I entered my Nintendo Letterbox (swapnote) app today on 3DS and was greeted with a lovely message saying spotpass functions have ended.
Special messages will never be received again.
No longer are you allowed to send messages to friends a distance away.
This was caused because people were abusing the app by sending offensive material to each other.
I am saddened by this. I used this with my little brother a lot and now it's gone.
Guess Nintendo likes to ruin the fun for everyone because of some bad eggs in the crowd.
I have a problem with this. Both parties needed each others codes to even send messages and WHO is it hurting by what friends exchange with each other? Even the streetpass part of it needed the other party to have your code registered. It's not like some minor is going to see a pee-pee drawing randomly while walking down the street, oh, PARENTAL CONTROLS SAY HELLO.
I guess Nintendo should kill everything which can interact with another person.
Goodbye going to another town in animal crossing.
Goodbye pokemon chatting.
Keep Nintendo off the internet or else they'll remove the crappy browser too! Keep up the good work.
Hurry up and move to the 21st century for goodness sake, embrace the internet and online communication better.
Looking forward to flipnote studio where I can share drawings with friends and my brother.....unless they decide to not release it because of this fiasco.
EDIT: As of Today (november 1st), Japans Flipnote Studio app has now been affected the same way as Swapnote. Sharing with the friends gallery is no longer available.
I guess the only option for flipnote now is to pay for the online service (No thank you).
Damn you Nintendo.
Edited by Ocarina of Time, 01 November 2013 - 09:19 AM.