- Zelda isn’t an RPG
- Rogue is a “classic RPG”.
- Nothing got “mutilated”. This is a new game with borrowed assets and mechanics.
- Just don’t play it then, if you don’t like it.
- Let other people enjoy things that don’t hurt anyone else.
This ain’t a romhack (where no assets by Ninteno are distributed). The dev used Nintendo’s assets in Gamemaker and big N don’t like that.
What’s wrong with you?
Or any other copyright claim… 🙄
I know it’s common, fun and morally correct to dunk on Nintendo, but they need to “defend their IP”, if they don’t want to lose their trademark on it.
What did the dev do to shield the project from a DMCA? Couldn’t find it in the article. If it’s not a romhack, then it would be vulnerable to those.
Neat!
That’s why we need more adoption.
Holy shit! Can that be any more drawn out and boring?
The market of publishing houses is waaaaay too monopolized for that to take an effect. It’s like boycotting Amazon.
Name one instance where that worked when it wasn’t connected to a massive public outcry. Do you remember the Call of Duty “boycott”? Ubisoft is still in business, too.
Also, the majority of book buyers don’t know or care about this verdict.
Also also: The publishers won’t even be able to correlate the “lost” revenue of individual people boycotting with their shitty behavior. It’s not “Oh, we sold 1000 less copies of this book than expected, because we fought the archive.” It’s more: “Our predictions were off by 1000 copies. No idea if that’s because of some tangible factor, or just ‘noise’.”
I really appreciate the sentiment, but sadly: Individual boycots that aren’t attached to a concertated campaign sadly don’t work. Pirate away, but you can be certain that these publishers don’t know that you exist.
I remember liking it 10 years ago. Now, it’s not only way worse: it simply got surpassed by all the markdown note-taking apps (Joplin, Logseq, …) and xournalpp (or even rnote).
Moral of the story: try rnote. It’s good.
Don’t believe that you’re always gonna be protected by some judge somewhere.
Get a proper VPN, dammit!
“Not meeting the requirements for the Family Program”. However, it has been resolved one day later.