User Info: ShanidSan ShanidSan 4 years ago #1 Hello everyone. As you may or may not know, pirating games on the 3DS as gotten easier and easier and homebrew and hax have evolved on this little beloved console. First we had flashcarts, being able to play .3ds and .3dz (.3ds are offline and .3dz are online roms). The next big thing that came around were .cia files, which, when paired with an installer, could add the game straight to your home menu. Then tickets came around allowing us to install the games straight from the eshop, making it think we already bought the game. Now there is installing via qr code (using the previously mentioned two files) and an application to download games straight from the eshop without needing individual files for each game.



This piracy problem for Nintendo as gotten to the point where not even they can fix it, getting to the point where it is worse then the Sega Dreamcast and the Nintendo Wii. This being said, I was wondering what everyone's thought on this is. Personally, though I have used these things before, I do wish that they are fixed sometime down the line, as deserves to be given the money for these extremely fun games that they have worked on. I don't know if you guys agree with me, but that is just my opinion. Let me know what yours are below.



Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/3dshacks/comments/4mib81/3ds_piracy_discussion_no_links/ You have been found wanting.

User Info: Ninkobra Ninkobra 4 years ago #2 The voice of reason, and the analyst of things no one even thinks about. I find it funny that, upon perusing the subreddit, there's actually a poll asking if piracy is ethical or not. And funnier still are people justifying themselves, saying stuff like "piracy =/= stealing". If you wanna say that to yourself so you can sleep better at night, go ahead, but you can't change the truth. What do pirates, old and modern, do? Steal goods for their own benefit. That the goods are digital doesn't change the fact that getting them without going through the proper channels is stealing, and it's completely unethical.

User Info: Black_Assassin Black_Assassin 4 years ago #3 Ninkobra posted...

What do pirates, old and modern, do?

Plunder ships at sea.



Ninkobra posted...

And funnier still are people justifying themselves, saying stuff like "piracy =/= stealing". If you wanna say that to yourself so you can sleep better at night, go ahead, but you can't change the truth.

I like to call it Jaywalking myself.

Except on Sundays, when I call it Genocide. Want to cure diseases with your spare computing power?

http://folding.stanford.edu/ Plunder ships at sea.I like to call it Jaywalking myself.Except on Sundays, when I call it Genocide.

User Info: 21_21 21_21 4 years ago #4 Black_Assassin posted...

Ninkobra posted...

What do pirates, old and modern, do?

Plunder ships at sea.



Wait, but Luffy and his gang don't plunder ships. They go to various places! Are you saying they're not real pirates!? Playing: FE Fates Revelation, Uncharted 4, Dark Souls

Guys! Get Legend of Heroes Trails in the Skies FC and SC and support XSEED for their hard earned efforts! Wait, but Luffy and his gang don't plunder ships. They go to various places! Are you saying they're not real pirates!?

User Info: 21_21 21_21 4 years ago #6 Doomkilla posted...

Ninkobra posted...

I find it funny that, upon perusing the subreddit, there's actually a poll asking if piracy is ethical or not. And funnier still are people justifying themselves, saying stuff like "piracy =/= stealing". If you wanna say that to yourself so you can sleep better at night, go ahead, but you can't change the truth. What do pirates, old and modern, do? Steal goods for their own benefit. That the goods are digital doesn't change the fact that getting them without going through the proper channels is stealing, and it's completely unethical.



Piracy isn't unethical. All you're doing is getting something for free. If anything, I'd say it's the smart thing to do. Saves you money and who the hell knows what kind of money situation said pirate is in. So don't automatically assume that all pirates are like the ones who used to raid ships. There's plenty of reasons to not purchase games, the price and lack of effort/quality being some of those reasons. Nobody is harmed in the process, except the people who still believe a monetary system is a good idea.



... Playing: FE Fates Revelation, Uncharted 4, Dark Souls

Guys! Get Legend of Heroes Trails in the Skies FC and SC and support XSEED for their hard earned efforts! ...

User Info: Black_Assassin Black_Assassin 4 years ago #7 21_21 posted...

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!!! Want to cure diseases with your spare computing power?

http://folding.stanford.edu/ !!!

User Info: 21_21 21_21 4 years ago #8 Black_Assassin posted...

21_21 posted...

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??? Playing: FE Fates Revelation, Uncharted 4, Dark Souls

Guys! Get Legend of Heroes Trails in the Skies FC and SC and support XSEED for their hard earned efforts! ???

User Info: TendaShy TendaShy 4 years ago #9



Now what will happen? 1) Better, stronger DRM, 2) new hardware for people to buy and adopt instead of giving Nintendo a reason to start believing again in the price reduction model to reinforce software sales (that's a dead philosophy in the gaming business pretty much), and 3) very little reason for backwards compatibility to be looked at when it's apparently becoming trendy to rip those old games off instead of paying for them. NNID: TendaShy

https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/profile/TendaShy Nintendo knows all of this and is going to basically move on. Thankfully, the pirates didn't really disrupt 3DS a lot until near its normal end of life anyway. That said, great job, pirates, you killed a great gaming platform that was seeing some great games put out there and could have pushed past the average lifespan for such a product.Now what will happen? 1) Better, stronger DRM, 2) new hardware for people to buy and adopt instead of giving Nintendo a reason to start believing again in the price reduction model to reinforce software sales (that's a dead philosophy in the gaming business pretty much), and 3) very little reason for backwards compatibility to be looked at when it's apparently becoming trendy to rip those old games off instead of paying for them.