• Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    Right?

    If they hate emulators so much, why aren’t they selling native x86 versions?

    • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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      5 hours ago

      "Hey we released this new game buuuuut you’re going to need to purchase an entire separate computer system we call a ‘console’ because we refuse to compile the game binary for PC OSes, nor provide the source for you to do so yourself”

      I interpret distributors and publishers treating me as a second (or third) class citizen as carte blanche to acquire your content and make the necessary changes to make it work on my environment of choice.

    • Owljfien@lemm.ee
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      11 hours ago

      they could even sell a VM image as they’ve proven it still runs better virtualised on other machines than it does native on theirs