| johnlucas said: But you gotta think about more than just "me". People have to step out of their own worlds for a second. Nintendo just is NOT gonna allow their reputation to be stained as making it easier for children to run into questionable content through their services. It's one thing to buy the game but another thing to deal with online vulgarity and harrassment. It's simply going to be the drawback to Nintendo's service. But hey it's free. Beggars can't be choosers. If you want the old way there's XBox Live to consider. You'll pay but you'll get the type of service you desire. Nintendo's approach will hurt them less than you think. Filters would be a good idea. Maybe if you feel so strongly about it maybe you can share your concerns with Nintendo. A censoring module that prevents certain types of content from reaching the impressionable. And yes I'm saying this without having any kids. I stepped out of my own world. Vulgar jackasses online are only an annoyance to me to inspire muting or blocking but I'm looking outside of that and thinking about how thse types of scenarios would affect different individuals. Nintendo is trying to lessen as much of the liability to their service as possible. You know how people like to sue for every little thing–legit or not. John Lucas |
I second that. Maybe I'm easily annoyed, or maybe I just want a good time when playing games, but I would much prefer the uniformity of just Friend Codes as opposed to user names where even 1 objectionable name would just throw somebody off. (I don't imagine there can be objectionable Miis 
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Okay, that somebody is probably just me. But a parent who sees an objectionable name would be a lot more concerned with his/her kid playing with strangers. A good reputation goes a long way.
Don't think it'll hurt gamers. Gamers have a high tolerence threshold, surely they can handle this minor annoyance of adding Friend Codes.
We'll find out soon just how much parenting Nintendo has plans for!
the Wii is an epidemic.
