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I honestly wish there was more of a "lobby" function; scrap the friends idea, and just have random people who happen to be around. Like in Smash Bros. Brawl. I mean, the whole friends thing is just so Nintendo can cover their butt if and when a hacker bricks your game. I know they're all about trying to bring the world together, but...I'd rather just play with whoever's around than have some sort of bizarre relationship with people I don't know and probably will never meet.CapedCod
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So your saying the Wifi Connection just needs lobbies basically like EA's server, but you don't care to communicate with anyone online you don't know, or care to meet people playing online?
To rat247... What happens if a friend moves to another state, or you have a friends in other countries, or even friends who live all the way across the city. Surely you can't invite these people over too often. So I don't see how that defeats the purpose of online play at all. You also speak as if there are no games that have leaderboards or the ability to play against random opponents.
I understand your gripe about entering friend codes for every game, but its really no different than what players use to have to do for the PC and PS2, where you have a separate friend list for each game, as well as a different username and password. You also had to have a unique name. So if someone took a name already, you'd to settle for something else. Thats not the case with the Nintendo Wifi Connection, and I kinda like that part. Entering 12 digits really shouldn't take anyone any longer than it does to type in a user name, which is about 10 seconds max. You also have to remember that Nintendo was in 3rd place last gen, and microsoft was already filthy rich, and sony was the big winner last gen. So while the PS3 also features free online, Sony probably had a lot more money to put into making their online, in which they also were try their best to rival xbox live.
Friend codes really aren't the problem people are having. I think its that people want more of an online community within the game like it is with the PS2,PS3,360,and PSP. If you could chat with random people, add them as friends, basically meet new people online, I don't think friends codes would get as much hate as they did, since people wouldn't have any problems meeting new people for that game, and having plenty of people to play with.
So far, If I'm not mistaken only one non-EA-Nation Wii game has allowed you to do this. The feature is titled "Rivals List". This allows you to add random people you've played against to a list separate from the regular friends list (people you've registered as friends using friend codes)titled the "Rivals List". Your able to setup private matches where your friends and rivals (randoms friends) can play together, however, you are still unable to freely communicate with the rivals. The only exception would be pre-determined text messages when it comes to rivals.
So if a game allowed voice and text chat between friends, those on the rivals list would not be able to hear or see whats being said, with the exception of the predetermined messages.
This discussion also came up in regards to The Conduit. It is at the time unknown whether or not the game will utilize. However, thanks to ECC (IGN user), we do know the game will let you party up with friends (team up) and take on random people.
The only way things could possibly change is through a firmware update. I'm not even positive this could be done, but on the PS3 there is the option to totally restrict chat with other users in-game, which includes voice,text, and video. Maybe they could include this option in Parental controls, and require a pin (passcode) to take off the protection. This is probably the only hope for people not happy with the NWC.
What are your thoughts???
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