Pirate the game when it’s a decade old, mysteriously absent from Nintendo’s next online storefront and going for absurd prices on the secondhand market. But today? Just buy a copy. 

This article is really scummy. I’ve always enjoyed your content Zack, but this article made me lose some respect for you. The game literally just released yesterday for crying out loud. Genuinely shitty article to post. At least wait a few months.

I sincerely hope that Kotaku never gets a review copy of a game again.

Sis somebody seriously ok this article or are you guys just allows to post whatever the hell nonsense you want now? Either way, please stop. 

The article tries of deflect in the last paragraph with talks about the valuable and necessary archival work done by the emulation community, but that’s kind of out of step with the rest of the article, which pereptuates exactly the image of emulation that leads to companies persecuting (and prosecuting) so much - the…

I cannot believe some Kotaku editor okayed this article. Advocating piracy ONE DAY after a game launches? Are you freaking kidding me?

Yeah. Someone in the comments is trying to rationalize it by saying, “Oh it’s more encouraging the downloading of a Switch emulator which isn’t illegal!”

Me too. I’m all ok for older games and mostly stuff that you can’t legitimately buy anymore, but this is simply wrong. As a gamer, and even a passionate retro gamer using his fair share of emulators from time to time, this is... just wrong. I mean, how can you label yourself a gamer and not be ashamed of not…

It isn’t just this article. News of Dread running on these emulators is already spreading through Twitter and Reddit. My problem is that now, a significant amount of people are going to take this new ‘path of least resistance’ and not bother to buy the game.

Yes.

While I am glad emulators exist for older games that can no longer be purchased new I don’t like to see it on current games like this.  It just leads to developers implementing terrible DRM into their games and I assume will eventually lead to some sort of required internet connection to work at all.

lol Gee, I wonder why Nintendo hates us.

“It is a Switch exclusive, as you might expect. But all you need is a Switch emulator and a decently powerful PC, and you can play Dread on your computer, right now.”

You’re saying a company is not entitled to make money on a product they released one day ago?

I’m not fond of articles like these. The tone is encouraging persons to pirate the game.

I didn’t have the exact words for why this article made me uneasy, but this is it. You nailed it. I support archival and even deeper rights for the end user of software than currently exist, but this... this feels wrong.

I get the vague arguments for emulating inaccessible games - but are you seriously arguing emulating a game that came out one day ago rather than buying it? No mention at all that it’s basically theft (morally even if it’s a legal grey area - which I don’t think it is) if you don’t also buy the game (and maybe even if…

I too would deliberately cripple events focused on a game that came out mere months after 9/11 when I’ve released new versions of that game for every console since then 

It really feels like this game was made for melee players and I really hope they move on to it so we can stop hearing them whine about nintendo

It’s a fun game and definitely has some depth to it but, man is this thing a straight up copy of smash down to the menus. With no voice work this feels low effort and will be best played on friend filled nostalgia nights.