Do you think more games should allow you to add random people as friends?

I don't like it

Nintendo has a perfect system where you only have people you know as your "friends" to play with

All companies should stick to that.

I don't like it

Nintendo has a perfect system where you only have people you know as your "friends" to play with

All companies should stick to that.

Jaysonguy

Yes, thats fine for kids aged 13 and under, but they should have made that an option in the parental settings, its not fair for others, especially older teens/adults to be forced to use this childish service. I just hope they change this with their upcoming system or it will make me think otherwise in purchasing it.

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

I don't like it

Nintendo has a perfect system where you only have people you know as your "friends" to play with

All companies should stick to that.

valgear

Yes, thats fine for kids aged 13 and under, but they should have made that an option in the parental settings, its not fair for others, especially older teens/adults to be forced to use this childish service. I just hope they change this with their upcoming system or it will make me think otherwise in purchasing it.

If you're 13 and older you should be smart enough to add friends even easier

The system is a cakewalk the older you are

[QUOTE="valgear"][QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

I don't like it

Nintendo has a perfect system where you only have people you know as your "friends" to play with

All companies should stick to that.

Jaysonguy

Yes, thats fine for kids aged 13 and under, but they should have made that an option in the parental settings, its not fair for others, especially older teens/adults to be forced to use this childish service. I just hope they change this with their upcoming system or it will make me think otherwise in purchasing it.

If you're 13 and older you should be smart enough to add friends even easier

The system is a cakewalk the older you are

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"][QUOTE="valgear"]

Yes, thats fine for kids aged 13 and under, but they should have made that an option in the parental settings, its not fair for others, especially older teens/adults to be forced to use this childish service. I just hope they change this with their upcoming system or it will make me think otherwise in purchasing it.

alexh_99

If you're 13 and older you should be smart enough to add friends even easier

The system is a cakewalk the older you are

I've always had the idea of an update which allows your system to collectively add each game's friend code into a list of some kind which would then be registered to your Wii's Friend Code. Thus, once you become friends with someone and exchange your Wii Code, you gain each one of theirs including any which they may add in the future.

Friend codes aren't horrible, but I just don't think they are utilized completely. There are times when I would like to add random people to be my friends, which would always be a neat feature. Plus, there are always parental controls which parents can use if they want to protect their children.

I'm tired of using ventrilo to talk to my friends while playing games like Mario Kart.

I don't really care about random people, but I think ALL online games should have a friend microphone talk feature.

thanks to ECC (IGN user), we do know the game will let you party up with friends (team up) and take on random peopleGoDsSoN770

wii friends codes are ridiculous. the reason i play online is to have a wider range of opponents, of higher skill level. with the friend code i can only play with people i know, which defeats the purpose of online play. if i already know the person i dont need to play them online, i could just have them over to my house to play. the stupidist part is that every game has a friend code, so even with my established friends everytime we get a new game we have to call each other to get the friend code added for that game, because the message system for wii is useless fro sending friend codes.

I honestly wish there was more of a "lobby" function; scrap the friends idea, and just have random people who happen to be around. Like in Smash Bros. Brawl. I mean, the whole friends thing is just so Nintendo can cover their butt if and when a hacker bricks your game. I know they're all about trying to bring the world together, but...I'd rather just play with whoever's around than have some sort of bizarre relationship with people I don't know and probably will never meet.CapedCod

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So your saying the Wifi Connection just needs lobbies basically like EA's server, but you don't care to communicate with anyone online you don't know, or care to meet people playing online?

To rat247... What happens if a friend moves to another state, or you have a friends in other countries, or even friends who live all the way across the city. Surely you can't invite these people over too often. So I don't see how that defeats the purpose of online play at all. You also speak as if there are no games that have leaderboards or the ability to play against random opponents.

I understand your gripe about entering friend codes for every game, but its really no different than what players use to have to do for the PC and PS2, where you have a separate friend list for each game, as well as a different username and password. You also had to have a unique name. So if someone took a name already, you'd to settle for something else. Thats not the case with the Nintendo Wifi Connection, and I kinda like that part. Entering 12 digits really shouldn't take anyone any longer than it does to type in a user name, which is about 10 seconds max. You also have to remember that Nintendo was in 3rd place last gen, and microsoft was already filthy rich, and sony was the big winner last gen. So while the PS3 also features free online, Sony probably had a lot more money to put into making their online, in which they also were try their best to rival xbox live.

Friend codes really aren't the problem people are having. I think its that people want more of an online community within the game like it is with the PS2,PS3,360,and PSP. If you could chat with random people, add them as friends, basically meet new people online, I don't think friends codes would get as much hate as they did, since people wouldn't have any problems meeting new people for that game, and having plenty of people to play with.

I think the friend codes are a little tedious. I think you should have the option to add random people if you want to, but you can only truly add someone if they accept your request. And if parents are uncomfortable with it, there should be a parental control setting. I don't know how effective that would be, but at least it's there.

It would be good if you could just like make a username instead of the friend code, so that way it's not like a bunch of random numbers you won't remember. That would make things a little easier. I mean I'm not an expert or anything, but I think Nintendo could still make it secure doing it that way.

That's true, I didn't think about that. I agree with what you're saying. I definitely wouldn't want to worry about someone hacking into my account, seeing that they could maybe get my credit card number or something like that, or just wreak havoc in general. I just wish the friend codes weren't as long though... although they probably need to be that long so that way they don't run into running out of codes for people.