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Originally posted by: ginx619
It also takes two minutes to implement a mute button on a headset.
If it takes you two minutes to hit mute on your headset, I damn sure don't want to play with you online.
Everyone keeps looking at this from their own personal perspective. Wahhh.
Nintendo doesn't have lawyers to look at it from
your perspective. They are looking at it from their own. And from where they stand, a few people whining about no infinite XBL-like breadth isn't worth the hassle.
Instead, they've got millions of people up on the DS wifi within a few months, few complaints from the majority of their userbase, and the ability to stop lawsuits dead in the tracks.
You need to quit assuming everyone out there is a logical minded gamer. An 8 year old doesn't even know what mute means probably, let alone how to work such things. And parents are too lazy.
If you want to be mad at someone, blame all the useless people not doing a damn thing to help themselves, but want to cry wolf and bitch and moan and try to get payouts from big corporations purely based on their own ignorance. And then blame the justice system that allows that kind of bullsh*t to go down.
Games are so quick to scream about things like this, as if the developers or publishers had anything to do with it. We're living at a time where Rockstar gets punished for user-unlocked mods, or Oblivion has to get re-rated because some horny pimply teenager found a topless skin buried deep in code. Take Two's stocks have dropped sharply in the wake of all of the Hot Coffee fallout, and people like Jack Thompson are reliving the glory days of "Elvis's rock and roll music will give way to sexual promiscuity."
You guys need to back off and not be so knee-jerk "mommy didn't get me a toy at the toystore" about all of this, and then further realize that all of your whining can be remedied in about, as I said, two minutes of exchanging a code.
As for the mute button thing, again, that's up to the gamer himself/herself, and that's not good enough these days. People sue over everything, even things that are their own fault. You can claim ignorance and get away with it. So Nintendo has to control it at the source.
In a roundabout way, the same argument could be applied to the Wiimote when people say "It could have just been an addon to the GC." No, because it wouldn't affect the entire userbase, which is something Nintendo needs to drive from day one.
They need to cover the bases before the bases
are bases.
If we weren't in this situation to begin with, Nintendo wouldn't do it. BUt guess what, we are. It's like when you can't buy fireworks because some idiot kid blew a finger off a few towns over.
Same idea here.
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