I hacked my switch a few years ago because I couldn’t play a specific game that is only available in Japan.
Didn’t know what I was doing and my switch got permabanned. All my paid games was no longer accessible. My prepaid online subscription wasn’t able to be used and couldn’t be refunded. I couldn’t pay more money to Nintendo anymore for future games.
So the only thing I could do is to continue to pirate.
This opened up the world of modding games that didn’t exist in the regular Nintendo experience. Homemade mods that adds new and fun characters in super smash bros? Change our Mario in Odyssey to Wario? Change the dynamics on Mario Maker? Sure why not!
The remedy for piracy should never be punitive on the consumer, or it does exactly what happened to you. Even more ironic your story is probably encouraging others to pirate rather than have a discouraging effect on the market by ‘making an example of you’.
I hacked my switch a few years ago because I couldn’t play a specific game that is only available in Japan.
Didn’t know what I was doing and my switch got permabanned. All my paid games was no longer accessible. My prepaid online subscription wasn’t able to be used and couldn’t be refunded. I couldn’t pay more money to Nintendo anymore for future games.
So the only thing I could do is to continue to pirate.
This opened up the world of modding games that didn’t exist in the regular Nintendo experience. Homemade mods that adds new and fun characters in super smash bros? Change our Mario in Odyssey to Wario? Change the dynamics on Mario Maker? Sure why not!
The remedy for piracy should never be punitive on the consumer, or it does exactly what happened to you. Even more ironic your story is probably encouraging others to pirate rather than have a discouraging effect on the market by ‘making an example of you’.
Great job as usual, Nintendo management 🎉