Nintendo online 2.0

[Peh]

Ka-pi96 said:

Peh said:

You complain about comparing apples and oranges yet you compare apple and oranges. Team Sonic Racing has no free online on Switch. I don't see Mario Kart 8 on PC. Publishers are afraid of adding an online fee for online gaming on PC. Sega has to get their money from somewhere else to afford the servers on PC. 

Online multiplayer on Nintendo games was always a "mixed" experience. It's not perfect nor is it any good. It barely works for games like Mario Kart 8 where a good netcode is not necessary for those online sessions. It just works. It fails on competitive games, though. People are aware of it, so is Nintendo. And from what I've seen is, they are pretty late to the party of good online connectivity and are reconstructing their service as of now. Nevertheless, those online service being free of charge, means they could afford the costs through other means, besides, WiiU was not successful, the userbase was small, not much server capacity was needed. With Switch, it changed. 

I can only assume, that they started reconstructing their online service with the launch of the Switch. With start, I mean started to plan the reconstruction.

I was comparing one place to play games with another place to play them. Nothing wrong with that comparison.

No point continuing this though. Seems pretty obvious you'll just defend any additional charges you have to pay. The rest of us will either just not pay them, or pay them but complain, while you do you.

If you really wanna compare platforms, then you should stop acting intellectual dishonest and add Sony and MS to the mix. 

I don't know how you conclude that, because I am explaining how stuff costs money, I must be defending additional charges of payments. 

Again, main point is, that one guy thinks it is pathetic to charge people for online ignoring that shit costs money. No publisher will invest in a product costing him more or equal money that it needs to produce it. As a publisher, you will let your customers pay for everything. And that includes the online service. Be it via microtransaction, adverisement or an online service fee. There are also other ways. But in the end, the customer pays. That's simple business.