Nintendo Wii U

[Not Thread Owner]

Not quite as annoying but you cannot buy the Nintendo points cards from the stars catalogue for the Wii mode on WiiU. Their system only allows points cards to be generated if they are linked to a Club Nintendo account and that option has been removed from the Wii shop on WiiU and it doesn't take into account the Club Nintendo account linked to the system.

Are you sure? I've used points cards (codes) other people have generated from *their* Stars Catalogue.

[ryodi]

The account has to be linked to a Club Nintendo account to generate them. If they're still using a Wii it should be fine but using a WiiU in Wii mode doesn't let you link your account so I've got no way of generating a code unless I dig out my old Wii and link it to that.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

The watershed thing itself isn't even the worst thing (although it's hilariously bad of course), but it's the hours themselves. I mean seriously, who the fuck is awake between 11pm and 4am bar night shifters, benefit scroungers and students?

[Not Thread Owner]

The watershed thing itself isn't even the worst thing (although it's hilariously bad of course), but it's the hours themselves. I mean seriously, who the fuck is awake between 11pm and 4am bar night shifters, benefit scroungers and students?

13 year old boys playing BLOPS2.

[Camel]

The watershed thing itself isn't even the worst thing (although it's hilariously bad of course), but it's the hours themselves. I mean seriously, who the fuck is awake between 11pm and 4am bar night shifters, benefit scroungers and students?

Me.

It is hilariously stupid though.

[JPickford]

The watershed thing itself isn't even the worst thing (although it's hilariously bad of course), but it's the hours themselves. I mean seriously, who the fuck is awake between 11pm and 4am bar night shifters, benefit scroungers and students?

[Yiggy]

It doesn't sound like they plan on changing it anytime soon.

Okay. I take it back. They're fucking idiots.

[scottcr]

I actually think this is, in quite a long last, the single daftest thing I've seen the company do.

Basically, what it says to me is that NoE really don't think of life outside of Germany at all. Is it why CoD isn't available on eShop at all?

[Barny]

But if it's some German law, why is it then a problem now? Why hasn't it been properly advertised that this would happen? If it's a new law then Nintendo must have known it was happening. And they could have taken precautions. Unless it was planned all along?

Are they stupid? Or incompetent? Or both?

[scottcr]

I don't see any reason why they can't use TECHNOLOGY to restrict what people see based on their IP addresses? If it's a German law, fine, sucks to be German. But it does not apply here in the UK.

[iris]

I wonder what would happen if you started downloading them and ran out of time? Would the download get cut off? Let's be honest though, nobody would download them anyway. As has been said, nobody even noticed it was in place until a week later. And people are talking about one or two xbla titles that would fall foul, after 7 years 1 or 2 titles.

[Not Thread Owner]

I think it *does* apply here though. They can't provide 18+ content from Germany in those times - regardless of who they provide it to.

Nintendo need to find a workaround (servers elsewhere), but it's still an applicable law.

[iris]

Seems the Pegi ratings only became legally enforceable recently. Perhaps that's something to do with it? Perhaps we'll see Sony and MS hammered soon for not having tight enough controls? Is a PIN sufficient? Most kids set their own consoles up one would imagine. Strange though, you could have Slaughterfuck 3 in the drive of the machine and not be able to download Slaughterfuck 4.

[moosegrinder]

You can buy BBFC rated games from Games on Demand, XBLA and PSN so I don't think it'll make a blind bit of difference to them.

[Camel]

I love how Nintendo have spent money and time developing penis-detection software but won't put resources into developing parental controls for downloading 18+ titles from their online store.

[Not Thread Owner]

I love how Nintendo have spent money and time developing penis-detection software

They haven't. That was a joke some site put up.

Anyway! Here's my Little Inferno "review":

http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary/2012/12/little-inferno-wii-u-completed/

[SMD]

They what?

[Camel]

Ah damn.

[FSW]

you could have Slaughterfuck 3 in the drive of the machine and not be able to download Slaughterfuck 4.

I haven't played the first two yet! I blame the Germans.

[Yiggy]

I haven't played the first two yet! I blame the Germans.

If Parental controls are set up even Slaughterfuck in the drive won't play though.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Just imagine not being able to view any 18+ material at all unless it's between 11pm-3am. What if you wanted a quick cheeky tug after dinner?

[Harsin]

Maybe Nintendo expects customers to look along railway sidings for CoD videos.

[Not Thread Owner]

Just imagine not being able to view any 18+ material at all unless it's between 11pm-3am. What if you wanted a quick cheeky tug after dinner?

Eat later?

[scottcr]

I'm assuming the eShop is also subject to German game censorship laws as well... is that the reason CoD isn't available as a download?

[JPickford]

I'm assuming the eShop is also subject to German game censorship laws as well... is that the reason CoD isn't available as a download?

Most likely the publisher didn't think it was worth the effort for a 4 hour window on a digital title priced over the odds.

[pulsemyne]

Well ZombieU is 18 and that's on there. It's most likely due to activision being morons. Anyway It's time for nintendo to come back to the UK we are the biggest market in the EU for games after all.

[Hitcher]

How the hell do they sell these games in Germany if they can't be displayed during shop opening hours?

[hub2]

It's worse still if you want to buy a physical copy from an online store. You must go to the post office with ID and get a 'certificate' which you then have to send to the retailer.

http://www.deutschepost.de/dpag?xmlFile=link1017202_1009859〈=de_EN

[SMD]

Fucking hell Germany. Coupled with their torrents laws they seem to fuck consumers over

[JPickford]

It's most likely due to activision being morons.

What's moronic about it? If the shop is effectively only open 4 hours per day and selling the game at way above most retailers it's most likely not worth the effort. Not sure I would bother putting an 18 rated game on the store until it at least operates all day.