“Fuck off?”

Do you have a basis for it being an overclocking issue? Overclocking should not cause a “bricking” issue, at least not as I use the term. It might cause failure, but I wouldn’t call burning up the chips a “brick” (even if it’s technically correct that the card is now a brick, I usually reserve that term for hardware…

If the cards were defective then aren’t they just replacing them with the same defective cards? They would no doubt burn up when some lesser developer makes the same mistake as Amazon.  Honestly it seems like this issue should have been handled with a driver update, not a software update by Amazon.

Your claims about a conspiracy or that this is some kind of gaslighting by a group of organized ne’erdowells are unsubstantiated. Just conjecture on your part. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to refute there. There are good reasons to be against this that have nothing to do with snowflakes or suicide. I imagine most…

The good call would have been to make a game that didn’t feature suicide. But no, you shouldn’t get to take it back 4 years later. The correct call would have been to take the game off the market. Like Disney did with it’s overtly racist shit.

And your blanket dismissal of anyone opposed to this change is equally fallacious, if not moreso.

Why do you or the devs get to be the arbiter of whether a change is significant? It seems to me that you should get to keep what you paid for, regardless of whether you personally think it’s a meaningful change. But better to lump the issues together as the article author did I guess /s

Eh this is too much of a blanket statement. Maybe in this one particular instance its a positive change, but suggesting users don’t have a vested interest in the game they paid for staying feature-complete, or that devs ought to be able to reneg on a transaction they’ve made with the consumer (and keep the money to…

mother 3 was for the gameboy advance, not the OG

Nintendo has been lying about it's plans for as long as they've been selling consoles

I think he’s just frustrated that there are no other options being put forward except putting up 25k to be featured. Like community curation as alluded to in the article.

“We are selective about our acquisitions" is perfectly cromulent

Those do at least look like proper Final Fantasy

I don’t have a well-developed thesis on it, but copyright is a property right based on like hundreds of year old cases. Some of it is obvious and makes sense, like preventing someone from just taking a book and reprinting it and selling it without the author’s consent. We need those protections or else it would be…

It’s only entitlement if you buy in to the IP laws as they are now. It’s a reasonable opinion to think that IP laws are too protective of the rights holder and not protective enough of the consumers and the public. You can easily say that these corporations are entitled to think that just because they wrote something…

It’s not a moot point. If one believes MGM are legally required to enforce copyrights, then it’s not reasonable to blame MGM for enforcing the copyright. Since MGM are in fact not required to enforce this copyright, it is instead a CHOICE to enforce the copyright. Since it is a choice, people may then choose to…

Again, there is no legal requirement to protect your rights at all. You show a fundamental misunderstanding of the subject that was more than a mere typo. Moreover you spoke with authority about a topic you have little education in and you literally have esquire in your username. So it seemed to me that you were…

This is all incorrect. There is no risk of losing your copyright if you don’t enforce it. It is trademark that you risk losing for non-enforcement, which has no bearing here. Don’t give these companies a pass for this asshole behavior!

Seems my other reply to the above poster may have accidentally been deleted... I’m reposting it because it may be helpful to people struggling to understand why Ubisoft has the right to do this:

There ought to be some protection for fanmade works under copyright law. If the world weren’t so beholden to corporate interests we would probably have some tolerance in the law for this kind of thing. But it’s the corporations that make the IP laws so this is what we get. Companies destroying someone’s hard work for…