This would never be downvoted on Lemmy, so you’ve asked to be distrusted. And no, piracy is not promotion. No one is going home and buying a switch 2 if they play an emulator of an SNES game at my house.

People play Nintendo games because they are fun. Pretending otherwise is kind of stupid. I’m hard pressed to give them any more money, but some weird campaign to pretend they don’t exist isn’t going to change a damned thing.

Edit: notice how I’m downvoted but the person saying a popular opinion while claiming they’ll be downvoted gets upvoted. Imagine that.

It’s been past 24 hours, and not a single headquarters is in flames.

I consider your “boycott” a tantrum.

Let us know when you actually do something else than keyboard arts.

Is this ragebait written by an eleven year old?

Are you unaware how political action takes place?

So that’s a yes?

You probably got downvoted for saying that something which does happen “never” happens, and for calling people “stupid” if they don’t agree with your opinion, and lastly for calling a boycott “some weird campaign to pretend they don’t exist”.

You gave strangers many reasons to dismiss what you’re saying.

Everything you said is wrong

Let lemmy know what monopoly you have topple down, if you’re being ageist.

It’s copy and pasted from your comment

That doesn’t make logical sense as a reply.

boycotts can totally be effective.

But even if a million of their customers fell off the face of the earth tomorrow, nothing would change. Nintendo is too successful for their own good. I’ll never buy a Nintendo product, but let’s not fool ourselves thinking a small group of people on the internet has anything on the largest video game company in Japan.

It’s been past 24 hours, and not a single headquarters is in flames.

I consider your “boycott” a tantrum.

Let us know when you actually do something else than keyboard arts.

What a sick ass burn.

Eh people selling roms can fuck off anyway.

I guess it must be a hot take, because it gets downvoted a lot every time I say this, but…

I think it’s better to boycott Nintendo outright, rather than pirate their games. Piracy is still promotion, it still benefits them, and anyone going out of their way to facilitate Nintendo piracy is clearly putting themselves at great risk. Even video content creators who are doing nothing illegal are at risk of legal battles they often can’t afford.

Nothing that Nintendo comes out is so uniquely great that it’s worth putting up with their awful business practices, fan abuse, and general enshittification. As far as video game platforms go, Steam provides orders of magnitude more value for the same cost, and they are doing genuinely good work advancing the quality and popularity of Linux.

What planet do you live on? Who do you think burned someone??? Lmao.

You made a whiny edit saying that people would downvote you because your comment “wasn’t popular”. I pointed out, using the exact words that you wrote, which rude and condescending statements that you made would likely cause people to think that your comment is not worth listening to.

You said that I am “wrong” despite having copy and pasted your text.

You feel “burned” when I pointed out that I copy and pasted it???

Nah, I’m pirating their shit if it’s worth playing. Less and less of it qualifies now anyway. Knowing how much they rabidly hate piracy of their stuff makes it all the more satisfying!

In the last 24 hours I’ve had a great time playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on my laptop, feeling pleased about my 800+ games on Steam and the fact that I’m not having my life ruined by Shigeru Miyamoto’s lawyers. This is what people get wrong about boycotts and the defeatist refrain, “no ethical consumption under capitalism.” It ignores that, on the example of Nintendo, I have not purchased any of their systems since the New 2DS XL. No Switch, definitely no Switch 2. And in leveraging that opportunity cost I have instead directed my resources to one of their competitors, which has had immediate benefits for my own personal life.

It’s not about what you want to kill, it’s about what you want to grow. I am helping to support the increased use of Linux by using Linux, paying for products that have Linux, and naturally advertising for Linux as a result of that being a part of my life. I don’t care how successful Nintendo is, because I am already free from their enshittification.

A million customers dropping Nintendo at once would absolutely have a massive impact, are you kidding?