DICE...

[A Black Falcon]

DJ, just read it. It says that you can only chat with others before or after the game, okay, but then says that you can only chat with people on your friends list. Nintendo is making a theme of this -- Reggie also recently said that the Revolution's online system will likely be similar to the DS'es -- and it's really, really stupid and tragic because it ruins a potentially good thing by making it almost completely unusable beyond the absolute most basic zero-chat-zero-contact online battles that are only a very small step removed from single player...

The microphone of the Nintendo DS picks up voice communication and transmits it to the people on their friend list.

Can you honestly say that you think this means that they'll let you add random people to your friends list? With that kind of moronic restriction? Yeah right!