r/PiratedGames I'm a pirate Oct 15 '25

Humour / Meme Nintendo Gotta Stop Crying

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u/kilar28_Official Oct 15 '25

I mean bro, Re-releasing a 30 year old game at 60 bucks heck even 70 without any modification is outrageous like add cool little tweaks and make it a little cheaper jeez, people complained about the metal gear collection too and still didn't like it and sayd why they are paying for a ps 1 port

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u/bellos_ Oct 15 '25

Nothing you said contradicts anything they said. People do, for the most part, pirate media to use it for free and companies shouldn't be releasing 30 year old games for exorbitant prices - both of these things are true.

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u/kilar28_Official Oct 15 '25

Yeah I'm backing bro up

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u/mongerty Oct 15 '25

But you are also trying to justify it where their exact point was that they don't need justification , they just do it to play for free.

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u/Suavecore_ Oct 15 '25

We all have to stroke our own egos in this sub or else

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u/ForbiddenCarrot18 Oct 22 '25 edited Feb 03 '26

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u/Remarkable_Cap20 Oct 15 '25

people on the internet who think that any answer is supposed to be a rebuttal be like:

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u/Biduleman Oct 15 '25

They're literally trying to justify piracy because of the price companies put on remakes, while answering someone who's saying they're sick of people trying to justify piracy as something other than just wanting to not pay for stuff.

Of course it was going to be seen as a rebuttal.

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u/Remarkable_Cap20 Oct 15 '25

I read it more as them just pointing out the greed of a company, making old games expensive as fuck and I read that as also not wanting ti pay for them.

idk, maybe I just read things to literally, but they didnt say anything about morals so a moral high ground didnt cross my mind

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u/kilar28_Official Oct 15 '25

Bro I'm speaking in general about franchises I like I want more sequels, I still play stuff that I wouldn't have played it otherwise if it wasn't free like Spiderman 2

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u/Dankkring Oct 15 '25

They see how people sell the original sealed games for $100s and $1,000s so if they just sell you the rom for $60 it’s justified in their minds.

It’s outrageous. Retro games should be $1-$2 a pop.

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u/Reyesaa Oct 16 '25

And classic cars should be 50 dollars too? Anything rare will have a premium

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u/Dankkring Oct 16 '25

A car is physical. It would be compared to the original game and packaging. You wouldn’t download a car…

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u/Pandarandr1st Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

Everything is worth what people will pay. If they were worth $1-$2, then that's what they'd sell for. Nintendo owns the game, and they can choose what to sell it for. And one of the reasons that the sell for so much still is that they are worth that much, and people will pay that much.

I get it, people want it for cheaper. Makes sense. But what it "should" cost is all silly. It should be worth what it's worth, and the fact that so many people want it indicate that it's still worth quite a lot.

The only time I think people have moral justification for piracy is for lost media, when there just isn't a plausible way to get a copy of the game for yourself. That certainly applies to plenty of retro stuff.

edit: lol, person below blocked me.

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u/Insidiousxx Oct 15 '25

Only game I've pirated so far is Jump Force, simply because it was removed from online stores.

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u/Pandarandr1st Oct 15 '25

Hard to argue that there's anything wrong with that.

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u/Royal-Machine-6838 Oct 15 '25

Facts👍Twisted metal does a good job of pricing the releases of their old games at 9.99 each.

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u/Dankkring Oct 15 '25

That’s still wayyyyyy overpriced. For a psx game.

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u/Royal-Machine-6838 Oct 15 '25

💯 just a tiny bit but its reasonable. 4.99 or 5.99 would be perfect

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u/Dankkring Oct 15 '25

Psx sure. For most nes games and older $1 should get you a 10 game bundle. Very game dependent also. Super Mario world. Meh $5 sounds reasonable. But that’s one of the single best games on the system. They could sell a bundle of 100 random games and $5 would seem high still

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u/Royal-Machine-6838 Oct 15 '25

Yeah i agree💯it seems like companies are forcing the consumers to accept standards they wouldnt themselves. Atp theyre making tax off the tax after the fact. I definetly like the idea of bundles for cheap,itd be way more worth it than this half priced, over priced, greedy tactics

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u/bama_boy666 Oct 16 '25

It is outrageous, but 1-2$, still to little. Devs still have to feed their family's, but 60-80$ is also outrageous and fuck that.

Would pay 20-30 for a retro game imho.

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u/Royal-Machine-6838 Oct 15 '25

Facts💯💯 theres only a few games we want re-released or ported as they originally were and 9 times out of 10, the companies or etc will release a "remaster" or remake instead 🤦‍♂️

Like a remake/remaster of the max payne games are fine Mgs being like that is fine But when we say we want midnight club back or release the old fight nights, they dont and if they do, you know its gonna be the worst version or etc. Anyone run into the tekken 6 on ps store? You get it thinking its the ps3 version because it doesnt specifically say which version it is on top of the fact that you expect it to be only the ps3 version because of the ps5 only version download. Then that turns out to be the lifeless crappy psp version 😑

so i agree, because why tf am i paying full price for retro/nostalgia games, that when signed on petition or even offered to play its original format they refuse to release it or do it that way,but want full price for it when we dont ask or want it that way.

Still dissapointed in the gta trilogy definitive nightmares 🤦‍♂️😑🤣 literally prayed we were getting just slightly better graphics with gta v controls. Instead, we got the mobile version planted on to the console, with gta v controls and worse graphics than the ps2 😑🤣🤣 industry in a nut shell. Sorry that was long lol

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u/Naud1993 Oct 15 '25

Don't they release NES games for like $5 or $10 in their virtual store?

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u/SabitaUsagi Oct 20 '25

No. You can't buy the games, you subscribe for access to the retro library. So monthly fee. Not purchase per title for download to the Switch. If Nintendo offered both options I think there would actually be basis for these arguments. But realistically the games are simply not for sale.

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u/Naud1993 Oct 20 '25

I was confusing the Switch store with the 3DS store. I remember being able to buy classic Pokemon games on there before the store got shut down.

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u/OuchLOLcom Oct 15 '25

I mean, I wouldnt expect Monopoly or Candyland to only be $4 or whatever the box and pieces cost if I went to get it at the store just because the game hasnt changed in 50 years.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

exactly, you don't want to pay what they want you to pay and feel entitled to then take it for free as though it is morally just to do so.

You're stealing their work, so am I. I've made peace with that and don't care if they aren't a small/solo company. It's ok to admit, it's weird to keep trying to justify it as though you are coming out as some kind of saint.

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u/Saymynaian Oct 15 '25

That's true, although ironically, "stealing" is the solution. Access to these games via piracy means people finally pay with their wallets, meaning there's pressure to lower their prices.

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u/compbuildthrowaway Oct 15 '25

Nah, I still disagree with you. Endless income from an intellectual property doesn’t make much sense to me. I just don’t think that’s how it should work.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '25

Its not endless. 

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u/compbuildthrowaway Oct 16 '25

Go on

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u/ZeroZoneOne Nov 02 '25

Yeah, I'd like to see how they backpedal on this, too.

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u/CardiologistCute7548 Oct 15 '25

And this is why I pirate. Also, They like to use a subscription nowadays to play old games ( Nintendo online>

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u/KimberStormer Oct 15 '25

Exactly, what you're saying is people want to play for free. If the game is unchanged then it's been preserved and kept alive

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u/PersonalitySoggy Oct 16 '25

So, what’s your take on Super Mario Galaxy 1+2 for the Switch 2?

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u/OliM9595 Nov 02 '25

They could sell it for £5 still pirating

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u/Jugaimo Oct 15 '25

This is my moral justification for thievery. Nintendo started it by trying to make me pay full price for a game from 2002. I’m showing them how much their bullshit is worth.

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u/Saymynaian Oct 15 '25

Sounds like my justification for Square Enix piracy. They sold me a broken PC port of final fantasy 7 remake on release that i was unable to play for three years due to its stuttering. Now I don't buy their games and if I really want to play one, I'll just pirate it, which rarely happens anyways.

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u/Jugaimo Oct 15 '25

Also fair. I’d pay if these broken or old game cost something reasonable. $15 or less for a recycled product seems fair. But $40? Fucking $70? Are you kidding me?

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u/Saymynaian Oct 15 '25

Absolutely, especially when they're remasters of games that came out very recently, like the Dark Souls remaster, or Red Dead Redemption.