@sanderev What a trash response. So narcissistic and self-obsessed.

"I'm 100% not disappointing by the game or what the game has to offer. I already pre-downloaded it and it will be my main Switch game from the moment it releases."

Why do I care about that? Why are you so obsessed with the fact that YOU don't want it? Why are you adamant on continually posting in this thread, announcing how much this doesn't affect you? How would the option of playing with friends online affect you negatively in any way? It wouldn't, but it would affect millions in a positive way, so it's just so odd that you're falling over yourself expressing just how much you're fine with this, over and over again.

And your "simple facts" are outright false.

1- We didn't know for sure, but I, and many other assumed that it would. Based on the fact that it's 2019. Seems like a logical and rational assumption. Not that ambitious.

2- Not sure what your point is.

3- No, but it left the door open for that. Most who watched it found it weird that it didn't mention it specifically, only randoms, and then were devastated when it was confirmed.

Why does anyone care if you're "100% not disappointed" or that you pre-ordered it? We've already established that you don't care, as if that means anything to anyone who does. Also, your coffee machine analogy is asinine, intellectually dishonest, and ridiculously lazy and irrelevant. You can already play with randoms. You're comparing being able to play with friends as well, to the switch controlling a coffee machine?

If I express disappointment in the lack of this option, I wouldn't even bother if I knew I was the only one. But I know millions of others who planned to purchase the game are ALSO disappointed, and maybe you could have taken a hint from the amount of outrage about this online. I have zero interest in playing this alone, or with randoms. Playing with people you know is a completely different experience. My brother is in another city, and we were excited to play levels together, and both planned to purchase. Now, we have no interest.

Stop spending so much energy stanning for Nintendo and replying to others expressing your lack of desire for the feature. It's selfish and self-centered to an extreme extent. I'll never understand the point of posts like yours, doing your best to invalidate the preferences and experiences of others using your sample size of one, and gloating about the fact that you don't care about a missing feature, when so many others would have loved it.