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Nintendo Switch Online: Family Plan Thread
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When I tried mods locked it down, so I hope that this one lives on now that Nintendo made it clear is not "illegal"/ bad to use the plan with friends
We could ask a mod to be a broker, whoever is the main account if he runs away with the money gets banned
I'm pretty sure Nintendo would have it in the fine print that you would have to be an actual family, or at least share an address. I could be wrong, and I'm sure some folk will give it a shot regardless of what's stated. Just, be wary of any negative outcomes Nintendo might decide to unleash upon you. In other words, I don't recommend doing this.
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At worst you would lose $5, but we could make it like if someone does that they get perma banned.
At the moment, you simply have to know someone's Email account to add them to a family plan. Not all families share an address.
On parent to child account have any control over things like CC and expenses. And I think a Family Account manager can kick out anyone of the plan
There was a thread similar to this (months ago) that was locked, I don't know if Era's rules changed regarding account sharing.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-switch-online-family-plan-sharing-thread.41126/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-switch-online-family-plan-sharing-thread.41126/
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People love discounts, why not give people an option to pay less? Unless of course Nintendo would be mad about this, that I don't know.
It honestly just doesn't seem worth the trouble to coordinate for me. I dunno. The damn joy cons and pro controllers are so much money, this online plan seems incredibly cheap to me.
I mean, unless Nintendo fine print woukd impies only blood related can use the account, is not account sharing but more like system bundling legally
I searched through the Nintendo Account user agreement and there's no mention of family groups. I also can't find any mention of the conditions of who should be in a family group on their website.
This seemed like the most relevant statement I could find in the user agreement:
What I take from that is if you were to do this and Nintendo were to later decide it was unacceptable, at most you'd have to pay the remaining combined total cost of individual membership (i.e. at most, $135/year). But the fact that there's no statement saying who family memberships are intended for on the website makes me think they don't care too much about non-"family" (and "family" itself is a loose and cultural term) memberships.
The official statement from Nintendo on what a Family Group is can be found here. Here it is quoted:
The fact that Nintendo has called it a "family" group likely suggests their intent and most likely use case. However, they've also never included any information anywhere about unintended uses for this. Nintendo's planning had to have considered that some users would group with friends, yet they haven't called this out as an improper use or defined the proper use of a family group in any of the documentation they have. That said, I can't recommend this approach.
What I do recommend is that everyone following this approach read the fine print of the purchase agreement tomorrow. I also welcome anyone with more legal background to comment on my post with their own interpretations, as I'd prefer that my interpretations not mislead or misinform anyone.
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Yeah....this is probably going to get locked too. Just link to a discord and carry business on from there. Decent idea though.
The admin has some power and control over the accounts in a group. So the admin of a Family Group you are part of should be someone you trust.
I believe that only applies to parent-child accounts. Although the family group admin CAN add or remove members from the group anytime.
I am basically using this family account to pay for online for all my friends for one low price so I don't have to convince any of them to sign up themselves but I can still keep playing games with them.
That's quite nice. And a good way to approach it. Instead of convincing or lamenting one or some can't join, you all just play together.
Is hacking possible? Sure, it's just not widespread yet.
Is banning all accounts associated? Most likely and it makes sense to do so from Nintendo's perspective.
account lending (I buy it and let you use mine) is apparently against the forum rules. but this is a different case.
As far as I think anyone understands, yes, that is what a Family Membership allows. It's designed for independent use among multiple Switches/users.
I know hacking is possible, but I don't know about banning a whole group. It seems Nintendo is managing this per Nintendo Account, and maybe per console, but banning 8 consoles because of one account seems unrealistic.
They don't ban accounts to begin with, they ban consoles. They're not going to ban all consoles under an account bracket, that makes zero sense.
A bunch of people seem to be pulling stuff out of their asses with this new service.
Is this really worth it? $300 for the console, $80 for joycons, $70 for a pro controller, $60 for NES controllers after you have an online membership, and $60 for every new major release from Nintendo. But this $15 saved through sketchy means is what you bend over backwards for lol
Ditto.
Already got a freeloader Netflix account going, what's one more?
*Sigh*
You don't think it would make sense for them to ban all accounts associated with a hacker?
It actually makes total sense to ban all accounts affiliated with a hacker.
Fuck off, it's very reasonable speculation.
People here seriously think Nintendo is going to audit family groups according to some non-existent definition of family?
If you choose to start a family plan with friends, you're well within the use case stated on the site. There's no parent-child relationship necessary.
If you choose to start a family plan with friends, you're well within the use case stated on the site. There's no parent-child relationship necessary.
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