Great blog, it's like you were in my head or something. If you're still in there, please get out. You're too noisy.
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Originally Posted by Alphaman
But this is a classic example of Ninty shooting themselves in the foot here. They could easily offer a better online service however they are too caught up in protecting children from kiddy fiddlers 
Nintendo put parental controls on Wii's for a reason, to give us the choice of going online freely or restricting certain features.
Looks like Ninty have already made that decision for us  |
I think the thing that Ninty have got right is the seperating the Console codes from the game codes. Console codes allow messages to pass freely between consoles and this should be protected, it stops people from getting personal information that they shouldn't have.
Game codes, this doesn't make so much sense, as it stands it's very limited as to what can be said between players and even when they can say it, I hardly think that seeing what course my children pick will bring peodophiles to my doorstep, nor will messages like 'Hello', 'Let's have a race' etc... And then it's a different game code for every online game, I wish that they could have just settled for the 1 code and 1 universal game codes list on your console, then instead of going to the MK channel I look at the Online channel and see who's playing any games that I have game save positions on my console for so I can join in with them. If they're not online and I know them well enough to have passed on my console code, I can send them a message to arrange a time to meet online. At the moment the only way I've managed to play against any of this forums members is because I joined a room where you were racing with captainff.
The codes frustrate me, you send out an invite, then the recipient responds which gives you a notification which you then have to acknowledge, then all going well if both you and they have space and the wind is blowing in the right direction, you both get registered on each others console. I have 10 entries on my friends list, 5 have successfully registered, 1 has been deleted and re-invited now 3 times and each time I have acknowledged the accept e-mail yet he still hasn't registered as a friend on my console. Of those who successfully registered there's 1 I've managed to meet online and race against 29 times, winning 15 of those races, the others I have only ever seen them as either offline or online in events that I was too late to join. And of those others I did manage to get a few games with 1 before I got him into my friend book (thanks Wario that was good fun) but I haven't seen him online since getting him registered. (I've also seen you online Marty/Foo much to my embarrasment, though I'm sure you enjoyed the easy points.
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I just hope that when/if they produce a next gen Wii in a few years from now they'll have a much better thought out system, or they at least take a look at other online gaming systems, after all people have been gaming online for over a decade now with PCs etc... I'm sure there must be something they could have drawn out of all of that collective experience to come up with something better than this.