14 November 2007, 9:06 AM
The one thing that pisses me off about MP3C... Friend Vouchers... now, I can understand the thinking behind it, the whole online community thing, working together with friends to unlock stuff... yay.
But it's stupid.
And the thing that makes it even more stupid is that it is very much conditional. To unlock the really good extras in the game, you have to have a friend send you friend credits... the problem is that it's region locked... PAL Wii users can only exchange vouchers with other PAL Wii users and cannot exchange them with NTSC Wii users... WELL DONE, you have successfully made a useless feature COMPLETELY useless.
However, I am a resourceful person. If I can't find anyone online to exchange vouchers with... I don't have to. My nephew has a Wii, I could simply borrow it for a day, start a MP3C game file and earn at least 15 vouchers through the game (which is pretty easy to do) and simply go online with it and send the vouchers to MY Wii to unlock all of the extras that require the friend credits.
The ironic thing is that it's easier to do this than it is to find someone on the net to exchange these damned vouchers with... I mean it would've been easy if there was no region lock on these vouchers since I know a tonne of people who would've helped me out... sadly they all live in the US, great.
But it's stupid.
And the thing that makes it even more stupid is that it is very much conditional. To unlock the really good extras in the game, you have to have a friend send you friend credits... the problem is that it's region locked... PAL Wii users can only exchange vouchers with other PAL Wii users and cannot exchange them with NTSC Wii users... WELL DONE, you have successfully made a useless feature COMPLETELY useless.
However, I am a resourceful person. If I can't find anyone online to exchange vouchers with... I don't have to. My nephew has a Wii, I could simply borrow it for a day, start a MP3C game file and earn at least 15 vouchers through the game (which is pretty easy to do) and simply go online with it and send the vouchers to MY Wii to unlock all of the extras that require the friend credits.
The ironic thing is that it's easier to do this than it is to find someone on the net to exchange these damned vouchers with... I mean it would've been easy if there was no region lock on these vouchers since I know a tonne of people who would've helped me out... sadly they all live in the US, great.
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