Should Nintendo ban cheaters?

We've known about online cheating for ages, but the newest Nintendo game to be attacked by it seems to be Mario Kart Wii, and unlike the usual idiots who just cheat in races, these guys are messing with the high score boards and effectivly breaking a portion of the game for the rest of us (that we pay for when we buy the game)

http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11695&loginerror=2

So, what do you guys think, should these people be banned? I don't care how harsh it seems, this isn't like an excidental traffic infringment, these people know exactly what they're doing, they've even palstered thier names for everyone to see. The high score board would keep track of friends and system codes, so, in my opinion, Nintendo should just ban them, hopefully from the whole online Wii system, make an example out of them. It'd sure solve the problem, and if that seems harsh, make it a timed ban.

Either way, Nintendo has to do something. Keep in mind we're not talking about idiots who make themselves go faster on online matches that you can just leave and forget about, we're talking about people who destroy online systems, in this case, permenantly nullifying high score lists.

EDIT: acctually, a perma-ban from the game the infringment occured on (Mario Kart) and a temporary ban accross the whole system I think would be the best solution.

We've known about online cheating for ages, but the newest Nintendo game to be attacked by it seems to be Mario Kart Wii, and unlike the usual idiots who just cheat in races, these guys are messing with the high score boards and effectivly breaking a portion of the game for the rest of us (that we pay for when we buy the game)

http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11695&loginerror=2

So, what do you guys think, should these people be banned? I don't care how harsh it seems, this isn't like an excidental traffic infringment, these people know exactly what they're doing, they've even palstered thier names for everyone to see. The high score board would keep track of friends and system codes, so, in my opinion, Nintendo should just ban them, hopefully from the whole online Wii system, make an example out of them. It'd sure solve the problem, and if that seems harsh, make it a timed ban.

Either way, Nintendo has to do something. Keep in mind we're not talking about idiots who make themselves go faster on online matches that you can just leave and forget about, we're talking about people who destroy online systems, in this case, permenantly nullifying high score lists.

They should make them eat a jar of Marmite.

...unless they live in the Oceanic region. Then they have to eat a jar of something tasty.

Three strikes....

Strike One: Temp ban from the game.
Strike Two: Temp ban from all online play
Strike Three: Perma ban on all online play

The list posted above sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Is it even possible for a complete ban? Banning a specific friend code account for a single game would probably work, but could Nintendo ban them from every game?JordanElek

I suppose it depends on how their servers were set up, and if specific Wii's can be identified and blocked.

i think nintendo should nothing because iam one of them!yonaswii08

What...? You understand you're ruining a perfectly good experience for others just for your 5 minutes of fun, right?

Cheaters, glitchers, and hackers are all just sore losers that don't understand the concept of "fun" in a video game. They win, but through pathetic means that wreck the experience for everyone. It's like that for every game and it's frustrating trying to play a game when someone else is destroying the game.

i think nintendo should do nothing because iam one of them!yonaswii08

"this" is prolly the reason why I stopped playing online games for the DS, although it has only been 3 weeks since i managed to make my nintendo wifi work

[QUOTE="JordanElek"]Is it even possible for a complete ban? Banning a specific friend code account for a single game would probably work, but could Nintendo ban them from every game?ThePlothole

I suppose it depends on how their servers were set up, and if specific Wii's can be identified and blocked.

I think it should be possible, i mean, we at least know it would be via friend codes, as every online game is linked using them. I would think though as this is part of an online score list, Nintendo would have to store some sort of ID to tell people apart. The friend code is obvious, but that will only allow banning on a single game, but I think they may also store the wii system code, it wouldn't take much effort to do and Nintendo should have considered that it may come in useful down the track if they do need to identify a user...

Ban forever from everything.Jaysonguy

this.

It doesn't sound to me like we're talking about the kind of cheating that can be on accident here. Nor does it sound like the kind of thing your friend you invite over does on your Wii while you aren't paying attention. While not explicitely stated, this sounds like intentional and blatant hacking to alter statistical rankings in the game, and it should not be tolerated under any circumstances if Nintendo wants anyone to take their online market seriously. If it were something as mild as taking a shortcut and ticking someone off because you came out ahead of them, or something like snaking, that's laughable. What is part of the game cannot be cheating.

Ban forever from all online Wii play.

Well if theyre screwing around with highscore board that's one thing. If they just learned to snake in the game and are good at it that's another. I don't see why people complain about snaking in MK DS. The people who learn wanted to win really badly, if you want to win really badly... well I guess you know what you have to do.

But since there hacking the leader boards yeah they should be banned.

I'm very glad most of the people who posted in this thread don't work for the government.

For starters, the punishment must be relative to the crime - a man who has modified his stats has not modified the game, only the scoreboard. THerefore the only relevant retributive action is one that affects his ability to operate the scoreboard.
Secondly, Nintendo will never completely ban someone from the Wifi. Ultimately they're a corporation that's concerned about making money. It's hard for them to make money while actively preventing people from playing their games.

Nintendo should fix the method that these people are using to hack their scoreboards and reset the offender's scores back to zero.

They should make them eat a jar of Marmite.

...unless they live in the Oceanic region. Then they have to eat a jar of something tasty.

bob_newman

Oooooo Ouch.

i think nintendo should nothing because iam one of them!yonaswii08

I seen it before when I saw the leaderboards for some tracks and thought how is that even possible? For Grumble Volcano they got :20 seconds and I'm just sitting there like wtf? thats like a 3:00 min. track. So this is whats going on. Yeah ban them. Kick em out. Nintendo probably won't do anything, but they should cuz its just not fair to let them stay on top for cheating. XDXDXDXDXDXDXD

Should they, well thats opinion based. Will they, definately doubtful. Im more concerned with them fixing online for Brawl before cheating in Mario Kart which looks to be a bit disappointing anywaysWPBBALLER

They should add leadboards, stats, ranks, stuff like that to Brawl's online. And then fix the "against anyone" matches, cause they never connect.

We've known about online cheating for ages, but the newest Nintendo game to be attacked by it seems to be Mario Kart Wii, and unlike the usual idiots who just cheat in races, these guys are messing with the high score boards and effectivly breaking a portion of the game for the rest of us (that we pay for when we buy the game)

http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11695&loginerror=2

So, what do you guys think, should these people be banned? I don't care how harsh it seems, this isn't like an excidental traffic infringment, these people know exactly what they're doing, they've even palstered thier names for everyone to see. The high score board would keep track of friends and system codes, so, in my opinion, Nintendo should just ban them, hopefully from the whole online Wii system, make an example out of them. It'd sure solve the problem, and if that seems harsh, make it a timed ban.

Either way, Nintendo has to do something. Keep in mind we're not talking about idiots who make themselves go faster on online matches that you can just leave and forget about, we're talking about people who destroy online systems, in this case, permenantly nullifying high score lists.

EDIT: acctually, a perma-ban from the game the infringment occured on (Mario Kart) and a temporary ban accross the whole system I think would be the best solution.

DriftRS

No, I don't think they should be banned from a videogame because they cheat. Either banned for a certain amount of time, or Nintendo can remove all their scores and then put a mark beside their names so when people are racing against him/her, they know that the person they are racing against has a history of cheating.forgot_it

totally agree with yu man, but think these people, can play online, but never put their records on the boards..

Nintendo encourages cheating. So will they ever take action against cheaters? No.chefstubbies

please explain that to me how does nintedo encourages cheating??

No offence to nintendo (they are amazing!!!) but i doubt they will do somethingpenguingamer13

They should ban them from the game for a limited time.Thiago26792

i think nintendo should nothing because iam one of them!yonaswii08

you are one of the ppl who destroy video games fun and chalenge..YOU MUST DIE!

Ban forever from everything.Jaysonguy

Unbelievably, I agree with Jaysonguy 100%. (Please note that this will never happen again.)

Nintendo would probably never take as drastic a step as this, but they should be able to block them out with a mandatory system update that closes the cheating loopholes. I'm guessing this is the course of action they'll take, but who knows how long until it's up.

They should be banned from online games forever.