This is why people use these unauthorized services,
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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“Security risk” means “you’re not paying us”.
I never understood how Nintendo always seems to get a pass, for doing shitty things to their player base.
if it was them shutting down the third party service I would understand the outrage but this is literally just a “not our fault if someone finds an exploit, it’s not our service” statement with a “pretty please” on top
In Nintendo’s defense, I believe this statement is just a boiler plate thing. Basically “If you use this and fuck up your console/get hacked, don’t come crying to us.” I’m loathe to give corporations the benefit of the doubt, but unless we see them taking action to try and take these services down, I don’t hate this statement.
They’re just covering their asses so they can’t be sued in case someones console gets hacked.
It’s a liability thing. They said, you do it anyway and get hacked and you can’t sue Nintendo for it.
Good guy Nintendo SMM manager uses safe language to notify audience about a new Wii U online service.
It is a security risk, and not for them, but for people using it. You don’t know who’s running it or whos on it, and if thier security is up to snuff. So it could take one one bad actor to get exploit it. They could probably use it to tunnel to your home network.
They didn’t have to tell people and just let it play out. But they are warning people, they services def aren’t going to when breached.
Opening a window is a security risk, there are a lot of things that can be called a security risk, how big that risk presents is a completely different story.
The wii U was discontinued 6 years ago. Of course the service is barely used anymore and there is no point in investing to maintain it.
They are not forbidding people for using weird 3rd parties to do the job: they are just warning you of the high risk of using those
The 2 people still using a Wii U will be mad
This is literally the lightest language they could possibly use and y’all throwing a fit.
If someone uses that software and get their WiiU hacked because of some sketchy software, Nintendo doesn’t want to be sued. They are therefore posting things like this asking you to ‘refrain’ from using things; not stop, refrain.
Nintendo knows how to say NO in all caps and this ain’t it hoss.
I’ll take the bloody risk to play this console.
This is a fake tweet. Go to that Twitter account. This tweet is not there.
Should a service be online Forever?
I doubt Nintendo cares much if they didn’t with the Wii, just a blanket statement cause they don’t want people getting pissed when they brick something
To be fair this is true, the services that we know have to play online with older consoles are less secure than the once from Nintendo and this is why Nintendo should make the source code for the service open source.
Keeping these services online for the few that do is gonna cost the many customers form Nintendo a fair amount of money, so I understand why they shut it down. But that is why you gotta open up the source.
(This would still have more risk involved cause a bad actor can setup it’s own server, advertising it and then abuse the date they get)
I love it when Redditors become cyber security experts because they can’t play animal crossing on 10+ year old device
I like security risks when they let me play stuff.
No. Thanks
nintendosaka has sent their ninjas
Technically, yes it is a security risk. Realistically you probably have nothing to worry about. Don’t try to buy anything and you’re probably fine.
Oh yea hackers are just lining up to hack into my WiiU because thats everyone keeps their banking details.
What fucking security risk?!
It’s legal cover and nothing more
They shut it down because hardly anyone uses it and it costs money to keep the servers running. They’re just saying if you use back door systems they aren’t responsible for issues.
This is why video game preservation is important.
This statement is used primarily as a fallback in case Pretendo (the unauthorized service they’re referring to) has any issues. As much as it sucks that those services were taken offline this is necessary for Nintendo to avoid liability for security risks that wouldn’t be their fault.
We wont help you anymore but don’t ask anyone else either. Just pay for nothing.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
These companies sure as hell don’t seem like they like making money fucking nearly as much as they claim they do.
“We shut it down” “well don’t use that platform that does what we used to do because you don’t pay us to do it anymore”
Then make those games playable in some form on the switch through either Online or Ports.
If this was anyone but Nintendo I would assume it was a tongue in cheek way of letting people know that they can still play online.
But given it’s Nintendo it’s probably a threat.
I’m still waiting for all these YouTubers to get slapped with lawsuits. That’s the only reason I stayed away from the trend of posting about those modded consoles.
Nintendo is convinced that if people are using this, they aren’t using their shitty switch online.
😐 “stop playing online with these third party servers”
:0 “let us play with the legitimate servers”
😐
):|
“Unauthorized fun detected. Cease unauthorized fun immediately.”
No, they’re just requesting that. They most likely won’t take action against those services.
Oh no! Please don’t hack my now useless video game console 🥺🥺🥺
Fuck Nintendo
This is a liability thing. If Nintendo actually wanted those servers gone, they wouldn’t announce their existence on twitter.
I lived near the Nintendo campus in Redmond, WA, and you could take in your games to be cleaned. We took in two garbage bags full of NES and SNES games, and when we got them back, any non-Nintendo game had a warning sticker across the cartridge about the “risks” of using it. Including our Capcom games and Game Genie. 😆
I like how Nintendo has this image of a fun-oriented, friendly game company, when they are in reality one of the most ruthless corporations out there. They WILL fuck your shit up for writing Mario fanfic or using an emulator to play 20 year old videogames that they don’t even make any profit on anymore.
This seems like an excellent opportunity to mention the Stop Killing Games campaign started by Ross Scott of Freeman’s Mind fame.
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/