Mario Kart 8 reviews- 89 on Metacritic (again)

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Mr Khan said:

cannonballZ said:
"Chat is restricted to lobbies with friends only. There’s no option to invite friends into a game, and Mario Kart 8 also doesn't provide message notifications. This is seriously disappointing because you have to use outside means to coordinate friends-only races. " - Taken from IGN review.

This is the most disappointing thing I have heard yet about the game. I don't understand why they wouldn't give the option to invite friends into a race.

When you've got Miiverse and a web browser built into the OS (and accessible while in-game, though probably not while online), it hardly counts as "outside means." Would they call it "outside means" if you had to hit the menu button to look at your friends list on Live or PSN?

I totally misunderstood what was said. I thought it meant that friends only matches weren't easily hosted. Like in only being able to enter a friends match by stumbling upon it online.