Interesting. I can think of a few scenarios that might be at play here. I assume that the increase is just a slight statistically relevant bump. It could be that more copies of MP heavy games sell after people pirate and enjoy the SP campaign. I.e. the demo effect. Or it could be a general statistical trend where piracy increases the amount of gaming occurring and that pirates either induce sales in others or eventually cave in and start buying games when they are gainfully employed adults.
Interesting. I can think of a few scenarios that might be at play here. I assume that the increase is just a slight statistically relevant bump. It could be that more copies of MP heavy games sell after people pirate and enjoy the SP campaign. I.e. the demo effect. Or it could be a general statistical trend where piracy increases the amount of gaming occurring and that pirates either induce sales in others or eventually cave in and start buying games when they are gainfully employed adults.
It could simply be that piracy exposes people to games they normally wouldn't look twice at. I wouldn't buy a game without knowing if I like it. Piracy allows that, and if I find the game is worth the price I'd buy it.
I'm not the only person who got burned by taking a gamble on something I thought was good. I'm looking at you, SimCity 2013.
I'm not the only person who got burned by taking a gamble on something I thought was good. I'm looking at you, SimCity 2013.
Some good points here. I downloaded Fallout 4 and played it for a few hours. Waited until the price was under $20 and bought a copy. Of course, I don't even touch it any more. But I'm also glad I didn't buy Sims 4 after trying it out. Nowadays, I don't pirate software anymore (see previous posts about viruses).
They aren't updating it manually. It's just some stupid rumor because each console would be 3.0.2 and not 3.0.1 if they did. They just get newly made once that is all.
The exploit was patched before most people even knew about it, and now consoles are coming with the patched firmware from the factory. Not to mention all the people who updated for online play and eshop, with no possibility of downgrade in the foreseeable future.
^^^ This! If my memory serves me right, people were advised not to update weeks in advance, when the big exploit was found, but several users decided it was not worth it, and decided to update to keep playing online or buy new games from the eShop. Well, actions and consequences.
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I can confirm Game stop is NOT selling the latest firmware, I just purchased my spare Nintendo Switch and it came with version 3.0.0 installed.
I live in Atlanta Georgia if that helps
I live in Atlanta Georgia if that helps
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hooooo nooooo!! I got firmware 2.3.0 from amazon. Now i have a huge dilemma if i should update or not. I was hoping it would be on 3.0.1 firmware as you said.
The problem with social acceptability bias is that it assumes social values are also divergent when primary social control is no longer a factor, which in most cases does not seem to be so easily proved. It is almost impossible to prove a bias towards norms that is false and so social acceptability bias should really be seen as theorising and not factual.
I'm not sure I agree of course and I don't doubt that people will portray an image to conform with social norms however fundamentalists will always see piracy as a positive consumerist tool and not a negative. Marxism ofc would tell us all to wake the fuck up and stop playing video games all together because pirated or not all we're doing is enabling the evils of capitalism but fuck Marx I want my hax lol.
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I just found out that the EU version is better in literally every way, better sound quality, better lighting, and there's even a patch someone made to make the text look nicer
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Do I restart now using what i've learned on the EU version since it's a better overall experience? or do I continue with the US version since that is what ive been using, and if someone decides to play my hack, it would most likely be that version?
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@TwoSpikedHands, I'll preface this with the fact that I know nothing about the game, but, I think it depends on what your goals are. Are you trying to make a definitive version of the game? You may want to refocus your efforts on the EU version then. Or, are you trying to make a better US version? In which case, the only way to make a better US version is to keep on plugging away at that one
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I'm not familiar with the technicalities of the differences between the two versions, but I'm wondering if at least some of those differences are things that you could port over to the US version in your patch without having to include copyrighted assets from the EU version
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TwoSpikedHands:
@Sicklyboy I am wanting to fully change the game and bend it to my will lol. I would like to eventually have the ability to add more characters, enemies, even have a completely different story if i wanted. I already have the ability to change the tilemaps in the US version, so I can basically make my own map and warp to it in game - so I'm pretty far into it!
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I really would like to make a hack that I would enjoy playing, and maybe other people would too. swapping to the EU version would also mean my US friends could not legally play it
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TwoSpikedHands:
I am definitely considering porting over some of the EU features without using the actual ROM itself, tbh that would probably be the best way to go about it... but i'm sad that the voice acting is so.... not good on the US version. May not be a way around that though
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Karma177:
do y'all think having an sd card that has a write speed of 700kb/s is a bad idea?
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@The Real Jdbye it hasn't given me any error trying to write things on it so I don't really think it's faulty (pasted 40/50gb+ folders and no write errors)
