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GameStop Boss Says Disc Drives Should Be Required On Game Consoles (www.gamespot.com)
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"It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing," says guy who makes money selling the thing.

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[–] [S] 8 points 3 years ago (4 children)

You all hate discs until you have a library that you can rent games for free close to you.

It’s actually illegal where I live to rent out games. Thanks, Nintendo! (/^^)/⌒●~*

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    This is funny because the games we rented were all from Switch, lol. Where you are from? I'm currently in Canada.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Japan. Nintendo got it passed into law years ago that game’s can’t be rented, because of supposed piracy concerns. But you can go to any video rental place and borrow all the music CDs you could want, because we all know how much more difficult it is to make mp3s from a CD than copy a game.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I heard that many things in Japan are extremely protective for companies. Apparently modding is also illegal, right? I was talking with my spouse about console modding and we discovered that

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yes, modding games is illegal there. But it has something to do with the way their copyright works afaik. If a company lets you modify their IP, they effectively give up their ownership rights from what I understood.

    I play FFXIV and there it is against TOS too (of course it being a MMO modding can have another context), but for quite a few QoL improvements that came out with more recent patches you can clearly see the inspiration.

    It would be interesting to know if modding a game like Skyrim there would be forbidden too.

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