Four months later, are you subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online?

[Springy]

Divided a family subscription between me and seven others, which is the maximum I was willing to pay with how poor it is.

 

[Deleted member 35071]

ironically the only 2 games i play online with switch.......dont' require Nintendo Online service lol

fortnite and warframe

 

[Bestlaidplans]

No because it's garbage.

 

[New Donker]

Yes and I use it all the time. Gotta play smash online

 

[Bond]

No

 

[Gotdatmoney]

Nintendo Switch Online is an utter shit show of a service that achieves the miraculous feat of not actually justifying being a third as expensive as its competitors because it's not even worth that much.

It launched in September, without... any game to actually push it. Since then, we've had Smash and Pokémon presumably create more compelling reasons to subscribe to it. So, now, four months after launch, are you subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online?

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I play MHGU online. Game is super good. Between that and Smash it serves its purpose. I'd rather not pay but for the price its w/e

 

[wiill64]

Yeah because I have a family group of six people. Between that and gold coins it's almost free for me and I wanted the cloud backups as well.

 

[SirNinja]

I got a sub for $15 back when Humble was offering a -$5 coupon for Nintendo games. To my surprise, the coupon also worked with the 12-month sub.

To be clear, me buying into the system doesn't mean I like it. Not fond of only being able to back up my saves by subbing, and playing NES games for the umpteenth time is not the most engaging thing in the world. But it's either this or be locked out of playing online...

 

[Eppcetera]

No. I don't play any games online, and I have no desire to play the NES games. I'd rather put the $20 towards a new game.

 

[Advc]

Nope. I'm still having fun playing online on the Wii U with Splatoon and MK8 for free. Still plenty of people playing there. I might bite and subscribre when they add SNES games to their library, NES games are great and iconic but not as great as SNES'

 

[Umbrella Carp]

Nope. It's so bad I was forced to skip Smash Bros.

 

[Ehoavash]

Yes since I play smash and after world of light the game is pretty bare bones

But yeah online in smash sucks fuck Nintendo :x

 

[Shawn6661]

No and i don't still understand how its good value.

 

[Javi]

Yes, since it was just $20. I should have just bought the monthly thing because I haven't had need for it besides that one splatfest i needed it for (reason I subscribed) LOLOLOL

 

[tzare]

Yes because my daughter plays Splatoon2 sometimes and she wouldn't understand why she could before and would be able to now.
If she stops playing it will not renew, since we barely touch the switch now, and when they play it is basically SP games

 

[Aleh]

Not yet, I'll probably sub once we get closer to the release of Animal Crossing though.

 

[SoftTaur]

Yes, for Smash. And the occasional Splatoon 2 match but mainly Smash.

 

[Hamster Plugin]

No and i don't still understand how its good value.

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None of these console services are good value and they're not even supposed to be. They're online play paywalls. Microsoft struck gold when they came up with this shit and now every console does it.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

I don't play online, but it's dead cheap and I like the classic library.

 

[battleborn27]

I was supposed to get it when Smash launched, but I heard the online is terrible so I didn't bother. Is it better now?

 

[Iucidium]

Family plan, it's pennies

 

[Champion]

Nope, but if I need it to play Crystal Chronicles online then I'll probably get it.

 

[Strat]

Yes, because my cheapass friend did the most surprisingly thing ever and got the family thing, then shared it with all of us. It's really cool you can do that, especially since multiple of us are in different countries.

 

[Freddo]

No, and I probably never will be.

 

[DriftingSpirit]

Might be a while. This was what Furukawa said in October:

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Which makes sense. They've got to improve and expand upon it before they can really draw conclusions out of data. It is still a very young service, after all.

 

[XSX]

Nah, used the free trial to see how much of a lagfest smash was, easy choice. Service is terrible value, Nintendo just can't get online right.

 

[i'm not a rob0t]

no, and have no reason ever to.

 

[pahlke1]

I did they really forced my hand with the online save games. Just that peace of mind is nice

 

[Khrol]

No. Haven't subbed and definitely won't until SNES games drop

 

[Master Chuuster]

Yeah, I'm leeching off of my brother

 

[CommodoreKong]

I do but I paid for it entirely in gold coins so I didn't pay anything for it. I buy a lot of Nintendo games and often preorder them if they get good reviews and impressions so I get bonus coins and should be able to keep getting it for free as long as it's $20.

The online service is embarrassingly bad and it's a joke that Nintendo thinks it's worth $20 a year.

 

[Noah Om]

Not yet. None of my friends play any Switch games online, so I've had no incentive to just yet. The NES games are tempting, however.

My friend has recently been wanting to start a multiplayer game of Stardew Valley though, and with SNES games potentially on the horizon I imagine I'll subscribe within a few months.

 

[Papercuts]

Used the trial for smash, forgot it autorenewed for a month then made sure to cancel it.

There's barely any games I would play online and the ones that are are downright embarrassingly bad. Smash online should not be this bad relative to the competition, and I refuse to pay for a service if they think that's an acceptable thing to provide.

 

[MrWonderworld]

Yes I am. 20e was not a big deal.

 

[Alandring]

My Switch died and I lost my save of Skyrim (80+ hours). So yeah, I subscribed.

 

[Man God]

I did it just for the NES games...would do it again.

 

[el_skywalker]

After Smash online problems I noped the hell out.

 

[Rogue Agent]

No. Even though it's cheap, I don't want to to subscribe now since I'm not playing online and I don't care about the Classic games yet. I think I'll risk it with not having cloud saves for now and will subscribe later.

 

[sir_crocodile]

no

not interested in online and vc library isn't deep enough yet

maybe in 2 years if they get a good selection of snes games

 

[Macca]

Got it to be able to play Smash and it's absolutely trash.

 

[qrac]

Not yet. Don't play online. But will subscribe when NES/SNES library is bigger. That's the true value for me.

 

[Richietto]

Yeah I split a family plan with 3 family members so the shittyness of the service doesn't really bother me.

 

[Prophane33]

Yeah. It's dirt cheap and while I don't exactly play online that much I do like the NES games.

 

[Deleted member 48813]

Nope, I simply stopped playing Splatoon 2 when the paid online went up. Don't care for cloud saves or playing Smash online, so no reason to waste $20 that could go towards a new game instead.

 

[RPG_Fanatic]

Ended up getting a subscription once Smash hit. $20 is a low enough bar that I don't mind paying it.

 

[MillionIII]

Nah I play sp

 

[TubaZef]

Yep, it's cheap and Splatoon is great.

 

[KhandoleezzaRice]

If the family account wasn't like $6 per person for the full year I would definitely be out. The service is quite weak.

 

[Bakercat]

Nope, and unless something like snes games are there or beyond im not jumping in.

 

[dlauv]

Yeah, our discord was gonna pool together money to pay for the year, but one of our UK friends is paying for me and few others via the family account.