Almost at 1.3 million! Make sure to vote if you’re eligible and haven’t already, it’s super important. Fuck these greedy companies.

I definitely agree that this is interesting, this was a great read!

Older games are better plus gamers can play all our existing games.

Give me a call when they’re in the bargain bin years from now.

If they’re still functional, thankfully there’s the Stop Killing Games movement.

I’m just worried some of them are botted, especially now that we’re less than 100k away from 1m.

5 minutes later and it’s 843k, almost 1k signatures per minute, not bad at all!

I don’t think you’re wrong, and I think the EU petition will go the same way, but it’s still worth signing regardless.

Devs geting screwed over by management (not even just game devs but all devs) is a tale older than time, sadly.

I’ve seen him described elsewhere as “a poor man’s idea of a rich man” and I think it’s accurate.

With that said, I don’t think it’s his fault the petition failed, people just don’t care usually.

edit: To give more context, Pirategames literally does not know what the Stop Killing Games movement is about, he thinks it’s only about single-player games being always-online (yes that’s a component of it but not the whole thing) and converting multiplayer games to be offline-playable single-player games but it does NOT mention that anywhere because it is NOT about that. However, I guarantee you that Pirategames will not admit that he was mistaken about his understanding of the Stop Killing Games movement, he will instead double and triple down and insist that he had the correct understanding of it. lol

For better or for worse, it’s actually quite different. Many people seem to actually prefer Mario Kart 8 lol

They aren’t really direct competitors, though.

They avoided direct competition by previously being cheap enough that people could afford a Nintendo console and a Playstation or Xbox, and their video games have been so good that buying a Nintendo device was always a no-brainer.

They focused on selling games, not consoles.

Yep. Nintendo is unfortunately extremely smart. Nobody can say they don’t make good games, it’s all the other things about them that are problematic.

I don’t expect much from it, and it’s not surprising since Microsoft won’t even put the effort into making their own handheld rather than just partnering and making a modified existing one.

Plus, I use Linux because I don’t want to use Windows.

My point was more that games that require the Internet itself, and not just LAN-capable servers, are games that are inevitably going to disappear.

It may seem like I’m splitting hairs but what I said is technically true.

Technically 100% do, games that require the Internet require the Internet, which means by design you’re relying on someone else hosting servers which means it may not be available, 50, 100, or even more years into the future. That’s not the case with single-player/offline-available games.

Something tells me their “peepee” never worked to begin with tbh.

Yep, I love the Tomb Raider games too, I still play Rise of the Tomb Raider sometimes, it’s such a great game.

Plus also she’s awesome anyway. What the fuck is wrong with people? Oh I can’t enjoy my vibeo game with a wahmen as main character, it’ll ruin my mood!

That’s what I don’t understand, like, have people not played the Horizon games? They’re awesome, they’re fun as hell.

Pokemon MMOs literally use Pokemon assets as well as trademarked data too, and they’re literally using Nintendo’s intellectual property. It’s not too different from decomps.

I say Pokemon MMOs haven’t been taken down, because, I’m playing PokeMMO in 2025 on my PokeMMO account I created back in 2013. PokeMMO has been around for over a decade, Pokemon World Online has been around since like 2007, Pokemon Revolution Online has also been around for a decade, etc.

Do you have any proof of any Pokemon MMOs that have been taken down by Nintendo? I’m looking for Pokemon MMOs that have been shut down and I’m not finding any, I’m just finding Pokemon MMOs that have been around for years without being shut down.

You could say that about Pokemon MMOs too, and yet I’m playing PokeMMO in 2025 on my PokeMMO account I created back in 2013.

There are some things Nintendo don’t go after, and there are other things that they do go after. Decomps don’t appear to be something they go after, which is good because then we can get cool ports of older games too.

Why expect this to be taken down if other decomps haven’t been taken down already? Why expect other decomps to be taken down?

They wish they could stop me from emulating old games lol

I hope it does worse than the Wii U tbh, Nintendo needs to be knocked down quite a few pegs. I am quite fed up with them.

I’m not so sure.

All of my friends who are less pissed off at Nintendo than I am are not even considering buying a Switch 2 because Nintendo basically priced themselves out of the market. All of my friends who have a Switch 1 will not be buying the Switch 2, that’s pretty significant IMO, but I guess we’ll see.

Agreed completely, I just wish that they would stop remastering Gears 1 only and give 2 and 3 some much deserved love too.

I got laid off 3 months after I launched a modern website to replace my former company’s old platform that none of their other developers wanted to work with.

I did exactly what they told me, something they wanted for years and years, and then I got laid off as a thanks instead of a bonus.

lol

Though I ended up getting a job that pays 30% more so I guess it ended up okay.

There are dozens of us!

Right, because Skate 1 through 3 were always-online? Give me a break.

They took an awesome offline-playable game and ruined it. That’s very shitty of them.

I won’t be installing this garbage.

That much was obvious, it already killed all my hype for it when I found out it would be free-to-play.

No matter how good it is though, because it’s always-online, that means it’s going to go away eventually one day.

I can still play Skate 3 any time I want. If it were always-online, it might be unplayable by now.

Pirating Nintendo games is ethical.

Technically they’re right, which is why pirating Ubisoft games is ethical.

Edit: Pirating Nintendo games is ethical too, of course.

It was a rough estimate, it’s “only” $114 AUD. That’s still insanely expensive.

So it’s $650 CAD $700 AUD for the Switch 2 and it’s $120 CAD $150 AUD for Mario Kart.

LMAO

That’s how I see it too. It’s fun experiencing different things.

Far Cry 1 was amazing, but so were 2 and 3. The first 3 were all something really special. 4 and 5 were cool too, but the first 3 were really unique at the time.

I love the atmosphere of all of them, and 2 felt really revolutionary at the time. I kind of wanna play some Far Cry 2 again some time soon, I’ve been feeling like taking in some of the African atmosphere of it, especially since I’ve got the travel bug recently and I don’t know if I’ll ever visit Africa in real life.

Yep, that’s the thing. Games have to be bigger, better, more fun than ever before, and yet the publishers and management want it to be done quicker and quicker than ever before, so it’s a pretty difficult thing. That, combined with bad working conditions and the public shitting on you because “game devs are shitty/greedy/etc” with developers being used coloquially to absorb all the blame that should be reserved for management, and things are in a pretty tough spot.

Though, at the same time, it’s a better time now than ever before to actually be a gamer, because not only can you play any half-decent new games, but you can also play the entire library of older games, retro games, etc.

I was playing a bunch of Skyrim with mods last year! Awesome game.

All the GTA games (GTA III, GTA VC, GTA SA, GTA LCS, GTA VCS). There are some good Need for Speed games too, and a bunch of great Tony Hawk games. TimeSplitters, SOCOM, and Red Faction are great too.