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If You Were a Kid With a Switch Today, Would You Be Able to Talk Your Parents Into Buying Online?

Could You Sell Your Parents on Buying NSW Online?

  • Yes

    Votes: 234 53.1%

  • No

    Votes: 90 20.4%

  • I'd ask someone else

    Votes: 5 1.1%

  • You'd think my parents would give me a Switch? Pffft.

    Votes: 59 13.4%

  • Buy it myself

    Votes: 53 12.0%
  • Total voters
    441

Deleted member 4034

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As an adult with a full time job, paying $20 to get Nintendo Switch online is literally nothing to me (even if I haven't bought it yet), but I can't help but feel for kids who may have a hard time convincing their parents to go for it for various reasons. Not knowing enough about it, wondering why they're charging all of the sudden, not trusting to put your credit card information on the system, whatever the reason.

That was one of the fun part of growing up a Gameboy kid, just asked for a $29.99 - $34.99 game from time to time at the store. Wasn't a tough sell most of the time.

But with anything paid online, nope. Couldn't sell my mom on Runescape paid, which in retrospect wouldn't have been worth it. Ended up getting into Guild Wars because it didn't have a subscription.

But then I guess you would just need to secure a $20 eshop card (I'm assuming you can pay for online with that), which could(?) be manageable depending on your circumstances.

And subscriptions would be an easier sell these days in a post netflix world.

But but how do you think that kind of conversation with your parent(s) would go today if you were a kid with a Switch and wanted to play online?
 
5taquitos

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Oct 27, 2017
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Hell yeah, a once-a-year $20 cost would be an easy sell.

That's like one weekend of hard labor, nbd
 
ElBoxy

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Kids were able to talk their parents into buying them Xbox Live. Switch would be no different.
 

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My mom paid for Phantasy Star Online for me when I was young, it was $8 or $9 a month I think? So yeah, probably.
 

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I think you can buy an eshop points card and use that, or ask your parents to add some money onto my account.

They don't need to know what I'm buying on the shop. Wii eshop points cards used to be the best christmas stocking stuffers.
 

Acquiesc3

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Oct 30, 2017
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I mean.. the scenario being if I was a kid and my parents ALREADY bought me a switch and games.. I don't see why it would be hard to convince them to buy an eshop card for online in the first place.
 
Buddy

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Oct 25, 2017
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It is cheap enough to ask for it....so yes, I think I could talk my parents into it.

Alternatively I would ask my grandma or my aunt for it as a birthday/Christmas gift
 

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"It's $20 a year and you don't need to drive me across town so I can trade my Graveler for Joey's Machoke which is an extremely important thing to do I have a pokedex to complete!"

okay, so honestly, I probably lost them at Graveler but it'd work. Probably. Hopefully.
 
z0m3le

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Oct 25, 2017
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I mean "I'll mow the lawn for $10" and other chores like that, could get you there, you could also trade a game or two for the $20 eshop card, you might also already have gold coins that you could just save up.

If all else fails, I imagine I could just come up with the $4 needed for a month, or do the 3 months for $12? The gold coins going towards the paid sub is easily Nintendo's slick answer for this, if you spend $80 on games, you can get a month free, if you spend $400, you could use your gold coins there.

I grew up pretty poor, family not always making the mortgage payment, not always food in the fridge, but every Christmas, I could ask for a game or two, I'd just ask for a eshop card or a game and the yearly service.
 
Josh378

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Oct 27, 2017
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Nah, Just save up my allowance and do it myself. Of course, getting a prepaid CC will be a problem. (my mom would never get one to me, even if I paid for it)
 

R3create

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Aug 28, 2018
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Yeh do some chores for pocket money but ask them to pay for online so i could play mario kart online. Seems easy enough.
 
julian

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Oct 27, 2017
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I would ask for $20, then go in on the family plan with friends and pocket the change.
 
Risq

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If I can talk them around to $300 for the console, even more hundreds of dollars for the games, extra accessories etc, I'm sure by that stage $20 isn't gonna be too hard an ask.
 
lovecatt

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Nov 12, 2017
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Easily. $20 a year is not a big ask

I'm not sure I would even want it if I was a child though
 
Megatron

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Yeah, but Im Not sure they would pay for Nintendo online and psplus. They might make me choose.
 
Cenauru

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Nope, everything gaming-related when I was a kid was out of my own pocket, and my only source of money was christmas and birthdays. I had to make that money last year round.
 
Fireclad

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Oh, for sure. My folks were cool with signing me up for PSO, FFXI, PSU, Ragnarok Online, Xbox Live, etc back when I was in middle school - early highschool.

As for whether or not I would have even wanted a switch or the online service at the time is another question. I only ever asked for Nintendo systems growing up because they were what everybody else had but I never liked any of the games. The switch would probably be a tough sell to little 11-15 year old v.o.n and I probably would have just asked for a PS4 w/ +
 
MrConbon210

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Oct 31, 2017
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As a kid I was able to get my parents to pay the $50 a year for Xbox live so it would be no problem for $20. If you tell them many of your games are unusable without it they should be understanding.
 
Waffle

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Sure. Bunch of kids already do a great job at convincing their parents to get online for PS4 or Xbox so they can play Call of Duty and GTA Online.
 
Medalion

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Even as a kid today, Nintendo would have a hard time convincing ME... let alone convincing my parents to get it for me
 
Platy

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super easy considering the parental app and how it is way too complicate to hear the hate coming at you online
 

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Yeah. I knew how to operate well with negotiations with my parents - continued good behaviour, good grades, only making my requests very occasional. Once I'm in that comfort zone, my (richish it's worth noting) parents would buy stuff for me.
 
sschol

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Oct 27, 2017
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It would take some convincing, but it wouldn't be out of the question. If I was a kid now though in my family...not so sure. When the debt gets to be this bad, it's be a pretty hard sell. Christmas or birthday would still be a great time, though.
 
Delio

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yeah 20 bucks would be nothing. Now asking my mom for 60 for the other consoles would prob annoy her more. She would prob make me pick between that or a game lol.
 
Poltergust

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I mean, I got them to pay for Xbox Live Gold when I was growing up. I think this would have been a simple matter for me.
 
BaconHat

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I'd probably have an easier time than Gold or PSN with the lower price of entry tbh.
 
Rran

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Probably after a few weeks of pestering.

But daaaaad, all of my friends are playing Smash right now, and I can't play with them!
Well, Rran, why don't you just invite your little friends over to play here?
But daaaaad, that's not the saaaame...
And why do we have to pay $20 now when you've been able to play with them online all this time before?
Becaaauuuuse they're being like Netflix, but they're giving us a bunch of old stuff like the third Mario and Zelda 1...
Mario 3, you say? Go on...

Huh. Maybe depending on my parents' hypothetical relationship to gaming in this scenario, it might not've been too taxing to convince them.
 
KtSlime

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I'm old enough that I had to convince my parents to get the Internet(compuserve) back in the early 90's before people understood what it was. A cheap yearly subscription to play a game would be a cake walk in comparison.
 
Yasumi

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Doesn't it require you to enter a credit card number before you can purchase the subscription, regardless of payment method? Yeah you can remove it, but my parents would have noped out right there.
 
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