Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Nintendo/SEGA Just Destroyed The Oldest ROM Site In History..." video.

Piracy was never stealing. You can call it immoral if you want, but it is fundamentally different from theft.
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@Maximilian1990 oh boy you're one of those "every pirate was a potential sale" clowns, DRM grifters LOVE selling you garbage products that tank your game's performance for hundreds of thousands of dollars
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@christianmino3753 IPs becoming public domain is one thing, but you could legislate that the binaries and source code is free use. Of course, expecting politicians to even know what the fuck I'm talking about, let alone put it in coherent writing, is a total pipe dream. We still have people who think that downloading an infinitely reproducible file at 0 cost to anyone is somehow "theft."
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@draco_1876 that's a pretty petty reason to shell out 70 dollarydoos for shitty games. "Your vocab sucks, argument invalidated"
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@draco_1876 sure you didn't bucko
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@chrisrosenkreuz23 So what? The game wasn't literally made by the executives. Are you stating that the devs don't deserve appreciation? To take your reasoning to its logical conclusion, we should just stop playing games in general because most modern games were made with many more questionable questionable business practices than this one
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@DarkForce2024 Principally speaking there is absolutely nothing that differentiates the idea of reselling a digital game vs. a physical one, other than the physical assets themselves (discs, cartridges, instruction manual etc). You would just disable the game's serial key on one account and enable it on another. However, even Steam, which allows players to trade almost anything, does not allow players to resell games. That would likely anger developers immensely who would believe that they'd lose tons of sales to resellers, all while Steam takes a cut for providing the marketplace. They made these same complaints about used game stores like EB Games and Gamestop. Now they're knowingly taking advantage of how most people don't intuitively understand how software works, and pretending that used game sales just "aren't doable" digitally. In reality there's absolutely nothing different from a software or logistics perspective about it. If it is not illegal, they will do it. Businessmen have no end to their sense of entitlement or their greed.
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@jayrawd Uh, yeah, like nobody ever figures out code words.
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Companies like Nintendo can and will put a game up on a shopfront somewhere for decades just to ensure no one can download their games for free. The details don't matter, preventing other people from playing games they don't sell is absurdly important to them.
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@ahank1706 because they're... not... complete. and no one should be required to pay monthly for a game they bought previously and had access to forever. don't know why people are so eager to give corporations the right to do anything they want simply because it's "their" product. and really when we're talking about ownership we're talking about at most a dozen people in suits in a board meeting room, not the entire group of people who worked on developing the product
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There are still torrent archives of every NES/SNES/whatever you can think of game ever made. I'm not an expert in the field of retro games, so I can't say if they're 100% complete, but they will definitely include whatever was on Vimm's Lair. Furthermore, they're impossible to get rid of.
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@neinja66469 I haven't received a virus pirating stuff since I was a teenager. You just have to know your shit and not click on stupid files.
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@voteDC Honestly, I'm not so sure about that. I would think the same thing, but then again, I'm always shocked by how out of touch these people are.
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@voteDC Nintendo was actually never a toy company. They got their start selling card games. They are the only company in the gaming industry that has been about games since its inception and it has over a century of history. All that impressiveness aside, they act like you describe but I don't think it comes from a history of selling toys. They care so much about brand image that they never want their customers to play an "outdated" version of their games. NSO subscriptions are the perfect solution to that problem. Unless, of course, you don't pay for it.
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