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Darklit_Minuet posted...

Remember - this paid online scam only works if you let it. If everyone refused to pay for online, Nintendo would be left with two options - remove online entirely, or make it free. The former would harm sales of games like Smult and Spla2n, so they'd do the latter instead.

If anyone pays them money to play online, you are part of the problem, and if you could just reconsider and be patient we can prevent this from happening

This problem started in like the sixth or seventh generation with Xbox. Sony jumped on board the paid online bandwagon for gen 8, and now Nintendo is jumping on board with the Switch. So I mean yeah, I get why people are upset, but this should have been a much louder issue earlier.

Like seriously, this is a state of affairs that has been brewing for over a decade at this point. Was this an issue that sent gamers up in arms when the PS4 made PS+ a mandatory purchase to play online when the PS3 had (and still has) free online multiplayer? I know that this was barely an issue with the Xbox 360 because a lot of gamers today who played that at the time were mostly kids who didn't have to pay for it themselves, which is why I'm not going to appeal to that being an issue - the console gaming scene today is a lot more different than it used to be, even if some things are still as garbage as they were a decade ago. But you would think that this would have been a bigger deal at the time when Sony imposed an unnecessary cost for the PS4's online multiplayer - I guess people were just happier to see Sony wreck Microsoft for the latter's Kinect shenanigans.

The reason I'm not up in arms is because Nintendo's online is cheaper. I outright refuse to pay for PS+, and I continue to main a PS3 because I like the games on the system and I like having free multiplayer. I get the backlash against Nintendo Online, especially considering that online multiplayer has been free for a year and a half, but for things to be this militant? I think it's ridiculous when barely anyone gave a shit when PlayStation sold its multiplayer down the river, for over twice the amount that Nintendo has set.

People are entitled to feel screwed by this, and I can sympathize. I don't want to pay for an online service either. But I'm probably going to get it, because it's $30 AUD a year compared to Playstation and Xbox's $80 AUD a year. And even then, I can probably get by without it - I'll probably just co-op Smash with my friends at the end of the day, and I hear that Fortnite is exempt from the Online fee. People are upset and yelling about how we're getting screwed - my stance is that Nintendo's deal is screwing me less with its cheaper price point, and I like classic NES games so I'm not upset over their retro game library at the moment. The cloud save stuff? Not exactly a fan, not gonna lie - the other two companies have better policies, but that function is still hidden behind a paywall for those consoles (and a more expensive paywall, to boot).

Again - would prefer not to shell out for online play, especially since it's been free for so long. But I seriously see PlayStation and Xbox's online services as being a lot more price-gouging, and I'm just happy that a Nintendo subscription costs considerably less than a subscription for the other two consoles. That's where I stand on this.

I don't blame people for being upset, but if this was an issue worth fighting for as fervently as people are doing now, it would have been infinitely more useful to have fought this when PlayStation set up their paid online multiplayer service for PS4. To just now go after Nintendo for being greedy when people have been getting fleeced - for more money, and for the same service - across the other consoles on the market? Frankly, I think something stinks about this.
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