Hacking Question Why does one care about being banned?

[Jambione]

If I dont care about online play - why should I care about a ban?

 

[snails1221]

Some people have reported that they have been banned from using the eShop, as well as online play.

 

[Deleted member 129634]

If I dont care about online play - why should I care about a ban?

Eshop, and honestly no one knows if Nintendo will decide to restrict updates or something else in the future.

 

[jajamundo]

Because of the lack of online games

 

[Wanderish]

Mostly I've heard eShop usage. Also so many people looking fordward to playing smash online, but I think when Ninty starts their paid online they will forget about it.

 

[jakkal]

If I dont care about online play - why should I care about a ban?

you shouldnt care
i dont care either

 

[Dust2dust]

And if you want to ever sell your Switch console, it doesn't help if it's banned. (as long as you're being honest to the buyer).

 

[Kioku]

Shouldn't have to justify either side to the argument. Some don't care about the repercussions. Some would like to keep access to eShop and online play. You don't like it, doesn't mean everyone else doesn't.

 

[FierceDeityLinkMask]

Reenacting This Online

RIDLEY VS LINK

SMASH ULTIMATE!

 

[linuxares]

Because I like to have full power of my system to do whatever I want to do with it. And getting banned for it kind of sucks, because I like the possibility to use the official servers for games for example.

 

[fragged]

And if you want to ever sell your Switch console, it doesn't help if it's banned. (as long as you're being honest to the buyer).

Given how many Cart dumps I can play, and looking good on loading eShop & DLC dumps I could really care less about getting banned, I'm going to keep this console for life. With such low level access we have to it the future is limitless and given how many hacked for life Switches are out there I see the Dev community supporting this for a very long time.

 

[kitzuki]

I wish we had a Proxy spoof like the early PS4 days to get to the online store.

 

[FAST6191]

and honestly no one knows if Nintendo will decide to restrict updates or something else in the future.

With the hacks we have (simple to achieve total control from cold boot with millions of devices being susceptible now and likely forever more) I can't see a path to Nintendo restricting updates in a particularly meaningful way. The updates are likely rendered as single files or small collections and those can and have been distributed for all sorts of systems over the years, the 360 title update scene being a nice jumping off point.

 

[Deleted member 129634]

With the hacks we have (simple to achieve total control from cold boot with millions of devices being susceptible now and likely forever more) I can't see a path to Nintendo restricting updates in a particularly meaningful way. The updates are likely rendered as single files or small collections and those can and have been distributed for all sorts of systems over the years, the 360 title update scene being a nice jumping off point.

Sure, it was just an example, my point is we have no idea what other kind of services nintendo might restrict in the future, it's all up to them so no one can say for sure, we also don't know what kind of stuff might become available on switch in the future that will be already restricted from banned users, it's just a warning.

 

[xXDungeon_CrawlerXx]

I care about playing online with friends.
There are some good Online Multiplayergames already and there will be much more .

 

[Indominusda1e]

Shouldn't have to justify either side to the argument. Some don't care about the repercussions. Some would like to keep access to eShop and online play. You don't like it, doesn't mean everyone else doesn't.

Is there any point to keeping eshop access if you can play eshop games on SX or layeredfs

 

[castdreams]

The only thing I would care about is losing game and system updates, if they decide to ban people from updates in the future. We live an age where games are shipped unfinished with day 1 updates, or are incomplete with additional downloads required.

At least with DevMenu we can install .nsp updates manually, but that will require someone to dump them, or having a safe method of downloading them from CDN after being banned.

 

[GameSystem]

As other people have mentioned, you can play all types of backups, can get any DLC/game updates, and in the worst case scenario, remember that Wiimmfi is a thing that actually happened when they shut down the Wii WFC in order for people to continue playing online. So even if we can never get online play via official servers, people can probably still play online through workarounds (X-link kai, ad-hoc party, etc. for other systems)

 

[Clydefrosch]

Resell value.

 

[Axido]

Being banned restricts you from playing online with your friends.
Therefore not having friends is kinda helpful if you don't want to care about being banned.

Others might just want to play online with strangers, but let's be honest here: In most online communities you don't really want to have to deal with random people.