So basically...you hate everything?
Cool.
No, and I absolutely loathe other people putting words in my mouth. What I hate is the ultimate culmination of where consumerism and capitalism lead in our modern world - not because they're inherently bad systems but that by their very nature, there will be people who exploit those systems to get ahead, and those people tend to be big companies - the ones you'll often be buying from. But this isn't the place for a long philosophical debate. The point is that anti-consumer practises are all too common these days, and when even EA is doing certain things better than Nintendo (refund policies - if you want to know more, go read up on Nintendo basically telling the EU to shove it when asked to introduce mandatory refunds to comply with EU law), you can bet they're far from my favourite company.
SciresM's tweet was misleading. The check only happens when installing a title using the 3DS' built in content installer service, NIM (
source 1 source 2 source 3).
Installing and going online with titles installed through FBI or similar are safe. Downloading games through something like Villain3DS is safe (but will probably break real soon when 11.8 is enforced and a valid ticket is REQUIRED to get content from CDN). You can still safely source your CIAs from whatever naughty iso site.
Basically, freeshop can get you banned in its current form (it can be updated to stop using the NIM service, but again, it will probably stop functioning like other CDN downloaders).
Thanks for the reply. That's what I assumed but I'm no expert so I didn't want to jump to conclusions since there's always a lot of that and it just spreads misinformation.
Hopefully then, that means homebrew is completely unaffected. I was worried about patched games too, since plenty of those aren't LayeredFS-compatible (at least, most of them aren't out-of-the-box), which would really suck for things such as fan translations.
The one thing I haven't seen clarified is whether or not the update is required to make freeShop unsafe. I'm assuming not, since it sounds like it'd be a server-side update and the 11.8 update just coincides with it... but I could be wrong.
Well, you gotta ask yourself why they would bother with updating an EOL console.
Lets say you're 11 years old, you play pokemon online and you've managed to get CFW on your 3DS, then your 3DS gets banned from online services and there's not much you can do. Would you be tempted to buy a new 3ds or just to buy a switch where there's promise of new pokemon games coming out soon?
Also it would be interesting to see what games are the most played online games on 3DS. I would imagine Pokemon and Mario Kart. Hopefully not many play Smash online, since from my experience that's a complete lagfest. Btw the 3ds is so easily hackable now that an 8year old could probably do it.
This is true, but my theory is that they updated it now because they only recently figured out how to do this. Seriously, consider this: if they could prevent piracy in this manner for all these years, why take this long to implement it, when the bulk of the sales will be unaffected at this point since very few new 3DS games are still being released? Considering the Switch firmware is somewhat built on the 3DS firmware and considering it only released last year, I have a feeling that they basically found a way to code it for the Switch, then ported what code they could back to the 3DS.
Which is to say that the only reason they're doing it now is because they can. I don't really think it's to help Switch sales (as if they need it). But then again, I'm convinced the guys working at Nintendo are literally insane because very few of their decisions make any logical sense, so you may be completely correct about their reasoning.
