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Nintendo Switch Online
| Greedy BASTARDS the lot of them
| ngl thinking about getting the family plan for my discord so my switch-owning members can play for free.
| It's almost half as much as PSN, and it gives all my sisters online as well. Don't really see a reason why not since I play Splatoon and ARMS, with Animal Crossing and Crystal Chronicles on the horizon.
| It's the very concept of making you pay for something they always did for free that really upsets me. Backing up saves shouldn't be paid either, at least on your SD Card, and I'm tired of them only considering a handful of NES games as worth more than 5 minutes of attention each.
| Boo hoo hoo online services
Go be snooty pc gamers, I'll enjoy my better communities without you in them thanks
| >>406127 that's why people are so up against microtransactions. It's not like I can't afford/don't want to throw 3-5$ for extra content, it's more about letting them know that they can push more to get more money.
You buy that 5$ skin, you tell em that people are willing to pay for that. The next day, they start locking characters and content because people like >>30adb3 will be proud that they are superior by giving more ways for game companies to leech off of your wallet.
| I get it but it's 5 bucks for a year so nevermind. If they actually use the cash to keep the service up after the Switch dies in a bunch of years, unlike say Miiverse, then I would be glad to dish out some cash.
| I'm gonna wait and see if they make it worth it, right now it doesn't seem like it.
| Lmao the reach
You all just took the free service for granted and are grouchy that it's going away.
Everyone will be over it in a couple months
Same shit happened when sony announced you'd need ps plus to play online on ps4
| If the online service had a price tag at the start nobody would have cared
| I'm cool with that. No reason to be upset whatsoever if you ask me.
| I'd probably just wait to see if its worth it or not. Not a lot of money.. but it's more the principal of I get tired of paying for something, and then having to dish out more money for something that I feel should already be implemented. I feel like these gaming companies are just starting to get greedy by charging people to play/use online services.
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| Not really upset about it or anything if it's literally $5 for a year; it's just more so that if you're already paying the company hundreds of dollars for the console, on top of buying games that can be upwards of $60 each, why can't they just throw in the online services??
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| >>406962 the Nintendo service? Not so much. But buying consoles and games in general can get costly as is, so adding on another minor fee just feels more like a nuisance. I dont use Xbox so I cant say anything about that, but I know I definitely get irritated with Sony and the playstation plus fees when their consoles and game prices rack up real quick.
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| >>406962 again, it just feels like more of a nuisance than anything. If a company like Nintendo is already raking in pretty decent amounts of money with the numerous consoles they sell and the steady flow of games being put out, is an online service membership fee really necessary? That's when it starts to feel like, to me, companies get greedy.
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| >>406975
Yea I get that it looks greedy... I admit it annoys me to have to pay for a service that i believe should not be paid.
I still have hope... ^^
| Looks like 20 bucks for a year btw...
Unless you know 7 peeps who are willing to share a family account for 8 peeps, which means around 4.4 bucks a year, but I don't consider it myself, I don't plan on abusing a helpful feature for actual families that can get a better price.
| >>406977 >>406979 The last services were alright. And I just read the part where itll be roughly $20 per year. I'm willing to keep an open mind and try out the new service, but I'm more so concerned if I'll be disappointed like I was by Sonys online services. Especially with the Playstation Now service. Couldn't get half the games to work. I've read that they will do a free trial for a week, so I will most likely just use the trial to determine how I like it.
| >>406988 I'm more so wary of it because of how bad I felt Sonys was, especially with their costs. Way too much. I will give it to nintendo though for how cheap they'll have the service. PSN is roughly $100 a year I believe? Compared to the $20 with Nintendo...
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| >>406762 omg, so true, if only atari started console that asked for 1$ for every button press, no one will bat an eye at microtransactions, lootboxes, and charging for online service. That way only true fan like us can play games and there will be no more all these peasant nagging!
| Atari didn't have server costs and online gaming but y'know, digging the false equivalency
| >>407096 well, that's your logic, "if people are used to get ripped off, they won't be crying when they get ripped off next time" as seen in here>>406764
| $20 a year still is kinda pushing it, especially since services on Switch dont seem better than Wii U. Heck you dont even have apps like Netflix or Crunchyroll on Switch.
There's just not enough online games to justify it yet either.
| I'm super broke so I'm not gonna use it, but it doesn't actual make me mad just disappointed.
| >>407295 By the way those apps don't actually require a PS+ or Xbox gold membership to run the apps on those consoles. So even if they existed on Switch they probably wouldnt be affected.
| Considering how cheap it is I dont really care. Plus this might mean there will be an actual budget in nintendos online hopefully making it more stable as right now while the online is ok, there are still a lot of connection drops. So if the online improves and im only needing to pay like $20 maybe even less if I work with my friends for the family plan then I would say it is worth it.
| >>407312
I think Xbox had the shadiest practices first where netflix was behind a paywall, dont remember now though.
I mean I guess Nintendo isnt as bad as that, but even though its cheap, it still doesnt feel like its worth it. It feels like it needs more.
| It may be cheap but it doesn't change the fact how awful their servers are.
Also, you can't just make something that was free for 18 whole months not free anymore without making a lot of people upset, no matter how you look at it..
| Am I the only that's never had any server issues with Splatoon 2 or ARMS? I hate to say that it works on my machine, but I really haven't had enough problems to complain.
| >>407984 they announced the service when they announced the switch tho, not like they're blindsiding anyone
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| what do you think gurls?
even though it's fairly cheap, i'm not going to buy it because i don't want to feed nintendo's greed more.