slimerancher

slimerancher, 2 days ago

Ooh, nice. The announce trailer looked cool, hope it’s a good one.

slimerancher, 4 days ago

Interesting article. They also talk about indies and different consoles:

Having heard some indies at GDC talking about skipping Xbox and PlayStation because there just isn’t much of an audience for indies on those platforms if you can’t get included in their subscription services, we ask Lowrie about how healthy the console ecosystems are for indies these days.

He echoes the indies we heard from in acknowledging that Switch stands apart from Xbox and PlayStation on this front.

“They’ve created an ecosystem – and therefore a user base – that is really open to interesting concepts and gameplay ideas,” Lowrie says of Nintendo. "The PlayStation and Xbox user, for as long as I’ve been doing this… there’s a lot of people that still like indie games, don’t get me wrong. Cult of the Lamb has done very well on those platforms. But I think the large majority of those people buy those platforms to show off what they can really do. They’re looking at Destiny. They’re looking at Helldivers. They’re looking at Starfield. They definitely push those.

“I think the platforms themselves all are really strong believers in indie games. They really do push them. I think on the other end, the consumers – as big as they might be – there’s still a smaller portion than we would like on Xbox and PlayStation that are open to looking at a pixel art platformer and going, ‘I’ll give this a shot.’”

slimerancher, 4 days ago

Actually, charging people for emulation isn’t illegal. The main problem, that I can figure out, is that they specifically marketed / advertised that upcoming Switch games (TotK) runs better on Yuzu than Switch. Main issue is that they did it before TotK was released.

Disclaimer: Not a legal expert, just what I could figure out from reading different stuff / articles.

slimerancher, 5 days ago

with repeated rumours of Switch pro every 6 months. 😀

slimerancher, 5 days ago

I am more surprised about June Direct, that will focus on games for current Switch.

slimerancher, 5 days ago

Nintendo just released their earning reports, and Switch only sold 1.96Million in last months (Jan - March), so maybe they announced it to let the shareholders know that next one is coming soon.

slimerancher, 5 days ago

It’s possible. Covid changed many company’s plans.

slimerancher, 7 days ago

Congratulations to final beat the game. The trailer made me feel that Sparks of Hope improves upon all aspects of the first game, but it’s interesting to see your take. Would try to get my hands on it soon-ish.

slimerancher, 7 days ago

Serious question, why pirate at all? If you (general you, not you specifically) don’t like Nintendo’s practices don’t buy Nintendo games. Period. Just like if you don’t like what Musk / Tesla is doing, you don’t buy Tesla. (Yes, I went with a car example, and I know it’s a very stupid comparison, but that’s what popped in my head, maybe because of “You won’t download a car” thing).

Nintendo isn’t the only one making kid / family friend games. Indie devs are filled with those (i.e if you don’t like what other big publishers are doing). Leave Nintendo, and buy those game, so that they can keep making more games. Boycott Nintendo / Pokémon. Why keep yourself attached to their IP?

I am not saying this as a mod here. Just curious about it. We all have limited time, so if we don’t like a specific company, why waste time on their product (paid or pirated), when we can spend that on someone else’s game that will benefit with more people playing there games. And indie / small devs are make so much good stuff right now.

P.S: This is specifically about pirating Nintendo games because of not liking their practices, cause people have been pirating all kind of games, even from small indie devs, from pretty much the beginning, so not discussing those right now.

P.P.S: Sorry, on rereading, it kind of feels like a rant, but I have already written it, so just going to post it :-)

slimerancher, 7 days ago

While I understand your point, my general point of view is, if you want something, for whatever reason, you pay for it, and if you don’t want to pay for it, for whatever reason, you just leave it.

Maybe it’s the difference between digital vs physical object. That argument won’t be used for anything physical, as digital-piracy and physically stealing aren’t exactly the same thing. But it feels to me that it’s still about feeling entitled to something (which isn’t basic life necessity) because we think a private company owe us something.

BTW just to clarify, I wasn’t talking about playing indie games as charity, just that that there are some really good ones coming out. For instance, games like Cassette Beasts and Tem Tem, which uses Pokémon formula but do something new with it. So, if someone is craving Pokémon like game, but don’t want to pay Nintendo (or GameFreak) they can try those.

slimerancher, 7 days ago

The original question was specifically about pirating stuff because not liking Nintendo’s practices. Specified that in “P.S” of the my first post. 😊

slimerancher, 7 days ago

Thanks for answering!

I understand your points, I was asking specifically about:

good luck Nintendo, until you end your shit practices pirates will exist.

Cause if anyone is pirating for any of the reason you mentioned, they would still pirate the game if Nintendo doesn’t sue anyone ever again. And allow everyone to make all the fangames / videos the want.

There are dozens of reasons, and saying anyone with a critique of Nintendo should be required to boycott them is extreme

That’s a valid point. But if you don’t buy, then that is pretty much a boycott anyway, and then whether you play or don’t play, doesn’t effect them much, right? Except maybe you spreading more word-of-mouth advertisement of their products, no?

You can be critical of a company and still enjoy their products.

Completely agree. My comment wasn’t meant to imply otherwise. Maybe I didn’t get the wording right, I’ll see if I can edit it to make my intentions clear, without messing it up more. 😀

slimerancher, 6 days ago

Actually, I have seen many, many comments by people after the ‘Yuzu’ incident that because of this action, they will now pirate Nintendo games, instead of paying them. There’s a comment in this thread saying they will not buy Switch 2 but emulate it, just to spite them.

Regularly seeing those comments so many times just made me inquire this. Though, now thinking about it, maybe there isn’t any other answer other than “spite” itself. If not for pirating, then at least for the comments.

As for piracy for other reasons, it’s a different discussion with many nuances, so don’t think this is the right place for it. Also emulation and piracy aren’t the same thing, even though Nintendo won’t like to think so, emulating your legally owned game is completely legal. And I don’t think there has been any judgement against dumping your own keys and using those. But again, different discussion.

slimerancher, 7 days ago

Can’t you make a free PSN account from any country? I know people in countries with no PSN using US PSN account, without any VPN or anything. You just set your country to US, or UK.

slimerancher, 11 days ago

Yeah, and MS bought inXile too, so maybe there could be something here. Though they too have switched to first person view for their next game.

slimerancher, 11 days ago

I am saving this, for next time.

slimerancher, 11 days ago

Yeah, I recall you mentioned that before. Not going to play it right after Blind Forest though. Have a long list of other games to go through first.