Yeah, literally nobody in my circle of gamer friends and acquaintances has any interest whatsoever in buying the new Switch. Not a single one. Not even the ones that were previously diehard Nintendo and Zelda fans.
Zero.
Crap like this is really underscoring why. Nintendo has ramped up their already user-hostile behavior far beyond the point of absurdity.
The happy-fluffy-starry-eyed wording in this article taking great pains to point out how “easy” it was for this person to have their fraudulent ban reversed are doing way too much heavy lifting. It never should have happened in the first place, and there shouldn’t even be any mechanism that makes it a remote possibility.
And then there’s this:
Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether they can still play with the used game cartridges they purchased, or if these are considered pirated copies that could result in another console ban if used.
Uh-huh. Miss me with every single molecule of that shit.
Holy crap that was a fast reply lol. The part where they were like “at least it’s not as bad as m$ and Sony” like bruh THEY SHOULDNT BE DOING THIS AT ALL
This is significantly worse than anything I’ve experienced from Microsoft. I’ve never heard stories of consoles just getting bricked. I’m sure they exist, but it didn’t make the news from frequency. Consoles shouldn’t be bricked.
Just to clarify, the console wasn’t bricked, only banned from online use. Which also means banned from accessing eshop or downloading any updates. But physical games that doesn’t require online would work fine.
Not that this is fine, shouldn’t be banned for this either, but just clarifying the bricking part.
But physical games that doesn’t require online would work fine.
Do we know this for sure? On the original Switch, when new games came out, they often would refuse to play until you updated the firmware on the console. So depending on whether they allow banned consoles to update their firmware, offline games might not work either.
I wonder if a banned console could download a game from a game key card, because if it can’t, then there’s not much of a difference between a ban and a brick.
Ah, I see. I’ve been hearing stories of them getting bricked as well. Unrelated, but controller drift problems were reported on day 2. I would like to recommend abstaining from the purchase of any Nintendo products for the forseeable future. Seems like they hate their customers and aren’t really willing to change, no matter what. Zelda and Mario are pretty cool, but I think that at this point, Nintendo is just running on nostalgia and brand recognition.
Do you have any sources for those bricked consoles you’ve heard of?
I’ve heard of a recent update to their ToS, where people have mentioned the possibility of Nintendo bricking consoles, but haven’t actually seen any examples.
Excellent question. Apparently, after having looked into everything, they haven’t been bricking, just banning. As someone else said, it basically does the same thing for most people, as you can’t get updates or access the store. Another person said that the keycards don’t work either. Honestly, I don’t really care if half of the unproven stuff is untrue. The $80 games were the first thing to piss me off.
I was going to post this in the root of the comments but then I saw yours, so I copy-pasted it and attached it in the hopes that we can get a Fuck Nintendo train going.
There is no issue with selling them. The issue is with cloning the games, selling them, and then keep playing them, which is basically pirating the content.
Nintendo still shouldn’t ban the buyers, but this isn’t about not allowing resale after you have played or gotten bored of the game.
Fuck Nintendo
Yeah, literally nobody in my circle of gamer friends and acquaintances has any interest whatsoever in buying the new Switch. Not a single one. Not even the ones that were previously diehard Nintendo and Zelda fans.
Zero.
Crap like this is really underscoring why. Nintendo has ramped up their already user-hostile behavior far beyond the point of absurdity.
The happy-fluffy-starry-eyed wording in this article taking great pains to point out how “easy” it was for this person to have their fraudulent ban reversed are doing way too much heavy lifting. It never should have happened in the first place, and there shouldn’t even be any mechanism that makes it a remote possibility.
And then there’s this:
Uh-huh. Miss me with every single molecule of that shit.
Holy crap that was a fast reply lol. The part where they were like “at least it’s not as bad as m$ and Sony” like bruh THEY SHOULDNT BE DOING THIS AT ALL
This is significantly worse than anything I’ve experienced from Microsoft. I’ve never heard stories of consoles just getting bricked. I’m sure they exist, but it didn’t make the news from frequency. Consoles shouldn’t be bricked.
Just to clarify, the console wasn’t bricked, only banned from online use. Which also means banned from accessing eshop or downloading any updates. But physical games that doesn’t require online would work fine.
Not that this is fine, shouldn’t be banned for this either, but just clarifying the bricking part.
Do we know this for sure? On the original Switch, when new games came out, they often would refuse to play until you updated the firmware on the console. So depending on whether they allow banned consoles to update their firmware, offline games might not work either.
I wonder if a banned console could download a game from a game key card, because if it can’t, then there’s not much of a difference between a ban and a brick.
For future games yeah, but there’s a huge Switch 1 library that a banned system can play but bricked system can’t.
Also funnily enough, I believe they can safely play the “backed-up” games offline, that originally got the Switch banned. 😀
It can’t download a game from game key card.
Ah, I see. I’ve been hearing stories of them getting bricked as well. Unrelated, but controller drift problems were reported on day 2. I would like to recommend abstaining from the purchase of any Nintendo products for the forseeable future. Seems like they hate their customers and aren’t really willing to change, no matter what. Zelda and Mario are pretty cool, but I think that at this point, Nintendo is just running on nostalgia and brand recognition.
Do you have any sources for those bricked consoles you’ve heard of?
I’ve heard of a recent update to their ToS, where people have mentioned the possibility of Nintendo bricking consoles, but haven’t actually seen any examples.
Excellent question. Apparently, after having looked into everything, they haven’t been bricking, just banning. As someone else said, it basically does the same thing for most people, as you can’t get updates or access the store. Another person said that the keycards don’t work either. Honestly, I don’t really care if half of the unproven stuff is untrue. The $80 games were the first thing to piss me off.
I was going to post this in the root of the comments but then I saw yours, so I copy-pasted it and attached it in the hopes that we can get a Fuck Nintendo train going.
Heaven forfend we want the little pieces of plastic and silicon to have a life after we get bored of them.
There is no issue with selling them. The issue is with cloning the games, selling them, and then keep playing them, which is basically pirating the content.
Nintendo still shouldn’t ban the buyers, but this isn’t about not allowing resale after you have played or gotten bored of the game.