Yup. They’re saying you’re gatekeeping for deciding that Dark Souls is worthy of the book but Fortnite isn’t. And they’re right

Actually can’t believe this article. The guy carved out a comfortable life himself entirely through illegal acts, as is made clear in the first quote, but this is quickly forgotten in favour of a sob story about how this poor guy suffered bad prison conditions, along with a fairly underhanded attempt to connect that…

It isn’t an overreaction to this piece in particular, it’s just the latest in what I consider death by 1000 cuts. Regardless of how strong or ‘mild’ it is, it’s still a hit piece: one designed to stoke negativity with very little in the way of concrete research to back it up, deciding that a handful of tweets is…

You know, I’m getting really bored of this now. I’ve been reading Kotaku daily for about 15 years because it was written with a real enthusiasm for gaming and it felt fun to read as a result. There were silly in-jokes, Photoshop contests, etc.

No, Sony hasn’t “unveiled” a “Game Pass competitor” like the headline claims. That was always PlayStation Now, they just didn’t put enough effort into making it good value for money. This is a rebranding exercise, not a new thing.

They look close enough to me. The Mega Drive ones are accurate when you consider that they're presumably based in Brazil, and that's how the boxes looked there.

If the wind’s so strong in that header GIF that the trees are bending over like that, surely her hair should be practically horizontal instead of gently wafting? Indeed, shouldn’t she be struggling to even stand if the wind’s that bad?

And it always makes me laugh when people put words in my mouth. Nobody has ever said that every single pirated game means a lost sale. You can’t just make shit up like that to make your argument stronger.

What’s “illusory” about video game piracy? This very website wrote an article about how people were playing pirate copies of Metroid Dread on an emulator the same week it was released.

I think your grammar teacher would be more concerned about the rogue comma you threw in there after ‘explode’ for no apparent reason.

There’s also this Choose Your Own Adventure version:

Well now he knows. And knowing is half the battle.

It’s certainly a high price but I can at least understand this one more than the scam that grading company was caught doing a few months ago. I get legitimately rare things being of value to collectors, I don’t get Super Mario 64 selling for $1.56 million just because a group of ‘graders’ with a vested interest in…

The funny thing was that, instead of responding something like “neato!” and moving on, a bunch of people went “wait a minute, an emulator needs a ROM, which you might obtain through illegal channels”

That “line in the sand” just makes you look even more ridiculous. Theft is theft. Your argument is basically that it’s alright to pirate expensive games but not cheap ones, which means your so-called argument is that piracy is okay when you’re sticking it to big corporations. While at the same time you claim to have…

I’m sorry, but that’s a ridiculous response. If someone goes to the effort of downloading an emulator, tweaking it settings to get it to work then finding the ROM, they’ve already proved that there’s an appeal there.

All you’re doing is proving the point I made in my other post on this story. People always use the “but it’s a blog” excuse when it’s convenient, but the article itself preaches about how Nintendo’s reaction was some sort of affront to journalism.

We look forward to Nintendo reasserting that it does not promote greylisting websites for doing journalism.

Do you seriously think an article about a developer removing DRM is anything like an article telling people they can download a ROM of a game that just came out that week and play it on a PC emulator instead of having to buy the game and the console it was designed for?

Spare me your patronising nonsense. I do receive Sony’s quarterly reports, actually. They had around 2.2 million PS Now subscribers as of April 2020, and that had only grown to 3.2 million a year later. It’s nowhere near what Game Pass is getting.