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I think I've seen that beforeEdit:
Welp, looks like fans have a long way to go if this is our best bet at getting the servers operational again
Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States
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I found the same template as @Anonitolia and mapped out my Wonder Trade history on Y since I started my save back in 2013. Red represents people I exchanged FCs with, green is acqaintances I interacted with at least once, and blue represents both at the same time.
Obviously this map doesn't account for people whose specific location wasn't listed aside from their country of origin, nor does it account for multiple players of the same region. For places with heavy urban centers like Ontario and California, I encountered around 2-4 players. Among the places I didn't expect to interact with at all however were South Africa and Greece. You'd think I would have picked up some players from Hong Kong or Taiwan, considering every passerby I encountered back in the day somehow managed to rack up 999+ play hours despite the game only being out for three months at the time.
Obviously this map doesn't account for people whose specific location wasn't listed aside from their country of origin, nor does it account for multiple players of the same region. For places with heavy urban centers like Ontario and California, I encountered around 2-4 players. Among the places I didn't expect to interact with at all however were South Africa and Greece. You'd think I would have picked up some players from Hong Kong or Taiwan, considering every passerby I encountered back in the day somehow managed to rack up 999+ play hours despite the game only being out for three months at the time.
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X/Y and its online being accessible as it was with players showing up on the bottom screen was the best online experience I've ever had with a Pokemon game. I loved being able to challenge random niggers to triple battle and wipe shitter ass progression teams with a themed movie Genesect team and using Pokemon nicknames to communicate in random trades for shinies and scamming people by pretending to trade 5 IV mons. As much as I hate X/Y as games its online functionality and its ease of use/convenience was the biggest reason I even dabbled in competitive in the first place. Rest in piss Nintendo Network, you glorious bastard.
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They learned by USUM that shit worked too good to let it be free
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Triple battles were fun as fuck. They started off stale in the beginning of X/Y due to Mat Block Greninja being everywhere but once the west was able to use Bank, things got better.
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Honestly they just seem like they were following the trend of subscription services. Online used to be free when 3DS came out.
A lot has changed in just a little over a decade.
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Seeing everyone try this 'last day of Halo 2' stunt has me feel off, since I rarely did that online stuff in Gen 5 and id not bother Gen 6 and beyond. Even so, I wish that I could give @Archeops the 
Semper Fidelis rating.
On the Pretendo thing... the moment I saw tha troons are in charge, I knew that we had to make our own server. Doing it yourself in the face o 'tolerance' is The Kiwi Way.
By the by, I could recognise that blue furry. I know that I never talked to that furry, but I recognise that furry all the same...
Semper Fidelis rating.On the Pretendo thing... the moment I saw tha troons are in charge, I knew that we had to make our own server. Doing it yourself in the face o 'tolerance' is The Kiwi Way.
By the by, I could recognise that blue furry. I know that I never talked to that furry, but I recognise that furry all the same...
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For me, the first sign of bad things to come was the subscription fees for Bank. This was basically Nintendo testing the waters to see what they could get away with, and they got their answer when the servers blew up from all the people wanting to buy Bank. Incidentally this was also around the time where they were releasing their mobile games that had microtransactions like everything else (Mario Run, Pokemon Shuffle)
Regardless of the fact that it was $5 a year, the excuse they gave for it was fucking lame. You mean to tell me that Nintendo, a company that easily makes bank on their hardware and software to where all the employees can fan their balls with all the money they have in their Scrooge McDuckian vault, can't afford to maintain the servers for Bank? I know the WiiU was a fucking disaster for them, but it didn't leave them flat-out broke. Even if you want to place the blame squarely at GameFreak, Pokemon sells like crack cocaine, not just the games, but whatever merchandise they release, and you're still gong to tell me they can't maintain the servers on their own from that?
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Do you guys believe pokemon deserves his status as the most profitable franchise in the world?
And is it gonna remain on top?
And is it gonna remain on top?
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Pokemon used to be good. But that was when we was kids. I'm sure modern kids still think it's good. The same way we used to. Objectively everything pre switch was better. And Sw/sh wouldn't be that bad if they kept nat dex and removed the open world areas (imo) but all kids love pokemon and that fact alone will keep it alive probably until the end of human existence or until it's unprofitable because shitty made games/tranny shit (if parents keep their kids from buying such garbage)
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I mean, games are clearly getting closer and closer to go full tranny.
The thing is that even if the games sell poorly, there is a ton of side content that's extremely profitable, like cards, plushes and suing furry artists.
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Do they? I was under the impression that Pokemon was actually dropping off among kids, maybe except for the ones in Japan. I haven't seen a single zoomie that even knew about Pokemon games outside of Pokemon Go if they didn't own a switch, and there are a lot better games on that system than them.
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I mean yeah.
It’s only really had 2 bad games recently that being Gen 8 and BDSP and . BDSP and SV are disliked mostly for the bugs and not really the content. So really 1 bad game.
One to maybe two misfires in 20 years and mostly because the adult audiance has grown up and noticed Pokemon has bugs and complaining gets more YouTube clicks is an impressive track record.
Most people didn’t know about Pokemon games outside of Gen 1 if they did not play them. People who don’t iwn the console to play the games on not knowing stuff is not new or surprising.
Fact is the zeitgeist was a late 90s early 2000s thing. The further we get away from growing up around that the less kids will actually know unless consuming actively.
They’ll know of the Popular Pokemon and might have seen a random episode but beyond that? Not much.
And honestly catching it in order on tv has gotten harder. No longer is their endless repeats and reruns and your standard kids channels no longer show it as much.
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I thought games from the 3ds era onward were aslo being criticized, not as heavily as those remakes and SV, but still got the same backlash, albeit on a smaller scale.
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it wasn’t any more backlash than any other Pokemon gen tends to get normaly. Which is how you know Gen 8 fumbled real bad.
Gen 8 fumbled so bad the anime couldn’t even be bothered to focus on region or cast for masdive chunks of it’s run.
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I honestly rank SV higher despite the bugs than some others. For me the worst game was Sun and Moon. Having the complete Dex at the time aside I played about 1 hour before I quit the game. It lost me after about the 8th wild battle after you have the washing and snack minigame after each battle that can fully heal your Pokémon. It felt like any bit of challenge was sucked out the game. Your rival being a super nice doofus who picked the Pokémon weaker to yours on the type chart was just insulting.
Swsh I outright refused to buy. Sv has been my first introduction to most of the swsh Pokémon since I skipped that gen entirely after the dexit. I had been playing all the games back to back moving each games Pokémon up through the gens in preparation for the first mainline game on the switch. The news that there would be no way to natively trade between the 3DS to the switch without buying a pokebank subscription was the last straw.
Let's go pikachu and eevee are travesties to the Pokémon franchise. I would rank them as the worst if swsh and sun and moon didn't exist. I own one sealed copy of the game with the pokeball plus but wouldn't even bother opening it. The choice to alter battling to make it like Pokémon Go was so stupid of a decision it trumps almost every dumb decision Gamefreak has ever made.
Besides those I can appreciate most the other entries. I still would have liked to see them make trading between GB and GBA a thing. It baffles me that Nintendo never figured out a work around for two devices practically using the same link cable to interface to trade what amounts to a few kilobyte text file that makes a Pokémon.
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That’s seems to be the case with a lot of people which is why it being it such a state gets them so mad.
It’s complicated and they probably reasoned it was easier and better for them to release updated Gen 1 games now that the mechanics had been overhauled then trying to get all the okd stuff to trade and work with the newer stuff.
And as for expensive as that makes Gen 3 to dex complete it was probably the right call at the time.
Iirc right I think they are on record as saying they tried to get GB to GBA trading to work before dropping it.
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No?
I'm pretty sure people don't shit over gen 2 to 5 as much as they do over gen 6 onward.
Gen 6 introduced the shitty gimmicls that gets discarded when next gen comes out, begin to scale down difficulty and post-game content.
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They kept megas in gen 7. They just didn't add any new ones.
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Were they kept in gen 8? And what about z moves and gigantishit?