{"id":57647,"date":"2018-10-26T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/blizzard_clarifies_switch_online_membership_wont_be_required_to_play_diablo_iiis_seasons_mode"},"modified":"2018-10-26T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T04:15:00","slug":"blizzard-clarifies-switch-online-membership-wont-be-required-to-play-diablo-iiis-seasons-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/26\/blizzard-clarifies-switch-online-membership-wont-be-required-to-play-diablo-iiis-seasons-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Clarifies Switch Online Membership Won&#8217;t Be Required To Play Diablo III&#8217;s Seasons Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/be99b9b6c7d4d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/be99b9b6c7d4d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Diablo III IMG\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/be99b9b6c7d4d\/diablo-iii-img.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/be99b9b6c7d4d\/diablo-iii-img.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Diablo III IMG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Blizzard&#8217;s <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/diablo_iii_eternal_collection\">Diablo III Eternal Collection<\/a><\/strong> arrives on the Switch at the start of next month. Obviously, if you want to play online with other people, you&#8217;ll need to sign up to Nintendo&#8217;s online membership.<\/p>\n<p>If not, though, you&#8217;re won&#8217;t entirely miss out on the fun. Earlier this month, a Blizzard community manager over on the game&#8217;s official forums confirmed the popular seasons mode would not require a Nintendo Switch Online subscription:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s some confusion about the necessity of the Nintendo Switch Online service in relation to the upcoming Diablo III: Eternal Collection. To clarify, access to playing Seasons does not require a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. However, access to online multiplayer does.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was also mentioned how the seasons mode on Switch is freely accessible &#8211; just like it currently is in the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of the game.<\/p>\n<p>In seasons mode you can unlock special in-game achievements and obtain exclusive cosmetic items such as pets, portraits, wings and pennants.<\/p>\n<p>Are you glad to hear this? Will you be picking up Diablo III Eternal Collection on release? Tell us in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard&#8217;s Diablo III Eternal Collection arrives on the Switch at the start of next month. Obviously, if you want to play online with other people, you&#8217;ll need to sign up to Nintendo&#8217;s online membership. If not, though, you&#8217;re won&#8217;t entirely miss out on the fun. Earlier this month, a Blizzard community manager over on the [&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-57647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647","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=57647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}