Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’

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• thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is how you challenge actual pirates and grow your real enemy, while you punish innocent civilians. Pirates will pirate, regardless of what Nintendo says, wants or does. The real losers are loyal customers who pay lot of money.

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  • Trihilis@ani.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And the loyal customers don’t care else they would have switched to a deck ages ago (like I did).

    Nintendo doesn’t care and neither do its customers apparently. We can throw a hissy fit here on Lemmy but the cold hard truth is nobody outside Lemmy and reddit cares.

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  • bread@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When I got banned from online play on the Switch for using homebrew I stopped paying them for games on the platform. A lot of people are former pirates, and they’ll only accept so much before they decide the grass was greener.

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• bl4kers@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nintendo sucks

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• fwygon@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The change in EULA was the hint; I have not; and will not be buying any Switch 2 games, consoles or related merchandise. Nor will I be paying any further into my Switch beyond NSO as I have or buying any games for the Switch that are not explicitly on a physical cart.

  I don’t buy games often anyways and would rather support Pocketpair and Palworld and Valve. So that’s where my discretionary spend and gift requests will go henceforth.

  In general Nintendo is having it’s villainous arc; and I don’t believe they will survive it…given that they’ve run out or demoted their creatives and visionaries to workers. Nintendo is dead; what’s left is a greedy and soulless shell that behaves more like a gang or mafia. Given their History; that doesn’t surprise me.

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  • slauraure@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wish people would boycott but most people don’t know or think about right to repair, game preservation etc.

    Nintendo is selling record numbers of Switch2 and they can just keep phoning it in because they have proven that people are willing to pay a subscription to rent emulated copies of their childhood games whilst replacing drifting joy cons every month.

    Doubt this will be the end of Nintendo even though I would be happy to see some consequences for companies that clearly hate their paying customers.

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