So second hand games are “stealing” now?

PSX/PS2/PS3 disks are unencrypted; any standard CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drive can read/rip them fine. GC/Wii disks, as mentioned, are encoded backwards so you need to dig up a compatible drive that can read them natively, but otherwise there’s no encryption preventing you from making a copy.

You don’t need to justify yourself to these people. He exposed himself as a tool the moment he called you a thief.

Lol generic dismissive comment that translates to: I have no reasonable counterargument, so I'll deflect and try to get the last word.

Sure there’s general use iso ripping tools for regular cd’s and software, but unless most regular cd readers still won’t recognize most physical copies of games. At least in my experience.

Am I? What did I steal? We don't own games, we own a license to play them. So if by buying a copy I now am entitled to play it, how is it stealing to download it? At most im complicit with thieves, but not actually a thief as long as I purchased a copy. But whatever, you just want to feel better than people I guess.…

Not sure how you could ever not have your favorite or strongest weapons after a few hours in game.  They throw so many weapons at you that I was finding myself annoyed when I’d work for a chest and it would pop out a weapon.  Oh, yay, now I have to go through my inventory and dump the weakest weapon, because it’s…

There’s plenty of ISO ripping tools out there (or .bin/.cue, or similar) that are free; I’m still using ImgBurn because *it works*. Things only get messy when applying translation patches/hacks for disc based games that assume a specific disk format (usually .bin/.cue, but it does depend).

I feel it IS a flaw if the game’s main way of interacting with enemies becomes less viable and IMO stops being fun at a certain point in gameplay progression due to numbers not lining up anymore. I’d roughly compare it to Final Fantasy 8, where if you level your characters up too much the game gets extremely…

No need to be a dick or so dismissive of other people who have loved this have series their entire lives, but don't like this ONE feature in ONE Zelda game. Putting fans in quotations is so dismissive. I know there's plenty of people like me... I have been playing the Zelda series for 37 years now. I have owned every…

Do you have a point, or are you just gonna repeat what I said in oversimplified terms? It's a grey area even Im not sure how I feel about. But nobody makes this stuff readily available and as long as that's the case, the high seas are people's only option. Besides I only downloaded what I owned physically.

Everything you said is complete nonsense.  Unless you’re talking about a survival horror the ammo drops in shooters are rarely randomized, and nearly all of them DO encourage you to pick your favorite weapon and use it to your hearts content.

No it wasn’t. The article suggested pirating older games in the series, people just can’t read properly.

I think you need to take a moment and think about why exactly you’re trying to start this fight with me.

What’s precious is how you think my ignorance of some random person online’s entire history somehow makes me unique. And once again, you’re looking for things. I’m not whining about privilege, nor am I avoiding the privilege any more than I’m avoiding the plethora other words in the dictionary by not using them. What…

Mr. Mime made plenty of appearances.

“These men are not victims, they are fucking buffoons.”

This is a strange take. I’m not about to go raising money for the people who were scammed here, but to focus on how much someone “deserves” something just as much or more than focusing on the fraudulent entities and their actions is the kind of slippery slope that allows for all kinds of “rules for thee not for me”…

I did not know about those historical events, thus it is a spoiler for the game

“When the city burns down, it actually hurts to watch the bright flames engulf the local market.”