Nintendo Is Offering Free Trials For Switch Online, Even If You've Used One Before (North America)

A free trial for the expansion would be nice...

@FishyS I'm the weirdo haha, I don't have NSO nor PS+. I have no desire to play anything online so I just play single player stuff pretty much all the time. I do wish I could just buy the retro stuff, though, and I agree $20 a year isn't too bad.

I'm waiting for Mario Strikers Battle League reviews to see what the single player content is like and haven't pre-ordered for these reasons too.

I usually play earthbound every summer so I would probably just one and done it.

I will.

when is the last day we can start it?

Damn! I thought it was another free game trial for NOA region, I misread sorry.

At least let me play Ristar for 7 days

Im the same as @Arzewn i dont play online at all. I do however have nintendo online but i always buy the Tetris physical version as it comes with a year online, then i sell the Tetris game 😂
I buy 1 month a year on PS just so i can update my cloud and thats it. Couple of games id like to dabble in but i certainly wont take out a yearly sub. Its a great idea but i never get round to playing the PS+ games.

The basic subscription doesn't need a demo. It's the next tier level that does to rope in existing base sub users

A subscription would cut into my burrito funds..

You'd think the sacrifice would be an easy one to make. The burrito however has won every time im confronted with the ultimatum.

@falkyn Wise choice indeed

@falkyn I am against subscription services and basically never do free trials either.
I'm not going to waste my time tying my files to a specific service, or starting a game I won't have time to finish during the trial etc etc.
Burritos on the other hand, have real world value.

As others have said here why don't Nintendo give free trials of Expansion pack if they're so confident in it. I'm sure some people will end up upgrading if they get a taste of it.

@FishyS another weirdo here. I agree cloud saving is essential which is why I wish they offered it for free. I may grab this free trial or pay for a month at some point down the line to update my cloud saves, but I don’t play anything online except occasionally the free games like Fortnite.

As for the retro games, maybe it’s just psychological, but I can’t bring myself to put time into playing anything that I may not have access to a few years down the line. I get all the arguments for a subscription service and I actually think it’s good for them to have it as an option for those who want it, but I wish they’d also let you buy the games and honor that purchase going forward as a company, rather than as a platform, the way Steam does. If they did that they’d have more of my money than either of us could imagine.

@FishyS My sister made the family plan and included me. I've been on NSO for 6 months and I've only played online 5 or 6 times. I don't mind cloud saving. To me it does not matter. I don´t play single player games. I don´t like. Multiplayer games like Rocket League, Mario party, Just Dance....cloud saving or not...doesn´t matter..

If my sister does not renew the family plan, good bye NSO for me.

The games i played online on NSO:

• Mario Kart 8 3 times (with my sister, that lives 8000km from me)
• Plants vs Zombies Battle for Neighborville (just testing...but i prefer play Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2 on PC)
• Switch Sports Trial (1 hour)

I have Mario Party Suuperstars but never tried to play online. I think NSO too limited for my taste.

On Steam, I play online every day, because the connection quality is much better than Nintendo's and it´s free. And because the most of online players playing Fighting Games (my favorite genre) are there 24 hours.

@FishyS On the other side of the coin. I can't imagine PAYING for NSO unless you really like Smash or MK. Have no need for cloud backups and renting a couple 30 year old SNES games I could easily emulate is not very enticing.

@FishyS
When 99% of the games you play are single player, switch online is not a necessity.

I guess that's not a bad deal

Would be cool if Nintendo did an Expansion Pass trial for those of us that already have Nintendo Online.

I can't be bothered to play old SNES and NES games with a 7 day expiry date. Doesn't sound like fun at all. Does NSO have actual servers yet? I found online games were often unplayable. Even for free, I'm not interested.

@Joeynator3000 agree

I have gotten the My Nintendo trial for 100 platinum points, then at least 4+ of these that say "even if you already used a trial", but have never remembered to redeem a single time, until it's expired, lol. 1 week isn't long enough, especially when I'm playing games on other consoles. Actually, I'm grinding through SMTV daily, recently, & i still wouldn't redeem the trial, so i think it's more that i wouldn't bother while in the middle of a game. There's no point in wasting my data cap towards downloading these games that i need to remember to try within 7 days. The chance of me subscribing is zero, so it's probably not meant for people like me anyways.

@FishyS it's funny, i play my switch almost daily, and don't own (or plan to own) any of the games you mentioned (tho Pokemon Legends Arceus is a possibility of it goes on sale). I may be in the minority, but I'm sure I'm not alone.

@Arzewn "I have no desire to play anything online so I just play single player stuff pretty much all the time."

I felt like I was the only one..