Hacking Taking a softmoded Wii to Nintendo - Will they care?

djdynamite123 · Nov 30, 2008

QUOTE said:
They'll fix it without questions. If they accuse you of anything... that's just horrible corporate practice.

If they question you, just say "Look no........ i didn't" off Kevin & Perry Go Large

Arno · Nov 30, 2008

Lol, they didn't care when I sent in my flashed DS. I didn't have to say anything, either. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't care...

djdynamite123 · Nov 30, 2008

If you still feel bad, and cant act that well, just bring a Onion with you or before you go in so you have sore watery eyes

CIJC · Nov 30, 2008

just send it in. i dont think they really care lol

higuys · Nov 30, 2008

i reckon they'll just install the lastest firmware, like frank mentioned, and wipe everything that you have on your wi - return it to factory standards.

Beatchu · Nov 30, 2008

Send in, if they don't fix it, chip it.
Simple.

hught78 · Dec 5, 2008

Took it to Nintendo HQ and they gave me a choice: have them send it to Kirkland (WA) to try and extract data or exchange with a brand new one. I took the new Wii with new warranty. Quick and easy - was in and out in 5 minutes.

screamq3 · Dec 5, 2008

thats a good result then aint it

hught78 · Dec 6, 2008

Yeah, I'm happy they made it that easy.

|WickeD&#12 · Dec 6, 2008

When you send things back to companies specially Nintendo, they do not always fix "your" product. Most the time what happens is they just ship you a refurbished one thats been through all the checks and fixes. Then yours gets tossed in the pile to become refurbished.

Just thought I would toss that out there.

geedub · Dec 6, 2008

yeah thats what i was gonna say ! and what have you got to lose ?

joda · Dec 7, 2008

As people have mentioned before, it all probably comes down to the particular technician handling your Wii.

I work part time as tech support for the major ISP here in Sweden, and have people calling in all the time having problem setting up their torrent/P2P/whatever client and the like. Of course it's not company policy to promote and assist in piracy, but I still help each and every one of them set the app up.

I suspect a whole lot of people working at Nintendo mod their Wii, one way or another. Also, even if they didn't sympathize with homebrew, fixing your Wii out of warranty for free when you've fucked up yourself makes you a very happy customer. They probably just react: "w00t, here's another dumbass who couldn't follow an idiot proof tutorial and got a brick. Muhahahahahahaha ... well well, let's fix it for him."

Techies aren't less human than others. Hell, I swap modems for free even when I know the customer himself have broken it by barfing in it while drunk ... (It has happened ... and it was ... the cat who did it ...) I can't promise that I wouldn't ridicule you during my coffee break, or save a recording of the call for my personal enjoyment, but at least I would probably help you even though I'm not supposed to.

A happy customer buys more stuff from Nintendo in the future than an unhappy does. A happy customer recommends N.'s products to his buddies which is better than any PR money can buy. Seeing it like this makes the decision of helping peeps with the torrent clients as mentioned before very easy to take (particularily since we sell a subscription - happy customers pay for waaaay more months).

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