All I want to do is play Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. That’s all I want to play right now. But, leave it to Konami to not ever bundle it in any of the Castlevania bundles they’ve released so far. And leave it to Konami to exclusively lock it to a small bundle that is exclusive to a previous gen console such as the PS4 with NO plans of ever reaching PC.
So what are my options now? Emulate of course, so I opted to pirate a copy of Dracula X Chronicles for the PSP after I read that you can play Rondo of Blood. But leave it to Konami to not make it that simple, because you have to complete a certain task in a certain stage at a certain part just to simply UNLOCK the fucking version!
My other option is to emulate the PC-Engine and go through yet another obstacle course just to get one fucking game to run.
This is what brings my blood to a boil, is when there had been perfect opportunities and chances for game devs to do the obvious. If there is a high demand for a game that you know people would want to fucking play, you fucking bundle it and fucking release it.
You do not have a damn argument to stand by against piracy, game devs, when you have to make it such a pain in the ass for people to spend time and effort just to play a game YOU didn’t want to simply release!
How do you fuck up this badly, Konami? Technically speaking, Rondo of Blood is a 16-bit game, so there was no excuses to have not included it in the initial Castlevania Anniversary Collection. But of course, just nostalgia bait everyone with all of the other games they could’ve emulated several times as easier than it is just to get the ONE game you didn’t want to bundle.
So fuck you.
Congrats on being wrong
I don’t think “because I want it” is a justification for having a right to something. I also pirate things sometimes, which is why I’m here, but I don’t believe I have a right to the content.
So why do you pirate then?
The main reasons people pirate are:
Don’t get me wrong, I would have happily bought a copy if it was available. But because of 1, 3, 4 and 5 alone completely justifies pirating.
I pirate if something is otherwise unavailable simply because I want to. But I don’t believe I have a right to whatever I want. It’s pure entitlement. I will almost always go the paid route if I can.
Well, people may feel like they don’t have a right to things. But my problem with that kind of a stance is, why do we allow and enable these kinds of companies who feel it is their right to deny, remove and refuse to distribute legal alternatives? It seems like we feel it is our right to at least enjoy something we’d like to have.
And this moreso applies to people who actually have paid for things. Like for example, online games. One of these days, sometime or another, some big MMORPG is going to be pulled offline for good. And you, a faithful player, has put lots of time, effort and even money into the game for years which would make you a loyalist to it. But the game is pulled offline now and the company will not ever make an offline mode. They just cart out the same old song and dance of “Thank you for your years of support, blah de blah, we’re going to go now and uh, thanks for your money too, goodbye” and that’ll be that.
I mean, wouldn’t that be a little off-setting to you? Sure there’s some gullible people out there who happily piss away a lot of things and in some strange unironic way, accept this kind of practice. But there’s lots of other people who want to keep going on for however long and they too could very well have been paying customers. Shouldn’t it be their right to continue enjoying that game or should they just walk away disgruntled and jaded because they now see their investments as an entire waste?
The whole idea of whoever and whatever has a right to what is entirely case-by-case and subjective. I don’t feel I have a right to everything in a store I work at, I have to pay for something to have it and I’m not going to act like I have a right like I do have them otherwise. What I feel I have a right to, is to go and grab copies of things I know very well that no company is going to lift a finger in ever re-purposing for everyone to enjoy once again because they operate on some stubborn arbitrary system with themselves.
And if people want to take into account about the idea of respecting creators and everything? Dude, a lot of disrespect goes around to creators from these companies that helped create. It’s very well-documented at this point. I now am starting to see pirating as just a way to gain a little sense of redemption for those disrespected creators who have to tolerate their bosses that have absolutely no clue or care in the way in how these things operate.
I really dig your stance, support developers where you can. How do you feel about TV shows though? Does the knowledge that most shows use product placement (baked in ads) alleviate entitlement in this case?
Like I said: congrats on being wrong. All people have the right to the content anyone else makes and releases for sale if it’s portable, period. Capitalism does not override the right to enjoy the creations of other humans, full stop
I disagree. I believe artists and creators should have the right to control the distribution of their work. There’s plenty of room for criticism of the way we have it structured, the role of profit, whether companies should have the same rights, etc. But I don’t think every person has an intrinsic right to anything that anyone else has ever created.
Once you release something into the open world, it’s no longer yours to control, end of story. Don’t want to lose control over something? Keep it for yourself
This is the second time in this thread someone has responded to me with “end of story” or “full stop” as if those statements are some kind of trump card that removes any room for debate or changes the fact that what you said is an opinion.
It’s literally just how that works, man, it’s not an opinion. You might believe people should be able to, but the existence of piracy proves that to be not how it works
If even one other person copies your data it’s not in your control anymore, it’s in theirs