{"id":132732,"date":"2023-03-28T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-147157"},"modified":"2023-03-28T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T00:30:00","slug":"nintendo-badge-arcade-service-officially-ends-daily-free-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/28\/nintendo-badge-arcade-service-officially-ends-daily-free-plays\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Badge Arcade Service Officially Ends &#8216;Daily Free Plays&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fdcd19dba9ad8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fdcd19dba9ad8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Nintendo Badge Arcade\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fdcd19dba9ad8\/nintendo-badge-arcade.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fdcd19dba9ad8\/nintendo-badge-arcade.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Badge Arcade\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got some news you probably didn&#8217;t want to hear about the 3DS service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds-eshop\/nintendo_badge_arcade\">Nintendo Badge Arcade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the 3DS shutdown currently taking place around the globe, it&#8217;s now been confirmed by Nintendo&#8217;s Japanese website that this title has been partially shut down.<\/p>\n<p>As highlighted by well-known Nintendo dataminer and Twitter user <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OatmealDome\/status\/1640509795349282817\">OatmealDome<\/a> it means daily free plays will no longer be given out and badge catchers won&#8217;t be rotated. <em>Ouch!<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/oatmealdome\/statuses\/1640441137776459776 @ 2023-03-28T01:23:53+01:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[Nintendo Badge Arcade]<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has now officially confirmed that the Badge Arcade service was partially shut down on Mar 24.<\/p>\n<p>Daily free plays will no longer be given out, and the badge catchers will not be rotated.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/21fVxdRdgA\">https:\/\/t.co\/21fVxdRdgA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InternalLoss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@InternalLoss<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 OatmealDome (@OatmealDome) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OatmealDome\/status\/1640441137776459776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As noted in a follow-up tweet, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/03\/nintendo-badge-arcade-free-plays-might-be-over-for-good\">our own previous story<\/a>, this was thought to be a mistake &#8211; with many users of this service hoping for a fix, but it seems to have been intentional. Here&#8217;s a rough translation of this notice on the official Nintendo website (via Twitter):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNotice of Partial Service Termination &#8211; As of Mar 24, \u2018two daily free plays\u2019 and \u2018replacement of badge catchers\u2019 has ended. Thank you for using this service.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>While free plays are no longer given out, it&#8217;s still possible to get free plays from the practice catcher mode.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/3ds\/related-articles:147020 @ 2023-03-28T02:37:34+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>How do you feel about this? Will you miss the Arcade Bunny? Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life We&#8217;ve got some news you probably didn&#8217;t want to hear about the 3DS service Nintendo Badge Arcade. With the 3DS shutdown currently taking place around the globe, it&#8217;s now been confirmed by Nintendo&#8217;s Japanese website that this title has been partially shut down. As highlighted by well-known Nintendo dataminer and Twitter user [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}