this happened to me when I didnt touch my switch for a couple years. turned it back on, was logged out, tried to log in and failed, went to try and log in on my phone and the site said my account was deactivated. i never got any email saying this happened or was going to happen either. i didnt lose much, most of my switch games were physical, but after that experience I'm never gonna buy a nintendo product again.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2026
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Fuck Nintendo!
Ha. Corporations. TD bank did this to my kids Savings Accounts. When in one day and accounts had been archived due to lack of deposit or withdrawal activities. Like WTF they are 8,10, 14, how many transactions did you expect they'd make.
What purpose could this possibly serve?
Like I understand if the account consumes some kind of resource like disk space or a limited number of reserved connection slots or something, but an account can't be more than an entry in a database with associated purchases? Like what is the fucking point?!
Any opportunity to get a repeat purchase out of them.
Man, fuuuuuuuck that. That's a great way to make me never buy a Sony product again if I was in that guy's shoes.
Likely old accounts are an exploit vector for hackers. That would be the only reasonable excuse. However someone in the business unit will use this as their lever to make other bad decisions.
I had considered that, but that implies they're holding onto way more sensitive information attached to those accounts than they should. Which is very possible, but even more shitty.
At least in the EU it is required that data is only stored as long as it is needed and the user actively consents to it. An active consent can expire if the user isn’t engaged for a long time (how long depends on the type of data and service).
The user in the article is from the US though. I don’t know about the rules there.
"he lost his games"
They never belonged to him in the first place. :( At least the PS3 has been hacked to death by now, so it's easy to just put HEN on it and get all of the games back for free.
This is the only reason I'm not stressing over never using my PS4. I've already tested it with GoldHEN