{"id":123191,"date":"2018-01-31T23:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123191"},"modified":"2018-10-02T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T06:41:00","slug":"your-switch-online-cloud-saves-wont-be-lost-if-you-stop-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/123191-your-switch-online-cloud-saves-wont-be-lost-if-you-stop-paying","title":{"rendered":"Your Switch Online cloud saves won\u2019t be lost if you stop paying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo recently launched its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/276401-gamers-arent-happy-with-nintendo-switch-online.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Switch Online<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0subscription service for gamers.<\/p>\n<p>Switch Online includes the ability to save your game progress to the cloud, but the service\u2019s website implied that once you stop paying your subscription fee these save games will no longer be accessible.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2018\/09\/25\/nintendo-will-let-you-recover-cloud-saves-up-to-6-months-after-your-switch-online-subscription-lapses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IGN<\/strong><\/a>, a Nintendo spokesperson clarified that if a Switch owner stops paying their subscription for Switch Online, their saves would not be immediately lost.<\/p>\n<p>Users will be able to recover their previous cloud saves if they resubscribe to the Switch Online service within six months, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>However, they will not be able to access these cloud saves until they resubscribe to the service.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to offering cloud backups for game saves, Switch Online allows users to participate in online multiplayer and access classic Nintendo game bundles.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Now read:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/123119-nintendo-labo-pre-order-prices-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nintendo Labo pre-order prices in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No need to worry about losing your Switch Online cloud saves if you unsubscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":123192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25660,73,16921,22949],"class_list":["post-123191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo","tag-cloud-saves","tag-nintendo","tag-subscription","tag-switch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}