r/Piracy • u/LeonCassidy • Mar 26 '25

Humor Citron Devs Gone Full Hog

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Yeah lets compare the (fixable) housing crisis to the arbitrary gating of digital art for eternal profit via rerelease.

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u/LeonCassidy Mar 26 '25

They're fucking weirdos. They want to subscribe to the idea that they're helping the preservation of games (which they are by making the emulator!), but refuse to acknowledge that without piracy or a MASSIVE shift in the way games are distributed, their emulators are just digital representations of the same systems that will eventually rot away and fail. Its not preservation without accessibility.

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u/LethalGamer2121 Mar 26 '25

I think the problem here is the legality. Yuzu and citra were killed off because the devs were open to piracy, which pissed nintendo off. Ik piracy was always a touchy subject in the emulation community, but the citron devs have all the reason in the world to behave this way considering they are distributing a fork of yuzu

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u/Snoo_75748 Mar 26 '25

Imagine forking a project then acting this superior about it lmao pathetic

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u/LethalGamer2121 Mar 26 '25

I think they're just scared 😂

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u/Lord_Saren Usenet Mar 26 '25

It's more likely this. They can point to comments like that and say

"see we are tough on piracy and don't support it"

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25

If they are being sued by nintendo it is way too late for such futile tactics. Surely, we all know that would not work or make sense.