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Except in this case there exist(ed) far less keys than demand, with the original company (Nintendo) selling them for a flat price regardless of supply vs demand, i.e. if Nintendo sells 1000 Amiibos at $25 each, they'll have $25000, even if those same Amiibos end up being worth $5000 each on the secondary market.

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So what? That's not a rebuttal the parent comment. In fact, this argument seems strikingly similar to the normal piracy defense of the content being too expensive to purchase.

But it's not too expensive to buy from the original creator - I think this is the point the parent made.

I'm not sure the majority of people would pay Nintendo 50 bucks for this certain Amiibo, but I'd bet it would be quite a few more than those who will pay a reseller.

It looks like pythonaut_16 has edited their comment to say something completely different than what it did when I posted my reply. It used to be excusing NFC hacking on the grounds of Amiibo being limited, and therefore not everybody who wants one can necessarily get one.

I have not edited the comment, maybe you confused mine with someone else's or misread it?

Anyway my point wasn't to support or deny Amiibo hacking, just to highlight the contrast between basic/pro software versioning and Amiibos.

Ok now I'm confused. I know I was trying to reply to a comment that was basically saying that it's ok to do NFC hacking because of the limited availability of Amiibo, but I don't see any comment like that anymore.

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