• SpotPass in Swapnote/Letter Box disabled worldwide, Nintendo gives official statement
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[QUOTE=VinLAURiA;42719319]Launched like that. Wii U had gotten rid of friend codes from the very beginning. Are you serious? Do you really think they're so ignorant about the whole online thing that they'd be like: "Hey, we wanna connect our system to the internet like others do." "Good idea, but does anyone know how those consoles go about identifying their users, because I've apparently never seen an account system in my life." "No, nor have I. But I have a [i]phone number![/i] And I think we should make our user IDs RANDOM TWELVE-DIGIT CODES for no other reason that we [i]seriously[/i] can't think of something less convoluted." "By the way, what's a 'name'?" "No idea, 2319-4096-2768." A little faith, please. If you wanna call 'em stupid, at least let it be over their misguided if well-meaning attempts to shield their users from [i]anything[/i] unpleasant even if it means ridiculously archaic and over-shielded systems. You make it sound like they don't know how to operate anything more recent than an acoustic coupler.[/QUOTE] They've been pretty terrible with online for a while, they only now started catching up with the rest of the universe with the Wii U. Having a ridiculous archaic social system on the 3DS does more harm than good.
I remember I added someone from Japan via some random chatroom and it turned out they were kids. I checked my Letter Box and he sent me an image of him and his friend flipping the bird how rude
Makes sense. Anyone old enough to do sexting has a camera phone. Were 3d photos of dicks really worth it? Probably not.
oh if i had known you could do that that would have been a much more discreet way for my girlfriend to give me nudes
Maybe just parental lock the service so I can keep sending my friends picks of themselves blowing dicks that I drew?
How about implementing a system that disables spotpass or any communication for anyone under the age of 18? wtf Nintendo as if the 3ds didn't have enough restrictions on it as it is. OH GOD! THINK OF THE CHILDREN... On the flip side what would a person expect from a console that's selling for hardly any reason aside from Pokemon and the new SSB.
So instead of updating it so you can't send photo's they shut it down for everyone and cripple it to the point where they hope it goes away forever. Nintendo you bunch of fuckwits.
If a similar feature was disabled on the Xbone you guys would shitting be all over it. Nintendo shouldn't have a right to withdraw a feature that came as part of the console that you paid for just because they're 'protecting the children'.
Fuck you nintendo you lobotomites, I enjoyed swapnote/nintendo letterbox
[QUOTE=Noss;42720414]If a similar feature was disabled on the Xbone you guys would shitting be all over it. Nintendo shouldn't have a right to withdraw a feature that came as part of the console that you paid for just because they're 'protecting the children'.[/QUOTE] Who said anything about Xbox?
pic related [img]http://i.imgur.com/rvcEQrW.png[/img] But doesn't this take out the whole reason of swapnote?
[QUOTE=Noss;42720414]If a similar feature was disabled on the Xbone you guys would shitting be all over it. Nintendo shouldn't have a right to withdraw a feature that came as part of the console that you paid for just because they're 'protecting the children'.[/QUOTE] Technically Swapnote didn't come with the system. It was a seperate application you could install if you had access to the eShop. It wasn't even around at the system's launch. So you're point is kind of moot since it's an application you don't pay for and doesn't come with the system. That said, even though I'll miss Swapnote, and I don't agree with this decision (especially since they already had image sharing disabled for StreetPass notes, so they could've just disabled image sharing altogether.) I understand why they did this. I actually go to another forum and there was an incident where some guy was actually sending kids pictures of his dick. He acted with no real intent for a while and then suddenly, he sent pics of his dick. He got banned, and after a while, came back again and did the same thing. Another thing that Nintendo does is, when they get called out for something like this, they will "bend over backwards" for stuff like this in the event that they get threatened with litigation. I think they were sued years ago because a kid got a seizure and after that, every single console and game they released after 2004 or so had a warning you had to go through every time you turned on your system/played your game. After the Wii came out, they also had warnings with stuff like "if you feel a certain way, take a break." And now, like every 3DS and Wii U game they release say the same thing. Everyone online thing they release as well has warnings as well, with stuff like "Be careful of what you put because other people can see these things, so don't send personal information out" and stuff like that. It's just so that they don't get in trouble for stuff like this, and they more or less have a reputation they have to keep, otherwise it drives business away. So yeah, it sucks. Hopefully Miiverse on the 3DS is just around the corner.
I really hope there's enough backlash that Nintendo reverse this. I don't see it happening though, they don't exactly engage with the community.
still waiting for xbox live and kik to shut down for "offensive content"
[img]http://i.imgur.com/n2NmpB1.png[/img] This is kinda shitty.
why should we have to suffer because their game is so weak they sending nudes while playing cooking mama?
[QUOTE=MegaJohnny;42723098]I really hope there's enough backlash that Nintendo reverse this. I don't see it happening though, they don't exactly engage with the community.[/QUOTE] We should send them swapnotes oh wait
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;42719085]Nintendo will bend themselves over for any "concerned parent" no matter how ignorant it is. Do you know why there are no more casinos in Pokemon games? Because a parent said "You're teaching our kids gambling!!!"[/QUOTE] In the German version of one of the games for the GBA, the casinos were still in the game, but the only way to acquire the coins was to "find" them in the slot machines. Couldn't even use the slot machines.
What a shame. I haven't used it much recently, but I actually really liked drawing on it. Doesn't the StreetPass part of it only work with registered friends anyway?
Yeah. That's not disabled though. Technically you never could send images through StreetPass notes, though.
Kotaku found out the specific case that got Swapnote shut down. [url]http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=710244[/url]
[QUOTE]Nintendo will continue to work to ensure more consumers are aware of our Parental Control features, which allow parents to manage their children's experience on our systems. For more information, please click here.[/QUOTE] This pisses me off the most. "Yeah we're gonna take out something that a lot people used for social networking because soccer moms are complaining, but still inform them they could simply turn that feature that, no longer exists in Swapnote and without it puts the app on the same level of useless as Pictochat, off."
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