• heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t know why Nintendo feel the need to get so overly protective over displays of their games (streaming, competitions, so on). There’s been so many games I have bought because I saw someone play it on a stream or something and thought it was neat. What are they even losing out on? They are just shooting themselves in the foot here.

      • onslaught545@lemmy.zip
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        18 hours ago

        Because the vast majority of people don’t have any idea about Nintendo’s litigious nature.

        It’s easy to assume that the general population has the same knowledge you do, but just by being on Lemmy you’re likely way more informed than 99% of people.

        I see this mindset in the IT world all the time.

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        22 hours ago

        unsurprisingly you mean. gamers are the least principled, and an even less disciplined customer base, barely ahead of hard drug addicts.

        edit: the downvotes made me realize i was wrong. i take it back.

        wait lol no i don’t

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    2 days ago

    The more I hear about nintendo fighting their fans the more this feels like an abusive relationship and I am only with nintendo for the drugs.

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      2 days ago

      During a good sale Steam can sell you so much more games drugs. $80 a game hit are you kidding me? I have a Steam library full of hundreds of games drugs I’ve scored for pennies.

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        2 days ago

        Many switch games get deep discounts too, and you can get free 1st party titles if you borrow a physical copy. That’s a pretty weak argument.

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          1 day ago

          I’ve never seen the Zelda from 2017 go lower than 50€, USED. Great deep discount for an 8 years old game!

        • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          many games on the switch get big discounts, absolutely

          games published by nintendo? not so much

          and by the thing you mean about getting free games with borrowing a physical copy. im assuming you’re talking about the gold points, which have been removed some time ago now