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Pokémon Sword and Shield launch event in Japan cancelled for "operational reasons"
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I thought with Pokemon Lets go that they would try and run multiple series in tandem
One experimental and one Mainstay
The problem being... in which series do you cater to fans and which one do you try to innovate and change the game?
In both cases they were half steps where 50% of the game was new and old ideas on both titles and no one is happy
We can be frustrated, but we don't need to send death threats. With that being said, Game Freak needs to be more open instead of playing coy with their fans. IIRC, Japan never got an official announcement that they were cutting Pokémon.
This sums it up pretty well. Why is the marketing like this? It's either they reveal too much (Sun and Moon) or they reveal very little drip feeds.
They're a business, not our friends. They owe us whatever it takes to get us to part with our $60.
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Not if those customers are bullying Game Freak.
A business that's on literal suicide watch now because of fan reaction.
This is what I'm talking about when I say openness and honesty. They never lied to fans, but they never offered the full truth.
Well regardless of the quality of this game, they did nothing to deserve the protests, threats or to be put in actual danger. So the idea that they should be punished is victim blaming.
What's even worse is that they're gonna be arbitrarily leaving Pokemon out of future games for no reason.
If Gen 4 remakes happen next year, they've pretty much already said that some of the 400 that made it into Sword and Shield will get left out, even though their models and animations are already done. Why? Just because. They really just want to normalize having a constantly rotating roster of Pokemon, even though they don't HAVE to withhold Pokemon from us if they don't want to at that point, which is absurd.
Thinking on it, this is how they've always operated. Back with ORAS, Masuda was asked if the Battle Frontier will return and while he never said it would, he didn't deny it either. He would just tell people to look forward to the game.
There any place I can read more about this without getting Pokémon spoiled?
Since the game is not out yet, some of the online functionality might be inactive or waiting for day one patch.
Awful. That's enough to turn anyone away from meeting fans. Don't blame them at all for doing this.
So shouldn't future Pokémon games have more Pokémon in them now (from the start) with these first set of games jumped to HD out of the way?
I mean, if you read what I said I'm talking about before the latest news. Last year when they announced it. Open up an honest line of communication and the impact would have been lessened, but they didn't, the obfuscated the truth and hoped for the best.
What the hell lol
Game Freak is not a person. Do you think EA was also being bullied over lootboxes?
I think my problem with Let's Go is that it really wasn't experimental, atleast not in any meaningful way.
The biggest thing it had was overworld roaming pokemon, and that was done in the most visually uninteresting way in a region that was completely unsuited for it where they stuck way too much to the original map.
If they had actually done a remake where they re-envisioned the entire map of Kanto to make it so actually exploring and searching for roaming pokemon was fun as well as included modern features and included all the new pokemon but disabled them from following you, I'd have been there day 1 for it.
Instead we got something that was heavily geared towards the Go audience, which we have no idea if it even resonated well with, I wouldn't be surprised if most people who bought it were just pokemon fans who wanted a console pokemon, not people who needed Go style catching to make them feel comfortable because their only experience was the mobile game.
Staff members at Game Freak ARE getting bullied and harassed though.
No, they stated a limited dex will be their approach going forward, it's not cumulative.
Basically the person leaking can't find the option for GTS anywhere in the game. It may be there and just require you to be online before giving you the option, which, obviously, they can't be. But that would be a change.
Basically, no one can say for sure, but given Let's Go not having the GTS and Home on the horizon, people are concerned.
I haven't bought this game yet
Also buying a product does not require that a company open their inner workings to you. Literally no company does this.
I would imagine tensions are definitely high in Japan, so I can entirely understand Masuda and the other bigwigs not wanting to show up in public out of fear of something happening to them.
However, I also don't think Game Freak has been entirely open about this stuff, not that there's any excuse for death threats or whatever else. That's always inexcusable.
However, I also don't think Game Freak has been entirely open about this stuff, not that there's any excuse for death threats or whatever else. That's always inexcusable.
Have I mentioned before that I don't much care for Masuda?
Because I really don't care for Masuda.
Even aside from the fact that I don't care for the direction he has taken the series in, the man is a walking PR disaster. He can't interview well to save his life.
There was literally no valid source in that thread yesterday, it's all hearsay, that's partially why they locked that thread.
Oh I see. It's a conscious decision they've made to limit it going forward. Interesting approach
It's not that far fetched of an expectation. Mainline Pokemon games all had full rosters IIRC, minus the ones you get through trades.
I'm sure there are Japanese fans hating on James Turner (since the series is big enough there will be fans that do literally anything imaginable) but those photoshops were all in good fun. If it's the one I'm thinking of (Turnervolt), I don't even think the creator disliked the design they were playing off of.
I doubt it's about the National Dex thing. I'm convinced it's just a small group of people making a lot of noise.
Not quite. Trading works like LGPE. That's the only missing bit I left out.
I like about 50% of the ideas GO used and 50% of what Sword and Shield are bringing but I also know that if those ideas were combined that it still wouldn't be the ideal experience
They are getting closer to something good but these half steps arent enough
I'm not talking about inner workings. Jesus. I'm talking about the product they're selling. But sure if you want developers to hide bad news and still try and sell you the game, all the power to you.
Yes, that is obviously terrible and super shitty, but saying Game Freak as an entity is being bullied rubs me the wrong way. I'm not a fan of personalizing big companies that are only after our pockets (which are all of them)
Yes he can. You not liking his responses doesn't mean he doesn't interview well
WHAT? How the hell are they literally on suicide watch? That is some hyperbole.
They really needed to tell us which Pokémon would return and which ones would be cut. Even after finding out about the cut, most people were assuming GF would just trim the fat. But there are a ton (like really, a surprising amount) of iconic omissions.
And dropping major online functionality, but not telling anyone pre-release is something that wouldn't be tolerated coming from any other developer making games for a franchise as big as Pokémon.
Evidently not looking at the reaction post leaks. If you don't even want to try and understanding what I'm talking about there's no need to respond. I've no interest in spelling it out for you.
It's a mixture of poor management and a lack of development time.
On one hand you have the people at the top asking why people want certain features because people would rather play on their phones now and then on the other hand you have the marketing machine of the TCG, anime, movies, merchandise and all this other paraphernalia that's forcing things to be in constant motion and on schedule.
Until something gives, every pokemon game is going to be a 50% approach.
Game Freak =/= EA. If we were talking about TPC making the game themselves, it'd be a different story.
Why? Other games aren't required to tell you everything that's in the game before release.
How is that at all similar? Not to mention getting even that much was considered quite unusual.
And that was unprecedented both for Nintendo and for the industry. It's the exception, not the rule
We only know how many Pokemon were cut, which ones were cut, the lack of GTS, and the lack of post-game areas thanks to leakers.
Combine that with Game Freak barely sending out any review copies and only announcing that Pokemon would be cut at all in an off the cuff statement during the Treehouse livestream at E3, I'm not sure how you can say they're being transparent about this huge change to the series.
They cut over half of the Pokémon, and cut some of the most iconic Pokémon in the entire franchise. It's definitely something that should have been handled better lol.
Same goes for cutting major chunks of online functionality. Especially when we're paying for online now.
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