i mean, we all know what we're doing here, tbh.
so yeah, for most of the things almost this entire community does actually deserve to be banned from nintendos services and probably even more than that.
its the risk that comes with the terrain.
however, at least to a certain degree, nintendo has been fucking it up here.
its very much obvious they were laying a kind of trap here, with them specifically telling reviewers not to use the online services, they were banking on an early leak and wanted to deal out just punishment for once. and they had all the right to do that. they absolutely have all the right to detect cfw and ban everyone they find using it. i mean, its really crazy that they can't detect it in any way till now.
but they punished or will yet punish anyone who got online early, no matter if they bought the game and it was delivered early like on amazon or by vendors breaking streetdate. so those people were fucked not by a mistake they made, knowing that banning was a justified possibility, but by the vendors and nintendo.
those people did absolutely not deserve the ban. most of those know nothing of cfw or even the exact release date or that it could lead to them losing all online services.
even worse, they apparently didn't instruct their hotline people right either, since we've had multiple people on there claim one could only connect to the server if they used unauthorized code.
unless the not yet opened regional servers were supposed to block access and our cfw with its region free patches somehow patched us through to the next-best out of region servers that we weren't supposed to reach normally (which sounds somewhat farfetched). they just didn't explain them what really was going on here, namely that pretty much no one should have been able to connect to the servers with a digital version UNLESS they used unauthorized code on their consoles. and that people with the cart bought, no matter from where, would of course also be able to connect to those trap servers
yeah. absolutely, everyone playing the leaks has no reason to complain about a permaban. everyone who got a real cart early got screwed over and probably should at least consider something like a group-lawsuit
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If they don't want anyone to go online before the retail date then they can easily deny traffic to their servers before that date or even limit it to known IP blocks with specifically allowed testers.
well, they clearly wanted the wrong people to connect.
its just that they thought that delivery companies and vendors to sell on release date and not earlier.