The 'SwitchPirates' subreddit is in Nintendo's sights.

Nintendo’s ongoing fight against Switch piracy has a new target in its sights — and that’s the r/SwitchPirates subreddit.

  • BlackFlagsForever@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    TBH, I don’t even let myself play things made by nintendo anymore bc they piss me off so much after they killed a lot of the emulator projects. which is funny bc i used to actually BUY things they made, even if i also pirated them so that i could use on pc.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    461·
    13 days ago

    Nintendo: Spending money to stop piracy, instead of making money by selling most of the things people are pirating (whether it be classic games not available for sale anywhere, or not porting Switch games to PC despite a huge demand for it).

    • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
      7·
      13 days ago

      It’s an excuse for the profit line not going up and a desperate squeeze for a few more dollars in profit for their quarterly that they hope their investors don’t realize cost more to fight than made so that the cash keeps rolling in.

      This kind of tactic of over punishing the poor relies on the stupidity of the wealthy. I don’t get how they don’t see it as insulting.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    28·
    13 days ago

    In the gbatemp thread they wrote that this guy flew too much near to the sun:

    1. Reused his username everywhere to the point that his name and the fact that he was from Arizona was public

    2. Sent back to Nintendo multiple switches to repair using that name with an Arizona address

    It wasn’t hard for them to dox and sue him as he literally gave them his real address multiple times…

    • RBG@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      It is amazing how, and I am sorry to call this out, fucking stupid some people are while doing illegal things.

      Reusing the username, not smart but also not super stupid. Stating where he lives, a bit stupid. Sending Switches for repair with that username??? Was his username his real name? That would be even worse.

    • black0ut@pawb.socialEnglish
      9·
      12 days ago

      Nah they just spend too much money on lawyers so they need them to always be doing something.