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NEWS: Nintendo Warns Against Unofficial Online Services for Wii U




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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 4:00 pm Reply with quote
This is kind of hilarious. "How dare you continue to use features of the consoles and games that you paid for! That's bad!"
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Greed1914



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 4:07 pm Reply with quote
I'm sure that somebody at Nintendo decided to put this out there more to preemptively cut off attempts to blame them for not maintaining security around it. But, it still seems silly. If people are cut off from using it, then they are going to use other methods. And, I feel like if somebody goes through the trouble of doing this, they probably know they aren't using anything official to do it.
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Kougeru



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 4:33 pm Reply with quote
Top Gun wrote:
This is kind of hilarious. "How dare you continue to use features of the consoles and games that you paid for! That's bad!"


Did you even read the article? They didn't anything like that at all. They just said that there's a security risk in using such services, which is 100% true. It sucks at the official online services were shut down but it does cost a lot of money to run and more so when you need to ensure security is strong. Third party services for online play have the bare-minimum security if any at all
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Kurohei



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 4:39 pm Reply with quote
I replayed Wind Waker HD recently using Pretendo, and nothing bad happened. But I do see the risk of using services like that in the long run.
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