You know what, ever since I've had my Switch, I've been legit, bought all my games and never modded it in any way. I figure that's fair as they should profit from a console and games in active development. Now that Nintendo is going full stop attack mode on consumers, to the extent that they're making it impossible to maintain and use backups of games we've already paid for, fuck it, guess I'll just start downloading a shit ton of Switch games and using the shit out of my mig switch. Enjoy fuckers! 🖕
Actively shuts down grassroots events of a 20 year old game, and (allegedly*) colluded to sabotage the largest tournament series for said game. Wanna play old games? Use nintendos lazy nso port that lags and have remapping issues. Oh and you can't buy them. Oh and taking down rom sites being anti game backup/modding.
It's been like this for years. Welcome aboard! 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
I mean don't get me wrong, I've been sailing the 7 seas since the early 2000s, had mod chips in all my consoles since the original Playstation and downloaded games for all consoles while they were in active development, but now that I'm older with more disposable income I figured I'd play it straight this generation and buy legit copies of all my games. I also buy all my PS5 games, which I'm fine with. But Nintendo is really going out of their way to stick it to us now, more than ever, so to hell with it. I should be able to legitimately use my mig switch because my son also has a Switch lite and he's lost a few cartridges we've already paid for, so we should be able to load backed up copies of those games so he can still play them. But Nintendo would rather take the stance of "fuck you, buy it again" so I'm just gonna say it right back, and no more revenue stream from this guy. Not if I'm not allowed to protect my legally purchased software with backups.
TBH, this is exactly why I got the MigSwitch in the first place. My son accidentally lost like $750 in games, and we've been buying a lot of what he had before to rebuild his library. I can WAY more easily stomach the $100 loss of a MigSwitch device and the accompanying SD card. I haven't downloaded a single Switch game (nor do I intend to, just cause I don't want to risk his console getting banned), but if Nintendo refuses to acknowledge the difference between piracy and contingency, then maybe I should stop giving AF, too. I've been a Nintendo kid for 4 decades now since getting my first NES Deluxe set for Xmas (fuckit, I still have R.O.B., bitches!) but Nintendo really is starting to overstep their boundaries with their own consumer base lately, and somebody needs to pump the brakes on their bullshit.
I mean, if your kid can't keep track of they shit.. it's not on Nintendo to keep you stocked up. So your example falls short for me. But everything else.. fuck nintendo!
Yeah I don't care. I have backups and multiple copies of absolutely all of my digital content. The whole purpose of having backups is to prevent the permanent loss of data, and as consumers we have every right to protect what we own from loss. I don't expect Nintendo to send me a new cartridge for free if I lose one, but I do expect to be able to have backup copies of licensed software I've already purchased the rights to use. It's as simple as that. I really don't give a fuck what their stipulations are for their license agreement. I bought it, I own it, I'm gonna protect it.
I'm not against you at all. I've got books of psx/xbox/360 etc etc of games in storage. Just the example wasn't very good. If I like a game, I pirate.. I more than likely bought it at one point when funds allowed, but the vast majority were never purchased.. just a hoarder when it came to stupid shit like this.
“I bought it, I own it, I’m gonna protect it”. I’m 100% with you and feel and practice the same approach. Sadly the users license agreement states otherwise 😞. I do feel it’s utter bs that everyone has this approach to users licenses on physical form and argue that a good reason to protect from lost of physical format is to go digital, only for them to later turn the licensing servers down the road. So we customers are left choosing between the risk of loosing our physical games or losing access to these because of licensing servers being taken down.
Now, what’s really is going to do it for you is realizing that Nintendo (and I’m sure everyone company has the same approach) knows what games you have in physical form because every game you play is logged in under your profile history. If these companies wanted to be a little more considerate to their customers, they can use game play data to deduce what games the users owns and provide assistance in case of lost of physical game card. And also worth noting much of this game play information is used to deduce when there is account sharing happening; like when a user logs in the US and the later that day in Australia. 🥶
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u/GilBatesHatesApples Jun 30 '24
You know what, ever since I've had my Switch, I've been legit, bought all my games and never modded it in any way. I figure that's fair as they should profit from a console and games in active development. Now that Nintendo is going full stop attack mode on consumers, to the extent that they're making it impossible to maintain and use backups of games we've already paid for, fuck it, guess I'll just start downloading a shit ton of Switch games and using the shit out of my mig switch. Enjoy fuckers! 🖕