So encrypted, periodical interval to mask out any incoming/out going variance in traffic I wonder how they mitigate the backend part as there might be a ton of wasted traffic to hide the actual traffic. since they obviously need a lot of users to hide the whistle blower, but that also mean their backend needs to be pretty smart to handle lots of traffic and still consume energy to decrypt and then throw away the “noise” data.

that’s really cool. Does the message part work as regular p2p message app?

But like the ice tracker, wouldn’t download and use the app expose the potential user lists to surface if local authority can ask for such information?

I don’t disagree with what you said and usually nintendo game has better version 1 than many other publishers that requires GBs of day 1 patch. Basically, their game is pretty broken and only past the certification to send to gold. But that’s “in the past”, I am just saying that we should not rely on past experience when comment about the current polices and trends. If nintendo is moving toward key cards, even if it’s something pushed by other publisher, we can and will see the impact of this for other platforms’ physical sales.

This is basically the 2nd round of push to pure digital and that’s nintendo’s attempt.

we are long past that point with all the patch/content update/dlc downloads. I don’t even remember which first party game receives no updates/patches post release.