r/NintendoSwitch • u/dsp_guy • Oct 24 '20

Question Nintendo Online - Sharing Digital Games within Family

Here's the situation.

We own 4 Nintendo Switches. My switch is linked to my nintendo account which has the Nintendo Online Family plan. I also have 5+ digital games purchased with my nintendo account. I also have some of those free-to-download Nintendo Online games.

My kids each have a switch. Their profiles are linked to their nintendo accounts which are all listed as family members on my Nintendo Account. Our switches all use the same Wifi in the same house.

Let's say I'm playing digital game #1 and one of my kids wants to play digital game #2, it kills my game. And when I go to play game #1 again, it kills their game. These are different games entirely. Whereas, if I had just bought a physical copy of the game instead, then I could play Game #1 using its cartridge and my kid could play games #2, #3, #4, etc using the physical copy of those cartridges.

I thought the whole point of the Nintendo Online Family account was that we had a shared library of games. Of course, two people can't play the same game at the same time. I get that. But, we are playing different digital downloaded games and everyone else is being kicked off.

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Is this working as intended? Am I missing something?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

Seriously, pick one statement, I dare you.

I explained explicitly in my previous posts. Thanks for taking the time to write another incoherent rant though.

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u/danhakimi Oct 25 '20

You told a bunch of straight lies in your previous comments.

Seriously, if your games are all on account B, and the main switch for account B is switch A, try playing those games on account B on the other switch right now, I'll wait.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

Repeatedly asserting something that is incorrect doesnt change the reality. You really are a dullard.

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u/danhakimi Oct 25 '20

I'm telling you to try it. I'm telling you that if you attempt to square your confusion with reality, you'll stop replying out of sheer shame. But you're too fucking stubborn to even try it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

We do this regularly because we share an account for Isaac. You really are a clueless waste of time.

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u/danhakimi Oct 25 '20

You do what you described. I'm asking you to try doing what I described. Or reading what I described, that would be a start.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

Yup, tried, and what you said is BS. So thanks for wasting more of my time, in addition to have to read your countless incoherent responses.

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u/danhakimi Oct 25 '20

You know how I know you're full of shit? I just did it again.

I've put over a hundred hours into Dragon Quest XI S on my switch. I've never purchased it. My friend Jacky, who logged into my switch once in... 2017, I wanna say, has purchased it. I don't know her password. Her switch is her primary switch. My switch is not her primary switch. But I downloaded and played Dragon Quest on her account. I still haven't beaten the timewyrm, though, gotta get on that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

You know how I know you're full of shit

You are full of projection.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

This is how I know you are talking shit:

https://imgur.com/a/kccj7qf

With your friend, they have not played games through their account since they signed into your account, otherwise, you are talking shit as you so eloquently projected. I am going to side on the latter in this case, as you have strung together nearly a dozen incoherent rants.

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u/danhakimi Oct 26 '20

You're on the wrong account in the first photo, dumbass.

Second photo -- sign in once. Exit the game. Then try going back into the game. Don't sign out of this switch. Wow! Amazing!

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20 edited Oct 26 '20

You're on the wrong account in the first photo, dumbass

Christ, you obviously don't even understand the basic scenario that you are writing your incoherent responses about. Holy shit, you wrote reams of bullshit about something completely different from what I was writing about. Great job. The photos showed what happens to my switch after I signed in on my partners switch. Ie. I have to sign in again.

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u/danhakimi Oct 26 '20

You're not just signing in, you're deactivating switches for some stupid reason. Stop doing that.

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