@DocSanchez said:
This does not surprise me about the Disney of gaming. A family friendly happy go lucky image that hides a corporate monster that has for years held incredibly rigid and ruthless practices.
They are within their rights to protect their ips, but some of these have not been available for years and they could easily, easily offer them for next to nothing. So going after someone like this is mean spirited, because for many of the games, they aren't even contesting it with their own versions. They want you to buy and rebuy the same games over and over but destroy the lives of those who offer more.
Sega takes the modders and gives them jobs, Nintendo pursues them for 12 million dollars.
Absolutely, especially the bolded. One of the most anti-consumer and vindictive companies operating in gaming today laughably masquerading as something entirely antithetical as to what they pride themselves on being.
Perhaps if Nintendo afforded consumers, y'know, an actual COMPETENT Virtual Console service that didn't drip feed three whopping games a month held under lock down of a pathetic, years old behind-the-times antiquated service I'd feel more sympathy for them. It's true that in the light of the law there's no argument to be had here, but on a moral and preservation grounding there is. Many of these games that are causing Nintendo to lose "$12 million" are minuscule to their bottom line, and these ROM sites operate not so much on the incentive for financial gain (and if they do, that's for the upkeep of the site itself, not to profit off another's work), but mainly due to a love of the source material. People only wish to keep Nintendo's legacy alive that they themselves ignore and take no substantial initiative to offer the consumer through legitimate means. If they did so I'd be singing a very different tune and agree with this ruling 100%, but they don't. It is entirely punitive towards those who want to remember and honor Nintendo's past, and Nintendo goes after them for it.
While legally justified, it is still severely messed up. They're not only exceptionally petty and vehemently contemptuous towards their fan base that still (for some strange reason) adores them over something that's costing them very little, they hold no concern nor respect towards the products they created, that've made them who they are, and that've given so much enjoyment to so many over the years, and seem to view them as nothing but a means to stick it to their fans in the harshest of means possible. And in doing so, they've discouraged and threatened a method to keep the retro scene alive for nothing but the pettiest of corporate greed that they could be capitalizing on for very respectable revenue (making everyone happy) if they for once removed their heads out of their complacent, lazy asses and leveraged their legendary history to mutual benefit.
To hell with this company.....they deserve to rot.
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