Now that the RRoD is pretty much taken care of let's take quick poll of everyone here and ask what the most annoying thing is in all of gaming. I'll give you a hint: it starts with Friend and ends with Codes. Friend Codes are the bane of any online Wii gamer (not such an oxymoron anymore) not really because they exist -- I think we've all managed to swap our Wii's number with the people we want to swap it with -- but because our Wii friend code actually does very little since almost every single game that features online has needed its own separate code to type in.
Pain in the ass? Most definitely. Necessary? Evidently not. Confirming the rumors of a massive game ditching Friend Codes, Vicarious Visions has announced that they've completely dropped in-game Friend Codes from Guitar Hero 5. Speaking with IGN CEO and Chief Creative Officer at Vicarious Visions, Karthik Bala talked about ridding the system of the needless barrier to online gaming.
"Yes. No in-game Friend Codes! For GH5, we've implemented support for your global Wii Friend Codes. If you've got friends in your Wii address book, they'll automatically be added to your friends list in game, so you can easily connect up with them in online multiplayer games. It's much easier to maintain a single list of friends on your Wii that you only have to enter once and use that address book directly in-game for invites, etc.," Bala said.
Along with doing away with the hassle of individual Friend Codes, the Wii version of the game has been graphically revamped, shoved full of features the 360/PS3 versions aren't going to have and, most excitingly, DS connectivity. With Friend Codes being far less of a hassle do the extra features sell you on the Wii version instead?
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6:00 PM on 08.02.2009
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Ow. Wtf. This shit be insane.
Only I moved from Wii to 360, Guitar Hero-wise, after Legends of Rock so it doesn't really matter to me anymore.
This was a long time coming, but i doubt it is going to become standard. I also think they have made it sound more rosy then it is. I think the system is more alike mario kart then we are imagining. In which codes can be added though invites.
It's nice that the option is there, and its great to see developers taking steps in the right direction with the Wii's online system. If anything that is the real victory here. Hopefully this will start a trend that people can't dick around with Wii owners because the system isn't as good as XBL or PSN.
Also, yes, friend codes are annoying.
Not trying to show you up, just curious where you got that info from.
I don't have any hard numbers either (I don't think they've been released), but I can say that speaking with folks from Microsoft, they seem to think the RROD issues are a thing of the past with the introduction of the Jasper boards. Consider the source, however, but that's the word on the street. Only time will tell, though.
Well if this passage from this months Gameinformer is to be believed
and I quote
"Red rings in the finacial red
Microsofts red ring problems are well documented.The company went public with it woes in 2008,saying that it set aside 1 billion dollars to deal with the problem.While the companys effort are sincere,and 1 billion dollars is a heavy hit to take, we're hearing that so far the problem has exceeded 1 billion dollars and is showing no signs of slowing."
I'm guessing the jaspers did'nt do much as the problem seems to be going unhindered depite MS's best efforts.
So I doubt you'll find numbers because it seems the new moddels are showing symptoms as well and ms has been giving the impression its over( and I bought that new 360 thinking I was safe,BULLSH*T). If anything the new and old models are acting up, so it seems the problem actually......got worse(or is just as bad depending on how you look at it, I dont know about you but after all I went through to trick gamestop into trading in my old model for a new one hearing this one breaks just as easily kinda ticked me off).