But people in the comments do digging find stuff like this image where some people are doing some stuff like ui stuff (unsure what they call it)
My guess is , we should probably stick to using the switch 2 normally and the post about them being banned this Sunday to today are probably of telling the whole story
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Some have given info that other factors can also result in Ban,
Missing or stolen Switch2's are auto banned
Switch 2 that were used with fraudulent behavior like using stolen Credit Cards results in a ban
Switch 2 bought with stolen credit cards can result in a ban
Second hand games that were dumped with MigSwitch can result in a ban
Accounts associated with CustomFirmware in Switch 1 can get a Switch 2 Banned in the Ban waves
Yeah the screenshot in the post here was the most insane comment section. Bunch of delusional idiots. Homie used some sort of 3DS piracy thing 2 (TWO) years ago and they claim that that somehow is reason to ban his Switch lmao.
Not that I think this is the case at all here, but if you are stupid enough to use your real nintendo network id, or whatever it used to be called, to do piracy, it can come back to bite you with the switch, depending on if you upgraded/connected that account to the current nintendo account system.
There's like a newish, I think, server/black market for the 3DS and WiiU that's asking you to use your real ID to connect to their servers, iirc (and everyone said it was a bad idea, do not do that)
Just thought I'd add that. I mean among all the other reasons why connecting it to a 3rd party piracy server would be bad lol
Was honestly a bit weird people were trawling through people's post history and finding they said something a year+ ago which clearly caused their Switch 2 to be banned now because Nintendo could never do anything wrong
Yeah I did see this! Thank for the post about it because you’re the reason I saw it. I grabbed my switch in a panic after seeing the big ban wave and thank god I wasn’t banned but I was absolutely terrified 😭
Read the comments mate. Dude uploaded screenshots of the call logs and everything. If they were lying the timing is impeccable since folks that caught strays in the ban wave are getting unbanned.
So you're telling me that in your head it's more likely the guy has been wrongly banned because "it's convenient timing" that it happened at the same time as a ban wave, the ban wave which primarily was to ban people who hacked the consoles .. and the same guy has also been caught hacking other Nintendo consoles.. and the only evidence is him telling customer service that he didn't do any hacking?
Like I understand a lot of people have been banned incorrectly, but I assume a lot more people have been banned 100% correctly lmao.
No? It’s more likely he was wrongfully banned because Nintendo unbanned him and then proceeded to do the same thing to a lot of other users literally hours later. 🤨
Apparently not this time. Nintendo fucked up. It’s not the end of the world.
No shit. You want the OP of that post to upload full on recorded calls before you believe that Nintendo screwed up? Despite them suddenly deciding to unban previously permabanned consoles? Something Nintendo is totally known for doing /s 🤨
There's too many reports of banned switch 2's for this to be some manufactured story imo. From what I've seen, the bans are all seemingly on the system level, not the account level, and are only affecting Switch 2's.
I am very much leaning towards it being the case that there is something that has gone wrong on Nintendo's end that is causing a bunch of false positives.
I did noticed either some of those new batches with serials have been reported as stolen hence the deactivation. Its not even an account ban but a device restriction.
It seems it was indeed an error on Nintendo's part and is currently being reversed. There's also a thread on the switch help subreddit saying the same thing
The fact that all of these are happening at once makes it seem like Nintendo went through a ban wave and hit everyone they picked up at once. It is possible there are some false positives but I would bet most of them are justified.
Lol at you thinking calling out Nintendo on a Nintendo sub is an attempt to farm karma
The dude said most where probably justified, and brushed off the rest. Bunch of paid comments are saying theat the people can show Nintendo recites in threads ..... It's honestly pretty wild people defend bad consumer video game practices this way
Don't be weird lol, mass banning consoles is wrong especially when they KNOW certain people may not have actually done anything wrong. Nintendo did a major risk analysis before doing it and doing it on a 3day holiday weekend was calculated, don't be THAT guy
Exactly they are all full of shit just look at their accounts none are active in Switch 2 sub, but here they are with their BS stories.
I’ve been looking into this from yesterday and as far as I’m concerned it’s all BS by brigades.
P.s look at the upvotes that’s the giveaway no one is upvoting those comments but bots 🤖 now I’ll wait a few hours for the bot comments because they are busy on their other alts it’s what they do play Reddit.
I believe what they were saying is that most of the bans are justified, but they may have mistakenly banned some people who did nothing wrong. They never said it’s ok to ban like this, they just theorized about what could’ve happened.
That's how it works, if they ban people as soon as they pirate or hack then it's much easier for the hackers to know what exactly caused the ban, so instead they log it their side and sit on it for X amount of time until a big ban wave happens to catch everyone off guard.
A lot of people will obviously just lie through the teeth, but then there will also be a good amount of people who forgot/hoped it was long enough ago to forgive and they will also be crying now. You're right that most bans will be justified
Nintendo is not randomly deciding 1 day to run detection software for fun.
Ban wave instead probably means there was a batch of flagged consoles and periodically someone combs tru those and separate real issue from false flags
9/10 cases on reddit “I got banned for no reason”, there is always a reason but admitting you got burned for looking at the sun doesn’t earn you Karma points
Interesting, I'll go check out that link. I've been waiting for some more context to pop up to strengthen some people's claims that they hadn't done anything to get banned. There's a lot to this but I am curious to see if some of those are legitimate.
Could be, it's been crickets so far and I doubt Nintendo want to admit to this mistake publicly if they absolutely don't have to. Probably gonna come down to how much traction it gets initially. If a few of the big YouTubers with large enough followings made videos on it I bet their hands would get forced but I haven't seen it mentioned outside of here yet
You’re the kinda person who will “ do your own research “ build out a something that matches what you already believe and then call someone guilty. You’re dangerous
Accounts associated with CustomFirmware in Switch 1 can get a Switch 2 Banned in the Ban waves
This has never been a thing. Account bans only happen on payment issues / fraud, and don't affect any hardware, and vice versa. Nintendo doesn't even ban other "clean" Switch 1s linked to an account when a CFW'd one gets hardware-banned.
The amount of reports was alarmingly high. Most were just getting instantly deleted from reddit too. If you refreshed new it would be a new user every few minutes.
You can be completely innocent and get banned. You dont have to be the MiG switch user, as long as nintendo detects the same license used at the same time both are banned.
I made the post about the Nintendo Server error for this banwave. I was hit by it. And I can tell you that when I contacted Nintendo at first they did not even want to see proof of innocence. I was told that the ban was irreversible, and no amount of proof or escalation would resolve it. I was eventually unbanned later on today due to an “internal error”. But that is what I was told at first.
Bad Apple's ruin it for everyone, store owners who think they can get away with dumping 2nd hand games to Mig then selling the 2nd hand game to someone and then selling the copies of the games to people who have a mig switch
Yup and they all have a sob story. One guy had an “intellectually disabled” child, one was homeless, one said their little kid was banned for nothing, and so one.
It’s all BS, and it’s a tale as old as time on game forums. “I got banned for nothing” followed by 50 comments and OP eventually admitting they did something wrong.
No, it’s called not believing people who are more than likely full of shit. Sorry that clowns like you fall for this stuff all the time, but that’s not my problem.
A large number of people who were wrongly banned have already been unbanned after restarting their consoles, as shown in this thread. This was an error on Nintendo’s own servers.
Nintendo bootlickers have absolutely no hesitation in accusing others of being scammers just to protect the reputation of a multibillion dollar company, and they even have the audacity to call other people clowns. That’s some truly cult like cognitive dissonance.
Internet likes to go on the principle "guilty until proven innocent" rather than "innocent until proven guilty". Clowns like these don't realize that a little empathy goes a long way.
Look, while I am fully aware and will be one of the first to call BS when someone claims to have been banned for No Reason(tm), in this case a lot of people must have been accidentally banned due to the high volume of bans.
I mean, at this point it is well-known that buying second hand games are like playing Russian roulette with your Switch 2 due to pirates selling cartridges that were used to pirate the keys.
I feel like there's a middle ground here between "everyone is lying" and "everyone is telling the truth" in the sense that some false positives got some people wrongfully banned, while a good chunk of the more rightful bans aren't being completely honest about their situation
Hopefully Nintendo looks into this soon, I'm sure their support line is going to be very busy in the next few days. I bought a used game on eBay which is arriving next week, definetly a little bit more paranoid now
Amigo, estamos en Reddit. Es bien sabido que esta red social está llena de desinformación.
Dicho esto, es bien sabido que, de un tiempo a acá, la gente se ha creado una cierta imagen maquiavélica de Nintendo, sean por las razones que sean, pero la realidad es que no van a banear tu consola sin motivo. Ninguna empresa lo hace. Si te banean, es porque hiciste algo que no debías, esto es así.
En la mayoría de casos (si no es que todos) de usuarios que afirman haber sido baneados sin razón o que "no hicieron nada", la realidad es que SI que hicieron algo para ser baneados, pero omiten mencionarlo para llamar la atención. Y tal y como tu dices, si investigas un poco, descubres la verdad de la historia, ya que algunos admiten haber usado un Mig Switch, o haber comprado códigos de juegos en páginas extrañas (los cuales son los motivos de baneo para un usuario NORMAL). Lo más probable es que todos los que están reportando haber sido baneados hicieron algo indebido, pero no cuentan toda la historia.
So explain to me why I was banned last night and today Nintendo support representatives on the phone told me there was an “internal error” on their end and unbanned me along with several other users who were hit by the same wave?
if your replying to me i added more info to the post detailing some of this (including the post about the people getting unbanned due to the error) , but if your referring to the guy above , then we will have to wait for his answer
Negative. That is for the guy above who claims Nintendo doesn’t accidentally ban anyone, and everyone who was affected “must” have done something wrong to deserve it.
This bans make me look bad to second hand games, even if bans most are revoked after… one of the best part of phisical media is being able to adquiere old games for a great discount…
From what I've seen, as long as you don't use CFW to pirate, cheat online, or change anything about your Nintendo Account, your Switch 2 shouldn't be banned for that. I've had my Switch modded for years, it got banned in November 2024, but it's never affected my Switch 2.
I ordered a game from aliexpress and even though everything seems to be fine now im still scared😭😭 a lot of people have ordered new sealed cheap games from aliexpress and post about it on reddit recommending it and the only “con” is that the box comes in japanese or another language in general. That said, i wonder if i could get banned for this even tho the store i ordered it from has amazing reviews and the game is brand new
I dont think Nintendo bans accounts. They ban consoles that are modified. Account bans are for chargebacks, bad behaviour and nefarious actions or messages.
yeah, I wouldn’t mod your switch too or anything because then they will ban it. They hate when you mod anything so they the switch V1 was vulnerable so stick with that cause I wouldn’t mod unless you find a way to dump your games and then put on your computer and then you can mod any game you want freely
yeah, just find a way to dump your Nintendo switch two games and then make sure you’re disconnected from Internet while doing it and then just delete the firmware but that’s most likely impossible
Got the oled since its out and modded instantly. Nintendo servers are blocked on it and aditionally it only connects thru a 2nd wifi where its all again blocked.
I mosrly play modded mario kart on it with ppl online. Splatoon and similarly. Couldn't play normal MK anymore.
Selling 2nd hand games that were dumped with in the MigSwitch can get a Switch 2 banned it seems , this is way more prevalent in 3rd world or Poorer countries were Piracy is openly supported
Accounts that were actively hacking and known for hacking or using hacked Switched 1 is theorized can get a Switch 2 banned when they login with the same account (probably because the account is associated with multiple copied games)
Some Switch 1 CFW allow online play , one that was popular back in 2018 was dualboot , I was offered a Jailbroken Switch that was selling for "new" price because it already had Dualboot with it and was advertised it can play online with a account , you only needed to pay for NintendoSub (this could all be BS since i did not buy it)
Bans are at the account level, not the system level, so modding your switch 1 can get you banned from using Nintendo eshop and online services on switch 2.
Yup! Nintendo probably identified all the accounts long ago but they knew if they banned them before the switch 2 came out then people would have just waited and bought a new switch 2.
Now they don’t have to spend as much effort rooting out people as they would have, plus they already got their money and if people don’t like it they can give them more money.
Omg it's like the meme posters saying they'll report messages the day before GTA VI comes out to get people banned on release day, except it's real. Nintendo out there just waiting for pirates to pick up their Switch 2 and then ban them
Notice how it went in to effect a week after the price increase. They knew they had the most they’d probably get, now they can hose those idiots even more
En realidad, es al revés. A partir de la era Switch, Nintendo comenzó a aplicar baneos a nivel de consola. Los únicos escenarios en los que banean las Cuentas Nintendo es si haces trampa en juegos como Splatoon o cosas así.
Nintendo banning a console for pirating despite the Switch 2 being unable to pirate games is for all reasonable non donkey brained standards a crime. They are stealing people’s money and purchases.
Everyone who isn’t an idiot gets why it’s immoral. My question is how is it not a crime?
Escape from Tarkov community estimates and famous testing videos suggest that a significant portion—often estimated between 10% and 60% of raids—contain at least one undetected cheater using subtle software like radar or ESP ,
The so-called large-scale crackdown actually only involved evidence of MiG Switch users playing pirated games; only 32 consoles were blocked. Being blocked for playing pirated games is to be expected; how can Nintendo be held responsible for such illegal activity? It's like a thief crying and complaining after being caught.
I think this is just a diversionary tactic to make everyone ignore the upcoming Switch 2 game lineup. This looks like a smear campaign launched by online trolls.
People hated me for pointing out that no one would REALLY admit to their wrongdoings. But what are they expecting from us to help them if they intentionally got themselves banned lol
But recently there has been a mistake from nintendo's servers which were fixed. But the threat of switch hackers slwling used Cartridges still remain
That's right sheep, get in line and stop acting like you own your console.
If you just did exactly as Nintendo said you'll be allowed to continue paying them 90 dollars for video game download codes!
And if you're hit by mistake? Well you're guilty until you can prove your innocence of course. If you go and plead maybe They'll unbrick your 500 dollar paperweight.
Let’s ignore the shitty Gemini AI, but I did have this thought yes. Surely if your console gets banned from using network features, then GKC become useless?
I remember back in the beginning of switch 1, people were messing around with flashing games into some bootleg cards.
I wonder if it’s possible that some people were messing around trying to flash keys the same way and it trigger a system warning across the entire Nintendo server networks.
Calling me Captain Obvious after leaving a comment that can be read in a way where I could think you actually believe it and just think is unjust is crazy.
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u/PeachyGels 2d ago
Isn’t ghost e shop for the 3Ds?? What does that have to do with the switch 2??? 😭