On 2016-04-28, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
> In article <5721ce05$0$21805$b1db1813$
d2f0...@news.astraweb.com>,
> Russell Marks <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:
>>Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>>
>>> All kidding aside, the only time it did happen to me was with Nintendo
>>> Club rewards that were yanked when they implemented the updated account
>>> system all those years ago. Without a way of clearly mapping owned
>>> software titles forward from the old store to the new store, there was no
>>> good way for Nintendo to stop people from endlessly duplicating downloaded
>>> 3DS games over and over again unless they just wiped all the files as part
>>> of the OS update. And since all my content was Nintendo Club rewards, I
>>> didn't technically lose any money either.
>>
>>Sounds pretty grim. They really just deleted them all? I'm surprised I
>>haven't noticed more fuss about that generally.
>>
>
> I think it was because most of the people who were affected were casual
> gamers or other infrequent downloaders who were less likely to notice or
> to care. Because of the way Nintendo was managing the club and the store
> at the time, the hardcore gamers were unaffected. Or more likely, were all
> running 3DS units with custom firmware at the time. :/
>
> There's precedent for DLC disappearing without a lot of warning. One of
> the US e-book sellers remotely deleted everybody's copy of a particular
> classic novel, because their licence to distribute ran out and they
> misinterpreted that to mean that previously-sold copies were also to be
> withdrawn. Interestingly the book in question was Orwell's 1984.