I'm on the side that Game Freak is forced to become that on the behalf of The Pokemon Company's draconian policies. Clearly it looks like a game that should've taken at least another 2 years since Game Freak, even today, is still relatively undersized.
They know damn well that 80% of players gen their teams.
True, but still the aggressive amount of shiny-locking recently is retarded and should be dialed back immensely. I can understand locking story-related mons, but everything else feels like a deliberate fuck you to every shiny hunter because I guess you're being punished for playing the game "the wrong way".
At this point they might just cut out shinies altogether from Gen 10. They cut out the National Dex, they cut out Megas, they cut out Gems/Z-Crystals, they even cut out random moves like Pursuit or Hidden Power, who is going to stop them? Hell, who will complain, nobody at Nintendo cares about shiny hunters.
You underestimate how autistic the pokemon fanbase is.
Not autistic enough since they didn't bully Gamefreak into reversing dexit
It’s real unfortunate that rthe Pokemon plush print endless money. Feels like everyone wants to slow down but whoever counts the money keeps telling them no.
I don't know what's more pathetic: That they went thru with the change, that they thought it would go smoothly with the fanbase, or that they're too incompetent to revert the changes now that they know everybody hates them
And imply the DEI people were wrong? Fat chance
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If it was that Amphaross would be a Gardevoir…
Part of the reason why they started to Shiny-lock Starters is because they are becoming more story-related. You now have cutscenes introducing the Starters when you get to choose one or shortly before that and all of the Starters are accounted for during a playthrough rather than one being left to rot in the Professor’s care as of Gen 8 (Leon and Clavell get the Starter the player's Starter is weak to with cutscenes mentioning that they're added to the character’s team).
I really doubt GF will remove Shiny Pokémon, they're a nice marketing gimmick (the TCG had a special set themed around Shiny Pokémon at the beginning of the year) and that people still go nuts over despite Shiny Pokémon becoming easier to get as the Gens went on.
That's because they got smart about online protesting and realized that if they just kept the course and didn't acknowledge it would die down naturally whilst keeping the money flowing, most companies have these days and it's depressing to see people still fall into the whole "social media outrage works!" mentality.
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Doubles your merchandise potential as well. Every pokemon you release now has 2 versions you can release with minimal effort.
Sylveon would be unstoppable if its Sp. Atk and Atk were switched. Imagine throwing around Pixilated Returns with 110 base Atk.
Swoleveon would be an interesting concept nglSylveon would be unstoppable if its Sp. Atk and Atk were switched. Imagine throwing around Pixated Returns with 110 base Atk.
I always interpreted it as being what causes the dress to form a bell shape as Gardevoir. Like an evolutionary leftover.
