UPDATE: Going to keep my original post here for posterity, but nothing to see here folks. There's a 6 month grace period and it took my new Switch a few hours to register the saves or something. It all(kinda) works as advertised.
I sold my Switch a few weeks ago, knowing that I was going to be getting a Switch Lite soon. I made sure to back up the saves for EVERYTHING. I was away for a few weeks with no internet and didn't think anything of my sub lapsing(I commonly go where I can't access the internet for periods of time for work). I returned and got a Switch Lite. I renewed my sub to find the Cloud Save Data screen completely empty. So much progress lost(185 hrs in XC2, 125 in FE3H, 70 in LGP, 50 in at least 5 and 30 in 10+ others). At the end of the day, it's my fault for not scrutinizing the shit out of any online service by Nintendo, but there should be some sort of grace period. I just dug through my email and there's a 30 day auto-renewal notice if you have it enabled(which I did before disabling it when I left), but nothing about the subscription ending, and no warning that I can't see a warning anywhere in email or on the system itself about cloud save data immediately being gone. There should be some form of notice in the Save Data Management screen if nothing else. It's possible that this was widespread knowledge and I missed the wave of backlash(I've been gone for about 20 weeks total off and on since the beginning of May).
I made this thread with hopes that I can prevent this happening to anyone else.
TL;DR: If your NSO sub is going to end, make sure you have all of your current saves locally on the machine. They get deleted immediately upon it ending.
I sold my Switch a few weeks ago, knowing that I was going to be getting a Switch Lite soon. I made sure to back up the saves for EVERYTHING. I was away for a few weeks with no internet and didn't think anything of my sub lapsing(I commonly go where I can't access the internet for periods of time for work). I returned and got a Switch Lite. I renewed my sub to find the Cloud Save Data screen completely empty. So much progress lost(185 hrs in XC2, 125 in FE3H, 70 in LGP, 50 in at least 5 and 30 in 10+ others). At the end of the day, it's my fault for not scrutinizing the shit out of any online service by Nintendo, but there should be some sort of grace period. I just dug through my email and there's a 30 day auto-renewal notice if you have it enabled(which I did before disabling it when I left), but nothing about the subscription ending, and no warning that I can't see a warning anywhere in email or on the system itself about cloud save data immediately being gone. There should be some form of notice in the Save Data Management screen if nothing else. It's possible that this was widespread knowledge and I missed the wave of backlash(I've been gone for about 20 weeks total off and on since the beginning of May).
I made this thread with hopes that I can prevent this happening to anyone else.
TL;DR: If your NSO sub is going to end, make sure you have all of your current saves locally on the machine. They get deleted immediately upon it ending.
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