Revolution definitely not the final name

[Dark Jaguar]

I'm basically just suggesting they forget this friend code security thing. I would like to basically just send an invite to anyone I've recently played against. Chat makes that possible to an extent, if you can privatly chat with single individuals, but it's not nearly as smooth as a simple invite system. Someone sends you a friend invite, you accept, you are both added to each other's friend lists. Simple, and secure. The worst that could happen is a "spam wave" of friend invites from some annoying chap, but that's what the third option is for. "Ignore future requests."

But further along, I believe that the number assigned to people should be used across games, not for individual games. It would really help not to have to add the same people over and over again to each game, and it would be nice to see if someone is currently playing some other game so I can send an invite to them. For security, you could even set an option to "hide me from my friends when I'm playing another game".

The fact of the matter is, Nintendo has done a great job making a stable and fast global network. However, the user friendly features need to be worked on, and companies like Blizzard and, yes, MS, are ahead of the game on that as of yet.