Guess Who Just Lost Absolutely Everything on His 3DS? :D

[BullockDS]

So, yep. I've been trying since 9am yesterday (for me it's 5:33pm ATM) to transfer my games and data from my old 3DS to the 3DSXL I got for Christmas. Terrible luck with Nintendo's servers constantly dropping my connection.

 

About half an hour ago I was finally able to engage in a System Transfer, but then it happened.

 

AT THE VERY LAST SECOND MY MOTHERHUMPING 3DSXL DROPPED ITS CONNECTION AND I'VE LOST EVERYTHING.

 

No more Ambassador GBA games, no more hours I've logged into various digital download/Virtual Console games, no more Miis, no more Streetpass/Mii Plaza data, nada. All gone. I'd wager that I lost over $200 worth of games.

 

I love you Nintendo, which is why I think it's all the more important for me to say that you desperately need to get on top of your online affairs. Sony, Microsoft, and Steam were able to sort their shit out by day's end yesterday, at least for the most part (and the former two had to deal with a wave of new consoles on a Christmas right after their console launches). Your service errors were excusable by circumstance of the Christmas wave yesterday, but the fact that your servers are still borked well into today is appalling and embarrassing.

 

I don't care about Nintendo being "behind" in graphics, or gore, or whatever, but when they're lagging behind the competition in terms of online integration and trying to push more digital downloads, that's a real problem and it can seriously damage Nintendo.

 

I'm not just gonna outright boycott Nintendo, nor even just the 3DS. I probably won't be playing it again for a while (i.e. 'till Smash 4) though, cuz frankly seeing how myself and many others got the short side of the stick from Nintendo's server incompetence, it's all left a bad taste in my mouth.

One thing's for sure, though: I am now avoiding digital downloads as much as I can, due to their sheer volatility.

 

[Your Local Cultist]

That's why my 3ds lives in a small draw were it is protected except when I play Pokemon.

[HeavyZ]

Yeah if it's digital that's when I get it for free (mainly to sample the games I'm playing and seeing if they are worth buying later) otherwise I get the physical copies for nostalgia and collectors reasons

[Spire]

You can transfer data from a 3DS to an XL? HELL, I would have snagged one of the various ALBW 3DS XL deals had I known this! Still rockin' the ol' tiny screen.

 

Or maybe not. Maybe I'll wait for the possible Majora's Mask 3DS XL bundle. A purple/black XL with a laser-engraved Majora's Mask would be prime!

 

Sorry to hear about your loss Bullock, really. Glad you're keeping in good spirits though.

[mzxrules]

Did you even try to call Nintendo for help? Might be able to get back the games at least. Also you probably shouldn't have been trying to transfer games the last few days because of the whole Nintendo Id/Pokemon Bank thing in retrospect.

[BullockDS]

Two nights ago my 3DSXL died; it wouldn't turn on at all. I called Nintendo, they said to exchange the 3DSXL for a new one (which I did yesterday).

 

After that, I called Nintendo again to try and get my Nintendo Network account onto my NEW 3DSXL (which was a problem since it was linked to my old 3DS, yet was wiped off my old 3DS), but I actually called when the eShop was down for maintenance for the rest of the day.

 

Called again today, and FINALLY got my NN account delinked from the old 3DS and linked to the 3DSXL. Today, I've started redownloading my stuff today and will finish doing so tomorrow.

 

tl;dr: got worse, but got better. Getting all my shit back!