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[–] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 122 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I have never and will never pay for a Nintendo product because of shit like this. Doesn't mean you can't play Nintendo games though 🏴‍☠️

Fuck Nintendo.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yep.

I've not given Nintendo money for a long ass time, because of their idiotic insistence on choosing the most selfish, customer hating path at every fork in the road they come to.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Likewise, Nintendo has now joined Sony for me in my Never Another Red Cent category. I've got an entire bookcase full of Nintendo games and systems ranging from the NES all the way up to the OG Switch but it ends there. It's guaranteed that they will never shape up, so I'll never give them any more money.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sony was so close to me diving head first into their PC gaming ecosystem, cause there were a lot of games i really wanted to get into, when they pulled the "HAHA SURPRISE, ALL THOSE GAMES YOU'VE ALREADY BOUGHT AND PLAYED? NOW YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PLAYSTATION ACCOUNT FOR THEM BECAUSE WE SAID SO!" and basically guaranteed I'll never own another playstation product for the rest of my life.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For me it was the music CD rootkit thing, and trying to sue people for watching a particular Youtube video. Sony has already been on my no fly list for a very long time.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I forgot about the rootkit thing.

And wait, what? suing over watching a youtube video? I never heard about this

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

When Sony was suing George Hotz over his PS3 jailbreak video, they also tried to bully Youtube (or possibly Google, I forget if this was post-Google acquisition) into revealing the IPs and identities of everyone who watched the video so they could attempt to sue them for "piracy" also. Obviously they did not succeed, but the fact that they tried says a lot.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Probably would have succeeded if it was in a japanese court against a Japanese company.

Which I think its why these Japanese companies specifically feel emboldened to do stupid shit like that.

[–] CybranM@feddit.nu 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've also never paid Nintendo for any of their games, but that's because they don't interest me

[–] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, tbf I'm in the same boat. But their anti consumer philosophy is causation for my philosophy about making extra effort not to give them a cent.