Nintendo now will BAN you for game-sharing

[ElYubiYubi]

This Nintendo YouTuber is reporting that Nintendo now are hunting down those accounts that even legally game share their digital games with their friends.

Is that even legal? I game share all my digital games on PlayStation with my bro all the time without any problem.





Found a Reddit Thread about the topic

 

[randy_w]

I think nintendo's mainly targeting those account renting services, but yeah that could suck for those who share account with friends. Wondering how they'll do it, detecting IP address and the number of consoles the account is used?

Also I don't see any problem with people selling their digital games/accounts, and another reason to pirate.

 

[Ryab]

Likely looking for multiple active systems under different IPs.

 

[VashTS]

you no longer own your account! nice!

 

[Ondrashek06]

So me using Tinfoil to install a cartridge game to make it available for local wireless on both units can get my account banned now (if it somehow connects to nintendo.net on EmuMMC)?

 

[linuxares]

So they basically mean people giving out their account to others? Most places have a ban for this, just not regularly enforced.

Battle.net, Valve etc. all have a "ban" for it. Battle.net have an exception for children/guardians but that's about it.

 

[Ondrashek06]

So they basically mean people giving out their account to others? Most places have a ban for this, just not regularly enforced.

Battle.net, Valve etc. all have a "ban" for it. Battle.net have an exception for children/guardians but that's about it.

Does Valve really give bans for it? AFAIK, it's only "your account your responsibility" for if it gets VAC-banned.

 

[linuxares]

Does Valve really give bans for it? AFAIK, it's only "your account your responsibility" for if it gets VAC-banned.

They can. It's YOUR responsibility.

But they for example have Family Sharing so you can share your games that way.

 

[Bladexdsl]

and it's official nintendo are just as bad as netflix

 

[Hayato213]

Here is what was on Nintendo page.

 

[linuxares]

Not sure how Nintendo is the bad guy here. It's the same as all other places do.
I personally hope EU once again slaps digital stores so you can sell your digital games, but until that day comes. We have to bend over and take it.

 

[Hayato213]

Not sure how Nintendo is the bad guy here. It's the same as all other places do.
I personally hope EU once again slaps digital stores so you can sell your digital games, but until that day comes. We have to bend over and take it.

Have one guy here in the US trying to sell his account, I believe he got like 300 games, but mostly of them are junk/garbage games, dude wanted $1500 for it lmao.

 

[linuxares]

Have one guy here in the US trying to sell his account, I believe he got like 300 games, but mostly of them are junk/garbage games, dude wanted $1500 for it lmao.

LOL! Digital games for me are worthless. I don't own them, the digital store does.

 

[Hayato213]

LOL! Digital games for me are worthless. I don't own them, the digital store does.

I guess the problem here is similar to what going on with steam games, somebody would try to sell you the account instead of a code.

 

[OperationNT]

Simple solution: just never go Nintendo online service, then you can share digital NSP files with thousands of "friends"

 

[l7777]

I don't think we have enough info to really know what Nintendo is doing. It should be pretty easy to see that an account has signed into 100+ Switches and know that it's BS. If their banning people who's account is on a small number (10?) then they should probably publish that threshold and tell people how many Switches can sign into one account.

Most software licenses I've ever seen are supposed to have a 1:1 ratio of installed software/hardware with a few exceptions. That used to be a non-issue with physical games. Digital games are tied to an account which can exist on multiple devices but that doesn't really follow the license terms. This is why the Switch will only allow one "Primary" console/account.

 

[ElYubiYubi]

Added a link to a Reddit thread