Reports been going around that Nintendo been banning people that hacked into the Octolings and used em online. via an email
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Nintendo bans some Splatoon 2 players who hacked in Octolings and used them online
- Thread starter Pablo Mesa
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Good. Keep your hacked sh*t out of legit games. I remember how players would cause other people's game to crash with their hacked Octoling, in Splatoon (when their Octoling ended up in the plaza, after playing online with them). Not sure if the same is happening in Splatoon 2, but still good on Nintendo for cracking down on hackers like that.
Nintendo better be super strict with online cheaters, especially now with the pay wall.
Oohhh lordt. September is going to be fun.
Who will advance faster? Nintendo's online structure or the hacking scene? I'm not saying who I'm betting on.
Oohhh lordt. September is going to be fun.
Who will advance faster? Nintendo's online structure or the hacking scene? I'm not saying who I'm betting on.
Well, that's just a fault on the hackers. This makes me think how many hackers will pirate the Octo Expansion content and not be detected while they use it online.
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Nintendo can ban unique Consoles ID from accessing online, no way to circumvent that or Spoof that
One has already got the VC so...Nintendo better be super strict with online cheaters, especially now with the pay wall.
Oohhh lordt. September is going to be fun.
Who will advance faster? Nintendo's online structure or the hacking scene? I'm not saying who I'm betting on.
Next month's expansion, when you finish it, you can play with them online.
Let's hope you are right, I don't need hackers ruining my experience on MHXU.
But bookmarked just in case.
It's already pretty entertaining.Nintendo better be super strict with online cheaters, especially now with the pay wall.
Oohhh lordt. September is going to be fun.
Who will advance faster? Nintendo's online structure or the hacking scene? I'm not saying who I'm betting on.
That isn't how DLC works. DLC is account associated (accounts are themselves associated with consoles on which they exist) pirating DLC and then taking it online is perhaps the single dumbest thing you could do.
This is like the most basic checksum you could do to check for an idiot taking pirated DLC online.
They've apparently been banning for less than that too, like using hacking tools to give yourself more in-game items that let you edit your gear abilities. Nintendo actually keeps track of a whole lot of in-game stats that you'd never expect, so they would be able to check and see if anything out of the ordinary happens. I hope they continue to stay on top of this
For a company who takes protecting its products very seriously, Nintendo's consoles are always piss easy to hack for some reason. Still, it's good to see Nintendo finally start taking action with the Switch. Unlike the DS or Wii days, where they did nothing about cheaters online.
Ban their whole console from going online. Cost of re-entry shouldn't be a new profile it should be a whole new console.
I understand why Nintendo would go after this and more power to em, why is everyone cheering this though? Why do we care if people have hacked in the ability to use a different model? How on earth would playing as an octoling count as 'cheating' in a way that should perturb other members of the playerbase?
EDIT: Seriously, the vitriol directed in this thread at something that impacted other players in no way whatsoever is weird, unless this is actually screwing with the game somehow.
EDIT: Seriously, the vitriol directed in this thread at something that impacted other players in no way whatsoever is weird, unless this is actually screwing with the game somehow.
The models were included in the base game because people who don't have the expansion need them to play against those who do, but it's probably pretty easy for Nintendo to tell if you don't actually have the expansion and are using octolings through hacks, so it probably won't be a big deal unless those people want to get banned as well
I am so relieved. I rarely click on these threads but I'm happy to see that most people are on the same page in terms of bans for hackers. Datamine and dig all you want, but don't take away from others' experiences.
If paying for online is a requirement, Nintendo needs to take a zero tolerance approach to make sure that the playerbase's experience isn't ruined in any way. This case is super benign but its indicative of a looming problem with Switch being blown open the way it was.
Yeah I don't get it either. Banning hackers bringing their hacks online from the individual game makes sense of course, but people in this thread have some weird chip on their shoulder in regards to hackers.
IT's the benignness of it though that makes this reaction weird. Yes, doing this makes sense. I understand Nintendo's reaction, I don't criticize it at all. But the delight people are showing in this thread at the punishment of other accounts seems weirdly toxic. I'm just surprised there's this much loathing for something so harmless.
If they hacked one thing, what's to stop them from hacking things that matter? I think when people see something is clearly amiss, they aren't going to go they only hacked the model and nothing else. I personally rather be safe than sorry, since you never know what can get screwed up in your game when interacting with things like this online.