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Friendcodes Question

Yoshi_Master

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    When Pokemon Diamond and Pearl come out, will we be allowed to share Friendcodes with people around these forums?

    The reasons why I ask is because on some forums they forbid it.

    One forum such as the Nsider itself.
     
    Moving this to the Community Questions and Feedback forum, since it's the better fitting place for this.

    The friend code question is currently being discussed, but things look good that we will allow a sharing of them, once the games are out.
     
    what is an friend code anyway??
     
    A friend code is a unique number combination that identifies your DS+Game combo online, when using the Nintendo WiFi connection.
    It will allow you to make use of online activities for games that support such features, like the online trading and battling in Diamond and Pearl.
     
    wow, so what website can this wifi connections be played or trade or etc.
     
    I don't see why it wouldn't be..
     
    Dash they don't let then be shared right now because if someone has your friends code they practically have your information right there. For example they could hack your ds over wifi (don't say it's impossible) and get all your personal info like user name (and if you used your real name they will know it) and your birthday, among other things. It might also provide position, but that's just if they know how to hack and read the data. Sorry if i gave anyone some bad ideas.
     
    Well, in games like Animal Crossing, so long as you know someone's friend code, I think you can write anything on their board or something. So there's a question of vandalization, etc.

    But like Scizz said, I'm sure we'll allow friend codes by the English release of DP; we just have to figure out the best system to do so first. ^_^;
     
    I would love to allow it, yes. I think it would be beneficial, especially for Diamond and Pearl, since you know...this is a Pokemon forum. XD

    But, at the moment - no. To quote Other Games Rules:

    The PokéCommunity Forums does not have a visible privacy policy, but we do wish and expect that you would keep information that important to you, to yourselves. This includes phone numbers, addresses, names, email address, IM handles, online game nicks, Friend Codes and anything else that is personal and can act as a way of contacting you. You are allowed to disclose such information if you so please, but you are under no such obligation and it is your responsibility to keep such information private or public if you want.
    That said, the reason I bring that up here, in Other Games (as personal information is relevant across PC), is because of online games and Nintendo DS Friend Codes. For the time being, there will not be a large thread for you to post your Friend Codes in to act as a directory. Nor will you be allowed to post your Friend Codes in public through threads or posts. You are allowed to share your Friend Codes; I simply ask that you be careful about it.
    You may give your Friend Code out to whoever you please, but through PM or IM or any other way where it would be that person and that person only who sees your Friend Code, not every member. This ensures that only those who you want to have your Friend Code will have it, and those you do not will not. I am concerned about this, because Nintendo is.
    At the time of this post, the main concern would be Animal Crossing: Wild World. If you are not careful with whom you give your code out too, and whom you let in, then there could be trouble. People could post inappropriate messages on your bulletin board or using letters. They could also cut down all your tress and destroy all your flowers. However, more games are on the way and more problems are likely to arise.
    All I ask is that you are careful with who and how you disclose such information.
    Moreover, the best way that I can see is through PM, not posts and threads! Act smart, stay safe and you will have a more enjoyable gaming experience.
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    So, yeah. I might reconsider this rule on a per game basis as not every game has the possibility for havoc to break out. Nintendo does not want their customers to publicly share their Friend Codes. Forbidden on the official forums. So, I'm merely trying to obey Nintendo's wishes.

    That said, this is a Pokemon forum, and there are Pokemon games that use Friend Codes, so - I may revisit this rule. If a change is to occur it will be announced in Other Games. So, keep a look out as Diamond and Pearl approaches.

    I need to rethink some things. :p
     
    I have been on a forums that is fully dedicated to sharing Friendcodes and it is pretty organized and clean. If any one is bad, the person posts that the person is bad in the so called "Wall of Shame" and everyone must delete that person from their list. The bad person might be banned too; it depends on the severity of the damage that they did. For example: seed glitch in Animal Crossing WW would be considered really bad.
    I don't want to post that site right now because I think advertising is not allowed here, am I right?
    If I'm allowed to show the site, I'll go ahead and show you :)
     
    But we aren't a Friend Code forum. We're not going to monitor what you guys do in your games. It's your responsibility who you choose to play with, not our's. We're not going to monitor every online game of every system that our members play.

    Depending how we revise our rules, we may take action on some occurrences though.
     
    I think we should allow the sharing of friend codes because it looks like you can only battle and direct trade with other people that you have given your friend code to.
     
    Isn't it possible to voice chat with someone if there is a mutual friend code exchange? That's the only concern that I could see arising from Friend Codes in Diamond and Pearl. Is there a way to battle without permitting that? Some sort of matchmaking, or having a match with a specific code without friending them?
     
    I don't know. Worse comes to worse we'll have to hold off on any major decision for maybe a week (after the games are released) until we've WFCed each other.

    I know that Metroid won't allow voice chat unless your friended.

    I'd hope it's possible to disallow some things. I know that I wouldn't always want to use voice chat.
     
    Jake should already know a lot of this—he's had the game for quite a while. That said, I'm pretty sure it's possible to disable voice chat before a battle. The question is, is that enough? This hypothetical child who's gotten a hypothetical bad person's Friend Code might hypothetically leave voice chat enabled, being scarred by the hypothetical man's bad words.

    The thing is, if you allow Friend Code trading—or even any form of communication over the internet—you're at some point liable for anything that goes wrong. Even by letting members PM each other, you're allowing this to happen. If you disabled PMing you'd be pretty safe, but I'm pretty sure no one wants that.

    So where do you draw the line? You could allow Friend Codes to be exchanged, putting up some sort of disclaimer about responsibility. But you're still encouraging the trade of codes, which might be worse than if they happened to be traded over PM. The bottom line is that the parents of these children should be more responsible, but parents have never been as lazy, irresponsible, ignorant, and quick to blame others for their own shortcomings as they are today.

    Waiting might be a good idea. Give it a week or two, see how many members join due to D/P and how many young children are really active on the forum. The forum has otherwise shifted towards a more teen-suited audience, though, which is where the real desire to trade codes comes from. Another thing to consider is that even ten or nine year-olds can be pretty responsible. Honestly, if you allowed FC trading, I doubt any ill would ever come out of it.
     
    I would hope not. But, the possibility is there.

    As well as the demand.

    I haven't come across too many thread s about Xbox Live enabled games in Other Games.

    I'm really not helpful in this situation. I like privateness.

    "Technically" you're not supposed to be on the internet until you're thirteen if you don't have a parental consent.
     
    TRIFORCE89 said:
    But we aren't a Friend Code forum. We're not going to monitor what you guys do in your games. It's your responsibility who you choose to play with, not our's. We're not going to monitor every online game of every system that our members play.

    Depending how we revise our rules, we may take action on some occurrences though.
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    Yes, I know that PC is not a friendcode forum. I agree that it's our responsibilities whatever happens in the game.
    But I've got a great idea, being at that Friendcodes site for so long. I believe that what would improve these forums is to increase interactivity. What I mean by that is, PC's overall activity would increase [good thing :) ] and some members would enjoy just coming here to play some pokemon against each other.
    Good Idea or no?
    Though I think the idea, might increase crime (crime like, derogatory words in game) causing more people to report the incident and causing mods and admins to get annoyed.
    What do you think?
     
    Abby said:
    Isn't it possible to voice chat with someone if there is a mutual friend code exchange? That's the only concern that I could see arising from Friend Codes in Diamond and Pearl. Is there a way to battle without permitting that? Some sort of matchmaking, or having a match with a specific code without friending them?
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    All of the activities can only be used if both users have added each other to their friends list.
    They won't even see them online if they haven't done that.
    When they have registered each other, and are in the online room, everything will work with message prompts, that ask the player if they want to start a certain activity, nothing can be started if one player denies it, and every player can drop out of the activity every time he feels like it.


    And about the "personal data hacking/tracking" thing, the DS contains no such data. All it contains is the username of the person, their birthday, and a comment they can enter.
    Even if a hacker would get that data, which is highly unlikely, he could do nothing with it.
    Though your DS will probably have an IP address once it goes online, it's not more risky than being online with a computer, even safer, since the address is hidden, and can not be figured out just by the use of friend codes.
     
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