8th January 2006, 12:43 PM
But that's not the fault of the hardware, that's the programing or the connection. Things that can be updated and reformed to work flawlessly. It's Nintendo's first online multiplayer game, it only gets better from here on out. And it's not like what is there is krap, it's a solid AAA game with solid albeit lacking online features for multiplayer.
N_A/ you cant stop evil intentions, if this person didn't have the live network to find his victim he would have used the internet, and if not that, by simply driving around until he found someone to take and if he didnt have a car, just hanging around outside his house waiting for people to cross. These companies including Nintendo dont care about the ideal of the moral implications of their decisions in resstricting the online modes of play, they just dont want to get sued from angry unrealistic people who want to punish something and make some money out of it. :D Remember Rare removing the face-mapping feature? Talk about innovation, but it was removed and the game isn't even online! It was just the fear of being taken to court over it because little Johnny shot his virual parents in a video game after they grounded him for weak grades at school.
But look at people now with the internet, you have some parents that are idiots and wont let their children online, frightened by the idea of their child learning responsibility and then you have parents who put trust in their children and let them go as they please knowing they will make the right choices or learn from the wrong ones because they were raised correctly (or atleast effort was applied). It just takes time but eventually people will reach an understanding of things instead of being paranoid anthropophobia-driven activests who cage their children.
The same will come to pass with online video game networks and those who play will have a wide-open experience with all the good and bad it has to offer. Like with anything new in our entertainment boundries, it has to be gently massaged in to the system or else people start yelling 'Burn the witch'. Nintendo will make the right choices, but it will be a slow process until it's where we want it.
N_A/ you cant stop evil intentions, if this person didn't have the live network to find his victim he would have used the internet, and if not that, by simply driving around until he found someone to take and if he didnt have a car, just hanging around outside his house waiting for people to cross. These companies including Nintendo dont care about the ideal of the moral implications of their decisions in resstricting the online modes of play, they just dont want to get sued from angry unrealistic people who want to punish something and make some money out of it. :D Remember Rare removing the face-mapping feature? Talk about innovation, but it was removed and the game isn't even online! It was just the fear of being taken to court over it because little Johnny shot his virual parents in a video game after they grounded him for weak grades at school.
But look at people now with the internet, you have some parents that are idiots and wont let their children online, frightened by the idea of their child learning responsibility and then you have parents who put trust in their children and let them go as they please knowing they will make the right choices or learn from the wrong ones because they were raised correctly (or atleast effort was applied). It just takes time but eventually people will reach an understanding of things instead of being paranoid anthropophobia-driven activests who cage their children.
The same will come to pass with online video game networks and those who play will have a wide-open experience with all the good and bad it has to offer. Like with anything new in our entertainment boundries, it has to be gently massaged in to the system or else people start yelling 'Burn the witch'. Nintendo will make the right choices, but it will be a slow process until it's where we want it.