TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:Already reported Benders Back to Qbix. I assume hes Jade Failure.. err.. i mean Falcon.
Anywho back on topic, I'm boycotting Nintendo for the disasterous effects their recent copyright suing and abuse has had on the retro community. Not only will I not be buying there games on there retro store, I wont be buying there platforms at all. This is bad for them because one of the things I was planning to do this year was buy either a 3DS or a Switch, but if they want to start suing certain sites out of existence screw them, I'll keep giving my money to Sony or Intel/NVIDIA for my gaming needs. I encourage you all to do the same, they've essentially decided they are too good for the DMCA system and have the right to attempt (hopefully unsuccessfully) to circumvent it.
To hell with any company that thinks they are above the law.
I'm no fan of Nintendo (the company I mean, I really like many of their games) because of the things they've done, including:
- Selling Rare (because Rare went then from being, to me, the best games developer of all time to a very mediocre one who I now have no interest in,
- Their "Bottom Line: Emulation is illegal" attitude (and yes, that's a direct quote), despite them employing emulation in consoles when it suits them and can make money for them,
- The way they hate youtube videos of their games and try to get them banned, even though I would personally have thought that they'd be good for Nintendo as surely a good, popular youtube video of a game being played would function as a positive advertisement for the game? Not that really care about this, as I have no interest in 'Let's Play" or "Blind Playthrough" videos, or in video reviews, but I don['t agree with Nintendo trying to stop something that's legal and popular,
- The way they treated PAL gamers, with the PAL consoles often getting inferior games, such as the game running around 15% slower on a PAL machine, and/or not being full screen on the PAL console and instead having black borders around the screen. Oh, and not bothering to bring some of the best games to PAL format at all. Thankfully this is no longer the case, I believe (though neither me nor my mates own a Switch or a Wii-U to check), but was bad in earlier days,
- Forcing Rare to abandon the fantastically promising Dinosaur Adventures and instead remake it as Starfox Adventures,
- Not releasing SimCity 64 on a PAL cartridge (for me, this was the biggest disappointment when it came to games not appearing in PAL),
- Forcing Rare/Microsoft to abandon the amazing looking XBox 360 version of Goldeneye (Goldeneye the N64 game, not the Call of Bond mediocrity that came out in 2010 and was monumentally inferior to the N64 game in all but looks),
- Not releasing a version of Metroid Prime 3 that could be played with a joypad - I really hate motion controls, but love MP 1 and 2, and so I really want to play MP 3, but I just can't get used to the Wii's controls,
and various other reasons. I hate all of these decisions, but none of them are illegal, and at worst some of them might be anti-gamer in some ways, but not actually malicious. And in the same way, NIntendo aren't doing anything illegal or morally wrong by trying to close down sites that offer copyright material for download, or at least to get the sites to remove copyrighted material. I wish Nintendo didn't do that, and if you ask me, copyright should only be for about ten years, as 99% of the money you'll earn for most copyright stuff is made in the first ten years, but it's not. You can't blame Nintendo (or anyone else) for protecting their copyright, it's the copyright system itself that's at fault (if there is anything wrong with the current copyright system, that is, and I do believe it is, it's much too long).
Having said that, I've not heard of Nintendo actually going above the law, though. What have they done in that respect?