23rd January 2008, 11:35 PM
Wait, you can't save those maps? That sucks...
Yeah I don't get it either. If they are so concerned about safety and harrassment, there ARE options that can be implemented directly into firmware that games can tie into. I don't like being punished because some parents are too stupid to keep track of their blasted urchins.
They could change things in the future though. Not too long ago, they had no intentions of providing any online play at all. They didn't think of it as "important".
The thing is, one need not compete in a ladder system. There's free-form match making. Heck, ladder systems and being matched against people of your skill level actually more or less ensure that you WILL have a fun time, as you're generally matched against those of similar play level.
I don't have to compete in "ranked" matches in Warcraft 3. I can do custom or free form match making. If I do use the ranked system though, I gave up playing to climb the ladders a long time ago. I do it just to find a match, and it works just fine.
If parents don't want their kids talking to people online, they can easily just include parental controls that turn off voice chat across all games. Bam, problem solved. If the parents don't know the feature is there, then they just aren't good parents. But really, why is Nintendo even scared of this? Has anyone ever successfully sued a company because their kid got harrassed online? Sure some have tried, but I've yet to hear of a single victory. I fear that the whole epilepsy case just has Nintendo running scared now, and we have to pay for it. I'm sick of having to look at that dumb warning every time I turn on my Wii, or my DS, or the later Gamecube and GBA games. MS and Sony don't have to bother with it. Why does Nintendo?
I almost want to goad a third party moron into suing both MS and Sony to get those same warnings, having that case fail, and culminate in the old court case being overturned. Yeah... I could mastermind such a manipulation on a grand scale... Who's with me?
Yeah I don't get it either. If they are so concerned about safety and harrassment, there ARE options that can be implemented directly into firmware that games can tie into. I don't like being punished because some parents are too stupid to keep track of their blasted urchins.
They could change things in the future though. Not too long ago, they had no intentions of providing any online play at all. They didn't think of it as "important".
The thing is, one need not compete in a ladder system. There's free-form match making. Heck, ladder systems and being matched against people of your skill level actually more or less ensure that you WILL have a fun time, as you're generally matched against those of similar play level.
I don't have to compete in "ranked" matches in Warcraft 3. I can do custom or free form match making. If I do use the ranked system though, I gave up playing to climb the ladders a long time ago. I do it just to find a match, and it works just fine.
If parents don't want their kids talking to people online, they can easily just include parental controls that turn off voice chat across all games. Bam, problem solved. If the parents don't know the feature is there, then they just aren't good parents. But really, why is Nintendo even scared of this? Has anyone ever successfully sued a company because their kid got harrassed online? Sure some have tried, but I've yet to hear of a single victory. I fear that the whole epilepsy case just has Nintendo running scared now, and we have to pay for it. I'm sick of having to look at that dumb warning every time I turn on my Wii, or my DS, or the later Gamecube and GBA games. MS and Sony don't have to bother with it. Why does Nintendo?
I almost want to goad a third party moron into suing both MS and Sony to get those same warnings, having that case fail, and culminate in the old court case being overturned. Yeah... I could mastermind such a manipulation on a grand scale... Who's with me?
"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)