Passworded Online Rooms

[Wardez]

Forget "Friends only," "Clubs," "room ids," or anything else really. If you want to give online players a huge step up in their ability to organize events and get more people racing more easily, simply give us this super simple ability to password protect rooms.

This would make it so incredibly simple and fool proof to get people racing with who they want, faster. Especially people who organize leagues. League organizers will no longer have to go out and add everyone as a PSN friend in their series, or club. All they'd have to do is private message everyone the password for the race that day and bam! Everyone's good to go.

 

[GBO Possum]

Brilliant. Quick, simple, informal, dynamic.

 

[cbb]

ya and let us curse in passworded rooms cuz freedom of speech

 

[Sick Cylinder]

I'm not sure about this one - I host a lot of races for people on my friends list and they struggle with the most basic of instructions.

What I would like however is that if I'm hosting a championship series for friends that I can restrict entry to only those friends who have signed up for that championship - to do that in GT5 required multiple accounts and multiple friends lists which wasn't very practical.

I once had a friend enter my private lounge in the middle of a championship round who due to language difficulties / misunderstandings caused such havoc that the round had to be abandoned - I am dreading that happening again.