Switch OS 2.0.0: public WiFi, eShop, My Nintendo, Friend Codes

[Slarvax]

irstupid said:
I'm assuming this friends codes isn't the old version where each game has a different code, but you just have one friend code for the system. If so, I don't see the big deal.

Sure its not as easy to tell someone to add 85722546820 versus skippypeanut538, but easy enough. You just put it in your sig below your Nintendo ID and people can add easy enough. Isn't that how 3DS was?

But from the sound of things you can add people by either id or friend code. So again it sounds like people are bitching about an optional thing?

It's the only way to add people online without having played with them (but who adds randoms from online games?). When no one in the world uses an old, slow, and tedious process, it becomes increasingly obvious that people at Nintendo are literal idiots. The Switch uses NNIDs, Nintendo Accounts, My Nintendo, and I still have to use 12 random numbers to add people. I can easily say my NNID or Nintendo Account name (Slarvax), but to get my stupid Friend Code I have to open 2 menus, copy it, then make sure it's not wrong. It's stupid. We're not in 2005 anymore. Or 2001? FC weren't even popular in 2005...

But anyway, there will be an update someday to kill Friend Codes forever: http://nintendoeverything.com/adding-friends-on-switch-to-be-expanded-in-the-future-social-media-nnid-in-game-interface/