I just shake my head everytime I see these kinds of compilations released. I’ve been playing these games for years, through emulation. These bundles advertise being able to use filters for ‘authenticity’ gameplay, online playability and such. Emulators can and have long done these things too.
But, there are people out there, who’ll wait for years on end for these compilations to be made and some shamelessly buy them. When you can cut all of that down by spending less than 2 minutes grabbing a ROM and grabbing an emulator before you’re well on your way to revisit your old favorites.
All the spendies on this thread are making me sad. You know money buys food, right?
Imagine making downloading pirated software the basis for your political ideology.
You really are so morally superior to people because you (checks notes) pirate video games. Ok boss.
STFU spendy
Go make up someone else’s ideology
I just don’t understand, am I supposed to be offended by this or something? I’m not even like advocating for buying things, I’m just pointing out how ridiculous you sound.
I know the economy sucks and we’re all struggling. I’m in those shoes too. If you pirate games because you can’t afford them, that’s valid and I won’t look down on you for it.
But I think it’s wack as hell if you do look down on people who want to support official releases. It’s a good thing for content to be available officially. What is it that you even want them to do, not release anything? What are you upset about?
I don’t believe in the ethical usage of $USD if that helps and no, I don’t think they should “not release anything.” Is that how you like to argue? Make up something completely unreasonable, then argue with that?
So then what do you want?
Games that finished development longer than a decade or so ago should be FOSS, but IP holders shouldn’t have to preserve them themselves. Devs should be making new games unless they have a personal passion for preserving, which enough of them do. EA Games should be dissolved. Embracer should be dissolved. Activision/Blizzard dissolved. Ubisoft, too.
Piracy is a reasonable response to unreasonable laws and business practices.
I’m assuming you meant “shouldn’t”.
How about devs can do what the fuck they want to do? Why should you be the one to determine if someone is “passionate enough”?
Why did you assume I made a different argument than the one I wrote? Fuck off.
Ok, then please make the sentence I quoted make sense. I’ll wait.
Because
Doesn’t actually make sense.
I’m in favor of IP law reform, but you’re going after the wrong targets. Complaining about rereleases won’t get new legislation passed.
Oh I don’t worry about “getting legislation passed,” I just play for retroachievements. Because they’re old games. I ignore the law in my personal life because it is fake for my caste.
Money also helps game developers buy food. I’m very well fed already.
I still don’t buy a lot of games though. Just stuff I really like, especially from smaller studios. I will not be paying 40 dollarbucks to play ancient games.
Yeah I’m sure all 3 devs working on what is essentially a rom compilation are really struggling to make do at 80 bucks a pop.
Bro, these games do not cost $80 a pop, I truly have no idea why people keep saying this.
Read the comment lol, I said I wouldn’t be paying for this shit, just that you shouldn’t feel bad for supporting small devs. Some here seem to think paying for anything at all is immoral.
What I’m not understanding, are the boot-lickers who’re praising the publishers for making these ROMs available on the market. Like, pirates are the ones who have been doing the archiving and preserving while video game companies kicked the can down the street for the longest time. And only recently are these compilations released, are some people going like “WOW! THEY ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT PRESERVING! IT MAKES MY DICK HARD NOW!”
Like dude? These ROMs have been available for a long ass time and they weren’t because of these video game companies you’re happily throwing money down to.