The toy company calls the whole situation with Call of Duty’s publisher and Transformers 'frustrating'

“Sadly, apparently Activision’s not sure what hard drives they’re on in their building,” Hasbro told TFW2005. “When a company eats a company that eats a company things get lost, and that’s very frustrating.”

Big corporation: Whoops, we lost this game so we can’t re-release it. Sorry. Even if we found it, it’s not worth our time/money porting it.

Meanwhile, random person on the internet: I’ve updated this emulator so you can play old games at 4k 60fps for free. The weird bug that was never fixed at launch is now gone too.

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Companies do things for money, people do things they’re passionate about

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Cease and desist or we’ll sue you for 100x the money you and your whole family would have made in your lifetimes.

“We have too because it’s just SO expensive to make video games and we’re just struggling companies.” Nintendo said while lighting a cigar with another $100 bill.

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