Stealing is removing something from someone. If you pirate something that is actually being sold in a manner that compensates the creator (or copyright holder, or distributor, or anyone involved), you’re indeed stealing as you’re preventing someone from getting compensated for their work. That I see as morally wrong.…

I know. But eventually, you won’t be able to anymore. You can’t expect a company to keep their servers running for eternity. Maybe I’m wrong, but as far as I know, the original Wii e-shop is completely dead. Even for redownloading what you purchased. This will happen to the WiiU and 3DS as well eventually.

Same boat here. While The Last Jedi isn’t without its faults, it at least tried to take the series into the unknown, into new territories. It tried moving things in a different direction and that felt nice to me. The movie still had those old characters in it, but they were still riding in the backseat, only to serve…

I admit that piracy and its effects is a hot debate. And while I can see examples where it can be somewhat morally justifiable, or having no real impact, there are other cases where it does have impacts, even if these are super minor and relative.

I think you failed to understand that I’m not talking about “legal rights”. I’m purely talking on a moral ground standpoint, which is definitely not the same thing. It’s not because something is legal or illegal that it necessarily defines it’s morality, or lack of it.

I’m not for piracy, as I find despicable and morally undefendable the idea of pirating something that’s still actively sold which still brings in money to whoever made the game. I love gaming, so I don’t like biting the hand that feeds my hobby.

Their pricing and google’s tendency to axe things that aren’t making the moola is the main reason I’ve not “bought” any games on my new Stadia.

...because those idiots are putting themselves and others at risk just for the sake of being idiots.

Spend years making games and earning respect of gamers. Then flush all that down the toilet in an instant.

Bravo, Team 17, you just threw your reputation under a bus, and then asked the bus to back up over it a couple of times just to be sure. And then you asked all passengers on that bus to get out, line up and take…

I’m not understanding this properly either. I ALREADY use a main PC and a GPD Win Max portable gaming PC. And I can sync my saves between devices no problem. Got it a year ago and it worked fine then. And it even worked as far back as when I got my first GPD Win, around the time the Nintendo Switch got released a…

They’re only telling us that because it makes much more sense to them, financially, to not have BC. They’d much rather people buy new games for their brand new shiny console than play games they already have, which doesn’t bring Sony any new money. It’s perfectly understandable, from a business perspective (although…

Sony’s problem (and I say that as someone who owned every PS system out there, except the PS5 - because duh, can’t buy one anywhere), is that they’re still stuck in a marketing mentality from the 80's and 90's. They’re still trying to sell a product, while the competition (Microsoft) is trying to sell you an entire…

Nintendo is probably the player I’m expecting the less from in the future, if the past is any indication. I was tempted at some point to get a Switch lite in addition to my main one, as my kids like to play it a lot too, but then Nintendo doesn’t let people have two “main” devices, so that would mean one or the other…

The thing is, the more we get old, the less time we often get for things like gaming and we often miss good titles we only learn about once it’s too late to buy them. There are tons of good games I missed on the PS3, and even PS2, despite having owned both of these. Backward-compatibility is a good thing. Few people…

Look, I’m all for BC in any console. I always ended up getting all the consoles for a generation, since many decades. What I’m saying is that I always find ironic that fanboys of any kind gets to defend removal of features as a good thing.

My main gripe with consoles and BC, is that it’s mostly the only thing out there…

This is super ironic to me. Let me tell ya, I’ve been served, time and time again, the eternal argument AGAINST backward compatibility by Sony fanboys saying that they much prefer Sony invest its money in making new games instead, and that BC was for Xbox losers, that anyone who wants to play old game should just keep…

It’s stupid then if it costs next to nothing to not include. Because I would’ve bought one if it had one. But since it doesn’t, then I didn’t buy one. And I’m sure I’m not alone in this situation. That’s money Microsoft doesn’t get by having people not buying their console and spending money on games and accessories.

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Depends on how you look at it and how deep you’re a slave to the gaming fomo mentality. Personally, I gave up on this many years ago, when I realized I simply game to have fun. I don’t care about playing that specific latest game right now. I’ll play it sometime in the future. Or not at all. I don’t care because I’m…

My Xbox One S is still being used as my main Blu-Ray / 4K disc player in my living room. Because however we like to look at it, streaming services, even at 4K still offer a lesser image quality than physical media. So the lack of a disc drive on the Series S is the only thing that actually prevents me from buying one,…

VR will probably be more “mainstream” the day it becomes it’s own thing, and not a “platform” depended on another exclusive one to work. Like, game consoles don’t work only on TV sets from the same brand. They work on any TV set that have the right input ports. VR will need to get like this to mature beyond its…