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Re: The Pokémon Company Threatens To "Permanently Ban" Players Who Deliberately Disconnect From Battles

yousei

I'm continually shocked and disheartened by the lack of empathy people display online. I hope you all are more considerate of other people in real life than you are here. If someone is walking slowly in front of you, do you attack them for daring to walk there?? Yes, it may be an annoyance, but that's part of life. Given that Pokemon is turn-based, it's not even like you're going to lose the match because of lag. I think that if you are so impatient you can't handle the possibility of dealing with some lag, it's you who shouldn't be online. You think all people in rural areas, college students whose campuses don't have good internet, and people who can't afford better connections should be punished and not allowed online, just because YOU can't deal with having to be patient with a minor annoyance (it's a video game, so yes, it's minor)? How in the world does that not make you the self-absorbed ones?

And I have no personal bias in the matter, because I have good enough internet connection that I've never lost connection when playing online with people, except with friends who told me they had poor connection and were the likely cause.