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Re: Super Mario Bros. Wonder Leaked Online Ahead Of Next Week's Release

rushiosan

@RobynAlecksys Whoever did it, they paid for the game and just dumped its files online. You're downloading, installing or emulating at your own discretion. No one stole a single boxed copy of that game from Walmart shelves. It's a crime based on copyright infringement, unofficial distribution of intellectual property material, piracy, you call it. Thievery is a very different thing.

Contrary to what you seem to believe, they contribute a lot to the gaming scene, with software preservation being the most obvious example. You wouldn't have a single Game Boy Advance ROM image if it weren't for those "thieves" dumping and uploading them online, most games would be certainly gone for good due to expired copyright, lost source code, extremely expensive copies etc.

You wanna fight back? Go to the store and buy a copy. You're supporting the developer anyway, so why bother? It's not like piracy EVER damaged a good product's sales - Breath of the Wild was one of the most pirated games in the history of Nintendo (and was the reason for the first Wii U emulator to become a reality), yet it sells like hot cakes to this day.

Re: Trace Memory, Hotel Dusk Writer's New Adventure Game Blows Past Crowd-Funding Goal

rushiosan

@Kaspari_Villalobos You mean the same fictional videogames that should hit the news whenever a school shooting happens, and make parents assume gaming is all about guns & violence? Sure, they're all harmless.

We've got enough Neo-nazi scum in the world, no need to have buzzwords like "Hitler's Legacy" in our social media newsfeed. This bulls**t should have been banned before the campaign ended, regardless of the game's plot being the opposite of what we expect. If you don't get the point here, I feel sorry for ya.

Re: Feature: Harvest Moon 64’s Relationship With Alcohol, The "Magic Liquid" Of Flowerbud Village

rushiosan

@Goat_FromBOTW Censorship for such subjects remain as strong as it ever was. For some reason guns and other military themes are okay in the west if you look at mainstream titles aimed for the same audience, not only Fortnite.

I just find it funny how often gun culture is seen as "cool" while people lose their minds if a bottle of alcohol is pictured in any piece of media.