Nintendo Switch

[Clipper]

If it was mandatory would you

 

It is a negligible amount after all.

[Simmy]

What do you get for your fiver here? I honestly didn't even know you could get a membership still these days.

[Stanley]

Just now, Clipper said:

If it was mandatory would you

 

It is a negligible amount after all.

I'd do it anyway, it's just not something I think about and there's nowhere that makes it immediately obvious that it's even an option. 

 

Perhaps it could be advertised better. Maybe do an Rllmuk Direct

[Xevious]

2 hours ago, Clipper said:

at launch?

 

dont think so

 

 

Not an exact price, but before launch it was announced as being 2000 - 3000 yen: https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/1/14474430/nintendo-switch-online-service-price.  It was due to launch in Autumn 2017: https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/13/14261018/nintendo-switch-paid-online-subscription-service-membership but has been delayed by a year from then.

 

The US (and EU) pricing was confirmed back in July last year: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/1/15727548/nintendo-switch-online-20-dollars-a-year.

 

 

 

 

[Stanley]

Found it buried away under 'store' in my account section. There, I've paid and am awaiting approval 

[mushashi]

22 hours ago, SozzlyJoe said:

 

Anyway surely extricating locked saves is the entire point of the exercise? PS4 for example has account locked saves, you just are only able to restore them back to the same account. In your post above, I don't know how you define a system locked save. Perhaps it refers to MMO type games where your 'save' is on someone else's server.

 

A save which is locked to that particular bit of hardware, like copy-protected saves have been in the past. The current situation with the Nintendo Switch means that actually all saves are system locked saves as they are both account and hardware locked at present (which is the difference with every other bit of gaming hardware which allows you to copy the saves elsewhere still), the paid cloud backup is the first time you'll be able to have a duplicate of any of those saves elsewhere, but maybe this will not apply to some copy-protected saves, hence the wording in the PR.

[Tony]

I agree with a lot of people that it feels like a bad move because of the way they did it. I don't really want to be paying extra money for the online service as it still feels poorly implemented and apart from the NES games - it feels like a free service.

 

But the main problem seems to be perception. If they'd launched an online service out of the box and included a code for 18 months free 'Nintendo Play' (I have no idea what it's actually called) with every Switch console at launch people would shrug their shoulders and think 'Oh my free trial has finished. It was nice while it lasted.' They'd then make a decision whether they thought it was worth paying for. Instead it feels like something is being taken away in a money grab despite the fact their intentions were made clear from the start. It's basically a PR / marketing failure from Nintendo which makes it feel worse than it actually is.

[DC Lemon]

18 minutes ago, Simmy said:

What do you get for your fiver here? I honestly didn't even know you could get a membership still these days.

 

You get to see who negged you and then call them out over it in public.

[Stanley]

How long does approval take? 

[cohen205]

Maybe you haven't been approved? Bad credit rating perhaps?

[Stanley]

Just now, cohen205 said:

Maybe you haven't been approved? Bad credit rating perhaps?

haha, payment has been approved but not my membership upgrade or whatever it is. They'll probably have to call a board meeting seeing as it's me 

[OneDvBmbr]

I’ve just done the same and waiting approval. 

 

Is Nintendo Online stealth marketing for rllmuk?

[Not Thread Owner]

1 hour ago, Yuujiin said:

Does anybody know what Retro are working on??

 

Their 6 pack?

[cohen205]

 

 

That's whats taking so long... they are setting up the chairs and beverages!

[Clipper]

Just now, Stanley said:

haha, payment has been approved but not my membership upgrade or whatever it is. They'll probably have to call a board meeting seeing as it's me 

or the treasurer checks them every week I think it is and so it can take a while

 

If it was £20 you might get instant approval :p

[Not Thread Owner]

Just now, OneDvBmbr said:

I’ve just done the same and waiting approval. 

 

Is Nintendo Online stealth marketing for rllmuk?

 

@Xevious OKs them every so often. Once a week? It has to be done manually, I think.

[Tony]

Just now, Stanley said:

haha, payment has been approved but not my membership upgrade or whatever it is. They'll probably have to call a board meeting seeing as it's me 

 

I think Xevious approves them in a batch at the start of the week so you might have to wait a few days.

[Stanley]

At least something good has come out of this discussion

[rgraves]

11 minutes ago, Stanley said:

How long does approval take? 

 

I think they get reviewed once a week - so depending on timing it could be 6 days.

 

Be prepared for the revelation that 90% of your negs actually come from just one or two members who you clearly upset in a previous life. Unless that's just me 

[Xevious]

It's roughly once a week, but if I'm busy at work it can be longer.

 

Sometimes you can get lucky.

[DC Lemon]

I don’t know if it was only news to me yesterday but Retro handled the Switch port of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.

 

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/05/retro_studios_handled_the_donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze_port_on_nintendo_switch

 

Just in case anyone was under the impression that they’ve been busy.

 

[Stanley]

Thanks @Xevious

[Broker]

8 hours ago, SMD said:

Fingers crossed the Switch family keeps moving your games forward so this is the last time.

 

 

Not a chance in hell, they’re going to keep charging people for the same NES games every time they release new hardware forever.

 

6 hours ago, Stanshall said:

I'm surprised that anyone would begrudge twenty quid a year (!) to play online, though, when many of their biggest games are/will be online multiplayer and you pay more than double that for PS+, only for a load of shite games and regular service dropouts and maintenance.

 

Pretending that the Playstation Network still has the same problems it did eight years ago is a poor way to try to justify Nintendo’s shitty offering. The PS+ games are a thousand times better than the NES crap being shovelled out here, and they’re generally new games rather than insults that the customers have already paid for multiple times.

 

6 hours ago, rgraves said:

Think of the £18 option as discounted if you only want single user, and the £31 option as if you want more open access for multiple people (on one or multiple Switches) - still half the price. 

 

Ah, so their shit service is actually £31, with a discount to £18 for people with no kids. Still shit value.

 

3 hours ago, Stanley said:

To be fair their games work well online, at least in my experience. 

 

You’re lucky then, the WiFi is a shitty, cheap chip with awful connectivity, drops out constantly and they’re too cheap to even put an Ethernet port in the dock.

[Stanley]

Damn that @SpagMasterSwift

[joemul]

If it means we might get online enabled Super Mario Kart, Zombies Ate My Neighbours, Lost Vikings, etc. then I’m all in. Take my £18 now. 

[Not Thread Owner]

5 minutes ago, Broker said:

 

You’re lucky then, the WiFi is a shitty, cheap chip with awful connectivity, drops out constantly and they’re too cheap to even put an Ethernet port in the dock.

 

[Simmy]

My WiFi has been solid.

 

But yeah, an Ethernet connection in the dock would have been perfect!

[rgraves]

14 minutes ago, Broker said:

Not a chance in hell, they’re going to keep charging people for the same NES games every time they release new hardware forever.

 

Pretending that the Playstation Network still has the same problems it did eight years ago is a poor way to try to justify Nintendo’s shitty offering. The PS+ games are a thousand times better than the NES crap being shovelled out here, and they’re generally new games rather than insults that the customers have already paid for multiple times.

 

Ah, so their shit service is actually £31, with a discount to £18 for people with no kids. Still shit value.

 

You’re lucky then, the WiFi is a shitty, cheap chip with awful connectivity, drops out constantly and they’re too cheap to even put an Ethernet port in the dock.

 

Put you down for a Family Membership then?

[rgraves]

Just now, Simmy said:

But yeah, an Ethernet connection in the dock would have been perfect!

 

Yeah, they should have done that absolutely. A mental, cheap omission IMO.

 

Did that 3rd party dock with a built-in ethernet port ever come out? Was it any good/anyone get one?

[Broker]

3 minutes ago, rgraves said:

 

Put you down for a Family Membership then?

 

 

 

Luckily my kids are old enough to be playing a lot of Fortnite, so until Pokemon comes out thy won't want this. I'd be up for it for something interesting like Mario Maker or Animal Crossing maybe, but I've had a terrible experience with Mario Kart, and most other Nintendo games are mostly local multi for me. I won't be bothering.