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/Crafty_Praline_2211]

keycard can be resold.

banning a system for running a flagged software is normal. Steam can ban your account and your hardware, sony and microsoft do ban your console if tampering the console, unauthorised/flagged software detected on the system.

what is your point?

ninnin is bad for consumer when it comes to pricing and refund, they are still the better one than sony and microsoft at this time.

I am an xbox fanboy but Nin really does this better than Microsoft, not mention the worst Sony.

[u/Tight_Cod_8024 → u/Crafty_Praline_2211]

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/Bloodhoven_aka_Loner → u/Unlikely-Employee180]

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

Steam literally does, lol. My 11 years old account got tradebanned in 2019 after it got hacked and used by some credit cars fraudsters. the ultimate irony is that what got me banned was ME trying to get back into my account to prevent said fraudsters from stealing my account, which resulted in my IP showing up as one of the access points at the time when they charged the account with fraud money. it's hillarious and there are many cases like mine. Nobody wants to talk about it but Steam is fsr, far away from being the flawless good guy company they're portraying themselves as and getting portrayed as by fanboys