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

It's only the price of like 2 candy bars a month, so yeah no promlemo!

I'd ask for a $20 eShop card for Christmas or my bday (which are weeks apart) so I'd be without online for several months.

I didn't have Xbox Live on the OG Xbox until I got my first job.

The other option is that I wouldn't eat school lunch for about a month without telling my parents and just pocket the money to buy NSO. That's how I got some games before I could work lol

Yasumi said:

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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Oh, I completely forgot about this. Yeah, absolutely no chance I would be able to sign up.

I don't think the amount would be the problem (it probably would have to come out of my allowance though) but I seriously doubt I could get anywhere if credit cards are involved. Kept me from doing stuff like FFXI back in the day.

These days I dunno, parents might be more accustomed to buying things online/amazon and might have an easier time with it.

$20 a year would be a ludicrously easy sell to my parents lol

£20 is a bargain

$20 for me to shut up? Of course.

Fortnite is free, so there's no use for the online.

To get them to pay for it? Definitely not. My parents were happy to buy me games as a kid but they were very hesitant to use their credit cards for anything. Something vague like "online play" would be a big no.

I would've had to use my own money and buy an eshop card to pay for it.

That video that everyone mocked in the Nintendo direct that explained what it was for? That's the purpose of the video.

Not for us internet nerds, its for the parents.

Easily, but I wouldn't need to because I'd probably only be playing Fortnite anyway.

For $20? They could just give me a yearly sub for Christmas or my birthday no problem.

I had to save up years' worth of allowances to buy my first DS.
I wouldn't be able to get a Switch as a kid so I wouldn't be able to get the online either.
Even if I did have one the credit card thing would be a big no.

Easy - just ask for it for your birthday / Christmas. Most of the 10-11 year old kids in my class who play games (whochbis basically all of them) ask for Xbox Live / PS + cards for birthdays and Christmas.

It was easy for me with Xbox Live. My parents bought me magazine subscriptions before that and this is basically the same thing anyways. Using my mom's credit card and then paying her back later was also pretty normal.

Jaded Alyx said:

I'm not sure why this doesn't apply to the other two consoles?

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because a grownup will probably think twice before doing something so stupid, unless they only play on Switch.
And sometimes Era gets a hardcore Nintendo boner so it could just be one of those threads in disguise. But, thinking on it... my parents probably wouldn't even let me buy a Switch. They always got me a PS1 and PS2 because they were cheaper

as a kid, 20$ will be a few days of chores of helping some neighbors.

I would think Switch would be pretty easy, comes with 20 games and parents might actually recognize one of them. Plus they have probably seen their kids playing online already and didn't have to hear any swearing or anything.

Also, I dont think there are a ton of parents that are still afraid of online charges, you don't have to setup automatic renewal and it doesn't store your card info if you don't want it to. Can also just use an eshop card, or whatever it is called now.

I think if they'd already spent the $300 to get me the Switch it wouldn't be hard to convince them to spend $20 a year later.

My parents were cheap/frugal AF and I could have gotten Switch Online in a week of extra chores if that. Easy.

syth said:

That video that everyone mocked in the Nintendo direct that explained what it was for? That's the purpose of the video.

Not for us internet nerds, its for the parents.

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That's the rub isn't it? A lot of the stuff Nintendo includes in its presentation isn't aimed at core gamers at all and core gamers still haven't been able to wrap their mind's around that fact like it is some zero-sum game at their expense. it's kind of comical at this point.

In that situation and for the price of a year subscription, definitely.
How soon I could get it really depends on how much allowance I would've gotten per week.

I would ask for a Raspberry Pi instead and put all the games on it man.

I was able to convince them to get a broadband adapter for PS2 so I don't see why not. It would require buying a $20 eShop card though, they always refused to let me use their credit cards...unfortunately this is why I missed the experience of FFXI when I REALLY wanted to play it as a kid...well teen

No. Well, probably but I have to have made it my birthday or Christmas present. Which would have been a bit crap instead of a new game.

Realistically though I wouldn't have had a switch in the first place at the price it currently retails for.

Nope. My parents would say that online is not needed and paying montly or yearly subscriptions are bad.

I never got up the nerve to ask my parents for digital subscription like MMOs or stuff like that. Even like wrestling PPVs I had money for I wouldn't ask even if I wanted to watch them. They were always into more tangible stuff, it was much easier to ask for a new game, CD, or toy.

LegendarySkitch said:

I was able to convince them to get a broadband adapter for PS2 so I don't see why not. It would require buying a $20 eShop card though, they always refused to let me use their credit cards...unfortunately this is why I missed the experience of FFXI when I REALLY wanted to play it as a kid...well teen

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I was trying to think how I would have signed up to it when I was a kid if I wanted to and that's the answer lol. I would have walked to my Kmart or Walmart down the road and grabbed a card.

I've seen kids ask for the more expensive Xbox Live in my country. Don't think NSO would be a problem nowadays.

Yes, easily

Haha my parents would never give me something like that.

i had rich parents who didn't love me but tried to make up for it with material things so yeah probably

They usually let me choose what I want if I was allowed to buy something. So yes I can, but it will just use my quota.

i would not ask for it in the first place. I am a sp gamer.

Yasumi said:

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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It didn't for me. I just put in my code that I bought from Amazon. I don't have a card saved in the console (I do everything by eShop code).

Anyway, yes, I could have argued that I'd get a bunch of new games for the $20 a month and asked for a year for my birthday or something. It would have been easy. Heck, I could have saved up the $20 myself with homework and report card earnings.

My parents still refuse to buy anything online because they think it'll steal their credit card and all their personal information, so nah that wouldn't happen

I think the closest they ever got was my mom subscribing to a MMO (then forgetting about it and thinking someone stole her card because she was getting charged $10 every month from a company she didn't recognize, she only played the MMO for a month and then dropped it)

Doubt I would even get a Switch. I only get MYR0.50 per week during my primary school time and we don't celebrate birthdays with presents.
I would not ask for a Switch once I see the MYR2000 price tag and Nintendo subsidiary, Maxsoft forcing 1-2 Switch game down people's throat.

"can you buy me this?"
-why
"to play online with my friends"
A. i'm a parent that doesn't mind you playing online: ok
B. i'm a parent that doesn't want you playing online: no

nintendo gets really odd threads

I'm in the camp where my parents wouldn't have given me a Switch to begin with. If by some chance I did have one, my mom would have let me get the online sub at the expense of a game.

My parents were willing to spend $60 a year for me to play Halo with friends.

They'd pay $20 more so I could play Smash as well.

Seriously some of y'all keep overselling a $20 annual purchase.

Most likely not.

Yeah my parents paid for my Xbox Live back in the day and the PSN . They are currently paying for my brothers PSN and Xbox as well. It wouldn't have been hard to get them to pay for the Switch Online.

i bought "my" switch mainly for my kids to use and they dont care

they mostly play with each other or with my neighbours kids. all local play

20 dollars is easy to convince. Now when were talking about 60 dollars now that's a different story.

Would be hard enough to convince them to get me a Switch. But trying to convince them to pay for a subscription? Lol no.

I don't know that I would bother trying to convince them. Depending on the theoretical age we're talking about, my parents would not let me play anything online if they could help it, meaning I'd be stuck in F2P limbo. But I'd probably be able to talk a member of the extended family into getting it for me.

Yep. It's only $20.

I'd be legit shook if my parents bought me a switch, then refused to pay $20 a year for online. Would definitely be able to ask for it as a gift of some kind.

Not really. I was barely home when i was a kid and i didn't play video games that much.
Honestly, i don't see how kids that go to school and go do a sport after that have time to play video games. I played only on Saturdqay morning cause it was the only time i was home the longest. Paying 20 bucks a year to just use it like 50 days for a few hours is too much and my parents would see it the same, since my sister didn't get plus, she just uses my profile.

"Yo mom, give me 20 bucks"