When you are an emulator dev and you see Nintendo lawyers knocking on the door
"Have you ever dealt with Nintendo lawyers before?"
"Well, no, I... Seal off the bridge!"
"It won't be enough."
"I want droidekas up here at once!"
"We will not survive this."
you know, they should probably just release their own ports. maybe on a susbscription service.
Monetize it and most people won't pirate their old shit. A lot of people only start pirating stuff because they want to play old games that aren't sold anymore.
I'm pretty sure you aren't suppose to talk about your criminal activity.
It can be used in court
a) I don't think a comment holds any water in court, I can be lying. And even if I wasn't, "pirating" is not any crime, they'd need to present evidence that they could try to get from my IP records even if I don't comment anything.
b) Do you really think my government doesn't have better things to do?
c) Software piracy isn't criminal activity
Just to be clear it can be used in court just like SMS or any other communication. It probably won't be used against you but it can get companies in trouble for lack of enforcement.
For instance, Reddit comments were almost used in court: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/reddit-should-have-to-identify-users-who-discussed-piracy-film-studios-tell-court/
Once a pirate, always a pirate.
Most people start for relatively innocent reasons. It goes downhill from there.
there's plenty of switch games that are now out of print and hard to find. any game that was only ever sold digitally won't be findable once they take it off the marketplace. And yes, the do take old games off their marketplace.
I like emulating my games for mod support, upscaling, and better performance. A native PC port would ideally support all of these things.
Port your shit to PC too.
I don't want to play ToTK in 720p at 30fps. I want to play it at glorious 4k/60 with better textures.