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Nintendo (don't) change NNID policy (?)
- Thread starter gngf123
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Nintendo you were the chosen one!
OminoMichelin
Member
It's like they made an account system but only because others made it. Istead of being a convenience for the customers its becoming more and more an hindrance.
SenatorBot
Member
Does this mean all the games I bought for my 3DS will be rendered unplayable once I move countries in a year or so.
What? Seriously?
What? Seriously?
The end goal is region locking? Okay!
Oh it is, it's the very reason I only buy Wii U retail games on disc; if I'm over there or if I can find a cheap easy import.
But what about my virtual console games (amassed when I lived in the US) and NES Remix 1+2, Nano Assault Neo and others? Are they seriously going to take this shit away from me because I MOVED COUNTRY?
Actually, thinking about this I am getting seriously fucking mad. Can this cheap greedy shithouse of a company do any fucking one thing right outside of their dev houses these days? Fuck me.
Yes they're going to release their last games in 2015 and go off the face of the Earth for god knows what then.
This is how businesses work.
Zombie James
Banned
I think this is implying they are going to go with geo-locking through IP. So far you couldn't change your location but you could still use your nnid anywhere.
i hope it never comes because this shit doesn't deserve to be saved at this point. not with these imbeciles at management.
Don't Laugh
Banned
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
charlequin
Banned
In five years, when Nintendo's vault of IPs is sold off for scrap at pennies on the dollar and then abused for all eternity by IAP pachislot developers at a giant mobile-games conglomerate, we can just point back to this exact change as a proxy for how they brought it on themselves.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Raise a storm over twitter, see if it sticks. It's fucked that they can hurt loyal customers like this.
This is exactly what it's like. They don't want the hassle of having to do it, they don't want people to only have to do things once, they don't understand how much it means to the average consumer...
They've been reluctant about this shit from the start. I refuse to believe it's pure incompetence anymore. It's got to be more than that, an active decision to fuck the consumer any way they can if they think it'll bring in a few more rupees.
Well said. It's a nightmare future, but it seems to be the future Nintendo is determined to bring about.
brandonh83
Banned
A few years ago I would have been sad to see this post, but these days I really can't help but agree.
Zeyphersan
Banned
OH COME ON NINTENDO, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE BETTER THAN THIS
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
So, if you move to another country you can't use your NNID to make purchases? Or you can't sign in at all? This is really vague, and regardless of what it actually does I'm struggling to see how it makes any sense at all.
The only thing I can really think of is that nothing is actually changing from a functionality or service standpoint and that this is just a TOS update to cover themselves in the case of cross-region/international customer service issues. Which is still bullshit, but slightly less bad than the rest of the interpretations being posted.
The only thing I can really think of is that nothing is actually changing from a functionality or service standpoint and that this is just a TOS update to cover themselves in the case of cross-region/international customer service issues. Which is still bullshit, but slightly less bad than the rest of the interpretations being posted.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Is this to region lock the eshop? If so why don't they just force the eshop that is from the console's country of origin to load regardless of where they are?
The consoles are already distinguished as PAL, NTSC or NTSC-J soooo, why do this?
The consoles are already distinguished as PAL, NTSC or NTSC-J soooo, why do this?
So I guess we now know how to communicate with the big 3.
Sony - Make a lot of noise on social media before a proposed feature is coming and it'll likely be changed.
MS - Make a lot of noise on social media, but it likely won't matter unless lots of people refuse to preorder or buy something.
Nintendo - Don't make any noise on social media or else they'll do the opposite and make it even worse to shut you up!
Stop asking for region unlocking right away!
Sony - Make a lot of noise on social media before a proposed feature is coming and it'll likely be changed.
MS - Make a lot of noise on social media, but it likely won't matter unless lots of people refuse to preorder or buy something.
Nintendo - Don't make any noise on social media or else they'll do the opposite and make it even worse to shut you up!
Stop asking for region unlocking right away!
jetsetmario
Member
Why would anyone buy any digital product from Nintendo? No, seriously, I'm asking because people apparently do so.
Unless they're geofiltering. Ugh.
But if they are doing it by country info that's even worse....don't people do that to get Streetpass country tags?
You're going to be pretty disappointed in 5 years then.
moltonasty
Member
Ewwww. Instead of making things better, they just make it even worse. WTF Nintendo..
Does this mean they are IP blocking the store etc? If so what about people who have import systems with accounts registered to the hardwares origin rather than their own? This sounds like I won't be able to buy Japanese games on my Japanese DS with my Japanese account without actually being in Japan which is crippling for importers.
Nintendo deserve to be out of the hardware market with their draconian attitudes.
Nintendo deserve to be out of the hardware market with their draconian attitudes.
Wait, do they actually IP regionlock the accounts?
Or is it just something like PSN accounts, where the country is locked and you will have to create a second account in case you want to enter a different country and you will violate the agreement in case you enter wrong data?
Or is it just something like PSN accounts, where the country is locked and you will have to create a second account in case you want to enter a different country and you will violate the agreement in case you enter wrong data?
People are so naive, of course they are smart enough to do this. Nnid locked in hardware is not some oversight by people 'out of touch' or whatever the meme is, it was done on purpose with the specific intent of making it difficult to move software between different machines.
PreyingShark
Member
I hope this isn't geofiltering and is just saying that you can't change your system's country setting while maintaining the same NNID, which is already the case with the 3DS.
Idiots! I had to create an Id in Canada to be able to buy games on eshop. Now im screwed. At least lauch a damn eshop in Latín America you fucktard Nintendo.
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Rickenslacker
Banned
Buying digital on Nintendo platforms just gets more and more appealing.
Zeyphersan
Banned
That's true, they kind of encouraged international travel with all the streetpass stuff