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windbane on 22 April 2007
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Lingyis said:
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.


Well, I don't have a Wii yet so I'm going on what other people have said. The majority of people on this forum favor the Wii so maybe they can clarify the issue. From what I've read here and in magazines, you have to add people for current games on the VC that are online. I thought there were already games online for that, but I could be wrong.  I thought what I said was common knowledge, however, about having to add friend codes for every game.  They could (and SHOULD) change it, but that's what I've heard.

superchunk says Nintendo isn't even doing VOIP! I hope that is wrong but it wouldn't surprise me. If that is the case, why the heck does Nintendo need friend codes?

I'm sorry you are offended by the link above, but it's not like someone is going to post a "good game" comment on youtube. No one would care. I've played dozens of online games from Diablo to Warcraft 3 to Counter-strike to Resistance. Yes, you get some idiots just like you do in classes, the workplace, elementary schools, and everywhere else. But, for the most part people are nice and say good game and nice shot. If you join a clan (does Nintendo even support that?) you'll of course find people are nicer to you.