Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Socar
Piracy is a service issue, not a cost issue

It's also a cost issue imo! Especially if you think about people who survived on like, 200 usd a month income or so.

In the end, some people just don't have as much money as others, and it's not like they will suddenly get the money to buy the games or whatever else if stopped. But these people can talk and spread the words too if it's good, or if it's bad, etc.

The issue for me is not even about piracy being bad or not. It's that I genuinely can't think of a lot that I think is not good that I could care less about if someone did anyway. Most bad things that happen and that people do are more worth my time to actively be against.

If its a service issue then why are people complaining on prices like Pokemon FR/LG costiing a lot more than pirating it? Why are people still pirating games if games on PC are priced as low as they can get if you look on Steam?

Are we really seriously arguing about this here...?

Just the same old thing being argued again & again...and parroted many time over.

@Socar Because you can't convince everybody not to steal. There is a limit to any service you provide that isn't free. The service issue is about making it so it's as easy and effortless to pay for a product as it is stealing it.

Pretty much in today's times the services are very accessible. No more region specific games locked, no more of the physical only releases. Almost everything can be done digitally now.

You can't convince people to not pirate sure but it's getting very hard to justify that now that services are more accessible than ever.

@Socar Uh yes, that is exactly what I'm saying.

@Socar YES

@Hapless The disgusting slog that is its combat system, ugh...

@Agent_P Do you hate all Pokemon games? I feel like Arceus mostly just has a slightly faster-paced version of traditional Pokemon combat.

So then why should we all bother to buy the games legit? We can just pirate away and play games for free. Why single out to only those who are poor?

Oh and this applies to even indies at that.

@Socar shrug

People need to stop policing what people want to buy with their own money. If people want to buy the FRLG rerelease let them, not everyone is willing to spend $200+ on the second hand market. And if you want to emulate then go emulate it yourself and stop bullying and insulting people for choosing to buy the game, not everyone is interested in emulation, and bullying people about it isn’t going to get them interested, it’s just going to make them hate you instead

@Megas75 This! I'm seeing this all over YouTube ever since FireRed and LeafGreen got announced. Being someone who has been critical over some of Nintendo's decisions ($80 games), even I'm considering getting FireRed. Especially since I lost my GBA copy a very long time ago.

Also to add, I really hate how YouTubers just suggest to "emulate for free," which usually means piracy. Emulation itself is legal, if it wasn't we wouldn't have Nintendo Classics or various releases of DOS games on GOG.

When piracy is suggested, it just reinforces the idea that "emulation is illegal," when it's not, it has been adopted to re-release classic games on modern consoles and PC. The recent FireRed and LeafGreen release is still an emulated release and is an example of this.

Unpopular, because most associate emulation with piracy here, even though it's used officially.

@Socar I mean, I don't pirate games cause it's a pain in the neck and I can afford to pay for the convenience. And I'm more tech savvy than most, so everyone isn't going to start pirating cause most people don't want to deal with the headache. But hey, if people who can afford it want to pirate, I ain't got an issue with that. I really do not care what people do with their lives lol

The only reason I suggest that people emulate FRLG now is because it will be the genuine original experience with no changes at all. If Nintendo had been upfront about the addition of the word filter, I wouldn't have purchased LeafGreen since I don't support older media being changed for any reason, especially if it involves making older media tamer.

Am I still enjoying my playthrough of LeafGreen, since it's still some good classic Pokémon gameplay? Yes. But I'm still negative about the fact that it's so close to being one hundred percent accurate to the original games from 2004, but not quite 100% there.

@Nep-Nep-Freak I'd suggest that no one actually cares except for an extremely small percentage of people. Does it really matter that you can't name your Pokemon ****** or *****-***?

You're playing a emulated game on a modern console with modern Pokemon Home integration and coded-in access to mystery gifts. Those things are also not 100% accurate to the original! And playing on a bigger screen with a super bright backlight? I don't know, doesn't seem like that's very authentic to the original experience. Unless you teleport back to 2004 and play an original cartridge on original hardware, it's not going to be "100% accurate to the original".

Obviously I'm stretching it here, but you gotta draw a line somewhere, and it's weird that you draw it at not being able to name your Pokemon "****face"

Well if you were making games like me then you might care because it leads to lost sales.

Also I don’t care if care if you emulate or pirate games. You do you, just don’t go telling other people what to do

@charliecarrot I’ll just find a way to put in cuss words and no one will stop me, whether it be removing or replacing certain letters lol