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The land of freedom allows big companies to do whatever they want.
Freedom to limit you
Freedom to get fucked over by billion dollar corporate behemoths
There's a reason why the world biggest tech companies (Intel, AMD, Apple, Microsoft, HP, Dell, Nvidia, Amazon) are headquartered in the US.
(Lack of regulations)
and where the billionaires congregate, and alot of right wingers come to the us to grift.
Just don't buy one. Problem solved. If you get yours bricked it's your fault for being a sucker and letting companies run all over you. You can survive without having a Switch 2.
Wrong, advocate for pro-consumer laws. Today it's a switch, tomorrow its a thing you use. And on that post there will be another snide comment on how idiot customers didn't read the 50 page EULA.
Why not doing both? Supporting more independent platforms and advocating for pro-consumer laws
Defiance of unjust laws is the strongest activism, unless you're dealing with a compassionate person who never would have done this in the first place, and excluding nailing your congressghoul to its chair and (thing that sounds really hard to do at scale and like it would violate fire code or something unless the legislative is doing wfh.)
Doing crimes is showing not that they shouldn't work in theory, but that they do not work in practice, and people don't want them to, and every secobd you continue to try degrades your power.
So be a good citizen; lie cheat steal kill win.
So what you're telling us is we can survive without paying $600 to mega evolve our pokemon like we could 10 years ago?
I agree that maybe ppl shouldnt have bought it but as the other reply Said finding fault should still mostly be done at the company
And Nintendo JP says that “Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 cannot be remotely located, their users remotely identified nor disabled over the Internet” (tweet in Japanese warning people against accidentally losing or getting their consoles stolen over summer vacation)
But I bet it is more like “Nintendo won’t disable them remotely even if people report ones stolen to them with serial numbers and police reports”, but they’ll happily do so if they caught you using the console in an unapproved manner in their eyes.
Please replace the Twitter link with an archive link or screenshot. We don't allow direct Twitter links on our instance. Thanks.
Sorry, done.
Solution: add a pirated gamecard that only activates when it receives a custom signal. If your switch get stolen, just send the signal for the card to activate, which then would cause nintendo to brick it.
This is by definition "we are just assholes"
Someone play for 5 minutes with a mig switch a legit dump of their own, legally purchased game, just for convenience, to have multiple games on the same cart? The console is now almost useless. You can't play any digital games that you purchased with real money, and physical games can't get any update. Game requires a 20gb day one patch to be playable? Though luck buddy, go to buy a new console!
They stole your console? Oh no! Yes, we absolutely could do the same, as it's bound to your Nintendo account and we could add a button "report as stolen and ban it from internet" in your profile. But we won't, go to buy a new console!
Nintendo apologists are already denying the undeniable
"It's not bricked, because you can still turn it on and browse the settings app, see the available WiFi networks in your area and other fun options like that. You just can't play game key cards or all the games that require a day one patch, but except that, it's definitely not bricked"
This whole practice, among other things, is so shitty that I decided to not get a Switch 2, having had every Nintendo console since the NES.
But it's important to make the distinction between disabling and bricking. It may seem like a technicality, but that's the kind of thing that'll get a lawsuit dismissed. Not that I have any faith in that process anyway.
having had every Nintendo console since the NES.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_video_game_consoles
- NES
- SNES
- Game Boy
- Virtual Boy
- N64
- Game Boy Color
- Game Cube
- Game Boy Advance
- Pokemon Mini
- DS
- Wii
- 3DS
- Wii U
- Switch
Almost every console by nintendo. Game & Watch and Color TV-Game only consolebefore NES.
Guess I lied. I didn't have the Virtual Boy. But does the Pokemon Mini really count as a console?
Been seeing some of that as well, so I looked it up myself. The actual text of the EULA states:
"You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with the foregoing restrictions Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.”
That's a brick. They haven't actually done it to anyone yet, but they've reserved their rights.
Yeah "bricked" means it's as useful as a brick. If this is accurate, you can still use all the offline features, which is less bad than it's previously been described.
"But can a brick be used as a shitty book light?"
They are denying you access to the service rather than your hardware. I prefer how Nintendo goes about it (locking hacked device) compared to Valve or Sony where your entire game library gets locked. As someone with a banned Switch I think that’s fair, I can pirate things on it anyway. Nobody said piracy has to be easy and I enjoy a bit of cat and mouse.
Valve locks game libraries?
Say you get VAC banned, your entire library can’t play VAC multiplayer games. If you hacked in Splatoon you buy a new Switch but your library is retained.
There's nuance that you're not including. VAC and game bans are dependent on a per game basis, and don't apply to ALL multi-player servers, just "VAC secured servers" (which makes sense if you got banned by Valve Anti-Cheat), with the sole exception being Valve games that utilize the same underlying engine for their multi-player (CS:Source and TF2, GoldSrc games, so on...) with the same restrictions.
You can still play VAC and other anti-cheat supported multi-player with games not related to your ban, but you will still have VAC bans on record on your profile, which people may cite to kick you.
All of this (apart from the social stigma) is plainly documented on Steam Support:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/571A-97DA-70E9-FF74
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/647C-5CC1-7EA9-3C29
Can't disable mine because I'm not going to buy one. Gotcha Nintendo!
Freedom of enterprise is a scam and always has been.
For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press.
Lenin was already saying this in the context of the press in 1917 https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/nov/04.htm
I wish his solution worked.
What do you mean? From my point of view it did work.
What if an EU citizen brings a EU-bought Switch 2 to States? This is such a mess and anti-consumer move.
US (lack of) law applies
No. That EU-citizen is fully protected by EU consumer laws. Has nothing to do with where that citizen make use of their product.
Not true. For example, an EU resident (citizen is the wrong group) purchasing in the US is not covered by EU law.
I don't know any of the law for sure, but isn't that a different argument entirely?
In one case, an EU resident buys a product in the EU, decides to use it while in the US for a week/month whatever. The argument is that he's protected.
You're saying that's not true, because if he buys it in the USA, then he's not protected.
But, that wasn't the argument, was it? It's different?
The person is protected, not the device. While the device is outside of the EU they can brick it. At least that’s how Apple does it
Apple would lose such a case in an instant. EU consumer protections applies to the consumer for products bought from a seller within the EU. The laws do not care the slightest whether you're using your devices on vacation or not.
Yes, they could brick it. But then you can open a warranty case when you are back in the EU.
Residency and place of purchase is what matters, citizenship has nothing to do with it.
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Incomming the "oh the nobodies are talking" and "sorry can't hear you over the moon landing"
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