[We made an update](https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/stouvu/reaffirming_rnintendos_stance_on_piracy/) about Rule 5 a year ago when it was announced that the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U eShops were shutting down, and we would like to take the time to remind users of our rules once again.
To help users understand the subreddit’s stance on discussion of piracy, we have written a short guide on where we draw the line.
**Okay:**
* Mentioning that piracy exists.
* Mentioning that the only way to play a game that is [abandonware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware) is to pirate it.
* Mentioning that you have pirated games before.
**Not okay:**
* Encouraging someone to pirate a game you can otherwise buy from the Switch eShop.
* Generally advocating for piracy as a form of revenge against something Nintendo does that you don’t like.
* Linking to or mentioning the name of a website or application that hosts pirated content, or encouraging users to search for it by using codewords.
These rules are necessary for us to continue to run this subreddit in compliance with Reddit’s rules.
Failure to conform to these guidelines will result in comment removals or in extreme cases, bans.
We will update these guidelines as need changes and as news is clarified. Please leave your feedback below.
Thank you!
by razorbeamz
8 Comments
Ok.
this rule is easy to skrit around cause all i have to say in a post complaiining about the shut down is “this option exists” and im not *encouraging* so it falls within your rules but there obviously an intention behind it. its going to be pointless anyways when most of time the comments and posts sit there for hours anyways.
Also, it’s silly to claim that piracy is morally correct if the company who owns the game happens to be worth X dollars, where X is a made up number that basically just means ‘when it’s Nintendo and EA’
We already know this subreddit is not good for talking about game preservation anyway.
edit: These rules are good because they try to get out of the way of preservation conversations (but don’t do this entirely), but good game preservation inherently comes with piracy. That’s just how it works, it’s just that people don’t call it that.
Fair. Its silly to pretend piracy doesn’t exist and is the only viable method to obtain many pre Switch games besides paying silly aftermarket prices so I think allowing talk of it while keeping out mentioning specifics is a fair compromise
Linking to piracy not being okay I can understand for obvious reasons, everything else listed is ludicrous thought policing at worst and pointless at best.
People in this sub already have a high tolerance for Nintendo’s unique brand of BS, they like the products and ascribe sentimental value to the company and often bat for them (OP related), they don’t need a rule to insulate them from dissenting opinions.
If people aren’t facilitating piracy they should be allowed to speak their mind.
In practical terms this will change nothing because /r/nintendo is less of a discussion forum and more of a newsletter: no original threads survive in this sub, it exists to pump out Nintendo headlines.
It’s not actual piracy unless you also do it while on a boat, otherwise it’s just sparkling illegal fun
It’s funny that this reminder alone seems to have given some pirates an existential crisis