The writer of this article is either being disingenuous or genuinely hasn't spent enough time researching the issue. Also if you use the term cherry pick then begin to cherry pick yourself then the argument itself becomes invalid simply because you are doing the exact thing you are accusing others of doing. Also in the article he says that the models are new. It would take someone about 5 seconds of comparing to notice that they are exactly the same. They have changed the lighting system a bit so that could make them look different, but they are reused models. The Wingull issue isn't that it's flying with it's wings out. The issue is that Wingull is going extremely slow in the air and then just spins in place to turn around. This is something that all Pokemon do and is not in itself a unique movement pattern. If you wanna take it even further all walking animations for existing Pokemon are in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon so these have been done for quite some time. Yes there are new idle animations and intro animations, but does that equate to potentially cutting 200-400 Pokemon? I would take all my old Pokemon over animations that will be stale after the first few encounters. One final point is that the people that write the stories for the games do not animate the Pokemon. How could modeling and animating all the Pokemon somehow impact a completly different part of development? Sure maybe they wouldn't have time to model or animate characters, but this is something that is determined before any of these processes begin. I have no problem with people not caring about the Pokemon cut, but if you claim something to be fact that isn't and you paint those complaining as missing the point then you couldn't have possibly written this article without a certain level of bias.
Per usual Nintendo Life writes an anti hacker article. It's nice to see our gaming journalists taking the side of big corporations by excusing their behavior, but then blaming the little guy for taking a game off the eshop. The hacker didn't take it off, Nintendo did. Not only is homebrew interesting, but it separates purchasing a device from purchasing a service. If I buy a car and then upgrade it with my personal modifications it's not a crime it's called doing whatever you want with the stuff that you bought. Nintendo is the one who decided to take those games down to protect themselves. Also let's point out that these games had exploits. It's not as if the hackers caused the exploits, they were there from day one. I just can't believe that people would excuse Nintendo for this.
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Re: Soapbox: Why Sword And Shield's Pokémon Purge Will Benefit Everyone
The writer of this article is either being disingenuous or genuinely hasn't spent enough time researching the issue. Also if you use the term cherry pick then begin to cherry pick yourself then the argument itself becomes invalid simply because you are doing the exact thing you are accusing others of doing. Also in the article he says that the models are new. It would take someone about 5 seconds of comparing to notice that they are exactly the same. They have changed the lighting system a bit so that could make them look different, but they are reused models. The Wingull issue isn't that it's flying with it's wings out. The issue is that Wingull is going extremely slow in the air and then just spins in place to turn around. This is something that all Pokemon do and is not in itself a unique movement pattern. If you wanna take it even further all walking animations for existing Pokemon are in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon so these have been done for quite some time. Yes there are new idle animations and intro animations, but does that equate to potentially cutting 200-400 Pokemon? I would take all my old Pokemon over animations that will be stale after the first few encounters. One final point is that the people that write the stories for the games do not animate the Pokemon. How could modeling and animating all the Pokemon somehow impact a completly different part of development? Sure maybe they wouldn't have time to model or animate characters, but this is something that is determined before any of these processes begin. I have no problem with people not caring about the Pokemon cut, but if you claim something to be fact that isn't and you paint those complaining as missing the point then you couldn't have possibly written this article without a certain level of bias.
Re: Talking Point: 3DS Homebrew Development Causes Another Game Takedown as Nintendo Maintains Its Tight Grip
Per usual Nintendo Life writes an anti hacker article. It's nice to see our gaming journalists taking the side of big corporations by excusing their behavior, but then blaming the little guy for taking a game off the eshop. The hacker didn't take it off, Nintendo did. Not only is homebrew interesting, but it separates purchasing a device from purchasing a service. If I buy a car and then upgrade it with my personal modifications it's not a crime it's called doing whatever you want with the stuff that you bought. Nintendo is the one who decided to take those games down to protect themselves. Also let's point out that these games had exploits. It's not as if the hackers caused the exploits, they were there from day one. I just can't believe that people would excuse Nintendo for this.