Nokia had set-up a NGage Customer Feedback website for users to vote for ideas they believed were necessary. The manufacturer has been working hard to make its gaming platform look more appealing to consumers so that they can experience high quality gaming, but so that Nokia can have positive returns as well.

I did vote for few ideas, and the following ones have been accepted:

• Release new updates of N-Gage more often
• to make games with real time multiplayer via Arena or BT
• To use 3D accelerator chip for N-gage Games
• Insist developers make useful demos
• Alert users when newer game versions are available
• make sure the games and the game save can be backed up
• Include Portuguese Language to new N-Gage games

There are several more ideas planned, some under review, but most rejected. Visit the website and vote for the idea you wish to have implemented, or create your own.

Nokia has started a NGage Feedback Forum, where users can post or vote on their problems. The UserVoice website works as a poll, where each user can create a wish, and has 10 votes. The user can spend a maximum of 3 votes at a time on other wishes, or on his/her own.

I placed 3 votes on each of the following ideas:

• To use 3D accelerator chip for N-gage Games started
• Don’t lock N-Gage games to IMEI, so users can buy new phones
• Make a game-oriented device, n-gage QD style.

I still have one vote left. What did you vote in? Give me a suggestion of where to spend my vote!

All the noise that we made really caught Nokia’s attention, although they haven’t fixed anything yet, they told us they will. That’s a starting point!

If you do not remember what the problem is: when you buy a NGage game, it licenses a single IMEI, and there is no option to transfer the games to another phone. This does stop piracy, but if you get a new phone, all your money is lost!

Source: Nokia Conversations