You're supposed to pay 500ish dollars for this game and as time goes on, it will escalate to 1000s. And yet you can just trivialize that by emulation. How is that not a grand crime considering its cost?
Is emulation evil?
You're supposed to pay 500ish dollars for this game and as time goes on, it will escalate to 1000s. And yet you can just trivialize that by emulation. How is that not a grand crime considering its cost?
Nah, download away bro.
is this game that good
Playing it right now for the first time. It's very good so far. The castle is all interconnected and the transition from one room to the next is very seamless. You have the option to open a door and then close it as well if you wanna escape from certain enemies.
The only caveat I've exerperienced so far is the medallion machine. It's very difficult to get the timing for getting items Fiona needs. Thankfully with PS2 emulator, you can slow the speed down to just get what you want.
If the game can be bought legally you should get it that way.
If it's only available secondhand then it's time to sail the seven seas.
I'm pretty sure the law says buy new if you can (physical copies or digital off of official stores) but if your only options are second hand or the game is abandonware, then pirate away. Some games are flat out impossible to acquire legally anymore so yarr harr.
The law doesn't really say anything on the matter.
There isn't really a legal precedent for or against since the only company that does anything about emulation is Nintendo and they constantly re-release their games (There's a legal precedent that you have to actively use and enforce your copyright).
It's a gray area but generally if something ends up as abandonware nobody is going to bother.
Corporations see secondhand sales and piracy identically
why don't they find the people then and make an example of them like they do in Iran
If devs don't get the money from the game anymore then frick it do what you want
frick scalpers and double frick publishers
>Japanese chef spends centuries of his life making the perfect noodle recipe
>one day decides he doesn't want to make noodles ever again
>(You) decide to break into his home and take a photo of his perfect noodle recipe and post it online
>"actually I'm the good guy here now everyone can make their own perfect noodles. He wasn't going to sell it anymore anyway"
This is why the West is collapsing. No respect for tradition, it's all about mememememe.
>break into his home
that's some peak psychopath shit
It's more like
>Japanese chef releases noodle recipe cookbook
>book is on sale for a few years
>one day decides he isn't going to produce new copies of the book anymore, refuses to make a digital e-book version
>people start selling said cookbook for $500 in the aftermarket
>chef gets pissy when people find his noodle recipe online for free even though they're no longer reasonably available
>plays through opl on a real ps2
nothing personal emulation gays
you said it yourself. it's trivial to emulate. you don't need to own a real copy to experience the game in its entirety, and likely with better performance and load times than the original disc. you're not mad because you don't have access to this title, you're mad because you can't afford to waste as much money as other consumers. you are the problem as much as they are.
Piracy is morally okay if you can't pay the original developers for a copy of the product.
Buying used media is literally the most moronic thing you can do.
You're reducing the value of the initial purchase when you make it so the buyer can't resell it on, which ultimately is stealing from the original producer. Because that guy might not have paid $70 on launch if he didn't have the expectation he could resell it for $40 in a few months when he was completely done with it.
*obviously I'm just being a devil's advocate, if you can't afford it then steal whatever you like.
If the guy was that concerned with the resale value he wouldn't have paid $70 on launch
Emulation and piracy are always morally correct. Jesus himself hit the ol' copy paste to share with everyone so you should too.
Because the price is arbitrary. Get it appraised and you might have a point but I doubt an appraiser worth anything will put much value on a plastic DVD.
There's also the fact that the seller didn't lose anything. You can say piracy devalues their copy but they aren't legally entitled to profit from their copy
No, and it's a moral obligation to yourself and the original developers. Parasitic middlemen scalpers deserve nothing
I do miss the manuals physical releases came with as a pirategay, but by the PS2 gen, they were already on the way out and not as good as the mini-textbooks some old PC games would provide
https://db.hfsplay.fr/files/2019/12/02/Haunting_Ground_USA_lZBHKYa.pdf
I would not mind if you gays weren't emulating and pirating Switch games day one.
More like on day -12, which is the reason we're gonna have Denuvo on Switch now.
Why?
If you're anti emulation or piracy you are literally a small brain moronic gay, most likely born after 2001, which make you a defacto spastic
The only people that pay this are 'speedrunners' because it's an excuse to have a game with less competition.
>Is emulation evil?
No. Next question.
Because people, even publishers, don't actually care. They only care the first few weeks. There's a reason you never hear about dudes being arrested for downloading old games, only new shit. And even then it's usually a token 1 or 2 people the charges are dropped against on condition of public apology.
It just doesn't matter, they don't care about emulation when the system isn't on shelves anymore, which is just proof they don't give a flying frick.