The fact that this game was ever able to get onto Steam in the first place and cause issues for even one person already proves you're dead wrong.

The reason it’s a problem *right now* is because Nintendo’s approach to releasing their retro titles is absolute dogshit. If Nintendo released their retro titles all at once for their Virtual Console instead of drip feeding them over several years, people wouldn’t look online for free ROMs to begin with if they could…

First of all, it’s *absolutely* relevant when the release of those games can be months or even years apart, *especially* when you’re talking about a library as large as Nintendo’s back catalog.

You clearly didn’t actually bother reading what I wrote so I’ll try to be more concise with an analogy:

When did I ever say I did so myself? My point is that if Nintendo wants to discourage piracy they should build up their own platform and provide a service to actually dissuade it rather than striking down sites like these while refusing to provide access through any official channels.

Why don’t you be a bit more honest about those titles and also include the dates that Nintendo added them to the e-shop? What about all of the NG4, GBA, and Gamecube games they never put up on the Virtual Console?

How about Nintendo actually makes the games available for sale in the first place so people don't have to look to ROMs and emulators?

Don’t forget Donald Faison’s dance to “Poison” https://twitter.com/donald_faison/status/980313196551532545?s=19

In this industry? Fuck yes I think ArenaNet has a responsibility to tell its community “hey, this employee fucked up and we fired her, but you shouldn’t be taking this as an excuse to harass anyone you don’t like”.

I think that, in this particular industry, there are plenty of companies that already recognize the less than savory history its audience has when it comes to female representation in the workforce, so plenty of them also are and should be wary of incidents like this. Companies have the freedom to terminate employees…

These are the type of comments I wish I was seeing more of.

Why don’t you go ahead and tell us what those reasons are? I mean, clearly you must be associated with Bluehole’s legal team to so confidently claim that there are any reasons beyond “they had no case” to drop the suit, and no outlets have reported any other reason for them doing so since the company hasn’t provided…

It is at this point I will redirect you to the title of the article you are presently commenting under:

Yeah, that’s why the lawsuit was filed only six months ago and just dropped, which if you knew anything about the court system is basically just long enough for them to file the suit, get pulled to the side by their legal team for some angry muttering, then come back and meekly say “nevermind”.

“not to be a contrarian asshat *but*”

To all of the contrarian asshats out there who thought they were being clever by claiming Bluehole’s case was ever legitimate: L. O.-And furthermore-L.

Locking physical media to the system wasn’t “ahead of the curve”, that was poorly thought out DRM meant to strangle the used game market; something the industry has been foaming at the mouth to kill off for decades. An all digital future for games isn’t inherently bad, but don’t pretend that Microsoft’s ideas then…

Or maybe they just wanted to file the suit in a country whose copyright laws were woefully underdeveloped so they wouldn’t have to prove if any actual laws were broken?

Or maybe they don’t care to actually find out if any real laws were broken and would rather have the lawsuit filed in a court system that mostly bases its interpretation of law on Confucianism?

If there was either evidence or historical precedent, Bluehole could have filed the suit in a country whose copyright laws were more developed and first established before 1957.