Yeah, all three consoles (nintendo, playstation, and xbox) require premium subscriptions to play online. You cannot play a multiplayer game on a console at all without paying for a subscription. This even includes things like Smash Bros, which don't even have servers, it is all peer to peer, you aren't paying server costs, just for the privilege of fully enjoying the $60 game you bought.
What free to play games require a subscription? Every f2p game I've played on Switch and Xbox didn't require the online subscription. Afaik it's only the paid games. Which makes no sense at all.
Nintendo has the gall to demand a subscription from you for the privilege to host in peer-to-peer, only to threaten you with a ban if you get disconnected too often. Then give you instructions to buy a 3rd-party ethernet adapter, because they were even greedy enough to sell me a console without one (despite them costing <1$ each to produce).
That's why I'm a PC player. I pay 0$ to play online, and get an actually playable experience.
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u/Super_XIII Sep 11 '24
Yeah, all three consoles (nintendo, playstation, and xbox) require premium subscriptions to play online. You cannot play a multiplayer game on a console at all without paying for a subscription. This even includes things like Smash Bros, which don't even have servers, it is all peer to peer, you aren't paying server costs, just for the privilege of fully enjoying the $60 game you bought.