So I was actively reading the spoiler thread and I was pretty happy with the new Pokemon. Even though there were way more cuts than I imagined, I was warming up to the idea of giving them a buy. But then I was immediately reminded that Game Freak chose to address the situation with a flat out lie as an answer to those of us who they forget are supporting them with their hard earned dollars.
I remember SerebiiJoe echoing since the 3DS days that the models they use are future proof and can easily scale to future games on more powerful hardware. I didn't really look into it but I thought "Hey no one is saying otherwise, so it must be true" so I had that in the back of my mind throughout this whole thing. But that wasn't concrete enough really, it was something that Game Freak themselves ended up doing that convinced me they are liars.
They didn't include all of the original 151 Pokemon (153 with the Meltan line) when they had JUST used them completely done and ready for the Pokemon Let's Go! games. Game Freak themselves said creating and animating the models was too much work for so many Pokemon, but they excluded a large chunk that were already done for the previous Switch games. And that really says a lot about a developer who outright made a choice which I believe they knew would expose that they were giving excuses, but thought the copies would be shipped and pre-sales would be through the roof by the time it was made known. Complete disregard for their audience.
All I'm saying is that Game Freak's actions make me rather skip out on a new Pokemon gen for the first time in my life. It is the worst kind of greed I saw with these games when they would have been making more revenue than ever now since they can charge $60 a pop. If I were them, I would have given a little more that was possible rather than give less which they made the choice to do. Because I would have actually believed that they just couldn't have all the Pokemon models ready for these games if they had included the PLG mons.
But they fact that they couldn't even let us have the ones we saw were already done for Pokemon Let's Go! proves that they are going to continue to look for more ways to get us to buy remakes, third versions, app purchases, and spin-offs to get to our favorite Pokemon.
I remember SerebiiJoe echoing since the 3DS days that the models they use are future proof and can easily scale to future games on more powerful hardware. I didn't really look into it but I thought "Hey no one is saying otherwise, so it must be true" so I had that in the back of my mind throughout this whole thing. But that wasn't concrete enough really, it was something that Game Freak themselves ended up doing that convinced me they are liars.
They didn't include all of the original 151 Pokemon (153 with the Meltan line) when they had JUST used them completely done and ready for the Pokemon Let's Go! games. Game Freak themselves said creating and animating the models was too much work for so many Pokemon, but they excluded a large chunk that were already done for the previous Switch games. And that really says a lot about a developer who outright made a choice which I believe they knew would expose that they were giving excuses, but thought the copies would be shipped and pre-sales would be through the roof by the time it was made known. Complete disregard for their audience.
All I'm saying is that Game Freak's actions make me rather skip out on a new Pokemon gen for the first time in my life. It is the worst kind of greed I saw with these games when they would have been making more revenue than ever now since they can charge $60 a pop. If I were them, I would have given a little more that was possible rather than give less which they made the choice to do. Because I would have actually believed that they just couldn't have all the Pokemon models ready for these games if they had included the PLG mons.
But they fact that they couldn't even let us have the ones we saw were already done for Pokemon Let's Go! proves that they are going to continue to look for more ways to get us to buy remakes, third versions, app purchases, and spin-offs to get to our favorite Pokemon.
