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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.
lol first response is a personal insult because someone takes it personally when someone else speaks truth that is disagreement with how they want things to be.
It's like this:
You: "Apples are better for you than oranges"
An orange lover: "How dare you insult me"
Good little bootlicker
Only online ban? Nowadays most physical games are glorified DRM dongles that require a full download from online servers.
Banned from online means when you buy the $80 games all they can do is showing a cute icon on the launcher
And even if the full game is present on the cart, only a handful is ready at launch and not just a buggy alpha without the day one update
If you're already doing piracy with a flashcart, do you even care about that? You'll get your games elsewhere.
The problem is that updates are not automatically inserted in the flashcart. All the flashcart does is clone the original one as it was put on sale. Updates are always downloaded by the console and are not stored on the cart.
Let's make a real world example: you go in a store and buy the cart for "disney dreamlight valley" for $40. You actually don't know, but inside the cart there's only a 34,6 MB file that only contains a splashscreen and a popup that says "connect to internet to download the update". It then connects to Nintendo servers to download the 4.61 GB "update" that is the actual game. If you are blocked from Nintendo servers how can you get the update? Your console itself isn't hacked, so you can't just download it from random online sources with a different signature. You can dismiss the popup but then you can only admire your new $40 wallpaper.
This is the "gameplay" of said $40 game if you don't have the possibility of installing updates:
Well then I guess you probably shouldn't use the flashcart.
yes exactly, fuck those users who paid $450 for a console and $80 for games, they can learn their lesson and buy a new $450 console
Are you buying your games or are you using the flashcart? Which is it?
it can be both. My hardware, my games and once i pay i should be able to do whatever the fuck i want with them
You can do what you want offline. But as I said above, if you take it online, you're an idiot.
When the machine it's designed to work exclusively online, tell me how to keep it offline. To enjoy the nice premium wallpapers?
It's not like the x360 era where online access was completely optional
If you want to do things that require online access, don't use the flashcart.
i think you are trolling or you have some issue that limits your comprehension. I'm sorry if it's the second.
I could say the same to you.
The point I'm making is this: if you wanna pirate, you're on your own. If you can't get it working, tough shit. You played stupid games and you won stupid prizes.
The problem is that the people that got banned did not pirate the shit and paid with real money the games.
If the hardware is mine and i paid a valid license for the game, i am then entitled to play that game whatever i would like to play it. I can't get a $450 paperweight if one day they decided that those 8-in-1 multiplexers for the dock aren't supported. Or if one day a production lot of cartridges is glitched and they blacklist people at random
If they blacklisted the console, then it's ok to block online gaming (and I would 100% agree with that), but playing offline games should still be allowed.
I vote with my wallet and i don't support this shit
If you wanna take the attitude that you can do whatever you want with it including piracy, fine but you're on your own. If you can't get your flashcart working offline, tough shit. Too bad, so sad. It's your fault for using the flashcart.
No, it's way worse than merely an account ban.
It's not even an account ban, it's just the console. And that is what Sony and Microsoft do too.
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.