GameXplain: Switch Game Sharing Exploit

Mcjmetroid · Sep 19, 2018

Here's the video: Delete if old.
Anyone tried this yet?

I do something like this with my housemate with the PS4 I'm wondering if it's similar here.

If you had 2 Switch consoles and 2 online accounts with the family deal.
It seems like you would have to have one account on each of the systems. Both on both systems.

Download the necessary game you want to play on both systems using one account.

Your non primary account Switch has to be online so it can authenticate.

And you can play the same game at the same time but one person is online and one isn't?,

Am I watching this right?

GrubChub · Sep 19, 2018

I believe you would be able to do the same thing on the PS4. Not sure, though.

Vaskie · Sep 19, 2018

The same exact thing happens with Steam.

You can do Family Sharing, and as long as the two people have downloaded the game, one can go offline and play the game, and the 2nd one (doesn't own the game) will still be able to play it through the family sharing.

Been like that for years, there is no proper solution to it, if the console is offline there is no way for Valve/Nintendo/Whoever to check

LegendofLex · Sep 19, 2018

You can also do this without one user needing to be offline by having a different user/account play the game on your primary system (games on your primary system are available to all users, not just the account that bought them), while you play it on your secondary system using your account.

It's why most console game-sharing setups people suggest involve you giving the second person the primary system while you use the secondary one.

Aeana · Sep 19, 2018

I think this is intended. The system that actually purchased the game can always play it, the other has to be authenticated with the account that bought it.

RailWays · Sep 19, 2018

The primary console doesn't have to be online to play the game, but non-primary has to connect to the internet to authenticate, so if you're offline with the primary while the other is online I believe you can cheese it. That's probably what's going on. This can be accomplished on PS4 and Steam as well.

LegendofLex said:
You can also do this without one user needing to be offline by having a different user/account play the game on your primary system (games on your primary system are available to all users, not just the account that bought them), while you play it on your secondary system using your account.

Yeah, this would work as well.

Mcjmetroid · Sep 19, 2018

Well that's great news so. Perfect for myself and my mate who will eventually buy one. Means we can split the game costs in half :)

I'm sure this is akward if you don't like live together but lucky for us we do.

Dark Cloud · Sep 19, 2018

Yeah this can be done on Steam.

Doskoi Panda · Sep 19, 2018

You can do this on virtually every platform that supports game-sharing. I can't tell you how many hours of LAN Civilization I've played using this trick on Steam. My buddy and I play PUBG on Xbox all the time using just my copy.

stan423321 · Sep 19, 2018

This is not really as much of an exploit as a foreseeable consequence of the "primary system" setup that debuted with PS4 that we imagined made Ninny not implement it. You could just use a different account instead of going offline too.

DarkLordMalik · Sep 19, 2018

This is how game sharing works. No exploit to see here.

Mcjmetroid · Sep 19, 2018

DarkLordMalik said:
This is how game sharing works. No exploit to see here.

This is just the title of the video. I've only have tried this for PS4 so glad it's the case here too. Not much of a PC gamer so was clueless there.

NoKisum · Sep 19, 2018

Hmm, would local multiplayer be possible to do with this? Hypothetically, primary Switch has MHGU, secondary Switch downloads the game, primary turns off Wi-Fi and launches local signal while secondary boots up the game and searches for local players so they can play together.

ThisIsMyDogKyle · Sep 19, 2018

NoKisum said:
Hmm, would local multiplayer be possible to do with this? Hypothetically, primary Switch has MHGU, secondary Switch downloads the game, primary turns off Wi-Fi and launches local signal while secondary boots up the game and searches for local players so they can play together.

I imagine this would work unless it checks the Nintendo Account tied to the account that launched the game but I don't think MHGU does this for local play.

Nightbird · Sep 19, 2018

I don't think it's an exploit.

And if it is, GX just made sure it'll be gone by next week.

Deleted member 1476 · Sep 19, 2018

"Exploit".

Nice clickbait, Gamexplain.

AndreGX · Sep 19, 2018

Maintenance said:
"Exploit".

Nice clickbait, Gamexplain.

You have to force the 2nd console offline for it to work. I don't see how that isn't an exploit since it's clearly not the intended behavior as it won't work otherwise. Whether or not that also occurs on other platforms is irreverent

ShinySunny · Sep 19, 2018

Doesn't work for PS4.
Some of my digital games on my primary system say I need to sign on to PSN to verify the game first.
Then again, could be the case that I haven't use my PS4 and PSN account for months.

MinusTydus · Sep 19, 2018

I mean, how is it not an exploit? You can't play two copies of the same game with one physical cart. You bought one copy of the game and are playing it on two devices. Not much they can do about it, but let's not pretend it isn't an exploit.

808s & Villainy · Sep 19, 2018

People really like trying to abuse/exploit/find holes in systems whenever they're released, publicly detail them, then complain when things end up as locked down

Although this sounds like a weird edge case within how it's intended to work

Vena · Sep 19, 2018

MinusTydus said:
I mean, how is it not an exploit? You can't play two copies of the same game with one physical cart. You bought one copy of the game and are playing it on two devices. Not much they can do about it, but let's not pretend it isn't an exploit.

This is how all game shares work. I guess everything is an exploit.

Shizuka · Sep 19, 2018

Maintenance said:
"Exploit".

Nice clickbait, Gamexplain.

Same, but hey, gotta get them views.

Powerofthecloud · Sep 19, 2018

AndreGX said:
You have to force the 2nd console offline for it to work. I don't see how that isn't an exploit since it's clearly not the intended behavior as it won't work otherwise. Whether or not that's how it works on other platforms is irreverent

It absolutely is not irreverent. Relevant though it is. Seems similar to how other online systems work ie. Steam, Sony, etc.

AndreGX · Sep 19, 2018

Powerofthecloud said:
It absolutely is not irreverent. Relevant though it is. Seems similar to how other online systems work ie. Steam, Sony, etc.

It has zero impact on whether something is an exploit or not. Ergo, irrelevant

stan423321 · Sep 19, 2018

AndreGX said:
You have to force the 2nd console offline for it to work. I don't see how that isn't an exploit since it's clearly not the intended behavior as it won't work otherwise. Whether or not that's how it works on other platforms is irreverent

All that you gain with it is the capability to use the local accounts bound to the same Ninty account in two places, though. If you used a different one it would work online, or are you arguing that's another exploit?

Deleted member 5086 · Sep 19, 2018

We already have a thread for this topic: https://www.resetera.com/threads/ni...game-sharing-amongst-multiple-consoles.69358/

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