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Nintendo Friend Codes - Background
So what are Friend Codes? A friend code is a unique identification that is
issued to every Nintendo Wii console and every Wii or DS game that is capable of
being played online. These codes are a 12 or 16 digit number, yes you
heard correctly, they are a gigantic number which is extremely difficult to
memorise and is extremely difficult to trade with other gamers.
So why is it difficult to trade? Well, let's take Xbox Live as an example, when
you want to befriend someone it's usually a case of selecting the gamer from
your Xbox and selecting "Send Friend Request", this then issues an immediate
message to the other gamer asking whether they wish to accept or decline, 2
words to summarise this - dead simple.
With Nintendo's online model you do not have this luxury, no siree, if you want
to add someone to your friends list on your Nintendo Wii or DS then you have to
find out their 12/16 digit number (usually on an internet forum) and then
register that into your console or game, and guess what? No message, no
notification is sent to the gamer because Nintendo feel that if you want to be
"paired up" as friends then you should know this person personally, yes I'm
serious, they expect you to be sat in the same room trading codes all day.
Anyhow, I digress, the reason this is painful is for 2 very important reasons -
1) the other player doesn't know you've registered them unless you get in touch
with them using the variety of communication methods available in this day age,
which means unless they know you've registered they won't register you - unless
they have by chance. Now there are many ways of communicating with someone
to inform them, an open internet forum message, a personal message, a newsgroup,
an email or even face to face? What if you've just registered 10 friends?
Are you going to then individually message them, how do you know they've got the
message? How do you know if they've registered your code in return? Reason
2) you have to register your code in multiple places to stand any chance of
receiving registered friends, there are many, many forums out there that you're
going to have to register on and then post your friend codes on.
The other pain is finding fellow gamers who own the same console or games as
you, there are hundreds of forums with hundreds of threads, you see where I'm
going with this, trying to find other friends in this unstructured manner is
both time-consuming, messy and unmanageable.
So why register your codes all over the internet when Friend Horde has the
solution?
Friend Horde is a site where friend code management becomes easier than ever,
this is the only place you will need to register your friend codes, you only
need to store them once here and that's it, they can be discovered by an
extremely simple search and browse interface.
Friend Horde current features:
- Simple, straghtforward database for all your friend codes, Xbox Live Account
and PSN account
- Maintain your full library of games
- Easy to use search facility to find other gamers to pair up with
- Notify others you have registered their code(s) at the click of a button and
let Friend Horde do the rest
- Register wii@friendhorde.com from your Wii and recieve notifications from your
Wii
- Submit feedback on the site - aiming for a community-driven site
The site lets you search for other gamers who own the same
games and consoles as you, so you know instantly whether the person owns a game
so that you can register their friend codes immediately.