No more brick today?
Well, I guess all bricks were planned to yesterday.
Well, I guess all bricks were planned to yesterday.
As much as I don't like what happened, and GW has to blame, this is my answer:
GW didn't brick devices, clone carts did.
GW is paranoid, and installed an alarm that will summon the police in 15 minutes,
and has 5 bull terriers and 3 huskies that will attack at any time.
The gates also auto locks with spikes guarding the boundary.
While these safety measures can potentially kill GW's children,
it is GW's responsibility to educate their children to not trip the alarm. (telling users not use clone carts).
It is clone cart's fault for not checking the perimeter of the house, disabling the alarm, etc. (did not detect kill code, did not remove kill code)
No owner will publicly tell thieves their security measures right? (GW won't say there is a kill code, or else thieves will circumvent it)
At the end, clone carts charged for a half priced service,
where they didn't even properly check the code.
How naive must they be, to leech off other people's work,
and expect no security measures to be put in place?
I feel really, really sad that users got bricked, but it's all collateral damage.
Let this be a lesson for all of us:
As long as we are using a service not created by us (especially not regulated by law),
we are forever at their whim.
Product updates, kill codes, stopping of service, everything.
Stop being entitled pricks and do a proper (and impartial) analysis.
(For the record, I don't mean to offend anyone, just saying..)
Totally agree. Apart from the fact that they are bricking a users console and not the competitors product.. which im sure they could do as well its a clone of their product.. kill the competion not the people watching.
It's actually more logical to kill people's belief that the clones are safe, than playing cat and mouse with the clone companies
Yeah peoples "respect" for the gateway team might take a knock but I think at this point any faith that had been placed in the clones is pretty much zero
It's all unconfirmed rumors at this point but does look pretty likely that gateway put some copy protection into their firmware, the clones blindly copied the firmware and disabled security checks and it blew up in their face
A surprising turn, the clone war has taken.
No it did not. The clone manufactures got their product sold and got their money. The end-user which might not even heard of Gateway got fucked up.
It wouldn't actually surprise me if the code was put in to only effect the clone makers themselves and brick "their" console....unfortunately it might just be that gateway overestimated them, and the clones didn't even bother to test and just released the firmware
so let me get this straight gateway put in their firmware a bricking code for those who have cloned flash kits? and if you had a 3dslink or r4 clone of gateway your 3ds would brick due to the cloned firmware?
It's all unconfirmed rumors at this point but does look pretty likely that gateway put some copy protection into their firmware, the clones blindly copied the firmware and disabled security checks and it blew up in their face
I don't think any gateway users would use a clone firmware that is exactly the same menu as the menu they have except they have removed the gateway logo, not to mention it wouldn't even work with their card so it's a double pointless point to makeNot just that, but any modified launcher by the sounds of it. So, even if you had a Gateway card and liked the look of one of the clone menus a bit more, you could end up with a bricked 3DS.
People keep wording their responses like it's the clone manufacturer's fault. It's not. The Gateway team wrote the routine that bricks the console. Sure, the clone companies ripped off the product and they're taking some of that lucrative market share, but is that any reason to punish the consumer? Not all of them would be aware they're purchasing a clone. Regardless of what people may think of clone companies, bricking consumer hardware to spite your competitors is about as low as any company could get.
Gateway's actions are despicable.
It's all unconfirmed rumors at this point but does look pretty likely that gateway put some copy protection into their firmware, the clones blindly copied the firmware and disabled security checks and it blew up in their face
It wouldn't actually surprise me if the code was put in to only effect the clone makers themselves and brick "their" console....unfortunately it might just be that gateway overestimated them, and the clones didn't even bother to test and just released the firmware
If they wanted to just fuck up the cloner's 3DSes, they would have made it brick 100% of the time instead of randomly. I'm assuming they did this to make it seem like the clone cards are unreliable, not to mess with the cloner's 3DSes. Testing wouldn't help since it's random. It could just not appear in testing.THIS^!
It is funny to think that gateway initially put that code in to brick that actual clone markers' 3ds.
But the lazy clone team didnt even bother to test the firmware, just copy,paste and release like the last firmwares and it ended up biting the users.
Had the clone team done some actual WORK, like testing, this would have all been avoided. (for the majority of people, save for those using the region-free mod).
but is that any reason to punish the consumer?
Gateway's actions are despicable.