If you do not know anyone in real life who has a Nintendo DS system and the Animal Crossing Wild World game to share Friend Codes with you – you CANNOT play Animal Crossing Wild World online at all UNLESS you find someone somehow with a Friend Code to share with you.
The game box DOES NOT say – “Game Intended for Two to Four Real Life Friends / Family Members to Share Friend Codes to Play Game on the Internet”.
The back of the game box DOES say and I quote:
“Visit friends near and far over local wireless or the Internet”
How is any consumer supposed to know BEFORE buying and opening the game – $35 plus tax (and possibly like me, a $40 plus tax Nintendo USB WiFi Connector since I do not have a wireless router) to specifically play this game on the Internet and then contacting Nintendo Customer Service after trying to play it online and cannot?
The system, the game and the USB Connector are non-returnable to the store at this point – they’ve been opened and they are not defective.
Nintendo’s recommended solution for me?
Buy a DS system and Animal Crossing Wild World game for my grandson and exchange Friend Codes with him so I can play Animal Crossing Wild World online OR buy a different WiFi game to play online that does not require a Friend Code to play online to use the USB Connector but still not be able to play the game I already purchased?
This is the only DS WiFi game I have (or will have), my grandson does not have a DS system and guess what – I will NOT be buying a Nintendo DS for him for Christmas now after contacting Nintendo Customer Service about this issue and their handling of my complaint.
As a consumer, I find this type of deceptive advertising unacceptable and I do not spend my hard earned dollars with companies that practice it.
I will be buying a PSP for my grandson for Christmas.
I will also be writing a letter of complaint to the Better Business Bureau and the Texas Consumer Affairs Department.
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