." This isn't a game that was RE'd to play on an emulator because the original platform is obsolete or unavailable - this game was circulated ONE DAY AFTER RELEASE. Kotaku knows that it's against the law, as well, hence the "update" in which they "regret this interpretation." Horizon: FormlessOne: t3knomanser: why not play it on an emulator? I know that technically EULAs frown on that, but fark 'emĮULAs don't "frown on that," it's expressly against the law.