[QUOTE="Sepewrath"]lol I don't want to get into a whole thing about child abduction, but have you ever heard of people luring kids to like an arcade and then kidnapping them? The video games is a trick to build trust, that's why they would go through the Wii. Look at the 3DS, Nintendo has a feature which alerts you to play some random person you walk by on the street in SSFIV, that hardly seems like a good way to protect children. I'm calling shenanigans on their reasoning for FC's, look below if you want to see why I really thing they use them.
Yeah but look at it this way, in order to friends with the FC system, like you said it takes contact and also like you said, the same way a kid lacks the maturity to understand random friend request, they lack the maturity to be careful about the necessary contact they have to make with people outside of the game on forums and chat rooms. Go look at the MH Tri topic, we were all on there, giving or game info to random strangers on forums, I could have been a 10yr old kid, giving Bruno a known kidnapper(lol), the info to contact me, both inside and outside of the game. The FC system in fact encourages more contact with strangers outside of the game, I have to PM someone to tell them I added them on the Wii. Another avenue of contact that would be unnecessary if not for that system. Its not really making anything safer. I would think the only thing they wanted and the only benefit a FC system would have, is it keeps people from having stupid names, like something racist or vulgar. I think they simply don't want to deal with that, because FC are no safer than usernames, in fact their system is less safe and its something that could be rectified with simple parental controls, FC or username. GabuEx
You're not looking at this from the right angle. This isn't about Nintendo protecting children. This is about Nintendo protecting their asses from a PR disaster. On the other consoles, it's entirely possible for a child predator to find and interact with their victim solely through the console. Predator Pete can play a random match with someone and hear the fact that Kid Kyle sounds over voice chat like a young child. Pete messages Kyle and adds him to his friend list, they play games and talk, and eventually Pete convinces Kyle to meet with him somewhere and kidnaps him. Newspaper headlines say "Kyle abducted by predator he met on console internet service", and parents everywhere panic and refuse to support that console anymore. An entire market for that console has now gone down the drain.
None of this is possible with friend codes. Yes, you can still give your friend code to a stranger and start playing with that person on your Nintendo console, but the actual contact occurs outside of the confines of the console. At worst, headlines will now say "Kyle abducted by predator he met on an internet forum and played Wii/DS games with". At best, the fact that he played Wii/DS games with Pete is not even mentioned. Parents everywhere panic and refuse to let their kids on internet forums, but Nintendo's ass is covered and they don't suffer any market loss, because their console's internet service was not directly responsible for what happened.
that is correct, and thats why nintendo said the online system will be tailored by third party devs on their needs.This works because if you are playing a 17+ game its entirely safe(unless the parent is irresponsible) to be added on the fly( kinda like black ops on the wii already does). In that sense each game will allow you to share and add friends (based on a hopefully unified fc)-under their own responsibility. Other games, like Mario kart, should have a bit more restrictions to avoid being added on the fly-like a password request before session to log in.
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