@graysoncharles You missed my points, perhaps I didn't explain well enough. My bad.
Paying ONE time just to transfer your Pokémon is a lot different than paying a consistent fee just to maintain the existence of your collection. I only paid for Bank once to transfer my collection from Gen 5 and 6. After that, the Gen 7 games were my go-to storage unit for my collection. I did address the fact that this is kind of a petty thing to be upset about, so I understand where you're coming from. But again, when you promise something for so long and then abruptly take it away, you have to understand when people get pissed.
As for the balancing issue: I'd answer with, "I know enough about balancing to know that less characters = easier to balance. That's a given, and doesn't require some kind of professional." But deleting characters from the game completely isn't the only way to narrow down the metagame. Like I said before, GameFreak could just BAN the ones that aren't in Galar's Pokédex. Problem solved. I've yet to be told how this WOULDN'T work.
@graysoncharles Let's be real here, Pokémon Home is going to cost money. I'd rather not pay a fee in order to keep my collection intact. I'll let them rot in my Pokémon Sun/Moon save file before I do that. If it ends up NOT costing money, then fine. Great. But that would still kinda suck, since it's not an actual game. I just like the novelty of having my collection WITH my avatar.
Y'know, another thing is that a huge collection of Pokémon like mine makes breeding really easy. So that's always a plus, too.
Call these reasons petty, entitled, spoiled, or whatever. Honestly, I'll probably get over it eventually. But GameFreak has promised something for years that people expect, and now it's just... gone. It kinda hurts, even if it's not really THAT bad. And the really frustrating thing is that balancing and National Dex bloat are problems that are SO easy for them to fix without the need of Thanos-snapping Pokémon from existence. It just seems so... lazy, as bandwagon-y as that might sound.
If it's balancing they want, why don't they just ban every Pokémon that isn't in the Galar Dex? It's not that hard. Like... just let me transfer my whole collection over. I don't care if I can't use them in competitive, I just want them all in one place. It's an emotional thing for me, not a "Gotta catch 'em all" thing, or a competitive thing.
My PC boxes are like memory lane for me. They contain all of my partners ever since I first started playing in Gen 3. To give us the ability to transfer up to each new game for YEARS, and then just take it away, feels like a broken promise.
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Re: Soapbox: Why Sword And Shield's Pokémon Purge Will Benefit Everyone
@graysoncharles You missed my points, perhaps I didn't explain well enough. My bad.
Paying ONE time just to transfer your Pokémon is a lot different than paying a consistent fee just to maintain the existence of your collection. I only paid for Bank once to transfer my collection from Gen 5 and 6. After that, the Gen 7 games were my go-to storage unit for my collection. I did address the fact that this is kind of a petty thing to be upset about, so I understand where you're coming from. But again, when you promise something for so long and then abruptly take it away, you have to understand when people get pissed.
As for the balancing issue:
I'd answer with, "I know enough about balancing to know that less characters = easier to balance. That's a given, and doesn't require some kind of professional." But deleting characters from the game completely isn't the only way to narrow down the metagame. Like I said before, GameFreak could just BAN the ones that aren't in Galar's Pokédex. Problem solved. I've yet to be told how this WOULDN'T work.
Re: Soapbox: Why Sword And Shield's Pokémon Purge Will Benefit Everyone
@graysoncharles Let's be real here, Pokémon Home is going to cost money. I'd rather not pay a fee in order to keep my collection intact. I'll let them rot in my Pokémon Sun/Moon save file before I do that. If it ends up NOT costing money, then fine. Great. But that would still kinda suck, since it's not an actual game. I just like the novelty of having my collection WITH my avatar.
Y'know, another thing is that a huge collection of Pokémon like mine makes breeding really easy. So that's always a plus, too.
Call these reasons petty, entitled, spoiled, or whatever. Honestly, I'll probably get over it eventually. But GameFreak has promised something for years that people expect, and now it's just... gone. It kinda hurts, even if it's not really THAT bad. And the really frustrating thing is that balancing and National Dex bloat are problems that are SO easy for them to fix without the need of Thanos-snapping Pokémon from existence. It just seems so... lazy, as bandwagon-y as that might sound.
Re: Soapbox: Why Sword And Shield's Pokémon Purge Will Benefit Everyone
If it's balancing they want, why don't they just ban every Pokémon that isn't in the Galar Dex? It's not that hard. Like... just let me transfer my whole collection over. I don't care if I can't use them in competitive, I just want them all in one place. It's an emotional thing for me, not a "Gotta catch 'em all" thing, or a competitive thing.
My PC boxes are like memory lane for me. They contain all of my partners ever since I first started playing in Gen 3. To give us the ability to transfer up to each new game for YEARS, and then just take it away, feels like a broken promise.