Game Freak Has Revealed the Third Global Mission for Pokémon Sun and Moon

Hey Game Freak I don't care. Where is my Pokémon bank update?

Eh, a little better, but my Dex is almost done.

Couldn't care less about these or the Festival Plaza altogether. PSS was so much better.

I pick third strike with the Pokemon!

The apocalyptic log saga, to no one's demand, continues once again.

Trainer's Log, day 93

"The bank still hasn't come. Steve is dead. Hank chased a non-Alolan Geodude down a cliff. And for some reason now I really want a bank. Bank the bank to me. I can't deal with this anymore. I hallucinated a wild Articuno right now and when it all ended all I knew was that I threw a Master Ball at a common Zigzagoon. At least I thought it was a Zigzagoon but that was a hallucination too, as it was a purple Rattata. And then that was a hallucination as it was a normal Yungoos. Bank me the give.
I have no regrets. Darkrai, use Dark Void on me. Be my demise. I don't want to live anymore
Bank bank bank baknkeak beaknakecaava"

@SheldonRandoms Pokken Tournament demake

@Kidakairis I agree, it has been proven by now that pretty much nobody gives a damn about those silly missions (I actually wonder how many people actually know about them, not everybody browses Nintendo/Pokémon websites...), on the other hand, people do care about their cherished pokémon that are still stuck in ORAS or X/Y, so get that bank-update out there already! >_<

I predict failure... the system obviously doesn't work. Make an update to the game that makes participation easier. Read some darn comments about it.

I hate how japanese devs are so stubborn about the simplest of things!

It will fail. It's too hard to hook up your game to the Global Link or whatever. People just don't understand that part of the instructions.

At least trading isn't as hidden away as the Island Scan. Still, Global Missions are a confusing mess, and a nice low target is needed for us to win.

I don't care and I don't really want to do this strange registration they have. Where is the bank update? The pokedex update? I guess I should just use homebrew tools to transfer my old team and be done with it

I think if their goal is like 5 trades they just might make it this time😉

The target might be high, but the reward is huge if you want to level up the plaza. Even the reward for failure is substantial.

I already completed the Pokedex during New Years so the GTS is pointless to me. If they want me to participate in the GTS again, maybe have the bank finally updated? It won't be too long before January is over and we still haven't got it.

Ha... I'd guessed that it might be something to do with using one of the Festival Plaza features a while back.

They're clearly doing these to encourage players to familiarise themselves with the different features of the game... the big rewards for success are just to entice people to do so... they don't expect us to actually achieve them.

Just in time for Chinese New Year, and I've got a pokedex to finish. Looks like I'll wait until the 31st

@AlexSora89 "and when it all ended all I knew was that I threw a Master Ball at a common Zigzagoon"

Dude, that's Stephen King tier right here. O.O"

Granted, I'm not as anxious about banks since my Blue decide remains incomplete so far anyway. Other RGBY users are even harder to come across and meet up with here than 3DS owners in general, and while I did get a Mew early, the more recent events include finishing the story, belatedly realizing I should have spared more long-range trainers for Ditto exploit, then googling alternatives and tampering around until I could but assume I broke the glitch - the proverbial guy to the west of Nugget bridge is still up for a challenge but no longer reacts to me unless spoken to. So it'll take me better luck with trading or another 3DS with a Pokemon Red (actually considered until PS4 and Switch eclipsed the idea with the urgency of one and the appeal of the other) before I think about sending my collection back to the future.

Frankly, I'd probably pay for Ninty's online service right away if they introduced online connectivity support to RGBY (although it will likely only - if ever - happen on Switch VC, so that's empty talk). I hope that doesn't foreshadow my own brand of apocalyptic logs to come! XD

@nhSnork
Wait, are you serious? I don't fancy deconstructive slash mature takes on Pokémon, or on any all-ages piece of work for that matter, but the radio silence on the Bank got me so riled up I started bringing the apocalypse to Alola. The, uh, [suddenly excited tone] final episode will be in the comment section for the article announcing the Bank's arrival, so stay tuned on all the following Pokémon articles on the site!

Their biggest mistake with these was tying them to the Pokemon Global Link stuff that requires a lot more hoop jumping rather than Nintendo Accounts.

@AlexSora89 hopefully it won't end like I hear The Mist movie did... '_' XD

@nhSnork
Who knows? Will the writer make it out of pre-bank Alola alive?
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

What I don't get is that Gamefreak could send a notification to everybody's 3/2DS that this is happening. How hard is it to do that.

@AlexSora89 But Dark Void misses because it was nerfed to 50% accuracy.

The only way to work is with the bank working on sun and moon

I believe Nintendo Hong Kong just released some details about the bank, maybe make an article about it.

I don't think the Global Mission failures are anything to do with player engagement, I've played hundreds of hours of Pokémon Sun and haven't contributed poop to the Global Missions... not only were they started SO late that most of the things they're asking people to do has become boring busywork, but all you get rewarded are FCs, something you can collect more than you'll EVER need in a few days.

Unfortunately Gamefreak is limited on what it can do because of the 3DS' limitations. Until we see a Switch Pokémon, the internet functionality will remain limited to pointless busywork...

People are still playing & loving the game, but Global Missions aren't fun. That's why they're failing.

Pokémon Bank update please!!! I've been waiting months so that I can finally deposit my Gen I Pokémon to the Bank so that I can wipe the slate clean and play them again (and yes, I'm the sort of freak that played and finished all three)!!!

@Tsurii
And even THAT, is asking too much

I foresee another failure... but this time they are giving us the info ahead enough and two weeks to make the goal. Since holidays are definitely over this seems more doable. We still need to know the goal numbers though... I will definitely contribute, the second mission went much better than the first one so the hope exist.

hahah reading some coments makes me believe that I never was alone thinking that gamefreak are kinda incompentent developers and just nobody points it out because the strong franchise that is pokemon.

@Sam_Loser2
I can turn that into a plot point, come to think of it. Thanks!

That's another failure incoming. The game died pretty fast without PokeBank support, most part of people who got it in Holidays already quit after conpleting the Pokedex.

There's no point on keep playing after all, most competitive Pokémon are unavailable, and a good range of competitive players had their stuff in ORAS, where it was easier to train.

I might join to get the losing rewards because these are awful.

I'm just waiting for that elusive Bank support. I won't use it just for getting my ORAS Pokémon to Moon, but also to train and level up to 100 whichever Pokémon I can on ORAS and THEN transfer them for Moon, because I think Moon is the worst game in the series to get to level 100 since... God, Ruby/Sapphire? It takes forever. And adding more salt to the wound, it's the game that introduces Hyper Training, so there is a concrete reason to get to level 100 this time.

Wouldn't it be funny if PB is our reward for completion of a Global Mission? It would actually be sad, because we'd never get it.

Unless it includes wondertrade it's gonna be a bust. Most people who would use the GTS have done so to get what they wanted and the little time I've tried to use it has resulted in frustration sifting through absurd requests (even with the exclude legendary option) only to find one reasonable trade that has already been taken but is still showing up in the list even after I try refreshing the search a few times.

These missions are a neat idea, but poorly implemented.