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LinkPizza posted...

I disagree wholeheartly. When I was younger and played with my friends, most people were always playing for the new Pokmon instead of the old ones. Not only that, most never traded their old Pokmon in. Mainly because not many people even had the link cable or a way to trade. I did have a link cable and let m friends use it. And they did, but never to trade in older Pokmon. There are many people who never did. Because it wasnt a big deal to everyone. The series would have done just fine. Especially since they didnt have that much competition, if were being honest.

Well, it's impossible to know how well it would have done, but I personally wouldn't have stuck with the series for so long.

LinkPizza posted...

I use to collect the cards when I was younger. I would have still been collecting them. But I didnt have a job of enough money to continue on with it. Now that I have money, I want to try for dice. I know this one lady (played Shadowrun with her) who had this bag of dice. All sorts, too. Im probably not who they tried to appeal to. But I also dont believe that was the main appeal, either...

Obviously Pokemon appeals to people for other reasons as well, I'm not arguing against that. But the franchise was inspired by bug collecting, that's part if its core DNA. And now that aspect is being neutered. As is the battling/team-building aspect, as we can not use many of our favorite pokemon or mix a lot of our old pokemon into our new teams.

LinkPizza posted...

No. I just didnt play one game. So, I dont know what that game did that was different. But whatever. Except that wouldnt necessarily work. Especially if people just sent all their Pokmon from the older games in.

They could just restrict when people can transfer pokemon over, which is what Black and White did.

As it stands, there's nothing stopping people from having a team in Sw/Sh that solely consists of old pokemon, whereas everyone who played through Black and White used new pokemon on their team.

LinkPizza posted...

Sure. This controversy. And then they would start arguing about something else. Its like youve never been on the internet. They will always complain about something. This is a solution where some people wont be happy. Especially considering how people are already complaining about literally everything else about the game. This is one controversy compared to many other problems people have with it.

There has never been a controversy in Pokemon like this before. Hell, right up until the dexit reveal, everyone was hyped for Sw/Sh.

Pokemon has always been behind the times in a lot of ways. But people alway overlooked those flaws because the main focus was on the monster-collecting/raising/training/battling aspect. They had one job, basically, everything else is just window dressing. But then they started cutting the number of monsters with the excuse that they wanted to improve other areas of the game, so now people are being much more critical of other areas of the game.