15th July 2025, 5:15 PM
Nintendo...
Nintendo!
WHY do you need a player's phone number for game chat to work?!
This is a bizarre pointless restriction that is going to lock out anyone that doesn't have a phone number, and I hate it. Shades of Blizzard's famous foot-based dietary moment asking their own fans "Don't you people have phones?"
The phone number is not used at ANY point during the process. I already HAVE two-step verification enabled using a completely offline program on a completely offline device to generate codes. They don't need my phone number for any reason whatsoever. There is literally NO possible explanation for this requirement.
Nintendo!
WHY do you need a player's phone number for game chat to work?!
This is a bizarre pointless restriction that is going to lock out anyone that doesn't have a phone number, and I hate it. Shades of Blizzard's famous foot-based dietary moment asking their own fans "Don't you people have phones?"
The phone number is not used at ANY point during the process. I already HAVE two-step verification enabled using a completely offline program on a completely offline device to generate codes. They don't need my phone number for any reason whatsoever. There is literally NO possible explanation for this requirement.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)