We’re not just whining, we’re not just being salty, we’re trying to get stuff done. While it’s rarely easy to get a company to listen, it has been shown that Nintendo can be willing to listen when you rally a great deal of support. We may be one of Nintendo’s smaller communities, but we’re one of their most passionate. Between us and the Japanese fans, we make up a solid and important chunk of Nintendo’s fan base. This means that, if we can get it moving, we swing a fair deal of weight.



Cloud saves for splatoon 2 are ***INCREDIBLY*** important. Being perhaps one of the most grinding intensive (Gear rolling, chunks, level, gear collection, etc) Nintendo games, *and* an online multiplayer game with a ranking system. I myself have put 805 hours into the game, and I know that many of us have put similar, if not greater hours in. To have our efforts and progress be casually disregarded is insulting, demeaning, and downright lazy.



Nintendo claims to be doing this to prevent save scumming, but anyone who’s ever played practically any other multiplayer shooter knows that this claim is absurd. It would likely be extremely easy to fix this issue, but they aren’t. We’re going to be paying them to run online soon, but they won’t even put a small investment into making sure our progress is preserved in the event of a switch failure/theft? I expect better from Nintendo, and our community genuinely deserves better.



Right now, if you lose or break your switch, you lose all your progress. Rank, gear, money, levels, snails, weapons, single player data, the whole lot. Not only that, but there’s nothing you can do (outside of hacking your switch) to back that up.



There’s no reasonable excuse for this. Nintendo could easily fix the excuse they’re giving, they could afford servers to process this stuff, they could give us cloud saves. I’m not asking for dedicated servers, even though peer to peer in this day and age... well, that’s besides the point.



As a community, right now we have a choice. We can take this lying down, we can let Nintendo screw us over, or we can take a stand. It might not even work, Nintendo might look us over. But dangit, I don’t want us to go down as the community that complains about crap and never does anything about it.



Get those miiverse (or whatever they are called now) posts out, change your in game name if you feel like it (if WUT can be everywhere, why not this?) tweet at Nintendo, get the community talking about this, *don’t buy the online*, and tell Nintendo whenever we can that we aren’t okay with this.



I love this game, and I have nothing but love for the devs who have always been nothing but cool people. Don’t do anything stupid, don’t harass them. No death threats, nothing that’s wrong. But stand up for yourselves, and maybe, just maybe, we can get Nintendo to give Cloud Saves in splatoon a chance.