So you’re saying that if someone did actually buy their copy of their game and the shop sent it out early, or they purchased it on the eShop and somehow managed to find a way to unlock it and play it early, it would be entirely justified to ban them from their entire legally purchased eShop library?

I think I would do better giving people games on what I know they like, rather than what you think anyone would like.

Actual pirated sideloaded roms or hacks or whatever are “unauthorised copies”, so it’s ok to ban people where that’s been detected, but a broken street date is not an unauthorised copy.

Well, he figured he already had a separate profile being his Nintendo account, so that’s what he used.

Because I was halfway through some games and didn’t want him to mess up my save files. With his own account, he has his own set of game saves.

You are confusing two things here.

? Hey, you asked me whether I think they are paying for things and I told you - yes some of them probably are. And now you’re telling me off for “making excuses” for them? I know this subject appears to make you angry, but don’t direct that anger at me. All I’m doing is answering your question, and you don’t like the…

From the looks of things, I’m guessing there are a bunch of hardcore competitive Pokémon fans in there too, trying to get ahead of everyone else by starting early.

I know there is a lot of “well they deserved it” going on here, but... banning them from the eShop so they can’t actually buy things any more seems like “cutting off your nose to spite your face”.

I think “fucked” is pretty unambiguous in a way that many of these euphemisms are not, and it also has a layer of cheapness to it which seems appropriate to describe the way it turned out.

Just imagine, her whole book was written like that, and that’s how it turned up at the editor’s office. :)

It would have been much funnier if he’d tried to get into it, because then it’d be full of proper WTFs rather than a “well I already decided everything is shit no matter what’s on screen”, because... it’s like canned laughter. Like being told to laugh because some guy is pushing the “insert laughter here” button.

There’s something about these screenshots that makes them look like they’re from a model village or something. Everything looks like it’s part of someone’s dinky little train set village set up in their loft or something.

I, er.... suddenly am reminded of “Silent Hill The Arcade”... not because of its resemblance, but of how disappointing an on-rails arcade shooter game can be.

Huh. Mostly when dealing with the eShop it feels like the past. The distant past. Back to a time when you couldn’t have two identical devices using the same account. Maybe the 1970s, before I was born. Yeah.

I can believe that in 1992, Nintendo marketing believed that these were the only Gameboy games an adult man would play.

That bacon looks awful. Hardly any meat!

Oh God, I recognise that song from its intro. It’s from End Of Evangelion and is just about the most depressing anti-love song sung in the most cheerful and carefree way. Hilarious use of that song here!

“Keza MacDonald is about to take a year or so off from games journalism to go have a baby, and is feeling a bit reflective” 

Ah, I understand now.