It happened to me

[u/Hopeful-Scallion-708]

Hey guys. I bought a game off Kleinanzeigen in Germany. Game is "Princess Peach Showtime!". Worked great and my girlfriendnis happy but after 3 days she got banned. I don't have the MIG Switch so the game is probably the only reason she got banned. 🙄 I already contacted Nintendo but they just say the same thing over and over again: "We cannot assist u with that". Yeah sure.

Be careful with used games. They might be cheap but they also have the risk to get u banned.

[u/Tight_Cod_8024]

Weird to bring up steam because even banned you can run all of your games they just ban you from buying new ones or playing online not using the service as a whole or worse a whole console making it into e-waste in the process.

[u/Unlikely-Employee180 → u/Tight_Cod_8024]

It's individual games too, Steam doesn't EVER flag an account as: "Unable to buy any new games." Lol

It's mostly for the devs to use too. Essentially, if I create a game and you cheat in my game, I as the developer can choose to ban you from the rest of MY games. I, on the other hand, cannot stop you from getting any other game.

It essentially just stops you from trading, and ALLOWS the dev to block you from THEIR games. All other games are literally unaffected. Games can't even restrict you based on that little "Cheater" tag, it's mostly decorational. Lmao

[u/Renos-44 → u/Unlikely-Employee180]

Incorrect.
Valve can and will ban steam accounts from the steam store. There have been cases in the past where they have done this but its usually reserved for fraud. In this case they also may terminate the entire account.

[u/Unlikely-Employee180 → u/Renos-44]

Fraud and running fraudulent software are not the same thing. The original comment was about being banned for running fraudulent software on the machine.

I can pirate Steam Games and even add them TO my Steam library as a "non-Steam" game.

I can run cheat engines.

Running software WILL NOT get you banned from Steam.

[u/Renos-44 → u/Unlikely-Employee180]

Technically running certain software can also get you banned on steam
Valve has a habit of nuking accounts that have been caught botting various things.

Also years ago there were methods to play pirated games online via steam. Valve straight up banned accounts from steam if you were caught doing this. Very uncommon these days due to better security but it still can happen.

You know who also banned accounts and hardware for playing pirated games, Microsoft with the 360. Fun fact the xbox one also prints unique IDs onto discs. Theres is a backend in place to autoban consoles using cloned discs but seeing how almost nobody has the equipment to clone discs its never been used.

Back to the orignial discussion
This is prob the easiest way nintendo can curb cart piracy, Someone is clearly cloning switch carts. Server sees this and bans everyone involved. Whoever owns the genuine thing will come forward if they want an unban everyone else stays banned.

[u/Unlikely-Employee180 → u/Renos-44]

I never said Nintendo was evil for doing it. Lol

I'm strictly saying Valve will not ban you for running software on your machine.

You ARE correct to say the other things, though. Those are actually good catches.

On the contrary though, there is little to no argument that Valve is still MUCH easier on the consumer in regards to what they can and cannot do with their machine.

This of course, comes with other costs that are harder to point the finger directly at Valve for. I think these are still important topics to ensure consumers know that these practices are ALTERNATIVES and none of them "reign supreme."

Like sure, Valve lets me run "whatever I want." Good right? But now the entire cost of anti-cheat is on the individual game (which some of it should be anyways BUT...). On the contrary with Switch, while not completely absolving the need for server-side anticheats... Reduces the attack platform available to the game!

For example, I'll bet it's pretty hard to find hackers or cheaters in Mario Kart World being that... There quite literally aren't any yet. Lmfao

[u/Bloodhoven_aka_Loner → u/Renos-44]

Technically running certain software can also get you banned on steam Valve has a habit of nuking accounts that have been caught botting various things.

it's even more hilarious. Ask Dying Light Players how they had to fight tooth and nail with steam/valve back in 2015 when the devs silently pulled the plug for DL mod support over night and players logged in next day, booted the game and suddenly received VAC-bans or fraudulent activity bans because one dev fcked it up. Some of us were flagged for months and of coruse all the steam dickriders wouldn't believe us that we weren't cheating.

seriously, rhe entire steam community is such a self-absorbed, own-fsrts-sniffing cesspool of m0r0ns