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Nintendo Pulls Feature: Allowing SpotPass to be accessed again to SwapNote (known as Nintendo Letter Box in other regions)

Nintendo Pulls Feature: Allowing SpotPass to be accessed again to SwapNote (known as Nintendo Letter Box in other regions)

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Started by Anonymous 12 years, 10 months ago
Simply to reiterate verbatim to a complaint letter I sent to Nintendo on the subject: http://kotaku.com/nintendo-pulls-3ds-feature-says-kids-were-sharing-off-1456565997 "I live in Florida, work at a retail video game store, and I have a girlfriend who lives in Texas. We've been in a long distance relationship for 3 years. I have just bought her a 2DS for her birthday rather recently. She loves it, and the best feature is sharing notes back and forth between one another. Now since we're in a long distance relationship, StreetPass is irrelevant to us, and that's why we love the SpotPass feature. But now, SpotPass was removed due to offensive material being exchanged. While I understand why this had to be done to stop this, why am I being punished? Why is my girlfriend, who loved the SwapNote app, also be punished for this? Shouldn't the offenders be punished?" Basically, I want to show Nintendo that we shouldn't be punished for somebody's wrongdoing or misuse. Buying a system such as the 2DS and 3DS, just to have a primary feature pulled for a certain software seems to be very unfair. For those who've bought this system for this social function in mind, are now being shafted and are not getting what they've paid for (granted, the service is free, but the initial price of the handheld system is not-- you buy the handheld for it's services). I want whoever is affected by this to sign this petition and let Nintnedo know that we want the SpotPass back, even if there's a new regulation to it (DRM, selling it on the shop channel, or even better Parental Controls-- any compromise would be fine) Do not let this feature be lost forever. Thank you for your time. - Jonathan

Updates

November 5, 2013

The silence from the company is frustrating but it only confirms that they are waiting for us to lose interest. It is exhausting to keep pushing when there is no response yet I know we have to keep going because this feature was a bridge for many of us. I am still here and I am still tracking every bit of feedback you leave.

9 Comments

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Jason Stewart
12 years ago Featured

Ridiculous decision. Swapnote was basically the main reason I even bought a 3DS. Why punish all your users just because of a few bad apples?

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Mike Iyer
12 years ago Featured

This was the only way I could talk to my brother overseas. Just add parental controls if you are worried about kids instead of ruining it for everyone else.

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Sarah Nguyen
12 years ago Featured

BRING IT BACK. Seriously Nintendo what were you thinking?? So frustrating.

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Lamar
11 years ago

Bring Spotpass back!

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Lamar
11 years ago

Bring Spotpass back!

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Anonymous
12 years ago

Please nintendo!!!

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Luiz Fernando Ferreira Machado
12 years ago

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Margot Regvart
12 years ago

my boyfriend and i live in different countries and this would have been something that made us really happy to do together, aside from only playing games. another thing is that there aren't really any other messaging systems available making structured social gameplay more difficult and sometimes almost impossible. this is a bad decision and lots of people are mad about it. i dont know why this petition has only the amount of signatures it has when people all over the internet are bothered by this. things like this make me want to stop supporting nintendo.i grew up with their products and so did a lot of other people and this company is constantly letting this demographic down, by pandering to the new generation as well as us and failing at it. if this has to do with lewd photographs/pictures/soundclips being sent to minors, and nintendo is trying to avoid some kind of lawsuit it can be easily fixed by a disclaimer and/or age limit. we already have parental controls and account numbers- and that should be enough, as the rest is the fault of the user. (if a parent buys a product for their child they should take responsibility for how it is used instead of blaming a company) this decision has reduced functionality a lot and taken away one of the core features of this product. someone should call nintendo out for false marketing- oh, but we agreed to the terms and conditions. so, why wasnt a clause for something like this in them? or is this about something else, after all? if nintendo does something more like this im doubtful ill buy another product from them, and im sure lots of the older generation is considering to follow suit, despite being won over a long time ago.