Topic: Mario Kart Community?

[Xavya]

Hey guys, well after playing mario kart for the past week I've realized a few things about online play. One its great(obvious). Two, it could be alot better particularly the "friends" part. After trading friend codes with people here and at IGN its pretty apparent that online is alot better when you remotely know who you are playing with and/or can communicate with them. Sure this board helps that a little bit but wouldnt it be great if there was somewhere we could go play and all communicate effectivly and easy? I mean sure we would have to do this online, and message boards would most likely still be heavily involved but perhaps we could have an online chat where the 4 racers could talk, and use the message boards to find new gamers. IGN will work for a time being but lets be honest with the release of the game this board will only get bigger and a sense of actually knowing and communicating with a person will get harder and harder. Im just throwing some ideas out here, I mean this whole tentative concept I just threw out is entirely possible i mean its not all that complex. It could be big enough so that there wouldnt be a lack of gamers but small enough that you actually knew the people you were playing and could talk with them. If anyone has any ideas they would like to toss around and see whats comes up please feel free to do so. Im just stating and idea and seeing what people thing, I think it sounds like a good idea, that can be improved in many ways. What about you? Thanks, ill appreciate the feedback. -Xavya


by the way for those i play online with im Bmat  

[IceCold]

Well, we have a whole separate board for PGC Friend Codes and Smack Talk to help integrate our online community, but as of yet we don't have a chat server specifically for it. We have an IRC one, but no one really uses that. If we were to use the forums for match-ups etc then it wouold get really cluttered - I think that the mods are trying to work something out though.