Businesses consider those the same thing unfortunately :/

The argument is the suppression of titles is to control the brand. Its indirect nonsense.

I used copies of old Nintendo games and they don’t get a single cut. I don’t see them shutting down those stores that sell them. Fuck Nintendo greed.

I was told by my parents not to play with shit.

🎵🎶How’bout I do anyway ?🎶🎵

I’ll buy your new games AND play the old games! You get the exact same amount of money either way!

Yup. And it wasn’t money they would have gotten anyway so big N gets mad about nothing.

Yeah, say I want an old need for speed game, either buy a disk for a high price that I can’t put in my disk drive-less PC or pirate it…

Hmm I wonder which one I will choose

big imo: pirating AAA games at all is never wrong

Limited subscriptions can go to hell as well. Sure, I could pay $50/yr for a Switch Online + Expansion Pack (not featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series) so I can temporarily play GBA games and lose access to them forever when the service is eventually discontinued… or I could just emulate them on my smartphone/jailbroken consoles for free.

Agreed. Really though, the ultimate goal should be to enact legal protections for older video games, same as any other historically significant cultural artefacts.

Only reason games don’t become public domain is because of IP license. So just in case the rights holder wants to revisit a mothballed IP decades after the last time it was relevant, the entire catalog of that IP is off limits