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This is why pirating games that aren't available to be bought anymore is never wrong
Yeah, say I want an old need for speed game, either buy a disk for a high price that I can't put in my disk drive-less PC or pirate it...
Hmm I wonder which one I will choose
big imo: pirating AAA games at all is never wrong
Aye!
OPs example also applies to games they never intend to release on PC. It's not like I was going to buy a Switch anyway.
Limited subscriptions can go to hell as well. Sure, I could pay $50/yr for a Switch Online + Expansion Pack (not featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series) so I can temporarily play GBA games and lose access to them forever when the service is eventually discontinued... or I could just emulate them on my smartphone/jailbroken consoles for free.
Agreed. Really though, the ultimate goal should be to enact legal protections for older video games, same as any other historically significant cultural artefacts.
Only reason games don't become public domain is because of IP license. So just in case the rights holder wants to revisit a mothballed IP decades after the last time it was relevant, the entire catalog of that IP is off limits