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LEAVE THE BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ALONE (thelemmy.club)
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Nintendofans defending the honor of their billion dollar company from the evils of Internet piracy
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[–] 16 points 6 months ago (6 children)

$20 for FRLG when you can literally downloads thousands of much better romhacks based on FRLG ALONE for free. And that's before mentioning all the Emerald romhacks, or even the rare Ruby/Sapphire ones.

Nintendo could literally release this for free on the NSO service, but because doing it this way gets them more money, this is what they decide on. It's not even like they released a FRLG remake with completely new features to justify the price lmao

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm actually surprised Nintendo dropped the price at all. I went into an EB Games (Australian GameStop) in 2019 and found a brand new copy of Pokemon Black 2 for $59.95 in their singular Nintendo DS shelf (idk why they dedicated shelf space to it in 2019, but alas).

    $59.95 is the exact same price as when it dropped in 2011.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Pokemon modders are incredibly hardworking and have so much love for the franchise. Nintendo are so unfathomably stupid and greedy for shutting them down as much as they can instead of working with them. Look at Pokemon Infinite Fusions, which has thousands upon thousands of unique sprites, or challenge ROM hacks like Run and Bun or Renegade Platinum. If Nintendo released the ds and earlier games for free and actively worked with modders, 100% they would make more money and bring more people to the franchise than their hostility to creators achieves.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I don't think it's very stupid, it has led to a solid core of a fandom that is literally immune to every criticism of the company and ultimately people do still buy up this slop and even more since Rom Hacks despite being very accessible is very risky to develop

    People who run Rom Hacks are likely split between pirates and fervent fans, opening the gap would only encourage more people to join in the fun for free, i have known people buy a switch just for emulation because they can't bother on PC, or more often, because they're scared of viruses and have money to burn

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago*

    I would also argue that making the older games easily accessible doesn't even get in the way of making money. Give away FRLG just like they do in the sites. Fuck, it. If you're brave, put the ROM on your website. Like if I'm a little kid who likes to play in the dort and I get my grubby little hands on a solid, simple entry in the pokemon series, then suddenly AI slop and mobile games feels hollow in comparison. I want to get into the paid versions. Once I have disposable income do you think I want Minecraft toys?! No! I want a Pikachu plushie. I want to fly to watch VGC and I use the hotel you partnered with and you got some revenue by attracting a larger crowd filled with people who preferred Pokemon compared to F2P mobile shit.

    Being a cool company with a good product feels like it would be a competitive advantage. Especially if everyone else is a shitty fucking vampire 24/7

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