Wrath of Nintendo
So, some folks have been arrested.
Going after pirates and counterfeiters, while a huge waste of energy, is something I can understand, but going after mod chip people? Why do console people think that we’re renting this stuff from them? There’s a few reasons to mod a console-
- Play burned games. This is not to even say pirated games, but rather any game burned to a disc, such as a pirated image or backup.
- Make the device more useful, such as with a music player, movie player, and/or networking capabilities.
- Because someone likes to play import titles, and you’ve imposed an unreasonable and arbitrary restriction on that.
Seriously though, if you buy something, you can modify it. Sure, sometimes you have to be mindful of state or federal regulations, such as tuning a car or mucking with radio gear, but Dodge wouldn’t bother harassing people for adding a high flow filter, or cold air intake.
Then we get to something that always bothers me about these piracy issues. The “sales lost” numbers. Lost? You think they were all going to be sales homie? I’ve downloaded a lot of stuff for the PC over the years, and let me tell you, of the hundreds of games I’ve tried that way, only like 3 have ever been anything good. Know what I did then? Bought them, because it’s nice to support people that make something good. That and a lot easier to get updates, play online, or get support. Demos don’t cut it, usually, and ads are virtually worthless, for anything let alone something as “feel” driven as a game. It’d be like finding a warehouse of Crash Bandicoot bootlegs, sure you can talk about how “this would have been a trillion dollars in sales!!”, but in reality only like 4 copies of the game sold. Ever. Not because of piracy, but because it was bad. This isn’t like drugs or counterfeit money, where you have a guaranteed market.