[QUOTE="Swifty_Magee"]Besides having to wait a couple of minutes initially in friend battles for someone to join, I've yet to have any major problems with Brawl online. The only bad experiences so far are minor lag, and that's not even with every game. Even my random online fights have been relatively hassle free (never had to wait long, never kicked out of a game, and no lag, really). Any inconviences I've experienced with the game have been small, an it's been a while since I've played a game online that was this much fun.
Also; what's the deal with everyone hating friend codes. Maybe this is just because this is my first time taking a Nintendo first-party game online, but I don't see the big hassle. Someone gives me a code, I take 30 seconds to put it in, and I'm done! I'll admit I jumped on the "friends codes suck!" bandwagon before because my only experience with them was through word of mouth, but now that I've actually used them, it just seems like most people are overreacting.
santiagochile
Friends codes are useless. I had to do that with Animal Crossing DS, and it was a pain, especially since I didn't have wireless back then. Now I just want to get online and play. I have no interest in putting in dozens of friend codes from people who I don't know, and then hoping that they are online. If Nintendo wants a "play anyone" option, then I should be able to play anybody with it, don't you think. Heck, I already paid for the Wii, and for the game, and for the classic controllers, and the extra Wiimotes. What more do they want?
I sort of get where you're coming from, but since I picked up Brawl yesterday, I've entered 5 friends codes. Every FC has taken about half a minute to put in. Now if they were like old school NES passwords, where sometimes the code had letters that were case sensitive, and they required you to put in symbols like @ or #, and the interface wasn't as clean, THEN I'd be as ticked off with them as everyone else. The feature as it is, at least in Brawl, is so quick and easy I can't force myself to be annoyed with them. I wish they let you have the map customization abilities you had in random matches that you do in friend matches, but it's not a huge deal. I also wish they would let you play user created stages online, since I've already made two I'm proud of and I'd like to show off.
Now, I would wish that Nintendo set up their online where your Wii code was short and simple, and every online game only require you to put that short number in once to invite a friend. Maybe you wouldn't even have to put in the number; there could just be a big "Invite" button somewhere on the Home or Start menus when you're playing online. Like I said though, Friends Codes don't seem like such a big deal to me. I've done way more repetitive tasks for dumber reasons, so I just don't see where all the hate is coming from.
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