xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@SteveTheDragon @Monadwill @coolboymew Pretty much every retail job is going to have customers and managers treat you like shit.

@coolboymew
>The simps against emulations are really getting on my nerves. If it wasn't for emulation and piracy you couldn't play 99.99% of games made in the past, they simply ain't being rereleased.
Fucking this. People don't realize how much of the gaming community was built at least partially on emulation. Piracy and emulation is probably what got cult classics like Earthbound out from under the radar. Most people I know first played it through emulation. Nintendo probably wouldn't have bothered re-releasing it on the VC otherwise.

And if Nintendo is going to go after those who use emulators, they might as well stop certain developers from putting their games on there systems because it isn't uncommon for developers to have ROMs of old games for research and reference. Not to mention developers like Toby Fox who were previously ROM hackers. Why does Nintendo think they can go after an even because they're using emulators for better picture quality but will allow developers who were previously ROM hackers or use their ROMs for design reference?

@coolboymew @Monadwill Well obviously I wasn't referring to the Incredible Machine in particular, but you said "PC games in stores are somewhat dead" so I thought you meant present tense.

@coolboymew @Monadwill I was talking about back before digital distribution. Physical copies of PC games are dead everywhere outside of collector's editions and usually only indies bother with them.

Back when physical copies were still relevant, the big boxed games were usually sold in either higher-end stores like Target or electronic stores like Best Buy. Stores like Wal-Mart had a bunch of bargain-bin crap. Usually, they were full versions of WildTangent games, but if you were lucky, there will sometimes be a budget, jew-case only re-release of a AA or AAA game much like how Nintendo had their Player's Choice program.

Eventually, publishers decided to forgo big box PC games entirely and resorted to using standard DVD cases (or in EA's case big DVD cases) just like with console games. I guess they did it so stores like Wal-Mart would sell them at a much affordable price.

Looking back on it. This was all because PC gaming was always a niche market up until the release of Steam and it was not guaranteed that the game you purchased would work on your computer and stores would probably be bombarded by tech-illiterate parents demanding refunds. That also probably explains why these budget title games had both Windows and Mac OS binaries on the same disc. Hell, the first time I ever heard about Linux was from one of these games because it also had a Linux binary on the disc.

@coolboymew @Monadwill The one thing that Target had over Wal-Mart was that they had a much better PC game selection. Wal-Mart usually only had the bargain-bin, jewel case only, shovelware crap.

@Arwalk @Moon I had the same hopes with ZeroNet since it was more user-friendly, but when 8chan had their bunker, most of the users weren't using a VPN or Tor and had their IPs exposed by journalists.

@Moon Who even uses shoutboxes?

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@PorkCow Maybe Sakurai should start developing roguelikes.