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@ibtachi so if you’re not in the majority you should remain totally silent? Being from the Southern United States I’ve heard similar doctrine that didn’t go down well either.

@coolaggro Not for me personally. Which is why I won’t be buying it. Not trying to discourage you from doing so though and I genuinely hope if you do that you enjoy the game.

@graysoncharles @Heavyarms55 You both miss the point of the furor. We don’t care that you can’t catch all the Pokémon in the game. We care that after playing and beating the game we can’t import other Pokémon. I won’t be buying the game because it seems like it’s going to be a very lackluster attempt all around. While there are some very toxic elements of this and any game community, most are just upset that the way they have traditionally played these games has been removed and is considered no longer relevant. It’s akin to a new Call of Duty game coming out and being told guns won’t be in the single player. Only a small minority would be affected by that decision but for that minority it would be a deal breaker.

@Rutty_YT also that tweet reeks of sarcasm. If he had been given a copy of the fame it’d be unfinished, he certainly wouldn’t have been paid enough to retire, and I’m sure the Pokémon that are being cut were already decided on before the Treehouse announcement.

@Rutty_YT I personally agree that it’s game breaking but GameFreak clearly doesn’t.

I do agree that some of the negativity is very nasty and off base, The whole 5 minute render being the glaring one, but for the bulk of the players who are mad it’s all about the fact they just decided the way we play no longer applies.

I don’t think it’s a dying franchise at all. This will probably revive it in a big way. I do think GameFreak as a company has lost their way a little (in the sense that it’s going in a direction that excludes players like me) but that’s neither here nor there. MY specific problem with them is that my particular play style for these games has been removed. I wouldn’t bother venting if it hadn’t been for the fact that I was very excited about the game and then had the rug pulled out from under me. It’s like being told you’re getting a new bike for your birthday then finding out it has no wheels.

@Doger I don’t like rollercoasters. They make a lot of money and a lot of people love them, but just because everybody else loves them I don’t need to sit back and enjoy the ride. I personally am unhappy about what’s happening and venting.

@Doger I’m not demonizing Masuda or GameFreak. I’m simply stating they seem to have shifted their focus away from the core players and onto a POTENTIAL market of Pokémon Go converts. This will probably work out in their favor and it will probably be one of the biggest Pokémon releases in the franchise’s history but it will come at the cost of marginalizing the customers who have stayed loyal and financially supported this company for two decades. I’m not trying to win hearts and minds, I’m venting my frustration with a company I have given thousands of dollars to only to be ignored.

I’ll be the first one to eat my words if I’m proven wrong and nobody will be happier than me if I am wrong. I’ve played Pokémon since it was released in America. I still have every game and system from the start. I bought a Switch just for the anticipated Pokémon release. It seems Pokemon Go player conversion is the core strategy and from a business standpoint I understand completely. That would be a lot of consoles and game units moved but as a fan I am disheartened and the more I learn about the new games and apps the more the wind is taken out of my sails.

@Doger Home may have some use but with everything that’s confirmed it’s just Bank 2. Every time a Pokémon app (excluding what Go eventually became) is released it rarely lives up to expectations.

Most Pokémon players, myself included, have a bad habit of excusing the way GameFreak treats the fan base. At this point we are the battered spouse in an abusive relationship and we just haven’t realized it yet. I have no reason to anticipate these apps will be anything more than a way to lighten my wallet and neither Nintendo or GameFreak seem to want to prove myself or the other pessimists wrong.

@Rutty_YT GameFreak has never updated a game after launch beyond fixing game breaking bugs as mentioned in this article. Masuda has also stated there are no plans to ever support the full roster going forward. If they needed more development time they could have ignored the dumb Home and Sleep apps. I don’t want to use my phone to play Pokémon. This is more pandering to the Pokemon Go community and trying to convert them into game and console sales. It seems the core player base wants to catch all the Pokémon and are tired of gimmicks. Instead they add a new gimmick, raids for multiplayer which I personally don’t want, and strip down the Dex. I can’t think of any value added bonus that will get me to buy this or any future game. I will vote with my wallet like hopefully many other 20 year players will.