Curious. On the one hand this kind of seems like that online pass business (something technically OK but nobody ever made a good argument for doing so) but on the other it does seem to risk people not even vaguely connected to any kind of wrongdoing being caught up in the net.
Similarly there was once a model proposed for media lending wherein you had a key you had to keep private or within trusted hands, should it be found in public then it would be revoked.
I am not entirely sure what to think. Certs tied to game carts is a useful trick for them but they could play this too harshly.
yea cuz a 100 to 1000 bans will make a big impact on games that sell millions of copies.
VGChartz I know but
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/game...astupdate=0&showlastupdate=1&showothersales=0
We are just out of the top 10 worldwide sales before we dip below 1 million.
If they further narrow it by region as well... false positives will become a thing that could trouble legit users.
Of course there are more... shall we say black hat methods that might be interesting here.
"plug your pokemon cart in this here terminal to get a legendary"
Tbh this is better for devs and Nintendo
They only get money from new copies sales
But second hand... basically everything is a known market and has been forever. I always found it odd that devs would cry over such things, not as much as people actually taking them at their word though.
Or if you prefer while I am not unconcerned with the fate of Nintendo and various developers it is a rather distant concern compared to myself and those people playing games. I don't know if I can make I would rather see a thousand guilty men go free than a single innocent one troubled type statement here but it ain't far off.
On the other hand if people then want to consider second hand games worthless then I will quite happily pay a pittance and end up with a sweet game collection.
Used games are going to be a minefield. I will have to ask to try the cart before buying.
Which will probably work until said test (if done on private hardware) sees the certs being snaffled in the process.
[various comments on the amount of switch hackers]
What numbers are we expecting for Switch hacking? Right now it is all up in the air but once it crystallises the barrier to entry is rather low