Wii U digital games are tied to your console?

[daze23]

just reading this shyt on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1rztsp/my_wii_u_broke_and_i_replaced_it_with_my_warranty/

The disc drive on my Wii U was broken, but luckily I had the receipt so I simply returned it. Get home and try to sign in to my account and it tells me it is already tied to another Wii U.

I contacted Nintendo customer support and was told that I can only get my games back if I have access to both the broken one and my new one and I send it to Nintendo.

Since I no longer have the original console I have now lost all my games, £100's gone.

How can they be this bad? Why did I have to make an account if it is tied to that Wii U and that Wii U alone? I'll not be buying a Nintendo system ever again now.

 

[Raiders]

Yeah it's B.S a big reason I havent got a Wii U yet

 

[Liquid]

I thought you would have known this @daze23

its one of the reasons why Nintendo is losing people. Stupid ass policies

 

[daze23]

I thought you would have known this @daze23

its one of the reasons why Nintendo is losing people. Stupid ass policies

this shyt is like the twilight zone to me. I would murdalize someone if that happened to me

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

I thought you would have known this @daze23

its one of the reasons why Nintendo is losing people. Stupid ass policies

thats not one of the reasons nintendo is losing people.

 

[Rekkapryde]

thats not one of the reasons nintendo is losing people.

it aint helping though...

 

[KevCo]

Who doesnt use externals these days? I dont got shyt on any system for when they kick thebucket....

 

[daze23]

Nintendo seems to be behind in many things and none of them are really technical matters

 

[Champion]

I bought Earthbound and Ace Attorney this year with no fukks given.

 

[Champion]

it aint helping though...

Exactly.
This and many other things start to add up after a while and make their hardware unappealing.

 

[Responsible Allen Iverson]

Who doesnt use externals these days? I dont got shyt on any system for when they kick thebucket....

I don't think it will let you launch the games from a different Wii U

 

[Kodie]

its one of the reasons why Nintendo is losing people. Stupid ass policies

I imagine the average person has no knowledge of this whatsoever.

 

[Family Man]

Yeah. That's some bullshyt. That's why I will only get physical games for the Wii U Instead on using their store to buy digital games. They need to get with the times and hurry with that unified account policy they claimed they have been working on.

 

[B86]

I wouldn't feel right downloading any Nintendo game. Don't ask me how, it just aint right to download Mario for some reason