Oh boy.
The past couple days I and many many others have been in a very heated discussion at another gaming forum about Nintendo suing a pirate website for millions over their hosting of Nintendo roms from their older catalog. Now personally I don't pirate games, I never have and never will if I want something I'll buy it no matter the price, and I hold no grudge against Nintendo for protecting their IP's and catalog.
But people are fuming over this. In the past Nintendo has sent a cease and desist letter to these sites, no legal threats they would ask for the sites in question to simply stop. Well now they asked the site in question and they continued to keep the links to the games up and now they are in a world of crap because no matter how they word it, how they will say fair use, ( <- Bullcrap ), how they are keeping the older games alive, how Nintendo used the sites to get the roms for the NES/SNES classics, whatever, ultimately they are pirating copyrighted material and they will lose and will lose their rear ends.
But people are calling out Nintendo for this, how they are wrong to get their copyrighted material pirated for no profit. Why? Why can't Nintendo protect their properties? Why do people feel entitled to take something for free? For example you can buy the legal rom of Super Metroid from Nintendo for under 8 bucks, is 8 bucks going to bankrupt you? I fail to see a rational conclusion from anyone as to why the old game roms should be given away for free other than people don't want to pay for them. Call people a pirate for downloading them, which is what they are and then they start flaming you back. All the while if you link to any of the pirate sites on these forums you will get banned short round. And people still complain about Nintendo being the bad guy?
I really have to chuckle at the chuckleheads.
As for gaming right now on my to do's...
World of Warcraft, jumped on the hype train and waiting for next weeks expansion launch. Not looking forward to the server death the first day for day two should be business as usual. Also going to laugh at the doom and gloomers saying WoW is dead when next week I'll fearlessly predict over ten million playing.
Monster Hunter. Sooo glad I waited to play this on PC, even on my rig I had to turn down some graphical details but it runs silky smooth over 100 fps and far better graphics than consoles. I expect to dig into this one after I drain all the new WoW content.
FF 14 is still being played but not as much, I can only do one MMO at a time and my heart is with WoW.
Speaking of Final Fantasy I just downloaded the hi-Res texture pack for the PC version if FF 15, even though it was 115 gig's of data, if you have the horsepower to run it, specifically an Nvidia 1080 at the bare minimum, it looks absolutely sick in 4k.
Think I'm avoiding this years Madden, really no interest in the game anymore.
Is the battle royal shooter a fad? Fortnite is the biggest game in the world and PUBG is slowly dying a painful death. One game does not have cheating and the other one has the worst cheating of any game online. Which one is which?
Too many games too little time, I sometimes wonder if I'll ever finish all my games in my Steam library.
