Wii Sports U is not region locked by IP, I have a US Wii U in London and can play it just fine online. Mario Tennis Open however, the online mode is locked by IP, which is completely idiotic.
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Nintendo (don't) change NNID policy (?)
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Wii Sports U is not region locked by IP, I have a US Wii U in London and can play it just fine online. Mario Tennis Open however, the online mode is locked by IP, which is completely idiotic.
Nothing apparently.
After all nothing like spreading misinformation to get what you want.
I'm moving to South America from the UK in about 2 months, taking my Wii U and 3DS with me, and the misinformation from this thread almost gave me a heart attack.
I hope as people are saying, nothing is actually changing, and just as I have done it in the past 2 years in my previous visits to South America (with my 3DS), I was able to access the UK eShop just fine and play online.
I hope as people are saying, nothing is actually changing, and just as I have done it in the past 2 years in my previous visits to South America (with my 3DS), I was able to access the UK eShop just fine and play online.
Don't feel bad, the sentence is subject to multiple interpretations and should be drug out in the street and shot.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
Nintendo's NNID account engineering department:
shacklesmcgee
Member
Which makes no sense, we understand (please understand) that we are doing really poorly and have no real idea how to fix it, but it is in no way related to our employees....uh, the people that made the bad decisions. And still do so.
But you can do that within regions (i.e. PAL). You just need a new NNID for that country.
charlequin
Banned
So it seems from this info like this is merely Nintendo's existing bad policy rather than the addition of new, even worse polices atop it.
OP, where did that June 13 thing come from? It's not in the supporting links.
OP, where did that June 13 thing come from? It's not in the supporting links.
Ok,
this needs to be put somewhere in the OP, It's mad important to make sure we're not being fed BS.
e : Before I was mad at Nintendo for threatening to lock me out of content I paid for,
now I'm fucking furious at people here for feeding me BS making basically saying that I'd be locked out of my content.
Well it doesn't actually seem like they've changed anything. So we might be overreacting here.
Nothing has changed. US, EU and JP consoles can only have region-specific NNIDs associated with them which cannot be transferred across regions. Your 3DS/Wii U will access it's native eShop and your NNID wherever you are in the world.
Okay then this doesn't affect me (I think?) Still stupid though.
Cbajd5
Member
Haunted
Member
...and ending up just knocking your wig overboard and sticking a finger in your eye.
I wonder if people really buy this whole "Nintendo has no idea about technology" thing. They are perfectly capable of IP blocking and it's surprising people believing otherwise. Their online infrastructure is the way it is because that is exactly how they want it to be, not because they don't know how to do it better.
Ok, nothing to see here then.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Wait, what does this even mean?
I live in Mexico but my NNID is set to the USA, I really hope I don't get screwed by this.
Edit: Mpl90 saved me from having a heart attack, I have so many Nintendo Digital games.
I live in Mexico but my NNID is set to the USA, I really hope I don't get screwed by this.
Edit: Mpl90 saved me from having a heart attack, I have so many Nintendo Digital games.
Could a mod please make this junior member a regular member?
LordOcidax
Member
I live in the Dominican Republic (latin america)and i have a US account, because here we dont have eshop support. I buy prepaid cards over the internet to buy games on the eshop. I spend hundreds of dollars on games. This don't sound good for me. If this truly happens Nintendo is going to lost a loyal fan.
it means nothing, what you have right now will stay that way, theres no changes.
Starfish Hero
Member
It means you can only access the US eShop, as opposed to Mexico's... I think.
MoGamesXNA
Unconfirmed Member
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Alright, then who's the person who found the updated terms/why did they find the updated terms?
Perhaps Nintendo has been listening. Every time I give feedback on Club Nintendo about why I chose the digital version of a game I've purchased on the USA eshop; I mention that it is because I live abroad for work although I am a U.S. citizen. Thanks to their region locking policies, I am unable to purchase physical games in the country which I currently reside. Looks like they are trying to put an end to my nefarious designs to buy more games.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I... don't actually know. The same person who sent this to the EndRegionLock twitter also gave that date. I have since looked and haven't been able to find any evidence of that date either.
By this point I think it's clear that this thread should just have one big ? at the front of it. At least it raised further awareness of an awful policy though.
Who cares why they updated it, maybe they updated the date on it or something to do with parental controls in the recent system update. The content of the agreement has not changed with regard to region locking.
This must be intentional. Somewhere at Nintendo, there's someone that hates region codes
, and they're doing their very best to make Nintendos implementation of region locking so utterly terrible that the populace starts to revolt. End result: Some people get tarred & feathered, Iwata gets digitized and is released as Nintendogs&Cats&Iwata... and region locking is removed.
That must be it. There's no other explanation. Jeez.
and consumers
That must be it. There's no other explanation. Jeez.
Jaded Alyx
Member
It's not IP lock. Nothing has changed.
Nothing is different.
Protip: You should be using the Canadian eShop...that way, you can simply use a debit/credit card...
I know, that's my point - to me it looks like someone saw the change of date and overreacted to it without actually looking back to the previous terms.
Yup. Thread needs nuking/title change before it goes too far with this misinformation. Folk are already needlessly panicking.
Sure, no problems with it getting locked. I've made some changes to the OP, hope people read them.
I have no idea who the guy is. But the information was then retweeted by the EndRegionLock twitter and Cheesemeister, both of which are pretty reliable, so I thought it worth mentioning. Guess not.
boiled goose
good with gravy
Hahahaha. Holy fuck. Just when I thought Nintendo was finally moving in the right direction regarding digital content management with their talk about integrated platforms.
If you move, you now lose your entire library. How the fuck does that make sense? Is Nintendo trying that hard to never make me invest in Nintendo hardware ever again?
Nintendo's cluelessness regarding digital content never ceases to astound me...
If you move, you now lose your entire library. How the fuck does that make sense? Is Nintendo trying that hard to never make me invest in Nintendo hardware ever again?
Nintendo's cluelessness regarding digital content never ceases to astound me...
Nope. Nothing has changed. Check out this last page of the thread for the scoop
I think (or at least hope) that's only refering to the PAL/NTSC-U/NTSC-J region locking.
If they really region-locked by ip, we brazillians are fucked.
Don't worry. Nothing at all has changed, OP was mistaken.
SaintGalgo
Member
Crimsonclaw111
Member
The fact that there's even a confusion is a sad sign about Nintendo's online affairs.
brandonh83
Banned
I honestly think it deserves as much of an uproar that say Microsoft got with DRM. But maybe people in general don't care as much?
Quirky is definitely an interesting descriptor for Nintendo's online services.
LordOcidax
Member
Oh.. Thanks.. I was starting to get mad. And thanks for the Canadia info. But is to late for me. A mod need to edit the OP or one of my friends here are going to have a heart attack.
Mr. Smiley
Member
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Pretty much. As glad as I am they are not IP blocking, I wasn't exactly surprised and I won't be if they ever decide to do such a draconian thing.