{"id":42270,"date":"2018-08-24T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/tencent_confirms_free-to-play_titles_wont_be_impacted_by_nintendo_switch_online"},"modified":"2018-08-24T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T02:20:00","slug":"tencent-confirms-free-to-play-titles-wont-be-impacted-by-nintendo-switch-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/24\/tencent-confirms-free-to-play-titles-wont-be-impacted-by-nintendo-switch-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent Confirms Free-To-Play Titles Won&#8217;t Be Impacted By Nintendo Switch Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a7132b8b59cbe\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a7132b8b59cbe\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Arena Of Valor Image\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a7132b8b59cbe\/arena-of-valor-image.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a7132b8b59cbe\/arena-of-valor-image.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Arena Of Valor Image\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Following on from the <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/rumour_free-to-play_switch_games_wont_be_impacted_by_paid_online_service\">rumour<\/a> at the start of the month about free-to-play games not requiring a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, Tencent &#8211; the developer behind the upcoming MOBA, <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/arena_of_valor\"><strong>Arena of Valor<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; has confirmed this is in fact\u00a0true.\u00a0Speaking to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/gaming\/news\/arena-of-valor-switch-release-date-1202911920\/\">Variety<\/a>, it revealed its own game would not require a Nintendo Switch Online subscription in order to be played.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This means the communities of <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\"><strong>Fortnite<\/strong><\/a> and the recently released <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/paladins_-_founders_pack\">Paladins<\/a><\/strong>, along with various other free-to-play online games, will presumably not be impacted by the introduction of online services. With free-to-play online games still able to be accessed online for free, do you think this will draw players away from Nintendo&#8217;s own paid online multiplayer experiences? Tell us below.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from the rumour at the start of the month about free-to-play games not requiring a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, Tencent &#8211; the developer behind the upcoming MOBA, Arena of Valor &#8211; has confirmed this is in fact\u00a0true.\u00a0Speaking to Variety, it revealed its own game would not require a Nintendo Switch Online subscription in [&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-42270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270","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=42270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}