A launcher for one game versus a storefront acting as part of a subscription-based model for the hobby are two very different things. And it’s largely by the good graces of Steam—who were basically a monopoly, tbf, which is also wrong—I feel that the subscription service for games across the board hasn’t had more…

Retailers have been paying for exclusivity on products and content for far longer than video games have existed in a wide variety of markets and it has yet to produce such a dystopian vision of the future.

I’m too tired to honestly argue your point but something something slippery slope argument something something by tying videogame availability to store fronts we’re just a few steps away from gamers being okay with those storefronts costing a subscription service as we keep granting small concession after small…

“As an independent studio, our partnership with Epic has given us the freedom to create Hitman 3 exactly as we imagined and self-publish the game to our players directly.”

So, if this is based on Chess + some extra rules, how long before some great super computer can solve it?

Okay, thanks for pointing all that out

Please dismiss me so we never have to interact again, thank you.

Literally it’s right there in my comment:

Fair enough.

You can scroll through my other comments if you want to read what other thoughts I have on the matter, esp. regarding “If it gets taken down, we’ll just host it somewhere else,” discussion.

“Doesn’t that prove that the rom being offline is completely unrelated to any potential action Nintendo might have taken due to this article, though?”

They were using a different filehost instead of direct downloads when I first tried to download from the site. (I believe it was Onedrive.)

And if creators keep being targeted, then I feel it puts undue pressure on them to either go further underground and/or keep these projects to themselves entirely—which is what I’m seeing more of them do, tbh—just in order to avoid the eventual C&D from companies like Nintendo.

Which is a fair point, but there’s still the issue of whom gets credit and “profits”—whether literally or through word-of-mouth—from things like this when they’re released into the wild and the creators get shut down.

My comment was more an answer to the following statement: “If Nintendo actively goes after ROM hacks like you think, romhacking.net wouldn’t exist by now.”

And I’ll repeat my previous comment about that: “by doing so the original creators get lost in a sea of people who might be less scrupulous and/or those who actually do redistribute their (now stolen) content for profit, like all of those romhack sites that use ad.fly and whatnot for their links.”

“I don’t see this “blanket approach” you claim. Yeah, a few years ago, there was a definite blanket approach to digital content on things like YouTube, but it was not mod focused”

Do y’all just not, like, read?