From the official website: "Your opponent will not know your name or any information about you, and neither of you can send short messages. There will also be no battle records kept for this mode, so whether you win or lose, it doesn’t matter. Just sit back and play."

It should matter. I want to see ratings of fighters across the globe. I want to know who are best of the best or the worst of the worst in the world and have the option to fight them.

I really don't care about voice chat because I don't want to hear 12 year olds saying the N word and using other curse words. But at least give fighters the option to choose who they want to fight across the globe.

Yeap , that sucks ... mayeb a patch will fix this later on ...

Honestly, I've been playing some Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 online recently, and looking at my stats make me want to cry (literally!)! ;_;

I'm not that bad, but I just dislike to see that I have more deaths than kills and everything (difference of +13...). I just think it's hurting my ego and I sometimes don't enjoy gaming online as much as playing locally with friends (no stats are recorded that way).

Ah well, it's reality though: some people are better than I am (which is the complete opposite when I play against my friends!). That's why I have nothing against Brawl's online service and I think it's better that way too.

Yeah, it kinda sucks...but then again, a lot of ranking can be done through fansites like smashboards.com. The game may not have a ranking system, but as long as you can pick somebody specifically by adding them to your list, and then fight them online, online tournament and player rankings are a possibility.

If you want to play against really good Smash players, there will be tournaments and random matches set up online to be sure.  Or you could just play against me

Well, at least if you add people's friend codes you'll be able to see all their information and you're battles will be ranked.  I'm sure they'll be an official thread for that once the game is released.

elk voordeel heb ze nadeel

I still belive online are for computers.

Doesn't bother me in the slightest actually. In fact it may disway people from playing cheap just to get up in the rankings. Probably not, but one can hope.

I actually perfer it that way. I don't need any trash talking with my cartoon violence thanks.

y no disconnects when someone is losing:)