Kid wants money back after finding Mario Strikers Charged restricts online play
The built-in Wi-Fi Connection of the Wii is cool……in theory. In reality it has it’s share of BIG problems. Nintendo didn’t learn a thing from watching Microsoft and the success of the Xbox Live community. In order to add a friend to play them online you both have to add a friend to your address book by typing in a 16-digit string of numbers… OK fine. I can deal with that.
I thought that would be the end of it if I wanted to play my friend in Mario Strikers Charged, but I had to enter in another 12-digit code just to do that. However we both just found out that the WFC for online game play is region-locked so we can’t even ADD each other to our friends list to play! L A M E. We both get the “This friend code is incorrect” error.
I’m based in the US and he’s in Finland. It would be nice if they blocked regions from doing the random online battles, but to completely block known friends? That’s ridiculous. I want my money back.
January 21, 2008
it’s so true Nintendo needs to stop the friend codes. Instead of friend codes they should have a Parental Lock or something that restricts online play if they are really serious about keeping kids safe. But what are the chances that your kid gets kidnaped by a child molester from Finland just because he was playing Mario Kart?