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Disable of all online functionality? Perfectly valid and no different than banning someone from a store.
Its only “valid” if its preventing future purchases. Not allowing someone to access a digital item they already own is kinda like the book store going in your house and taking the book you already bought.
You don’t own the digitally purchased games. They can revoke access for any reason they want, or no reason at all. You agreed to these terms when making the purchase.
That said: it is conceptually no different than any business banning someone. If you were to, for example, masturbate in a Rain Forest Cafe, they would be well within their rights to never allow you back on their properties ever again.
It is obvious Nintendo finally figured out what Ubi et al did… 15 or so years ago and is making EVERYTHING online. That way they effectively brick a console by turning off updates and immediately locking it upon authenticating with the chat server or whatever.
Its only “valid” if its preventing future purchases. Not allowing someone to access a digital item they already own is kinda like the book store going in your house and taking the book you already bought.
You don’t own the digitally purchased games. They can revoke access for any reason they want, or no reason at all. You agreed to these terms when making the purchase.
You are talking about legality, I’m talking about the ethics of it.
Well sure, but ethics simply don’t apply when referring to a multi-billion dollar corporation.
Ethics are very much a personal thing.
That said: it is conceptually no different than any business banning someone. If you were to, for example, masturbate in a Rain Forest Cafe, they would be well within their rights to never allow you back on their properties ever again.
It is obvious Nintendo finally figured out what Ubi et al did… 15 or so years ago and is making EVERYTHING online. That way they effectively brick a console by turning off updates and immediately locking it upon authenticating with the chat server or whatever.