Nintendo General - Paid Online is Here, Get Your 56k Modems Ready - Games

I kinda wish Nintendo were still in dire straits because that's when they're at their best, otherwise their egos inflate and just go all out with baffling, nonsensical shit, like when they priced the 3DS at 250€ because the Wii was a success, or this online trainwreck

So the same thing as their Pokemon Bank thing. Where if your subscription runs out, all of your pokemon get deleted.

Strangely, I didn't renew my Pokemon Bank fee at one point for 2 years and none of my Pokemon were deleted when I finally renewed it.

I didnt think it deleted just couldnt access?

Nintendo has been making stupid decisions even when the Wii U wasn't doing so well.

Well, I mean, they named it the Wii U and didn't try to tell anyone it was a new console until it already failed.

Well, the Wii U felt like them trying to ride on the eventual success of the 3DS post-price drop + the Wii, once it performed less than great and they saw the wrongs of their ways they went all out with the Switch and now we're back on the "We're doing great, time to rev up the horrible decisions" phase again. It's like a sine wave of fun and headaches

official FAQs say they get deleted. Apparently it's supposed to be deleted after 14 days. But some people have them stay for much much longer. So likely nintendo manually clears banks.

https://twitter.com/LaurakBuzz/status/1040632995466620929

Yeah, and before trying to make a comeback with the Switch they still did shit like trigger-happy DMCAing, adopting an ignorant YouTuber partners program, letting shit like Meme Run onto the eShop (even though it eventually got taken down, though not to mention the other garbage), continued reliance of P2P servers, and too slow of a trickling of Virtual Console games.

GUESS WHAT GUYS https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132890/78edc582-0d66-44c4-9f1d-43f477fc2ac1/image.png Which region still doesn't have the prices for every supported country, and doesn't even have those special offers? WELL OF COURSE ITS LATIN AMERICA! I'm going to keep using my nintendo account as an usa one thank you very much!

Apparently you have to check in once a week into Nintendo servers in order to use the NES games.

I still don't understand what I'm paying for with the Nintendo Online. Don't they use Peer-to-Peer connection instead of dedicated servers?

Now that is fucking stupid as hell. You're telling me if my power goes out for longer period of time, they will lock up? Bullshit.

You're paying for matchmaking, essentially. And you're paying for subscription access to NES games, voice chat in a smartphone app, and cloud save backup on some games.

The fact that my phone is doing all the work why the hell does Nintendo think that they can charge money for that.

I'll be honest, they've got me by the balls on this one. I'm gonna have to pay for online for Smash, Pokemon, and Animal Crossing (and Splatoon 2, although I don't play that quite as much as the other three). But I'm not paying a cent until Smash comes out, in hopes that lower subscription numbers from the start will encourage them to re-assess SOME of what they're offering. Because it really is fucking outrageous. Realistically, whatever, fuck it, it's $20 a year (less than that, actually, as my friends and I were gonna split a family plan), but it's the principle of the thing.

I don't know how people play Smash online. The netcode is shit. You're better off playing locally.

Ah yes let me just drive go from connecticut to california to play with a friend for an hour

Eh, probably 95% of my For Glory matches went pretty smoothly on Smash 4. No that I'm trying to justify using P2P when you have as much goddamn money as Nintendo.

https://twitter.com/danekevincook/status/1040430950046289921

Not that the switch may be able to connect to them yet, but the bedrock server binaries are now public (alpha) https://minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock Wonder how much you could do with network fuckery to trick it if possible right now

If Nintendo Online had built-in voicechat in the console (hell, could even bring in a third-party, like Discord), stronger online servers, and a bigger Netflix library (NES + SNES, 64, GBA, GC), I would completely be down to pay $20 a year. Hell, even maybe $30 a year. This is a joke though. At this rate, I don't even wanna bother with SSBU, because I really don't wanna waste money on a completely mediocre service.

Honestly, if they threw in SNES games and some 64 games like paper Mario and Mario 64 that alone would make me subscribe

Paying for the service is essentially telling Nintendo "Yeah what you are offering is perfectly acceptable please keep doing it". They will not change anything if you pay for it.

So, let me understand if i got this correctly, if you don't log in atleast once per week during the entire duration of your paid online service, you permanently lose the ability of playing the promised NES titles? What bullshit is this?

Didn't LKD claim there was some big obvious game going to be shown that lead to the delay of the direct, something tying to earthquakes or something? Because I didn't see anything like that...almost like she was lying or something..

It was Cities: Skylines. They said the game comes with every expansion but they omitted one while naming them Cities

What happens when Toadette gets the new powerup, and Mario uses Cappy on her?

It sounds instead like the games have a one-week "token" for being used offline, and if it's been longer than a week, your Switch can't be sure that you actually have the 'right' to play the NES games and you have to go online and let your Switch contact the mothership and validate your subscription. If you could have unlimited offline access to the subscription-only NES titles, you could sub for one month and then turn your Switch's wireless off and play them permanently. It'd be an exploit, so they make you refresh your subscription status every week.