Current Events > Your reaction: In response, America bans video games.

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UnfairRepresent
09/11/25 1:21:09 PM
#1:


All video games, new and pre-owned are now banned and any time you try to play a game on a device that is or was connected to the internet, the game won't play and instead you get a message pop-up saying

"Valuing our commitment to legal compliance and user safety, we must inform you that access to [Game Name] will no longer be available for users in the United States. Pursuant to recent changes in US legislation, we are required to adjust our services to remain in full compliance."

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/37591dad.jpg

Inverse to "in solidarity with the United States" if you live somewhere else. VPNs won't get around it, it's too late.

How do you react?
What do you do?

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Strider102
09/11/25 1:24:11 PM
#2:


Just don't download the newest updates

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UnfairRepresent
09/11/25 1:25:12 PM
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Strider102 posted...
Just don't download the newest updates
It's too late.

This is automatic provided your device is connected to the internet.

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VeggetaX
09/11/25 1:25:58 PM
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Depends on how much gaming companies have bribed Trump

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jefffan
09/11/25 1:26:05 PM
#5:


While not the primary reason, this is why I hope the PS6 offers a disc only version in addition to digital.

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DarthEnvoy
09/11/25 1:27:04 PM
#6:


UnfairRepresent posted...
It's too late.

This is automatic provided your device is connected to the internet.
Nothing a simple factory reset and not connecting back to the internet can't solve. I guess all online games are now ded as a doornail, but single player are all fair game.

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UnfairRepresent
09/11/25 1:29:52 PM
#7:


DarthEnvoy posted...
Nothing a simple factory reset and not connecting back to the internet can't solve.

It persists even through that. The new update can't be deleted or reset.

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JoeDangIt
09/11/25 1:30:44 PM
#8:


I don't know how I'd react but for the first time in history video games would be the cause for widespread violence.
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Solar_Crimson
09/11/25 1:31:06 PM
#9:


UnfairRepresent posted...
It persists even through that. The new update can't be deleted or reset.
Do you know what a factory reset is?

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Shotgunnova
09/11/25 1:31:15 PM
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TFW you're double-crossed at the vidya speakeasy:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/be50d465.jpg

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DarthEnvoy
09/11/25 1:32:00 PM
#11:


Thinking it over, I guess all digital games are also fucked. And I bought most of my recent games digitally... so I'm fucked either way lmao

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UnsteadyOwl
09/11/25 1:32:36 PM
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I still have retro consoles I can play. So unless the feds are going to go door-to-door and take everyone's video games I'd be fine.

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UnfairRepresent
09/11/25 1:32:58 PM
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Solar_Crimson posted...
Do you know what a factory reset is?
Do you know what a hypothetical is?

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jefffan
09/11/25 1:34:26 PM
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UnsteadyOwl posted...
I still have retro consoles I can play. So unless the feds are going to go door-to-door and take everyone's video games I'd be fine.
It's be sad if they did it for video games and not for guns

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Syfe
09/11/25 1:40:47 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
It persists even through that. The new update can't be deleted or reset.

This is some super childhood "You shot me and I turned into dust and you inhaled the dust and you died" kind of thinking. Haha.
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ai123
09/11/25 1:42:57 PM
#16:


What can you do?

Just play on old consoles/offline.

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WingsOfGood
09/11/25 1:44:27 PM
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asmongold would have a melty
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Voidgolem
09/11/25 1:51:24 PM
#18:


beyond the part where there's no mechanism to enforce this, I'm pretty sure the games lobby has enough money to get the right wing to fuck off if they suggested this

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UnfairRepresent
09/11/25 1:54:51 PM
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Voidgolem posted...
beyond the part where there's no mechanism to enforce this
I mean the mechanism is the far right orders companies to bark and companies instantly roll over and bark like dogs

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WingsOfGood
09/11/25 1:57:43 PM
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Voidgolem posted...
I'm pretty sure the games lobby has enough money to get the right wing to f*** off if they suggested this

worked well for tariffs?

also RFK literally already suggested it
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Voidgolem
09/11/25 1:58:26 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
I mean the mechanism is the far right orders companies to bark and companies instantly roll over and bark like dogs

companies go "alright sure we'll put that on the backlog" and then nothing gets done because implementation costs money that no amount of idealoguing provides

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The_Popo
09/11/25 1:58:40 PM
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Glad I kept all of my retro consoles and games

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WingsOfGood
09/11/25 1:59:10 PM
#23:


The_Popo posted...
Glad I kept all of my retro consoles and games

digital is the future!
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AFreeby
09/11/25 1:59:15 PM
#24:


UnfairRepresent posted...
It persists even through that. The new update can't be deleted or reset.
Your hypothetical simply doesnt work, as there are a ton of actual work arounds.

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StarFighters76
09/11/25 2:00:00 PM
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First, it won't happen. Second, well, at least I reached my 5,000th map milestone lol.

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UnfairRepresent
09/11/25 2:00:12 PM
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AFreeby posted...
Your hypothetical simply doesnt work, as their a ton of actual work arounds.

Your work around simply doesn't work, they worked around it.

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uwnim
09/11/25 2:00:48 PM
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Good thing my 3DS hasnt been connected to the internet in years.

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doshindude
09/11/25 2:02:22 PM
#28:


Jailbroken 3DS and Wii U says "eat me" to that

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AFreeby
09/11/25 2:02:39 PM
#29:


UnfairRepresent posted...
Your work around simply doesn't work, they worked around it.
Again, your hypothetical doesnt work, unless you are using magic or some shit, in which case Im not even humoring this, as it is simply unrealistic. If you cant think of a way for them to actually enforce this ban, using real world tech, that couldnt be deleted or hacked, (which all things can) then it is simply a bad hypothetical.

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UnfairRepresent
09/11/25 2:08:21 PM
#30:


AFreeby posted...
Again, your hypothetical doesnt work, unless you are using magic or some shit, in which case Im not even humoring this, as it is simply unrealistic

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/833ef616.png

. If you cant think of a way for them to actually enforce this ban, using real world tech, that couldnt be deleted or hacked, (which all things can) then it is simply a bad hypothetical.

I already did. You just went "Nuh-uh, I got an everything proof shield!"

There's already malware that can survive a factory reset as we speak.

The notion that a block to gaming could be put through via the internet connection is like most believable part of this hypothetical.

I just think you're too cowardly and lack the imagination to answer it honestly, so you do this weird little "I'm too smart for this" dance instead like a kid trying to make excuses for why he won't join in dodgeball and pretending it's not because he lost the last 37 games

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Raiden2909
09/11/25 2:09:10 PM
#31:


be pissed because it will somehow effect me in Canada because sadly shit that goes down in the U.S inevitably hits us up here in canada
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Calwings
09/11/25 2:25:49 PM
#32:


Sucks that I'd lose my Switch and Xbox, but I'd still have my 3DS and Wii U (both are homebrewed and have been disconnected from the internet for the past 2 years) and my Anbernic emulator handheld (also has no internet connection) so...

UnsteadyOwl posted...
unless the feds are going to go door-to-door and take everyone's video games I'd be fine.

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KJ_StErOiDs
09/11/25 2:28:24 PM
#33:


Itd be rough. All my old PCs have touched the internet.

Id start gaming again on my SNES and N64; the SNES having some of my top 10 games of all time. But to be fair, gaming just wouldnt the hobby for me it once was.


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ReturnOfDevsman
09/11/25 2:29:53 PM
#34:


Ugh I guess I'll have to go outside.

For the four days it takes for them to realize they just canned an industry that made $60B last year and paid who knows how much in taxes.

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Thompson
09/11/25 2:33:35 PM
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Vidya keep people happy and complacent. Vidya gone, happy gone, complacency gone. Very angry ensues. Nepal riot happen in America.

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Phanir
09/11/25 2:34:02 PM
#36:


GameCube time for me.

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CobraGT
09/11/25 2:37:59 PM
#37:


No

Video gamers will be banned. Most of us have at least one current account with Steam, Nintendo, PlayStationNetwork, XBOX. On the up side it will take the Trump Admin a while to set up the camps. I predict it will take a year and a half before we are collected.

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cheat4ever
09/11/25 2:38:25 PM
#38:


I have 2 PS2s, a BC PS3, a PS4 that never touched the internet [...~150ish games between them], 80+ GoG games and another 50+ on disc.

...and you can outlaw anime while you're at it, I have a 2300hr+ collection of that too.

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Zikten
09/11/25 2:40:01 PM
#39:


ai123 posted...
What can you do?

Just play on old consoles/offline.
Until the fbi raids your house for your old offline games
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Accolon
09/11/25 2:41:53 PM
#40:


They can have my controller when they pry it from my cold dead hands

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Mad-Dogg
09/11/25 2:43:39 PM
#41:


I still got a very generous physical PS5 and PS4 game library alongside the digital games, and same goes for the switch and every generation of gaming before that. I easily have enough offline games to last the rest of my natural life-span if something drastic like that happened.

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creativerealms
09/11/25 2:50:09 PM
#42:


Conservative Gamers will say this is a victory in the war against woke politics in games.

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PballDepot
09/11/25 3:13:33 PM
#43:


Time to get bootlegging

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/ae315490.jpg

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joaquintall
09/11/25 3:19:17 PM
#44:


Laugh up you guys from up in Canada because all of this was preventable.

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FL81
09/11/25 4:34:09 PM
#45:


Guess I'm an outlaw now..

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rick_alverado
09/11/25 4:52:45 PM
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I'd be confused why that would be getting enforced up here in Canada. And I guess I would no longer be able to play my Switch or any games on PC or mobile. So I'd be limited to games on my NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, Wii U, GBA, DS, 3DS, Virtual Boy, PS3, PSP, original Xbox, Atari 7800, and various Game & Watches.
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KeeperOfShadows
09/11/25 5:00:06 PM
#47:


Time to find a place in Japan.

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Letsago
09/11/25 5:03:25 PM
#48:


Calwings posted...
Sucks that I'd lose my Switch and Xbox, but I'd still have my 3DS and Wii U (both are homebrewed and have been disconnected from the internet for the past 2 years) and my Anbernic emulator handheld (also has no internet connection) so...
Does it matter if it's homebrewed or not? I thought Nintendo disabled Internet for 3DS and Wii U

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thenotoriouscat
09/11/25 5:09:43 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/41456388.jpg

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rick_alverado
09/11/25 5:13:54 PM
#50:


Letsago posted...
Does it matter if it's homebrewed or not? I thought Nintendo disabled Internet for 3DS and Wii U

They shut down game servers, but you can still connect to the internet. Currently you can even still access the eShop and redownload games, just not buy new ones.
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