5th February 2007, 7:57 PM
I dont understand why this is difficult.
XBox 360 has more features online, not only do you pay for the game but a monthly fee as well.
Wii lets you go online for free, and will soon let you play online for free. You buy the game, and the rest is taken care of, it has some limited features because of the free network, but the most limiting be the ideal that it's setup around the idea of protecting children while online.
The features you want, such as stats, will obviously be in play on a per game basis, or if you sign up to a Nintendo site (which you can do since Gamecube). Chat rooms and email is already in play between DS and Wii and Wii isn't even officially online yet. If you want every possible feature available to you, you pay a monthly fee for it. Nintendo's is free, so you roll with it and accept its limitations. It's comparable to paying for a limo ride or taking the bus. It's as simple as that.
The friendcodes have nothing to do with it being free or working around costs, its in place because merely weeks after DS was released there were stories in the paper and on the news of sexual predators using the DS wireless connectivity to talk to minors. That is a feature that works brilliantly to keep random people from being able to talk to your children, only letting friends they personally know be able to communicate with them. In time the features will vary and will be streamlined - including the ability to enter chatrooms and voice chat similar to PC. But all in due time to make it legally viable for Nintendo, so they cant be sued from an angry parent.
ABF (and DJ) your arguments are completely bogus. You're not taking everything in to consideration and like EM said, you were given features and abilities for free but only complain about what you dont have. If you want more, pay for it. If MKDS is so absolutely horrible to play online then talk about how you would improve it or just stop playing it. Talk about how you'd like to see Wii play online with a RPG or FPS. Sitting there and saying its flawed and unworthy accomplishes absolutly nothing. I have no issue at all with you giving your opinions, but it gets annoying when the opinions are very limited in scope and have no ability to branch out or generate conversation.
Nintendo has people who glide through message boards and see what people are talking about, what interests them etc and compiles it for Nintendo. Who's post are they going to read? ABF's 'Friendcodes are stupid they should change that' or someone else's post that offers alternatives and actual ideas?
Yunno we're not talking about a T or M rated MMO that's entirely based on online play where you pay for the game and a monthly sign on fee where you're told prior to sign on to beware of certain people or 'buyer beware' - that only works when adults are playing. We're talking about Nintendo games where online play is an option in the multiplayer modes, games rated E where kids are going to be subjected to the same retards on XBL. If I were a parent and I heard my son's DS call him a faggot piece of shit cocksucker while he's playing Pokemon i'd probably be pretty outraged - Nintendo's finding a method so that doesn't happen.
And to be honest, if I fire up Animal Crossiing and have to deal with XBL retards the whole time or people who troll looking for ways to be annoying or people randomly screaming in to their mics, I probably wont be playing it for very long. I'm glad Nintendo's taking the initiative with actually building an online experience and not just throwing people to the wolves and letting them figure out how to deal with the madness. This isn't a system for people who play online, it's for people who never did before, never used a video game system before - give them XBL and they wont be playing for long.
In the same way Nintendo got my dad to play Wii Sports, they want him to enjoy online gaming as well. It wont ever be XBL and you may not think it now, but that's a good thing.
XBox 360 has more features online, not only do you pay for the game but a monthly fee as well.
Wii lets you go online for free, and will soon let you play online for free. You buy the game, and the rest is taken care of, it has some limited features because of the free network, but the most limiting be the ideal that it's setup around the idea of protecting children while online.
The features you want, such as stats, will obviously be in play on a per game basis, or if you sign up to a Nintendo site (which you can do since Gamecube). Chat rooms and email is already in play between DS and Wii and Wii isn't even officially online yet. If you want every possible feature available to you, you pay a monthly fee for it. Nintendo's is free, so you roll with it and accept its limitations. It's comparable to paying for a limo ride or taking the bus. It's as simple as that.
The friendcodes have nothing to do with it being free or working around costs, its in place because merely weeks after DS was released there were stories in the paper and on the news of sexual predators using the DS wireless connectivity to talk to minors. That is a feature that works brilliantly to keep random people from being able to talk to your children, only letting friends they personally know be able to communicate with them. In time the features will vary and will be streamlined - including the ability to enter chatrooms and voice chat similar to PC. But all in due time to make it legally viable for Nintendo, so they cant be sued from an angry parent.
ABF (and DJ) your arguments are completely bogus. You're not taking everything in to consideration and like EM said, you were given features and abilities for free but only complain about what you dont have. If you want more, pay for it. If MKDS is so absolutely horrible to play online then talk about how you would improve it or just stop playing it. Talk about how you'd like to see Wii play online with a RPG or FPS. Sitting there and saying its flawed and unworthy accomplishes absolutly nothing. I have no issue at all with you giving your opinions, but it gets annoying when the opinions are very limited in scope and have no ability to branch out or generate conversation.
Nintendo has people who glide through message boards and see what people are talking about, what interests them etc and compiles it for Nintendo. Who's post are they going to read? ABF's 'Friendcodes are stupid they should change that' or someone else's post that offers alternatives and actual ideas?
Yunno we're not talking about a T or M rated MMO that's entirely based on online play where you pay for the game and a monthly sign on fee where you're told prior to sign on to beware of certain people or 'buyer beware' - that only works when adults are playing. We're talking about Nintendo games where online play is an option in the multiplayer modes, games rated E where kids are going to be subjected to the same retards on XBL. If I were a parent and I heard my son's DS call him a faggot piece of shit cocksucker while he's playing Pokemon i'd probably be pretty outraged - Nintendo's finding a method so that doesn't happen.
And to be honest, if I fire up Animal Crossiing and have to deal with XBL retards the whole time or people who troll looking for ways to be annoying or people randomly screaming in to their mics, I probably wont be playing it for very long. I'm glad Nintendo's taking the initiative with actually building an online experience and not just throwing people to the wolves and letting them figure out how to deal with the madness. This isn't a system for people who play online, it's for people who never did before, never used a video game system before - give them XBL and they wont be playing for long.
In the same way Nintendo got my dad to play Wii Sports, they want him to enjoy online gaming as well. It wont ever be XBL and you may not think it now, but that's a good thing.