Nintendo can Remotely Remove eShop Titles

By Jorge Ba-oh 30.10.2013 8

Nintendo can Remotely Remove eShop Titles on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

It seems Nintendo can remotely delete titles that shouldn't be installed on a user's Nintendo 3DS - according to one report.

By violating Nintendo's terms and conditions for specific offers, the company are able to remotely remove access to titles it seems.

Earlier this year a Club Nintendo promotion that allowed users to receive $30 in eShop credit if purchasing both Fire Emblem: Awakening and Shin Megami Tensei IV. One user that owns two separate Nintendo 3DS consoles plus two Club Nintendo accounts had purchased two copies of Awakening and one Shin Megami Tensei IV.

She then registered a second Shin Megami Tensei IV code from a friend and received two $30 credit codes. She redeemed both on a single 3DS console and downloaded SteamWorld Dig. However, a few weeks later her Club Nintendo accounts were deactivated and SteamWorld Dig had disappeared.

Nintendo has since restored her account, but has refused to grant access to SteamWorld Dig and the remaining eShop balance.

Do you think the user was in the wrong, should Nintendo have removed the title?

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Henry Charles Valdez Jr is offline. Henry Charles Valdez Jr 30.10.2013#1

Unless it specifically said only on credit per account then she should be allowed to at least keep the game, but if she did break terms of service, then I would recommended that she be refunded the spent amount, but no more than the 30$ and maybe per system to smooth things over, but only if doing so does not still violate terms of service
but as far as outside of this if a person legitamately buys a game then no touchy nintendo, we are buying the download, not borrowing it



( Edited 30.10.2013 05:38 by Henry Charles Valdez Jr )

 
Canyarion is offline. Canyarion 30.10.2013#2

I suppose this also works when you saved the game to an SD card and you don't have the card in your system?

 
Mush is offline. Mush 30.10.2013#3

Download titles are linked to your 3DS' account. Although there is no account system in place on the 3DS, the eShop account is there and it contains several lines of code, telling the system which games you have purchased/ you own and have the right to download again.

Honestly, to me this seems a bit farfetched. This poor girl went out of her way to buy FE TWICE, meaning that Nintendo got two extra sales from one person. Even though she kinda took advantage of an exploit in the system, was it really necessary to punish her in this way?

 
Canyarion is offline. Canyarion 30.10.2013#4

Chances are high that she sold the game after getting the PIN code. And the 4th code she received from a friend, right?

Why make rules if you're not going to let people keep them? It was stupid of her to use multiple promotion codes on 1 system, that's just asking for trouble.

 
raindog469 is offline. raindog469 30.10.2013#5

While this is no different than things Apple and Amazon have done in the past, when you combine it with Nintendo's policy of tying online purchases to a single system, it ensures that I won't be giving Nintendo money for anything intangible anytime soon. That includes the "special edition" consoles that now only include download codes for the included games rather than a copy on disc.

 
Canyarion is offline. Canyarion 30.10.2013#6

Oh come on. Nintendo GAVE free $30 as a bonus for buying 2 games. And when they prevent people from breaking their rules, you suddenly don't want to give Nintendo money? It was the other way round.

 
raindog469 is offline. raindog469 31.10.2013#7

I haven't wanted to give Nintendo money for online purchases since buying a replacement for our out-of-warranty Wii and finding that the only way not to lose the $200 we'd already spent would have been to send our broken Wii back to them and pay list price for a replacement. But this provides a much greater impetus to jailbreak whatever I buy from Nintendo. Don't much care what the rules say; when I pay for something, it's mine, no matter what some shrinkwrap legalese that may or may not stand up in court has to say.

If an electronics seller broke into my house and took back the TV I bought because I posted a negative review of them in violation of their 60-page terms of use (which was a common clause in shrinkwrap agreements for a while), I could splatter their brains against my walls and probably never do time. Nintendo having a house key for my 3DS, one that they can use without fear of reprisal from me or other customers, is simply not acceptable. If you're willing to give up your property rights because a corporation says theirs don't end when you buy the product, good for you, but I don't live in your world.

In this case, the customer may or may not have broken a rule (go ahead, copy and paste the rule from that offer that she violated). Next time it might be that a developer and Nintendo have a falling out, as happened with Amazon and the Kindle, or Nintendo decides after the fact that they a game affords their customers too much freedom, as with many cases in Apple's app store.

Finally, if you spend $60 to get a $30 credit, the $30 is not "free" unless your mom spent the $60 for you. Learn some economcs.

 
Flynnie is offline. Flynnie 31.10.2013#8

raindog469 said:
While this is no different than things Apple and Amazon have done in the past, when you combine it with Nintendo's policy of tying online purchases to a single system, it ensures that I won't be giving Nintendo money for anything intangible anytime soon. That includes the "special edition" consoles that now only include download codes for the included games rather than a copy on disc.

And i hate this! I want physical copies of games, not stupid digital versions. Happy i got a physical copy of Nintendo Land rather than a stupid download.


 

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