Almost everyone at NWR can jump in now. Seriously.
So, last fall, there was this Switch Online thing—like a trial run, sort of—and it’s happening again. Yeah, more room this time for folks to try the app, I guess. No idea why it’s stuck in my brain, but there it is.
So, anyway, if you’re one of those people who call themselves Expansion Pack subscribers—whatever that really means—and you’re 18 or older as of, uh, I think it was 6 p.m. ET today, then congrats! You can apply. Just pop over to this page (Monday at 11 a.m. until 10:59 a.m. Wednesday—don’t ask me why the times are so specific) and have at it. A lottery for Japanese folks again, typical, but elsewhere it’s like, first come, first served. You know, the usual scramble. The actual test kicks off at 9 p.m. ET on July 28 and wraps up by 9:59 p.m. on August 10. Those times—they’re oddly satisfying, no?
This time around, a few things change: The pool’s way bigger—40,000 folks instead of just 10,000, which is kinda nuts. And hey, if you’re in Canada, Mexico, or Brazil, you can jump in with friends from the US, Japan, UK, whatever. And groups of 4? Makes it sound like a party. Maybe it is.