• panda_paddle@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      More like: Nintendo, “here is an HD remake of that old game you wanted.”

      Fans, “We don’t want to pay for old games!”

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        1 year ago

        Actually more like: “Here’s an HD remaster of an old game that we ported previously but instead of giving you the same price as that lets just charge $60 instead.”

        Fans:

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        1 year ago

        Leaving this here:

        https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us

        Nintendo has also committed piracy of their own software, by downloading a rom that a piracy group extracted and uploaded to the internet, so that Nintendo could then can re-sell the game back to us.

        If Nintendo will sell me the old games I love, I’ll happily rebuy them so long as there’s no installed killswitch (sorry, “DRM”) that will take it away from me one day.