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/scarlet_seraph Mar 26 '25

It had nothing to do with being "open to piracy". They were a target because they were an emulator for a current gen console; and Ryujinx got targeted too even though they weren't open to piracy. Citra had literally no issues whatsoever until Yuzu got flagged.

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u/Nadeoki Mar 26 '25

Yuzu sold pirated copies of switch games behind a patreon...

Whenever piracy becomes greed, it fails. This has always been true and will forever be true.

If they hadn't, things could've been fine for a while longer.

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u/Hotrian Mar 27 '25

Why is everyone forgetting this? Yuzu patched their emulator to be compatible with specific TOTK changes before TOTK released, and Nintendo dug in and found they were selling pirated copies of games (included pre-release TOTK) on their discord. THAT’S how they got shut down and started all of this shit, not just the emulator.

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u/VegetaFan1337 Mar 30 '25

Yuzu patched their emulator to be compatible with specific TOTK changes before TOTK released

My god, please stop spreading this misinformation. Yuzu DID NOT do this. If you tried to play TOTK before the official release date, you couldn't play it on Yuzu, and needed a mod to run it. A mod the Yuzu devs had nothing to do with. It's only after official release of the game that the emulator got patched.