This issue applies equally to both childish franchises and franchises that end up with a Mature Content sticker before they hit shelves. The issue at hand? We’re going to see if it’s possible to buy games without supporting such atrocities as child labor, virtual slavery, severe workplace hazards, and the poisoning of the environment. Spoiler alert: it's not possible.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
It is hard to be 'clean' about many products purchased by the average consumer in the 'First World' or 'Global North,' and (at a lesser scale only due to less disposable income in general, and fewer powerful corporations and governments) plenty of consumers in the 'Third World' or 'Global South' (especially in China, the fastest growing country now over 50% urbanized and increasingly within reach of a middle class lifestyle; some cities in China increasingly appear as developed as the average Western European city).
We live in a society where a president can stand in front of his fellow citizens and request they spend more as a patriotic duty, and where people think you are a failure despite having millions of consumers if your competitors have millions more.
Of course people are going to cut ethical corners to make a material gain, whether they hide behind a corporate logo, or have a face.
The author is right about there potentially being a moral issue with the way video game systems are manufactured, it may be useful to focus the spotlight on video game manufacturing in particular, and such a focus is clearly relevant to a website like this. At the same time it is important to keep eye on the systemic nature of the issue; it is pervasive, ingrained in us, buried in our bones.
Hey, shut up
One problem is most websites don't care if there is an adult or a child at the computer (some of the adverts I've seen are questionable at best and not suitable for all ages). Asking the user to enter their date of birth is pointless if they can just lie.