Pirates are customers. They buy consoles and I'm 100% sure the success of the Switch is partially due it its easily piratable state, just like the Wii and DS.
Sexual misconduct cases are completely irrelevant to the topic.
Billion dollar company = evil company. It may sound oversimplistic and I don't wanna write an essay about it but that's just the harsh truth, you really are naive or delusional if you think otherwise.
The TotK leak gave massive free publicity to the game. And people probably bought consoles to pirate it.
I will never not support piracy for a company that is so overtly hostile towards its fans.
You should check your definition of customer. A pirate that uses an emulator, download and play games on that emulator is not a customer. That's factually wrong.
Even if you own the console and buy no game, you're not a customer of these games. You didn't pay for it, you don't own it, so you don't get to complain. Buying the console to pirate does not grant you rights to complain about the games or the company policy.
This mentality is absolutely everything wrong with this community. Contribute nothing, pirate everything, and think you've got grounds to make demands on top of it.
'Sexual misconduct cases are completely irrelevant to the topic.'
it was absolutely relevant to the message it answered to. The person was saying it's competing for shittiest company. I was giving them real life examples of what makes a company shitty. A company defending its property is far from that. You really got to burst out of the angry gamer bubble.
'Billion dollar company = evil company' Yes, it is oversimplistic, and in the case of Nintendo, grossly exaggerated. You don't have to make a "billion" to do evil, and not every successful company is automatically illegitimate in its success. That you're not happy that some of their decisions may impact your video games hobby does not make them "evil". That's preposterous.
You don't have to think too hard to find many companies that are much worse in the world and are actively sabotaging our future.
The TotK is undefendable. Again, shows everything wrong with the community. Pirate a game weeks before its release - not doubt possible on the intent here - even go as far as to taunt Nintendo, and STILL finds a way to blame THEM for taking action.
That it supposedly gave them free publicity (it really didn't need it) does not, once again, mean you get to do whatever you want, and it does not make them evil for fighting against it.
You've got the entire world upside down here.
The saddest part is that there are legit reasons to be annoyed at Nintendo. Their way to limit streams, restrict tournaments, their take on emulation, all of that, but no, we have to deal with people who find every possible excuse to justify that they simply want to play games and not pay for it.
I do hope that a ransom /anonymous hacker group would fuck them up in order to teach them a lesson to not go messing around with people's rights.
And the winner of the day... now it's about "people's rights"
The amount of mental gymnastics... I swear 10 years ago pirates would still pirate but didn't try to come up with every excuse under the sun to make it sound like they're the good guys.