Dragona Akehi said:
I still find it hilariously ironic that the people Nintendo were targeting, homebrewers, knew about the dangers of the update and refrained, thus only hitting (and bricking) people who don't even know what HBC is. And then ~72 hours later, there's a complete workaround for homebrew. Again.
And thats precisely why Nintendo should just quit trying to kill pirating on the Wii.
I really have no problem with them battling pirates, but on the Wii its a lost cause in the most literal sense. The console is so easily hacked, and so opened up as is, that pirates are not going to be defeated. As has been shown by a huge amount of the 4.2 update, an update
specifically targeted towards homebrewers, already circumnavigated and further hacks on the way.
On top of that a vast majority of pirates are going to be keeping up to speed with all firmware updates. They had to go through the procedure of installing custom IOSs so theyre tech savvy to some degree, and would know the places that keep updated on latest news. They see that the 4.2 update can damage homebrew and thus do not update.
So who gets hurt? Everbody else. With the fundamental risk of the 4.2 update being the
actual fucking update, regardless of whether you have homebrew or not, youre left with a lot of people who dont pirate, who dont even know what homebrew is, as the people most likely to be hit with a brick. Theyre the people who these kinds of updates are supposed to protect.
Its really very shameful. Even if its not remotely a widespread issue, the fact the issue exists from a company of such size and wealth as Nintendo is truly pathetic.
