Help me understand the mindset of the sort of person who pays for emulation.

Help me understand the mindset of the sort of person who pays for emulation.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >mind
    there's your problem

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because piracy is illegal and you shouldn't do it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Corporate greed is worse. Pirating 20 year old games isn't hurting anyone. It's bad for consumers to emulate, but Nintendo does it and makes consumers pay $50 for it. And it's rental. How's that fair? Because it's "legal" ?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >It's bad for consumers to emulate

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's not when Nintendo loves practicing shitty business practices. Man thinks pirating is bad when Nintendo charges for $50 rental rims, and the roms are better on illegal emulators.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >you're just renting it!
            For a fricking year, don't forget that part.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              OR i could just download it and keep it forever.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                That isn't a business practice, that's you pirating it. They're not going to tell you to pirate, that's fricking stupid.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Ofc not. People pirate, because Nintendo can't get their shit together in the first place.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                No anon, people pirate because they poor as frick or just want it for free despite having the money.

                Don't act like people do it out of some moral principle.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Not them, but I absolutely do not doubt some people do it out of moral principle, they are just the vast minority, probably.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              And yet owning a physical copy of OoT's remake is cheaper than renting the original for a whole year.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Good thing you're renting more than just Ocarina of Time.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Communist

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Implying stealing from a billion dollar company is bad if they only care about emptying our wallets.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Sounds downright kosher

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Its official. Speedrunners follow this in their own rules that are as arbiturary as anything, so autism too, I guess.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Everything depends on service. If someone feels like it's more convenient to pay, they will. I'm not moronic and I can just fire up m64p to play N64 games so Nintendo's service gives me no advantage whatsoever, but morons who can't use emulators will pay for ease of use, even if Nintendo's offer is actually more limiting in the end.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it's legal

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    mario if he real

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >playing retro games on flat screen
    oh no no no

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >hey it's me, mario

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I am not paying twice for games I bought brand new 15 years ago

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because they realize that people working in their freetime to preserve old games deserve it more than money grabbing publishers?

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'll never understand why obese people have this stand, like, stand up correctly you fricker you'll look taller and healthier.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's not unique to fat people

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      crouching and sitting often

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I want to play a game starring this dude, he's pure soul

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Bro that's Mario

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The guy from the Super Show?

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    OP, you ever heard of emulation fatgue? It's a real think. You have access to all this free shit, but you get burnout and never play any of them.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nah, my problem is that a select few games are sapping up all my time. FTL and Creeper World and TF2 won't let me play anything else.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    JUST MUST CONSOOOOOM

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is there a pirate edit for this already?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        good luck pirating food

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Did Hulu increase prices? I hardly ever use it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Thread got pruned by the jannies so he has to do shit like this
      Are shitposters mentally ill?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You can't afford all that? Do you not have a job?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >not being one of the many consumerist cattle means you're poor

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Do you spend money on streaming services that there's not enough hours in the day to watch?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't understand the person on the right, I don't value anything that is digital only, like ever. Its not real. At least the person on the left is only involved with one worthless rental service.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the kick in the nuts is nintendo online is fricking atrocious and previously console-to-console in some games aka no servers even being fricking used.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    A better question is understanding the mindset of somebody that feigns ignorance as to why anybody would pay to have old games on their Switch. Nobody was shouting "just emulate it!" for the Wii Virtual Console like they are now with the Switch.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      A lot more third worlders on Ganker compared to the Wii era. Most of the current console war shitposters come from South America.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Because virtual console is a one-and-done purchase, you keep the games forever

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nintendo ambassadors yes that is a real thing

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing to understand really. They are exactly the uninformed, inexperienced consumers they appear to be. Capitalism would not work if your common citizen were not braindead with their money.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Does launchbox count as paying for emulation? I haven't, but the longer I go with an outdated pirated version the closer I get.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the new mario movie is looking good

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm an idiot and setting up emulators to run properly without crashing or glitches and setting up the controls and dealing with plugins frustrates me. I'd rather just pay the money and play a nearly perfect emulation from bed on my Switch. Yes I know I'm moronic but there we are.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You see the
    >Zoomers don't understand file systems
    Article that was going around? Do you think these people can load a ROM into an emulator?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Zoomers don't understand filesystems because they don't actually have any incentive to, they don't *have* to. It's on the same level as that webm of a young child trying to use a device with buttons as a touch-device and being confused, it's a software generational gap and they're on a completely different wavelength with completely different requirements. If they had a reason to learn and use filesystems they'd be able to with no problem.

      You, however, are straight delusional if you think a drag-and-drop menu is outside the scope of a slack-jawed moron, let alone a zoomer.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Licking Nintendo's boots is easier for them.

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Snoys poorgay seethes about it
    >I pay it to spite them
    Whatcha going to do it about snoyBlack? Get mad about it?

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    im not poor

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      why pay money when you could pay zero money?
      especially when zero money gets you a higher quality experience than if you had payed money.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This guy is either a megachad or a serial killer

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Piracy is a service problem. People that aren't poorgays or 3rd worlders are more than willing to pay for ports and emulation on modern consoles provided the service (games) are fair and equitable. For example, plenty of people bought the 4 Konami compilations because they're all priced fairly, or were handled by a competent developer (M2). People bought the Mega Man Legacy Collection for the same reasons. People begrudgingly bought SM3DAS because of FOMO. People typically pirate Nintendo's shit because Nintendo has ass history of NOT porting their most sought after games on modern platforms, charging an unreasonable amount for them, or outright refusing to localize them in the case of MOTHER 3 to the point where it's become a meme acknowledged by Reggie himself.

    tl;dr: People pay for emulation when it's convenient, and pirate when left with no choice.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They have a job, disposable income and no time to hunt for ROMs or set up emulators in their PCs. They just want to turn on their console and play.

    Help me understand the mindset of the sort of person who uses emulation. Are they NEETs that stay in front of their PCs all day?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know having a job meant you don't have 10 seconds to spare googling "______ rom"

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