Yeah, if you pirate and whatever… fair enough. Don’t expect Nintendo to want to deal with you. But at least you know that is the risk you’re taking.
The other group of people this will impact are those who dump (legally) their own games so that they don’t have to swap out carts all the time. It’s also going to suck for those who pick up a second hand console to find that their online access is restricted. I don’t see an issue with Nintendo blacklisting a device from their services should it go against their ToS, but this just seems way too easy of a trap to walk into.
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Despite the fearmongering going around about bricks, this is only online bans. Same thing they’ve always done, same thing Sony and Microsoft do too if you get caught there.
Frankly, if you try to go online with pirated games, you’re an idiot.
Also it’s impossible to make legal backups with the Mig flash. Yes backups for personal use are legal, but under the DMCA bypassing the DRM is not legal. And the Mig flash is seen as a DRM circumvention device. And before y’all come at me no i don’t agree with this but Nintendo probably has the law on their side with this. Since players using the Mig are violating the EULA.
People are saying it happened to them with non-pirated games they put on the cartridge for convenience.
If you’re using a flashcart online at all, you’re an idiot.
looks up from steam deck
wait what?
PC gaming just need a solid Mario Kart alternative and every other genre are covered.
Garfield Kart 2 coming soon
Keep an eye on Sonic Racing: Crossworlds.
and the upcoming switch 2 emulator
Exactly why I’m going Steam Deck
This is the way
Going online with flash carts on a new console is certainly a choice. The first Switch already hardware banned for doing that, so this isn’t new.
I know people that got their Nintendo DS banned for using flash carts. This ain’t new.
Fuck Nintendo. No other company has as much active distain for their fans. And the damage they’ve done to game preservation is immeasurable.
Beside perhaps Apple
No other company has as much active distain for their fans
Pretty sure Apple does.
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted here.
Apple is the company that brought us:
- Proprietary charging cables with DRM microchips.
- The first flagship phones with the headphone jack removed.
- The normalization of phones without expandable storage.
- A phone where you buy the charger separately.
- A walled-garden ecosystem without sideloading.
- An OS that removed support for kernel extensions.
- An authorized repair program that replaces instead of repairs.
- A line of ATX-sized desktop PCs with storage modules that are only accepted if they’re the same capacity as the ones you originally bought the PC with.
Their entire software and hardware is an affront to personal ownership, right to repair, and consumer rights.
Thar list is the lite version that doesnt include all the times theyve blocked open standards so their users can’t interact with non apple things.
Honestly at this point I think someone’s got a bot farm rolling against the switch 2, and Nintendo particularly. It’s really not subtle.
Because Nintendo is a piece of shit.
Worse than disdain, it’s hostility. Their family-friendly image is at odds with their actual actions. Going after streamers because they dare play (and publicize) your games…? What the fuck!? Their attitude literally makes me reconsider buying their console and/or games…
As it should.
How so? My kids little son we do Nintendo. Don’t know what’s different from the others.
Did you miss the OP?
They asked what’s different from the others, because Sony and Microsoft will also ban you if you try to go online with pirated games. This news isn’t actually anything new.
Thank you. I didn’t even know about Sony and Microsoft so sounds like Nintendo actually isn’t even worse anyway?
They’re much worse, for a myriad of reasons, but mainly because they are extremely litigous and overprotective of their IP to the extent that they regularly kill open source emulation projects that support games they don’t even sell, and also shut down any kind of fan-made projects or events.
Downvoted for an honest question. This place is feeling less federated daily.
The Nintendo online play is a joke. Not connecting to the web is a boon imo
ah, the old “let’s completely shit on the millions of people who give us money, in order to do nothing to the handful of people who torrent our shit” strategy
The fuck are you talking about? Do you think millions of people are going online with flashcarts that aren’t pirates?
Is that against the terms and conditions?
Just asking!
Yes, they’ve always banned users for going online with pirated games, and the T&C has always warned you that they would. Sony and Microsoft do the same thing too.
