Petitions never ever work. Just don't buy the sub and show them with your wallet rather than a petition most people won't sign.

Hence why I will test it at the very least. Not much of an online player, but the Netflix-like NES games plus the (yet to show) special offers are interesting to me.

Well Ninty knows games like MK, Splatoon and Smash are useless w/out online, so they know the millions of people who play them will be forced to pay for online.

I still think they should have kept the online portion of the service free and provided a more robust subscription service for a monthly / annual fee that includes all the other stuff plus a full Netflix-style "Virtual Console" catalog of classic games to chose from, not just a handful of NES games with a drip drop stream of releases afterwards. I know it's only $20/yr, but the fact that Nintendo is now charging for the same bare-bones online service that they've been providing free for years now just makes it seem that much more of a cheap cash grab.

Have any change.org petitions ever actually worked? Do these corporations even know they exist?

I'm seeing that many of you haven't actually read the petition. This is not adressed to Nintendo. I know they won't listen even if millions of people signed it. I'm adressing it to you. I'm asking you for help because I know that only if we manage to get a significant number of people to not pay for this service we can have a decent chance of making Nintendo retract. I'm not even asking you to sign, signing is just a symbolic act in this case. I'm asking you, the Nintendo Switch owners, to not pay for this service.

I see other people saying that since its cheap, I shouldn't complain. It may be cheap, but my point still stands: it has always been free and Nintendo hasn't made anything to improve their online infrastructure. Splatoon 2 or Mario Kart 8 Deluxe don't run better than their Wii U counterparts. If their is any improvement, it's minimal. Errors are still something that many people experience with different levels of frecuency on Switch online.

Another point made is that the service offers other things like a classic videogame library, cloud saving and exclusive deals. In my petition I acknowledge this features and admit thay they may justify the service however, I still see two problems with these:

First, while this features are nice, many people may not be interested on them at all. Maybe they just want to play online. Why have they to pay for something they don't want? I think the correct thing to do would be keeping base online free and make a premium paid subscription that includes the NES games, exclusive deals and such. Then everyone has what they want.

Second, cloud saving. Remember what you used to do with Wii, Wii U, NDSi and 3DS to make sure you don't miss any data? You created backup copies. With an external device such as an SD card or a flash drive, you made a copy of your save files and then you didn't have to worry if your console breaks or gets stolen. The Switch has micro sd card compatibility, which means is able to do this very thing. However, Nintendo won't allow you. You cannot make backups of your save files. What can you do? I'll tell you what you can do: pay for cloud saving. Pay to be able to do something you could do before for free (again). If you're ok with this I'm fine, but I couldn't disagree more.

Well... Nintendo can limit their online services to those who pay.
They offer NES games during the subscription with online play.

I agree that cloud saves should not be a feature paid subscription, since there is afaik no other way to backup your save files. And thus is a pain in the ass for anyone when their hardware will break.

I don't play online these days. Reading your thing you saying I can't backup save files locally? I assumed they also stored on the cart lol?

No, you can't backup locally. All save files are stored on the system itself and it's not possible to copy data to a micro sd card

I wasn't calling you intentionally ignorant, I was responding to your comment from the previous post which I thought was implying that I was intentionally ignorant, to which I was denying. Again, I was never calling you ignorant, but was responding to this line from your previous post, which felt insulting to me, "It seems to me like you are just purposefully being ignorant to try and have a blissful result. "

The Wii U was definitely better than the Switch but didn't give access to free games with new multiplayer capabilities or cloud saves. 

I never called you intentionally ignorant nor did I insult you. You called me ignorant, on the other hand. Again, I was responding to the line about how you said I was being "purposefully ignorant." I was denying that saying no one can be that, because to be ignorant means you are unaware (I'm using the word you here in a general sense), and no one can be intentionally unaware.

I have a feeling there is some communication errors going on here.

I want to boycott this service...Smash is making that hard however...