Are you buying the Nintendo Online Service?

[Runa216]

mZuzek said:

Runa216 said:

IT's really not. 20 bucks a year is, what...a buck sixty-seven a month? That's less than the cost of a coffee and it gets you the ability to play online, cloud saves, a sort of NesFlix thing, and other benefits we don't even know about. 

20 bucks is nothing. 

Even if it's not the best service, it's cheap. Even if you don't think it's great, I don't see how anyone could argue it's not worth it. 

It's not about it being cheap or expensive, it's about paying money for absolutely nothing, because that's what the online play is. It doesn't cost Nintendo barely anything to maintain an online game if it's P2P. In fact, it costs so little Nintendo themselves can't even bother fixing the game's online - you know, there's a certain hacker pretty much destroying everyone in Splatoon ranked battles at the moment, who's going around by such names as "Still $20", and even after the paid service began, he's still doing it. No word from Nintendo at all. Experiencing crazy lag? Well, maybe you wouldn't with servers, but I guess Nintendo doesn't care. How about being able to use cloud saves for Splatoon, so you don't lose your single-player save data and stuff? Oh, you can't, because your online rank is stored locally... I mean, honestly, it's just ridiculous. Paying for P2P is absurd and there's no other way around it.

If Nintendo were to implement servers and have a decent online ecosystem in their games, from improving netcode to implementing basic QoL features such as game invites or MESSAGING FRIENDS (technology is amazing!), I'd have no problem with the $20. The NES games are fine and cloud saves are fine, even if it is a little questionable to lock them behind a paywall. It'd be worth it if the online was any decent, but it's simply not. It sucks, it has sucked since the Switch's launch, in fact it sucks harder than it did on Wii U, and this isn't an improvement at all. It's essentially paying $20 for something we had for free.

Of course, since Nintendo doesn't deserve my money, I went with the family plan and will pay only about $4 yearly in the end. Maybe that's something I'd do regardless of the service quality, but if it was any good I'd feel a little guilty for paying so little - as it is, I actually feel slightly robbed.

Entitled much? In what world do you think you deserve to receive a service without paying for it? Great or not, it's still a service that does cost money to host and run.