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_Lurk_Here said:
Interesting to see people talk about this as I've read through the voucher descriptions before and noticed that myself.
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I honestly never read through it before until I saw these images being shared. I thought the voucher system was on the surface a cool way to gift a digital game to somebody. Im kind of surprised that Nintendo is using it to strong arm you into a NSO subscription to even redeem one and they went out of their way to ensure it has to be a paid subscription, not a free trial version.

If I didn't need nso for Pokémon trading I probably wouldn't even have nso because the value of it to me just doesn't seem adequate for the crappy netcode they use and the connection issues. I'm tired of Nintendo failing to improve their online and using free retro games in the service as a selling point instead of fixing the core experience.
 
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zyclonPD said:
If I didn't need nso for Pokémon trading I probably wouldn't even have nso because the value of it to me just doesn't seem adequate for the crappy netcode they use and the connection issues. I'm tired of Nintendo failing to improve their online and using free retro games in the service as a selling point instead of fixing the core experience.
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The value honestly seems fine if you are paying for the expansion pass version and don’t actually buy dlc.The bare bones one, outside of online features for Pokemon is indeed not worth it.

I’m honestly surprised the Pokemon DLC was not added into NSO+. They’d have made so much in subs.
 
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6MillionCoofs said:
Sometimes I am conflicted.
Should I be mad at the company for being a scummy thing or is the fault down to the persion that did not read the clear and obvious terms.
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hardly anyone ever reads the fine print, even more so with the people They had targeted with their DMCAs and the like, and the common consumer they go for, most of them just speed through it and hit yes like the ELUA and ToS before them..
 
zyclonPD said:
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.
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As someone who actually owns and played Let's Go Eevee (I got the Poké Ball Plus bundle as a gift and I had a week off of work) this is something I can agree with to an extent. Swapping regular wild battles (Trainer battles still exist and you have to battle and defeat Legendary Pokémon before catching them) with GO-style catching was retarded. But if GF didn't get the flak they got for making that change we probably wouldn't have gotten GO-to-HOME transfers a thing and the Let's GO series being all but retired.

That and I can't hate them for making the Legendary Birds farmable to a certain extent.
6MillionCoofs said:
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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It's because the Game Boy is an 8-bit system while the Game Boy Advanced is a 32-bit one. You would have also had to factor in things like the changes made to the Pokémon data (EVs, IVs, Natures, Abilities, Shininess, etc.) at the time as well.

Granted, that is something that was fixed by Gen VII but only because the Pokémon files themselves underwent some serious changes between Gen 3 and then to make Gen 1/2-to-Bank transfers possible.
6MillionCoofs said:
I’m honestly surprised the Pokemon DLC was not added into NSO+. They’d have made so much in subs.
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I think part of that is due to licensing (remember that even Nintendo has to deal with the retardation at Game Freak and The Pokémon Company) and potential issues with losing access to said DLC.
 
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6MillionCoofs said:
@Archeops

I did not mind the Go catching. Because sometimes you don’t want to battle a Pokemon. My problem was you could not turn it off and as a result of the catching system your boxes filled up fast and sorting was a nightmare
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I kind of just gave up keeping track of stuff like that and just treat it like I do with GO’s storage: I sort by power level or recently-caught and I filter out anything that doesn’t have good IVs and isn’t Shiny or a Legendary.
 
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Professor G. Raff said:
I just found that Larvitar & Pupitar are Rock/Ground and doesn't gain the Dark type until becoming Tyranitar after thinking the whole line was Rock/Dark since the release of fucking Gold and Silver. It feels like I stepped into one of those Berenstein realities.
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I love Pokemon Mandela Effects/misconceptions. Growing up, mine was thinking Dark was weak to Ice.
 
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Archeops said:
I kind of just gave up keeping track of stuff like that and just treat it like I do with GO’s storage:
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Oh me to. My problem is that’s still a headache. Honestly I want them to put in an option thst allows you to auto trade everything that does not meet set criteria. So that you just never have to sort.
 
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Niantic announced the updates that will give us the female tranny and male pedobait models, and tried to hype the updates with 2 trailers. The first trailer got roasted, and the second trailer didn't even hit 100k views. The past few events have been awful this season, and people are still bitter over the remote raid changes.

Noxe said:
Noooooo don't you get it my heckin good games can do it cuz I like them. But when games I don't like do it it's awful and ruining the series. Bunch picking and choosing imo.
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"I loved making sandwiches like I was using my old Wii U," said no one ever. There was no excuse for SV to have nothing, but a shitty sandwich system you could ignore through your whole playthrough.
 
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