Okay Era, let me preface this by saying it is a thread I really didn't want to make, started to make it a few weeks earlier but stopped. However, I think it is really important to stop the way things are going.
Please, read the OP before posting. It is not a thread about a tree, a tower or Pokedex, thanks. So, there are right now several issues :
The Game Freak is lazy rhetoric :
That's the classic narrative around Game Freak : whatever their games lack, it is because they were too lazy to implement it.
During the last couple of years, numerous people have raised awareness around crunch and how hard game development can be. Game Freak is no exception, and sometimes their passion for the franchise they created is pushing them even further. Masuda, which directed several games, was hospitalized by the workload he took on Gen 3 in order to "save Pokemon" :
Last year, he was also working during Golden Week (holidays).
Still people are calling them lazy. They are factually not, whether you think that the games are not meaty/beautiful/balanced/revolutionnary enough, it is beside the point.
Furthermore, let's quote Resetera's General Guide :
Currently, the situation is not moderated. You can go on the Search bar and you'll see that people calling GF lazy are getting a pass. By not moderating this, ERA is in a way complicit of the situation. It is even worse given the second issue I'll mention :
Ad-hominem attacks
When people are going against the way of thinking of this vocal part of the fanbase, they are well, getting harassed. Why you say so ?
For liking the games, of course !
Joe Merrick, founder of the biggest Pokemon site, also has been harassed, not because he didn't agree with the issue but because he was not outraged enough (?) and still tried to give some context to the discussion :
Another exemple.
Needless to say, social media has proven how lethal it can be. This thread is a call for a responsible behavior.
Oh and you know at who people are targetting their attacks the most ? Masuda, they guy that went to the hospital because he took people's expectations very personally. It almost feels like a celebration :
Social media is absolutely trashing Pokémon and Masuda for not including all Pokémon in Sword and Shield :
GREAT WORK !
Okay so the thread is already long enough and I am worried people won't read if it gets too long. I could go on and on about how people are using fake news to make their points or how that they attacked reviewers for reviewing well the Let's Go games etc. This thread is not about shielding Game Freak against criticism, of course they are aspects that should be improved, but it can be done without harrasing people !
Reading the thread again is make me angrier every time. The Pokemon community, ERA, we need to be better than this because right now it is a total embrassement.
Please, read the OP before posting. It is not a thread about a tree, a tower or Pokedex, thanks. So, there are right now several issues :
The Game Freak is lazy rhetoric :
That's the classic narrative around Game Freak : whatever their games lack, it is because they were too lazy to implement it.
During the last couple of years, numerous people have raised awareness around crunch and how hard game development can be. Game Freak is no exception, and sometimes their passion for the franchise they created is pushing them even further. Masuda, which directed several games, was hospitalized by the workload he took on Gen 3 in order to "save Pokemon" :
Last year, he was also working during Golden Week (holidays).
Still people are calling them lazy. They are factually not, whether you think that the games are not meaty/beautiful/balanced/revolutionnary enough, it is beside the point.
Furthermore, let's quote Resetera's General Guide :
Currently, the situation is not moderated. You can go on the Search bar and you'll see that people calling GF lazy are getting a pass. By not moderating this, ERA is in a way complicit of the situation. It is even worse given the second issue I'll mention :
Ad-hominem attacks
When people are going against the way of thinking of this vocal part of the fanbase, they are well, getting harassed. Why you say so ?
For liking the games, of course !
Joe Merrick, founder of the biggest Pokemon site, also has been harassed, not because he didn't agree with the issue but because he was not outraged enough (?) and still tried to give some context to the discussion :
Another exemple.
Needless to say, social media has proven how lethal it can be. This thread is a call for a responsible behavior.
Oh and you know at who people are targetting their attacks the most ? Masuda, they guy that went to the hospital because he took people's expectations very personally. It almost feels like a celebration :
Social media is absolutely trashing Pokémon and Masuda for not including all Pokémon in Sword and Shield :
GREAT WORK !
Okay so the thread is already long enough and I am worried people won't read if it gets too long. I could go on and on about how people are using fake news to make their points or how that they attacked reviewers for reviewing well the Let's Go games etc. This thread is not about shielding Game Freak against criticism, of course they are aspects that should be improved, but it can be done without harrasing people !
Reading the thread again is make me angrier every time. The Pokemon community, ERA, we need to be better than this because right now it is a total embrassement.
