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LinkPizza posted...

Except thats not what theyre doing. They want to trade with themselves to fill out a DEX. And to get other Pokmon. Though, at that point, youve already caught them. But are getting them from one game to another. Which is different than trading a Weedle and Caterpie with each other to get them...

So, its like you already built the collection, but just want to move it to a different book (like cards in a binder). So, theres still not really a problem. You dont lose your collection. You just have to leave them in another book...

I dont think they downplayed it, tbh. I mean, you can still Catch em all. Just in different games. And you can still get everything available in the game. Meaning you can catch all the available ones.

And you must realize that 800+ Pokmon is ridiculous. And if they keep adding new Pokmon, its going to get really ridiculous. The cut was going to come at some point. And soon. It just turns out this game is where it happens. Plus, one day, they might possibly give the Pokmon more animations. But they probably wont do it for 1000+ at one time. And they may start rotating them.

And so, in the end, no one in banned from collecting, or not able to collect everything. They just cant move them to another game. They still have them. Theyve already caught them... Its not stripping anything...

Some people transfer from old games, which they then use to trade with people who don't transfer from old games. It's part of the whole collector ecosystem. The point is that no one is required to purchase or play multiple games in order to complete a pokedex, it was up to you if you wanted to play through multiple games or offer trades to someone else who had. But now those pokemon simply can't be obtained whatsoever in Sw/Sh.

And furthermore, moving a collection from one game to another isn't like moving cards to a new binder, it's more like leaving behind part of your collection in the attic in your old house when you move. How many people actually regularly go back to old pokemon games? It's a yearly generational franchise, usually people move on to the new one and the old one gets left behind. Obvious Pokemon Home is supposed to be Gamefreak's way of resolving that issue, but it's pointless because we can't use our pokemon and we have no guaruntee that a given pokemon will ever be in another game at all.

And 800+ Pokemon isn't ridiculous. If Gamefreak had no choice but to include 2000 pokemon in the game in order to make a profit, then they would take the time necessary to add that many to the game. There are far more ambitious games out there, the only difference is the ambitious games can't sell on brand name alone.