If they don't make it easily accessible, you are within your rights to pirate. Fuck them.
Piracy is a service issue.
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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Edit: replied to wrong comment
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Piracy is a solution, not a problem.
The problem is the disparity in wealth and the sea of useful idiots who think copyright and patent laws benefit us.
I agree with your second statement, but not your first
Which is completely fair honestly. I don't expect everyone to feel the same or look at the issue the same way, even in the piracy community.
I still feel that if there is no easy way to play it legally, Konami or whichever company is relevant can go fuck themselves and I'll pirate the game instead.
Imagine somebody dangling a cookie in front of your face, but refuses to give it to you unless you complete a set of certain unrelated and difficult tasks, despite you offering to just pay to take the cookie. Yet the cookie is still being dangled in your face.
This is that problem.
So I put on a mask to hide my identity and take the cookie if I want it, but without believing that I am entitled to it.
Bingo. But imagine they keep dangling that cookie in front of your face, taunting and teasing you even in the privacy of your own home, but will not let you purchase it on its own. In fact, in order to obtain said cookie, you must complete a bunch of unrelated tasks/purchase a bundle/subscription along with it. And then you only get the one cookie. This is how the video media world works.
The music industry figured it out already by letting you take as many cookies as you want, of all kinds, without limitations, for a flat monthly fee.
In fairness, that comes with just not paying artists any money.
That... is a very fair point.
However, that could be resolved entirely by cutting out C-suite/shareholder profits and redirecting that money to the artists. But we all know that's never going to happen.
I'd love it if we had a music co-op sort of situation. But as you say, that doesn't make someone somewhere filthy rich.
Konami is no longer a video games company any more. They lost that title when they kicked Kojima out and decided to fully embrace pachinko games.
Go to any casino and you'll see loads of Konami logos. Hell, fly to Vegas and you'll see a Konami logo on a hanger from the runway.
They're a gambling company who dabble in video games
As a gamedev I feel strongly about financially supporting the games and creators I like so I try to always pay for the game if the price is fair. But Konami can fuck right off, they basically hold SotN and all the best Igavanias hostages behind their shitty bundles that are too expensive and sometimes exclusive to some platforms. Some of them were still Nintendo DS exclusive for ages until they got released in a bundle recently. I'll consider giving them money again when they start actually making games again.
Same treatment applies to retro Nintendo games. You're telling me I bought basically all your consoles since the GameCube at release day and you're still gonna fuck me over and make me pay your stupid online subscription so I can play Super Metroid on the switch (even though I still own a working SNES and the game's cartridge) ? Honestly that was the last straw that made me preorder the steam deck when I heard how easy it was to emulate on it
Konami has been like that for more than a decade. Being a castlevania fan is pain
Yes, it should have been in the collection instead of the snes remake.
It’s too late for you… But anyone else wanting to play it, just start with the pc engine version. It’s easy to find a CHD with the translation patch already applied. PC Engine will easily emulate on any device.
They threw Dracula X into the collection with the GBA games. That made no sense, lol.