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There's nothing wrong with a team of people getting that much money to code an emulator.



>they took money to help people pirate a brand new game

That was the wrong part


Yeah, but that's not the comment I was responding to.

I understand the issue of making money drawing attention to the piracy they (supposedly?) participated in. But there is nothing wrong with the money they got for their development efforts. That money is not a counterpoint to them being victims, regardless of whether they actually are victims or not.

I doubt any meaningful amount of it went to piracy, if any. If that's wrong, then okay I'll change my mind.

And big citation needed that they had a money collection specifically for some instance of piracy.


But the comments you were replying too agreed with the point I quoted.

There is most likely a correlation between their Patreon donations and their helpfulness regarding games


> But the comments you were replying too agreed with the point I quoted.

Yes, I dispute the connection they were drawing.

> There is most likely a correlation between their Patreon donations and their helpfulness regarding games

Helpfulness implying some kind of piracy? Maybe but I will doubt it without seeing evidence.




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