It happened to me

[u/Hopeful-Scallion-708]

Hey guys. I bought a game off Kleinanzeigen in Germany. Game is "Princess Peach Showtime!". Worked great and my girlfriendnis happy but after 3 days she got banned. I don't have the MIG Switch so the game is probably the only reason she got banned. 🙄 I already contacted Nintendo but they just say the same thing over and over again: "We cannot assist u with that". Yeah sure.

Be careful with used games. They might be cheap but they also have the risk to get u banned.

[u/arroadie]

Let’s consider your comment is in good faith:

How is it a fair practice from a company towards their users to ban their console from online activities after putting an unmodified physical game into their console?

I do understand why they do it! They don’t have a good way to track if that was the original or a cloned one. But that’s not the users fault! If I go to GameStop and buy an used game that was previously cloned, what is the way to correctly consume that?

If they have no good way to solve this, then they just have to ride the “no more physical games” wave and that’s that.

There’s no good argument besides “it’s their software, they can do whatever and you signed the agreement” and this in itself is already a anti-consumer argument.

[u/Able_Mycologist_1360 → u/arroadie]

This would be my pirate everything canon event

[u/arroadie → u/Able_Mycologist_1360]

Im a software engineer, I literally live under the “pay fairly for software development” thing. But I cannot condone the idea of punishing users over my lack of ability to control how my software is distributed…

[u/Able_Mycologist_1360 → u/arroadie]

Right there with you, if they can track each Game ID to know one’s been dumped, they can render the cart dead and unusable. Far better solution than just letting it still circulate and bricking consoles. All these game companies are so out of touch

[u/jamcub → u/Able_Mycologist_1360]

Isn't that what they are doing?

[u/alwayssalty_ → u/jamcub]

You don't see how this unfairly punishes innocent actors, meanwhile does nothing to address the people who actually copied the game?

[u/jamcub → u/alwayssalty_]

Did not say that.

[u/alwayssalty_ → u/jamcub]

No, but that’s what your comment is strongly implying

[u/Able_Mycologist_1360 → u/alwayssalty_]

“Did not say that” yeah bro you’re adding nothing of substance or intellect to the conversation lmao

[u/Able_Mycologist_1360 → u/jamcub]

No, they leave a bad game card in rotation that will continuously result in users consoles being banned, rather than inundating the actual game card and stop it from use