Topic: Low cost NSO subscription - share membership here

Hope the mods don't mind me trying such a thread. Not much different to friend code sharing threads I hope.

This is for people who'd like to cut the cost of an annual subscription to Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) by splitting the cost of a group membership with other Nintendo Life users.If it somehow irks you that there are people looking to save money by sharing a membership, please keep it to yourself.

Setting up a group membership is easy. One person acts as the admin and takes out a family membership on the eshop, then invites other members to join - only their email addresses are needed.

If someone accepts an invite from the admin but then doesn't pay their share, the admin can simply kick them from the group.

Payments can be handled quickly and easily with a PayPal account, which you can setup with just a debit card in seconds.

This is completely legitimate and low risk. Worst thing that can happen it seems is if the Admin were to take your money but then kick you from the group for no reason, or the member tries a PayPal charge back to undo their payment. In either case you'd be down the £5 (or whatever the agreed split was). Hopefully no-one will be silly enough to entertain that idea, because they'll struggle to get any more sharers once their name is muddied in such a way. But it goes without saying, you enter such arrangements at your own risk and any matchmaking you do here is nothing to do with Nintendolife.com etc.

I'm hoping to establish a group that can share with me in the next few days and will hopefully run for years of low cost online subscription together. I've been a regular user here for 4 years so hopefully that provides some assurance that I'm not out to mess anyone about, just want to share in minimising the costs of subscription.

I need 3 of the 8 accounts, and I've already got two other takers from this site, so there's space for 3 more. So let me know if you want to subscribe to my group for £5 a year (until Nintendo changes the price, in which we I'll review the split accordingly when the time comes).

Thanks everyone. Here's to low cost NSO subscription

@gcunit I guess it's not against the rules, so I don't have a problem with it, but sharing email addresses is at your own risk. Anyway, I'll contact you privately.

Yes I'd advice agaisnt doing this over the internet "out in the open" like this.

In fact I wouldn't recommend trying to strike deals with random people in a forum without a personal message system...

@gcunit Ummm I thought you were a mod?

What are you talking about, he's never been a mod.

What's a 'mod'?

Down to three spaces left in my group now.

A forum moderator. Like @Octane. A ruthless tyrant who imposes his/her will upon the people, with a boot upon the collective throat of dissent and social reform.

I don’t actually believe any of that. It’s a thankless job. Please don’t ban me. 😁

Are people really this hard up to spend $20 on this?

How many indie games do you buy a year that add up to more than this, and you don’t even play anymore?

@Baller98 @Octane I sent you invites earlier today. Did you get them? Sub is up and running as of today, ready for you to join. The invites expire after 24hrs so I'll have to send it again if you don't accept in time.

Only two spaces left in my group now. Group members can seemingly be from anywhere in the world.

Oh this is a rabbit hole waiting to happen! But I guess some people are really desperate to save a buck! To each their own...

To be fair so far he has invited mostly well known frequent forum users.

@Yosheel

Ted Bundy was a charismatic, friendly, highly-liked member of his community until you know...

Just saying. 😎

Right? They act like they’re holding onto their last $20 they’ll ever have again.

ah yes, what could possibly go wrong? >w<

@DTMOF84 Please allow me to try and help with your understanding.

From my time working with young children, I am aware that reading and comprehension can be challenging for some, so allow me to draw your attention to the polite request (in the second paragraph of the first post) for those who may be troubled by the concept behind this thread to keep it to themselves.

It can easily happen when understanding doesn't come freely to people that they get frustrated and look to vent that frustration, but, you see, this is a helping thread, and by bothering to write not only one message, but two messages, that only seem to be trying to undermine the spirit of the thread, you could be perceived by some to just be 'trolling' - that's an Internet colloquialism for having nothing better to do and being of an unkind mind, a spoil-sport if you will. Best avoided, many say.

I appreciate working with numbers can also confuse some people too, so allow me to explain that a family group subscription (which is what I needed) doesn't cost $20, it actually costs more than that. So, by opening up my family group to others, I am actually doing a kind thing that benefits others and me too - sometimes that sort of thing is described as a win:win situation.

So far I've helped 3 people with this idea. Ask yourself how many you've helped.

Now, I do appreciate too that there are some people who have so much money, or so little understanding of basic economics, or just a bit of insecurity about being seen to be trying to save some money, or that just want to congratulate Nintendo on coming up with such a fantastic service whereby we now pay for things we could do for free on their previous hardware, that don't mind spending 3 times more money on fairly intangible goods like digital subscriptions. And to those people I say, "Good luck!"

Now, if you've managed to follow all that you've done really well, you should be really pleased with yourself. Why don't you go and celebrate by buying another subscription just because you can?

And please, take some cake...

This thread is fine and you should feel fine. I feel NL is a tight enough community to make this achievable, and the catty comments don’t really contribute a lot. If 6-8 people can save each other some money without doing any illegal, suspicious or (for the reasons outlined in the first post) even at all risky, then that’s fine.

I’d join myself, but I’m planning to create an account with actual members of my family. I do however think this is a very fine and sensible thing.

The family membership actually save money if you paying for three individual membership anyways. Might as well do it if your friends going get it.

@gcunit I love it. Legendary

@gcunit lol whatever floats your boat man. I know the family memebership is not $20. But paying that $20 is everyone’s crying complaint like they weren’t told you’d pay for it eventually. Yeah it was free to begin with. But again we were all very aware it would end. I’m so glad you can help save so many people so much money. It’s not like you all didn’t have a year and a half to save for it if that’s really your issue. Which in reality I’m sure it isn’t. It’s just your way to say “you can’t get me Nintendo!”

To each his own, I guess. To me, it just seems like a lot of work for a laughably small amount of money.

Seriously, in what post-apocalyptic, third-world existence is $20 a year too much, to the point that one must hatch a scheme in order to circumnavigate the system? And you’re not even saving 20 bucks. You’re saving a fraction of that.

From a practical/mathematical standpoint, this feels hysterical, exaggerated, and completely, entirely unnecessary.