User blog:Element02/Event Pokemon // Nintendo Wi-fi

So...well all know that with the inclusion of wireless gaming on the newer Pokemon Games/ Generations (all the DS games starting from Diamond and moving all the way up to Black/White 2) Pokemon was taken to a new level. Not only could we trade wirelessly and battle someone who passed us by on the streets, but now we could also trade and battle with people from all over the globe use the Nintendo WFC (Wi-fi connection).

Not only did the Nintendo WFC allow us to trade and battle people from all over the globe, but we also got to play mini-games, use speacial features on our poke-gear, and last but not least...the Nintendo WFC allowed us to get special event Pokemon as they popped up.

But herein lies the problem. Nintendo only allowed a WEP router connection to work on the earlier DS games...and even by then, WEP-secure internet was something in the past, no one used it, and your best bet of finding it would be a McDonalds. Even when they moved to a WPA connection to be allowed for B/W and then B/W2 they were still excluding many of their truer fans and gamers.

I myself had a WEP at my Mother's house when I was still living in the USA, and might have gotten it just to play my games in my newer apartment had I stayed where I was. But, when I moved to Germany my flat only hostes what was considered a WPA-TP2 which translated to a WPS connection. Really geeky stuff that I don't understand, but, what I did know was that this connection did not work on any of the Pokemon games AT ALL!

So...after much saving up, I was able to get a USB stick that tricks my computer into thinking it is a WEP connection, it allows me use the Nintendo WFC to get event Pokemon, but it does not allow me to trade or battle with my friends, and it is highly frustrating. Still, what do you think? People from around the globe are already excluded from so many Pokemon events because they are normally only hosted in Japan, the USA, and Canada...but when you then add in the problem of internet, an even larger number of people are getting excluded (especially if they have older games) because of lack of WEP and WPA internet.

I have even listed event Pokemon that have come and go...so look at all what might have passed by you because of this. What's your opinion world? Should Nintendo make it so that all forms of wi-fi work with the Pokemon games? Why or why not?