It’s because The Pokémon Company does not consider Pokémon to be an esport. It’s about the community more so than other games and really isn’t cutthroat in the slightest. There’s a lot more unique prizing outside of just straight cash or scholarships. Next season is going to have a lot more cash payouts, but they tend…

This honestly has nothing at all to do with the prize payouts at Pokémon events.

But as a Pokémon TCG player/collector myself, I’ll say that it’s really, really subjective. The flavor is certainly there, but it’s probably just not your cup of tea or you’re not giving the game enough of a chance. PTCG even has its own…

It’s all monetary. Japan’s music industry is notoriously hard to deal with and in order to use music composed in Japan outside of Japan you have to go through organizations like the JASRAC and pay proper licensing fees to obtain the rights to said music.

It’s become increasingly common in the anime industry to leave…

As others have already pointed out XY (and XY&Z in particular) have been pretty phenomenal, especially with character development. XY has made some pretty huge leaps forward, but he’s already been getting gradually better each generation.

So far, the DQ Heroes series has avoided using any of the protagonist characters.

Geez. And people think English localization is a mess.

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It is, by a good margin. It’s a pop culture mainstay in Japan, much like Star Wars or The Simpsons is in the US. You may not be interested in it, or have even played it, but you certainly know a good degree about it.

Final Fantasy, on the other hand, is just another RPG series. A fairly well known and popular RPG…

Hearthstone did begin its development cycle as what was essentially a digital version of the WoW TCG. One led into the other, which is why the WoW TCG was abruptly cancelled when HS was getting ready to launch.

In a way there was. Hearthstone began development as a digital iteration of the WoW TCG and then slowly evolved. People working on the game, like Ben Brode, were part of the WoW TCG team in some capacity.

Fahey confirmed fun killer.

Did you mean to respond to someone else? I still play FFXIV. I have no intention of quitting.

Just when I thought that meme was done. Bravo.

I wasn’t addressing your comment about it being out of place. I was merely providing some context as to why Yo-Kai Watch was picked for a collaboration event.

Akihiro Hino has a very close relationship with Yoshida and plays FFXIV himself. This really isn’t a surprise at all.

It’s already available on both iOS and Android.

There must be money in this mobile market or something.

You’re definitely not alone.

There are quite a few people out there that grew up with Adventure and 02 who were then shut off from the franchise for various reasons until they rediscovered it as adults. For the most part, those would be the sorts of people you see using the English terminology, since it’s all they…

Honestly, I think it really just depends on how deeply invested you are in the franchise.

Like most English-speaking Digimon fans, I too watched Saban’s dub when I was younger. But, over time, myself and many others came to adopt the original names and terminology as the norm. It’s not a weaboo thing or anything like…

That’s Serebii. It’s not uncommon for him to post comments on various sites.