/ga/ - Games

anyone hear that Starfield got leaked? are you looking forward to it?

A video game that nintendo had a legal distribution monopoly on was leaked ahead of the official release. They got really mad about that and they are trying to take it out on the video-game emulation communities, by attacking emulation related software projects on github.

So the lesson here is if you give companies like that money they are going to use it to attack your hobbies. I think this legitimizes "pirating" games because you have no legal option to buy these games without also supporting nintendo's legalistic mafia-terror.

If copy"right" wasn't set up like a monopoly, and you could buy these specific games from any distributor not just nintendo, so that you could choose to buy from non-mafia sellers, it would at least be logically possible to make a case against "piracy". But as long as that's not possible "piracy" is basically just self defense. Keep in mind that nintendo doesn't make games, it's just a legal entity, and not the same as the people that make the games like for example programmers and artists.

Obviously there also is the hole deal with DRM which is total hypocrisy, it basically attacks the concept of personal ownership of your possessions. It's property-rights for me but not for thee.

If they were to reform copy"right" and remove the distribution monopoly aspect, so that everybody with the means to distribute copies was free to do so as long as they gave royalties (as a form of revenue sharing) to the people who actually created the stuff that is being copied. Maybe that would work.

But as long as they keep the monopoly part "piracy" is basically just competing distributors that were arbitrarily banned from participating in the market. Some times people make the strange argument that pirates gain from the work of others but that's also true for the capitalists that own nintendo, by that logic all of nintendo's profits are pirated.

I sometimes feel like the copy-monopolists take the most extreme ideological positions, while we don't and that's why this hole shit drifts ever more towards reactionary insanity where Nintendo gets to rape random software devs on github as some kind of bully-frustration release mechanism and it's a crime if you play with toys "the wrong way". Maybe we should redefine piracy as everything that keeps works-of-art outside the creative-commons/public-domain and drm as a product defect. Maybe that will create a counter-weight.

Whats games are the /leftypol/ people currently in the middle of playing?

You asked for it, you get it

Anyone else here play Gikopoi?

It's like a mix of 2ch and habbo hotel.
No accounts, no registration, no money, no accounts. Just hang out and chat! Been going strong since 2003.
A number of people from leftypol Matrix play but no clue how many board users know about this. It's been a meme on 4chan since 2004, but it's a bit esoteric.

https://gikopoi.com

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/03/microsoft-recognizes-its-first-union-as-zenimax-qa-testers-organize.html

At long last, has the fire been lit?

Let's discuss Fortnite/post memes!

Is Prolekult right: are lootboxes responsible for the decline of singleplayer games? Seems like a bit of confusing causation here.

TF2 is quite honestly the only game I've ever played that has lootbox shit, and I stopped playing it before they added it to it. I simply don't waste my time or money on the sort of crap shallow enough to attempt lootboxes in the first place.

https://kotaku.com/gary-bowser-pleads-guilty-to-piracy-charges-after-ninte-1847978204

Sorry, I don't quite understand why you would be sent to prison for an IP violation. Seems like the sort of thing that would be a fine. Unless I don't get it?