Trading is, and has been, a core part of the Pokemon experience since Gen 1.

Do any of you guys listen to yourselves?

If you’re willing to pay people to grind your Pokemon for you, then congrats you want it bad enough and found someone hard enough up for cash to do it.

they can’t check for that though, can they? they CAN check for hacked pokemon and ban people who use them though. your argument is disingenuous.

If the competition was about catching, raising, and breeding, then that would be part of the competition

This comment section is full of uninformed, poorly coping cheat apologists.

It has never been easier to create a full team of competition ready pokemon. In these days of ability patches/capsules, mints, bottle caps, tera shards, vitamins, and candies, you can create the perfect Pokemon in less time than ever.

Your…

The only thing that is even sort of grindy is getting Tera shards, and if people can’t be bothered to do even a few minutes of playing you needed to get them, then I really don’t care about the complaints.

The new games make it much, much easier to do. Sandwiches make it way faster to get eggs and hatch eggs. You can learn egg moves without having to actually be an egg, no items are gated behind BP, You can change your nature, get to level 100 in seconds, re-learn moves at no cost, and the game’s been throwing us six…

Cheating would be manipulating the RNG seed so your Fissure always hits.

As someone who has no idea how competitive Pokemon is, what does ‘getting better’ entail?  With any other game, getting better would mean your skill has improved.  It would involve practice, strategy, learning how to outthink or outplay your opponent.

this is only eliminating grind that has nothing to do with the competition.

The rules say people arent allowed to do this, so when they do this they are cheating.

This is a very weird and silly article

Because it gives the ten articles to break down everything shown. Plus the obvious "internet loses its mind over character X"

I understand the perspective of not being sold on a game and wanting more info on it, and I understand concerns that if a developer isn’t showing much of a game that might be a red flag, but I also think that marketing in general shows too much of games, not too little, and I’m fine with them not showing a ton. If…

“Respect yourself. Demand more from one of the wealthiest publishers on earth”

This article is bizarre.

Why do we WANT a drip-feed of advertising that reveals half the game before it’s even out, exactly? That seems pointless. If we know we want the game, then we don’t need it and it’ll just hurt the experience. If we don’t know, then we shouldn’t be looking to advertising for that decision, we…

Fuck you Myst is good

How is this not like Majora’s mask? it was literally a re-use of assets with a couple new ones thrown in so they could toss out a quick sequel to bank off of the success f ocarina. The only difference here is, Tears of the kingdom is not a quick sequel as it’s been over 5 years.

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