Nintendo Switch Online membership numbers revealed; over 9.8 million users have signed up
Are you part of that number of people paying for online, cloud saves, and NES titles?
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The subscription shouldn’t of been allowed to happen, the switch owners (you, you & you) should of complained until it got cancelled. You’re just paying for something that was and still should be free (nes games are worthless).
100% agree with you.
Just because Sony and Microsoft do it doesn’t make it okay for everyone to do it too. These 9.8 million blind fanboys are kind of stabbing themselves in the back.
Brawls online was completely free too, so what makes it okay for Nintendo to all the sudden put rates for online play?
The idea of locking essential parts of games behind a pathway should disgust everyone, yet somehow the fanboys are fine with it...
Nintendo says “jump” and they ask how high.
Is it not obvious? All the posts complaining that Nintendo is making good money, and that people are willingly handing over the handsome sum of a whole $20 per year, and badmouthing people for doing it. Do you all have any idea how infantile you sound, trying to assert a position that Nintendo has no right to charge for online play.context needed
Hey man not all but good postIs it not obvious? All the posts complaining that Nintendo is making good money, and that people are willingly handing over the handsome sum of a whole $20 per year, and badmouthing people for doing it. Do you all have any idea how infantile you sound, trying to assert a position that Nintendo has no right to charge for online play.
More money for Nintendo means more games from Nintendo. They don’t supply games and services out of the goodness of their hearts. It’s a business, and they have as much right to charge for a service as people have to pay for it.
But of course none of that matters to you people, because you think you have the right to play games for nothing, and then to criticise Nintendo for making money. You all just sound so pathetic.
Is it not obvious? All the posts complaining that Nintendo is making good money, and that people are willingly handing over the handsome sum of a whole $20 per year, and badmouthing people for doing it. Do you all have any idea how infantile you sound, trying to assert a position that Nintendo has no right to charge for online play.
More money for Nintendo means more games from Nintendo. They don’t supply games and services out of the goodness of their hearts. It’s a business, and they have as much right to charge for a service as people have to pay for it.
But of course none of that matters to you people, because you think you have the right to play games for nothing, and then to criticise Nintendo for making money. You all just sound so pathetic.
Just being a business doesn't excuse scummy business practices.Is it not obvious? All the posts complaining that Nintendo is making good money, and that people are willingly handing over the handsome sum of a whole $20 per year, and badmouthing people for doing it. Do you all have any idea how infantile you sound, trying to assert a position that Nintendo has no right to charge for online play.
More money for Nintendo means more games from Nintendo. They don’t supply games and services out of the goodness of their hearts. It’s a business, and they have as much right to charge for a service as people have to pay for it.
But of course none of that matters to you people, because you think you have the right to play games for nothing, and then to criticise Nintendo for making money. You all just sound so pathetic.
Except these people who implied it:Nobody said Nintendo has no right
The subscription shouldn’t of been allowed to happen ... You’re just paying for something that was and still should be free
Just because Sony and Microsoft do it doesn’t make it okay for everyone to do it too... what makes it okay for Nintendo to all the sudden put rates for online play?
Some fools say “servers cost money y’know” yes they do but not so much that the billion dollar companies can’t afford to run them
Nintendo are not required to justify their decision to charge for a service.Nobody said Nintendo has no right
People were saying it is charging money for a service that has historically been free, and has no great justification for not being free today
Yes, charging a small amount of money for access to a service with clearly defined perks and no hidden costs is a total con isn't it. How shameful.If you think that sounds pathetic then so be it, personally I think being conned out of money by a multi billion dollar corporation because they thought they would try their hand at a common con and make puppy eyes at you to be absolutely shameful.
As I said above, yes, asking your customers to pay to use your services is such a scummy business practice isn't it. Businesses would all be much better off if they just let their customers use their services for free, right?Just being a business doesn't excuse scummy business practices.
Who's forcing you? You have the choice not to use the service. "I'm fine with Pizza Hut making money, but if their means of making money lies in the locking off of bigger pizzas and forcing customers to pay for them, then we got a problem."I'm fine with Nintendo making money, but if their means of making money lies in locking off parts of games and forcing fans to pay for it then we got a problem.
Well at least we agree on something.And you call us pathetic...
With the possible exception of the first none of those implied no right, and even the first one you would have to be reading it looking for intent where I would say there was none. By similar token being an arsehole is frequently within the law but you are still an arsehole if you are one. They might not have to justify to anybody (except probably shareholders) but they similarly don't have a right to not be criticised for the move.Except these people who implied it:
Nintendo are not required to justify their decision to charge for a service.
Yes, charging a small amount of money for access to a service with clearly defined perks and no hidden costs is a total con isn't it. How shameful.
As I said above, yes, asking your customers to pay to use your services is such a scummy business practice isn't it. Businesses would all be much better off if they just let their customers use their services for free, right?
Who's forcing you? You have the choice not to use the service. "I'm fine with Pizza Hut making money, but if their means of making money lies in the locking off of bigger pizzas and forcing customers to pay for them, then we got a problem."
Well at least we agree on something.
The sum is not terribly important here but it is the principle of it. Give them an inch and they will take a mile. In this case though they are not even offering much for that but that could probably go to differences in perceived value. They are free to try to make the money in ways they see fit, I am free to call them greedy cunts if I think they have gone too far and encourage others to join me in my views on the subject. It is how this all works. I fail to see how this is entitlement.Fucking hell, get a grip. It's less than £20 a year. You can spend more than that on a takeaway which lasts about 10 minutes in my house. Nintendo is a business out to make as much money as they can. It's how business works. Accept that and pay, or don't. All this complaining about something so trivial just reeks of the sense of entitlement which seems endemic these days.
Do you even read the replies sent to you or are you too busy pretending to shill for Nintendo? I'm one of the millions of people that paid for Nintendo Switch Online and I'm getting buyer's remorse from it. You wanna know why? It's because Nintendo thinks it's okay to use P2P (peer to peer, which relies on YOUR [and the other person you're connecting to] internet and not theirs) when they should be using that money towards dedicated servers, but they do not. They also act like 3 NES games a month is a good deal when the SNES library is 100x better than it. Switch Online was a mistake.Fucking hell, get a grip. It's less than £20 a year. You can spend more than that on a takeaway which lasts about 10 minutes in my house. Nintendo is a business out to make as much money as they can. It's how business works. Accept that and pay, or don't. All this complaining about something so trivial just reeks of the sense of entitlement which seems endemic these days.
Think Yr forgetting programmers need to be paid what with updates to online gamesDo you even read the replies sent to you or are you too busy pretending to shill for Nintendo? I'm one of the millions of people that paid for Nintendo Switch Online and I'm getting buyer's remorse from it. You wanna know why? It's because Nintendo thinks it's okay to use P2P (peer to peer, which relies on YOUR [and the other person you're connecting to] internet and not theirs) when they should be using that money towards dedicated servers, but they do not. They also act like 3 NES games a month is a good deal when the SNES library is 100x better than it. Switch Online was a mistake.
Then don't renew if you think the offer has deteriorated when your year/month is up. You're coming across a bit hysterical to be honest.Give them an inch and they will take a mile.
It's the casting of them as "greedy" in the first instance, when all they are doing is earning money by providing a service. That's a pretty distorted sense of entitlement in my opinion.I am free to call them greedy cunts if I think they have gone too far and encourage others to join me in my views on the subject. It is how this all works. I fail to see how this is entitlement.
Um, how do you think the traffic would get from your Switch to some server Nintendo is using? Do you not realise that this would use just as much of "YOUR internet" as a peer-to-peer connection? The same data has to be transmitted either way. The only difference is that the handshaking etc is done on the Switches themselves. It's the same amount of data going through the pipe whether peer-to-peer or client-server-client. If anything Nintendo have made it more efficient, since you don't have to wait around for a server that might be busy or down. Also, if you happen to live a long way from the nearest server, your round trip will be longer than if you're playing against somebody nearby using peer-to-peer. So you can stop freaking out, Nintendo is not stealing "YOUR internet".Nintendo thinks it's okay to use P2P (peer to peer, which relies on YOUR [and the other person you're connecting to] internet and not theirs)
They made it clear what the offering was before sign-up. If you didn't bother to read what you would get for the money, then that's your problem. It doesn't make Nintendo greedy just because you changed your mind.They also act like 3 NES games a month is a good deal when the SNES library is 100x better than it. Switch Online was a mistake.