Level-5 recently published an anti-piracy statement online which asks “our community to refrain from downloading or using pirated copies of our games.” The issue is that loyal gamers outside of Japan have no way of playing some of the older titles such as Yo-kai Watch on Nintendo 3DS (listed on eBay for as high as $1,823) and Yo-kai Watch 3 copies (around $800 to $900) without resorting to piracy. Other Japanese companies such as Capcom and Square Enix always do global releases and attempt to make older games playable on modern formats. Here’s a few responses to the Level-5 post piracy post via Dexerto.
“I don’t know what Level 5 is expecting? They gave up on the international market years ago, put out marginal worldwide releases, and then are surprised people pirate their older games? Lol. Most of the latter Yokai Watch games aren’t even available outside of Japan,” one user wrote.
“I get it as a company, but what are we fans supposed to do when the distribution of Yo-Kai Watch in many places, like the West, have been stopped, and it is physically unrealistic for us to support you as a company because you won’t distribute it to us for our language,” another fan commented.
All these entitled people raging because a company that made the crap you like, the crap they own not you, asks you to not pirate their stuff. So what of you can’t play their games from years ago. Move on . Real gamers don’t pirate only posers looking for internet likes do
If “pirates” downloading those types of games in certain ways no longer being offered for sale or isnt available bother you that bad, then you need to get over that and move on. “Real gamers” dont give a crap about someone copying a harmless piece of information that isnt even being sold or offered by Level 5.
What are you actually on about? These comments are literally from people saying they want to play the games legally. Pirating a game that has zero legal way to play is a victimless crime. But you just wanna role play as a ‘real gamer’. Sort yourself out.
True, “real gamers” kiss companies butts and buy their products without thinking, never complain and become perfect drones. At least pirates make sure old games are awailable unlike companies, who sell you the same game over and over again and, most times, with censorship, modern opinions and politics in it.
But hey, you are just a brainless drone.
It’s a matter of game preservation, dude. Keep the bootlicking to the bedroom, no one wants to see it here.
I’m all for downloading games that aren’t available for purchase anymore, 100%, I advocate for it and I tell friends where they can go to do it. If a game is officially available in any capacity, I steer them that way, like Silent Hill 1 on PS3/Vita or the Resident Evil PS1 trilogy on GOG.
Never pirate if you can legally buy at or below MSRP, but never pay higher than MSRP for a game the publisher isn’t producing anymore.
I pirate anything that doesn’t have a physical copy option.
People like you are why video game preservation is still not taken seriously even after almost half a century of games that will probably never be experienced or earn fans because cucks like you love to tout that no one deserves anything for free even if the company in question will never release the game again even though they have every right to. The boot must really be a delicious 5 course meal if swine lie tou are so easily ready to consume it
making statements like “Real gamers don’t pirate” makes you sound 7 years old.
3/10 bait. The last “real gamers” line deducted many points.
Real Gamers don’t have a permanent corporate boot shoved in their mouth and agree with whatever is said by Companies. Companies should be called out and honestly much more.
I’d buy all of the professor Layton games if they were properly and physically brought to modern hardware, especially the Layton and Ace Attorney entry. I had that one back on the 3DS, never had the other 3DS Ace Attorney games until Switch due to Capcom wanting to no longer release physical copies of Ace Attorney in the west during that time. I’d pay full price for Layton vs. Ace Attorney on Switch. You aren’t affording it on 3DS.
Technically the Layton games are on modern hardware via the mobile ports (which their style of games are actually perfect for).
The prophet remind you that piracy is haram meaning forbidden, prohibited, or sinful under Islamic law (Sharia). It refers to actions, behaviors, or substances strictly prohibited by the Quran or Sunnah, such as alcohol, gambling, or pork. Engaging in haram acts is believed to incur sins, while avoiding them maintains spiritual purity
Religious books are fiction made to control the weak Minded.
you are a fool as are all that do piracy and sin
Well, religion is a good thing. It teaches you how to be a better person and how everyone should be kind to each other and not hate anyone. It’s fine if you don’t believe it, but religious books have great lessons in them. Mario500 often reply’s with good scripture quotes that have helped me be kinder in these comment sections.
“Well, religion is a good thing.”
Ah… the crusaders are asking for the way to “The holy land” and Mohamet wants to know if it is okay to marry his “young wife”.
It’s worth noting the best way to have an understanding of how much a game costs on ebay is to sort by recently sort or check pricecharting. $1,800 for the 1st game is absolutely an overstatement… there’s sealed PAL copies selling for 40 and sealed US copies selling for 50
Older games being high in-demand/having no other means to play + scalpers price gouging all the available stock is one of the worst feelings. Consider importing a copy from another region if you have the means to (DS is region free, but 3DS would need to be modded to get around that)
I agree there should absolutely be a way to play these games on modern platforms. Hopefully they take note on this
Bro, no one on this site preaches Islam.
I call this really lazy on their behalf.
As unfriendly as it may be, the owner of the content has every right to just not allow you to have it. They made the thing, they own the thing, they have a 100% of the agency to tell who gets to use it. Because, again, the thing exists because they invested resources in created. When you own something, you quite rather be the sole authority in terms of who gets to use your property. Restricting that freedom is disincentivizing the production of the content in the first place.
Friendly reminder that Undertale and Deltarune wouldn’t exist if Toby Fox never played Mother 3. He played it in English despite it never being localized officially.
Toby is the goat. I think it’s funny because I think I played mother 3 in one of the most legal ways, I bought a cartridge that had a english translation patch on it.
Same actually. Played it on my GameCube using the GameBoy Advance Player. That was a good era of my life.
That’s an argument AGAINST pirating games IMO. Just think how much better off we’d be without all the annoying Undertale fans lol
Undertale easily has one of the worst fanbases of all time. But the game is easily one of the best games of all time. It’s my favorite game of all time with how heartbreaking the game truly can be in the true pacifist ending.
Excellent strategy from Level 5: Plan release of old games, put out statement denouncing piracy and generate anticipated response “If it was available we’d buy”, thereby committing people to prove their point by buying the old games upon release. Passionate pirates farmed, money in the bank.
Purists may not like it, but piracy guarantees access for millions of people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to access culture and art. Before criticizing those who pirate, criticize the companies that make their products inaccessible and are the true cause of piracy.
And piracy is theft no matter what you say, so according to you, we can steal if we can’t afford to buy things?
Okay, then I’ll send some bums to your house so they can steal your belongings. They’re poorer than you, so you won’t be able to say anything to them!
And how does one buy something that’s no longer sold? For argument’s sake, let’s say for example, I’d like to get a legal copy of Bomberman 64: The Second Attack but that hasn’t been on shelves since 2002 and is locked on the N64 with no ports to modern consoles, and the cheapest I’ve found a secondhand copy online is still ~400 which is out of my price range. Additionally, the developer won’t see a dime of that money if I do decide to go in on it because it’s a secondhand seller, not from a retailer or from the developers/publishers themselves.
I would like to buy a legal copy, but there are no reasonable avenues to do so.
Your case is indeed quite particular, and even though I perfectly understand your arguments and point of view, I do not condone it — it’s still piracy. If I am strongly against it, it’s because I find it completely immoral that people boast about pirating works while there are people behind them who have given their time and money only to see it stolen without any scruple. Every job deserves a wage, that’s all, and if we can’t afford it, we work for it and save up; the argument of ‘it’s too expensive’ is just ridiculous… (I was not targeting you personally, I am also outraged by games or equipment second-hand at exorbitant prices, but it’s the speculation by collectors that’s to blame, not the creator themselves).
As mentioned below, I am in favor of platforms like GOG that dust off old games without DRM — that’s a good idea, and I somewhat regret that not everyone follows this example.
When You take a physical object, you are stealing, when you are pirating, you are making copies. And these companies are more Evil and Corrupt than any any pirate.
They’re scared people are gonna start pirating more because they’re gonna be putting out AI slop lmao. FAFO. I’ve bought every single Layton game but if they can’t be bothered to actually make the next one I won’t be bothered to pay them for it.
This is why physical releases are often not actually particularly useful for long-term accessibility to games. The best is digital release onto seemingly evergreen platforms like Steam (or theoretically, something like GOG even better with no DRM). To be clear, I’m talking strictly of legal methods here.
Why is everyone on here so dumb and argumentative? Like, if you want to pirate something go for it, but we all know it’s wrong to do so. Stop pretending otherwise. Does it really matter? Probably not. But if you’re going to pirate something, at least considering actually buying it later if you enjoyed it (if available for purchase).