>>59044350What the fuck is this thread? Did you not use it, you're showing the wrong menu for one, it is the fact is showed your friends that were online at all times on the bottom screen, and that it showed various randoms and people you'd played with in the past.
Its the only system that let you easily play with friends without having to pre-arrange the session through discord (skype or steam or MSN at the time) or some shit, you could just naturally play the game at any time.
Then Sun Moon comes out and you have to do whatever the fuck festival plaza is and its hard to play with your friends even when you DO have it arranged outside of the game, and future titles never returned to XY's level of online.
This was on purpose of course, because XY made it easy for you to make friends through playing the game and then play with them again, this led to it being an avenue for grooming or predatory behavior, since you could meet people entirely within the game and keep contact with them. Modern systems are designed to make it nearly impossible to have any sort of long-term contact with anyone you play with, needing to basically bring your social connections into the game from the outside.
