[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

But it's not really ridiculous. All the models for all of these Pokemon already exist. Their animations already exist. It's not like they're having to remake everything from scratch every generation, these things were made with the intention to be able to keep using them for a long time.

Even if including all the Pokemon in the game was actually taxing, it's not ridiculous or insane to have an expectation that the most profitable franchise on the planet be able to get something done. Game Freak isn't some indie startup having unreasonable expectations lobbied at them from overdemanding fans. They have all the money and resources they could possibly need to make as good a game as they can.

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Originally Posted by Annuga

My issue is that it's been the standard for Pokemon games which already have fairly low standards considering how often they reuse the same '8 gyms fight the evil team' formula which get yearly releases since Black and White with only 1 year without a new game iirc, the fact that Pokemon is literally THE most successful franchise on the planet, the fact that they're saying "Pokemon Home will cost money and you're not going ti be able to use it as advertised until we say so" especially if Home is a one way trip (to be fair that might have been misinformation I heard but if it's true then it's awful), they're charging 50 bucks for Mew again while saying "If you used a Pokeball Plus on Let's Go then you'll need to buy a new one to get a Mew on Sword and Shield" alongside a general distaste for people who've been long time fans as seen with the overly long forced tutorials and the Battle Frontier getting cut because Masuda believes "There's probably less people who care about it than people who do care" and now this. It doesn't help they're removing gimmicks from the old game because of their habit of throwing the baby our with the bathwater every generation. The excuses provided to justify this are also incredibly weak "The high quality animation would take too long!" Then you don't make constant yearly releases. The animations aren't even 'high quality', in battle, Pokemon have about 5 animations each and there's stuff like wild Wingull moving without flapping their wings at all. The models were made to be reused to make this easier with people often modding the 3DS to make the Sun and Moon models look better with relative ease. "But what about Balance?" Masuda cries as if the franchise has literally ever cared about it. People aren't asking for every Pokemon to be obtainable in Sword and Shield, people want to be able to use their Pokemon after transfering them. They STILL have the Catch Them All logo on their twitter and there are countless fans who've spent countless hours with individual Pokemon due to breeding for hyper-specific stuff or just personal experiences with a specific Pokemon, in my case for example, a shiny Staraptor which I caught in Platinum as a Staravia. The worst selling mainline Pokemon games still sell over 5 million copies with ease so they absolutely can afford it when Pokemon games aren't even high budget. If I'm somehow getting the game, I'm going to wait for a secondhand copy so Game Freak can't get my money. The backlash to this has been pretty damn hefty as seen with the video confirming that getting absolutely bombarded with dislikes when Pokemon wasn't even the main point of the hour long video and it's even worldwide as seen with angry fans all over the world

Lemme ask you something. What is a new generation? Are they truly new games or are they just glorified update patches?

Honestly the reactions to this are like if everyone got mad that the next Smash after Ultimate removes characters.