NeoTheranthrope
Basara's Blade Keeper
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Give me a moment while my mind is being blown here...
As a serious anti-MAME, anti-ROM, and anti-emulation (antiemulationist?), as well as a pro-"play it on the goddamm original hardware, asshole!" nerd, this whole fucking thread makes goddamm my head hurt.
*sigh*
This is where the hobby fucking ends for me:
With all the new shit coming out natively on the PC, as opposed a dedicated board or other custom hardware (and "No" the stripped-down Dell Experions running Windows XP with arcade-to-USB, which Capcom uses to run StreetFighterVI.exe do not count), I can't fucking "collect" anything here.
With stuff on the Xbox/Xbox360 I could understand, even if the platform itself is half-a-step away from being a PC. I can still buy a physical disc to put on the shelf (and this way, the game's core gameplay will still work after some suit decides that the cost/benefit ration is too high to keep that particular game's online content-server operational), but it's not even that anymore.
The new gear is just a stripped-down commidity PC, security lockout dongle, an industrial flatscreen monitor, coinbox hardware, and an "arcade-style" enclosure with USB controls (I can't, in good conscience, call it a cabinet anymore. The "cabinet" is the PC's case.).
Correct me if I'm wrong; but I can't just buy the arcade machine software game (not the home PC version) by itself, like a regular software license? I have to buy the whole rig, shit PC, security dongle, and all, for $3000 take-it-or-leave-it? Right?!
So, if I want the "pure" arcade version (which is, ironicly, inferior to the "home" version), the choice is: either pay $3000 for the full setup, or download the unauthorized cracked version for free, with absolutely no fucking middle ground or grey area.
That's a "non-choice" for most of you, but not for me. The industry has basically made it illegal (or just prohibitively expensive) for me to be able to do this any more. Good job, guys! You could've made some money off of me, but you will make NONE now.
Fuck man, I should'a picked an easier hobby like stamp collecting or scale modeling or drug dealing or international terrorism...
FUCKING ROM WHORES!!!!
As a serious anti-MAME, anti-ROM, and anti-emulation (antiemulationist?), as well as a pro-"play it on the goddamm original hardware, asshole!" nerd, this whole fucking thread makes goddamm my head hurt.
*sigh*
This is where the hobby fucking ends for me:
With all the new shit coming out natively on the PC, as opposed a dedicated board or other custom hardware (and "No" the stripped-down Dell Experions running Windows XP with arcade-to-USB, which Capcom uses to run StreetFighterVI.exe do not count), I can't fucking "collect" anything here.
With stuff on the Xbox/Xbox360 I could understand, even if the platform itself is half-a-step away from being a PC. I can still buy a physical disc to put on the shelf (and this way, the game's core gameplay will still work after some suit decides that the cost/benefit ration is too high to keep that particular game's online content-server operational), but it's not even that anymore.
The new gear is just a stripped-down commidity PC, security lockout dongle, an industrial flatscreen monitor, coinbox hardware, and an "arcade-style" enclosure with USB controls (I can't, in good conscience, call it a cabinet anymore. The "cabinet" is the PC's case.).
Correct me if I'm wrong; but I can't just buy the arcade machine software game (not the home PC version) by itself, like a regular software license? I have to buy the whole rig, shit PC, security dongle, and all, for $3000 take-it-or-leave-it? Right?!
So, if I want the "pure" arcade version (which is, ironicly, inferior to the "home" version), the choice is: either pay $3000 for the full setup, or download the unauthorized cracked version for free, with absolutely no fucking middle ground or grey area.
That's a "non-choice" for most of you, but not for me. The industry has basically made it illegal (or just prohibitively expensive) for me to be able to do this any more. Good job, guys! You could've made some money off of me, but you will make NONE now.
Fuck man, I should'a picked an easier hobby like stamp collecting or scale modeling or drug dealing or international terrorism...
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