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[Mic_128]

Further to Scav’s news of <a href="http://smashbrawl.com/2007/03/13/wii-goes-online-with-gamespy/">Gamespy taking the Wii online</a> some new and rather sad/frustrating news regarding Friend codes and their return. (Dum dum dummmmm!)

<a href="http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3158027">1up interviewed gamespy</a> about them taking the Wii online and one of the questions asked was regarding friend codes.

<blockquote>
Falafelkid: Just one last question to make absolutely sure I have got this right, please. If I have a friend roster in one game, that roster will not be available to me in any other game. I have to build up an entirely new list for each title, right?

GameSpy: The answer to your question is yes, for the Wii friend lists are game specific. </blockquote>


So hooray. <img src="http://smashboards.com/images/smilies/urg.gif" alt="urg" /> Get prepared to enter a LOT of smash bros. friend codes come Brawl’s release.

 

[CJ Millisock]

What do you mean, be prepared to enter a lot of codes?

And why is a game-specific friends roster bad for Brawl?

Are you saying that when Brawl comes out, you’ll have to create a friends roster for it, and that’s what you don’t want to do?

Just trying to make sense of your post. . . . I don’t own a Wii yet, but I plan on buying one as soon as Brawl comes out. I was pretty good at SSB and SSBM. :-D Luigi Forever.

 

[guynamednate]

Honestly at this point, I’m expecting Brawl to have minimal if any online functionality. Nintendo clearly doesn’t care about online, and following their same exact DS online model is going to hinder every single Wii game. The DS online model is extremely minimal, slow, annoying (friend codes), and most of the time not worth using.

Imagine Brawl over Xbox Live, with leaderboards, voice chat, instant match-making, TrueSkill, and all of the other bells and whistles of Live…Instead we’re stuck with a game that probably could have been just as good on the Gamecube (not that it won’t be good, but it won’t be next-gen thats for sure).

 

[UndrDog]

Eh, I could care less about online fuctionality. I’ve yet to play a game that runs as well online as it does in person. I doubt I would’ve ever been interested in online play to begin with.

Though I do admit it may become annoying down the line when I’d want to play games for fun rather then improving in skill.

Sigh in the end though, if you’re going to have online gameplay don’t make it this annoying.

 

[Maximum]

Perhaps the Wii isn’t strong enough to handle the “XboxLive” online material.
Besides what would online play do if you can play against comps instead? more or less the same thing, secondly voice chat would be rendered usless if your going up against a complete stranger and finaly leaderboards aren’t such a bad idea afterall………

 

[Yomon]

Ugh… Friend codes, so annoying.

I’m willing to guess that SSBB’s online will be set up like Mario Kart and MPH… which was annoying because it took forever to get people. Hopefully the internet will be faster and more productive on the Wii.

Seriously, Tetris lags on the DS in online play mode. It scares me to think of lag in SSBB &gt;_:O

 

[Ratliff02]

This is ridiculous, it my biggest beef with nintendo and is really quite sad. Xbox has had a good online system since its mid-life. Now its next gen and we’re going to have to deal with this crap, its pointless. I was really hoping nintendo would step up their game with the online stuff, but looks like it will be a while before they figure out how the internet works. This is the one thing that really upsets me with nintendo.

 

[UndrDog]

Also remember how much Nintendo avoids copying others. They’d rather find their own way then have to do something that’s already been done.

 

[MisterSinister]

Personally I quite liked some DS games online functionality. I liked how Jump Ultimate Stars worked, the implemented features from that would only need work to create something that could work well for SSBB. Speculation on how they have failed already is stupid, we are yet to see how this works, so while this is bad news let’s just wait and see and remain positive.

 

[Atomic Boo!]

i want a WII so much!!! (T_T)
if i get it i’m going to download mariokart 64 and bye brawl (as soon as it comes out!) and do whole bunch others (^^)

 

[Atomic Boo!]

and the online thing…
is it going to be like the rest of the systems like x-box, ds, etc.
TELL ME!!
and hope internet won’t be problem…
what’s up with the code thing!

 

[Atomic Boo!]

^^

 

[Aaron]

i see your so happy. i also want a wii. i can play my gamecube games on it.

 

[Someone]

Couldn’t they just use the console number as a universal friend code?