| windbane said: The reasons are obvious, everyone has stated them. It is annoying. You log on and can't immediately play. You have to find a friend to add just to play the game. Then if that one person isn't online you have to add someone else. Having to do that for every game? Annoying. What Nintendo needs to understand is that far more people prefer convenience in online gaming, not unneccessary restrictions. |
Well, first off, nobody really knows how it's gonna work. It's all speculation at this point, so neither you nor I can say anything all that concrete. But it's fun to talk about it anyway.
Before I saw the video I totally agree with you. I agreed with "everyone". I would think that I just want to jump in and play... but if you read my posts I learned from experience that it's not quite like that.
Here's a "smart person" argument (more like a rhetoric): Nintendo knows how to run a business. If the reason is so obvious that everybody can see, Nintendo certainly knows. Then why does it appear to take a different course? They must know something we don't.
But in general, the "smart person" type of argument goes a long way. I have stated some possible reasons Nintendo have decided to go that way in previous posts. Of course I can be wrong, Nintendo can be wrong.
A valid counterargument to that would be that Nintendo simply doesn't think online gaming is such a big deal, and would like to minimize possible damage from completely free and unobstructive online gaming and thus creating this Friend Code. Now that action would be defensive in nature and does not do the gaming community any good.
We don't know which is Nintendo's intent. We'll just have to see how it's executed.
the Wii is an epidemic.
