Eh, I don't think the OG games were difficult at all, the trainers didnt have that many strong Pokémon until the very end of the game and you have Pokémon centers everywhere, or you could buy potions too. Yellow was the first game I ever finished when I was 4 and it wasnt that bad.
For me, this thread reflects the opposite: if people can't be empathetic to others in regards to something as simple and trivial as this, I don't trust them to be empathetic in regards to other, more serious and important aspects of our lives. Like, understanding why this bothers other people is the bare minimum. I don't believe people are unable to understand the situation (that would be very insulting), so the most obvious explaination is just that, a lack of care.
Nobody is asking anyone to change how they feel personally about this, but it is pretty obvious that the actual question in the poll ("are you happy with this decision?") refers to the change of exp. share being mandatory. The implication that 'yes' carries is 'yes, I like that this is mandatory for everyone'. That's what 40% of the people voting have picked, assuming, as I said above, they know how to read.
I mean, it's on everyone to understand where everyone else is coming from. I don't think people on the internet being upset with a change is necessarily enough for me to change how I feel about things though. Is anyone out there like, "I don't like this change, but from the poll it looks like more people will enjoy this than not, so I'm happy actually."
This isn't a joke, it's reality. I've gotten over the disbelief over the polling.
that's fair i suppose. i think empathy, like any emotional energy, is a finite resource and i'd much rather spend it on something more important than anything like this.
You do you, of course. As long as those who don't care don't come back later because other people are ruining their fun, is all good.
I'll have to disagree and say that it's not obvious that the question is are you "happy it's mandatory?" I read it as "are you happy with the change in spite of it being mandatory?"
The question, title and/or first post sure are misleading. But exp all has been here since 2013 so the only apparent change is making it mandatory. Given the comments on the thread, many people don't seem to know that.
Yeah, a game balanced around the Exp Share should see level 50s around the 7th gym and the E4 (or whatever their equivalent is) should be in the 70s.
But "the change" is it being mandatory. You can't be happy with "the change" in spite of itself, that's tautological.
the change is making every poke in the team get full experience regardless of participation as the default experience, the assumption we're making for the poll is that there is no way to avoid this.
You could already do this in gen 6 and 7. This changes nothing for you, but it makes it worse for people who want to be underlevelled. Why should everyone be forced to play like you?
So the reason this is great is so that people don't play the way they want to? And if they want to they should do it in a roundabout way with more steps that they didn't have to in past games? And they should be thankful that the way they like playing has been made objectively worse? That is absolutely fucking ridiculous.
yikes
The Exp. Share defaults to on in the 3DS games and must be manually turned off. The only way to play "wrong" is to make the conscious decision to do so.
Lower level Pokemon will receive more experience than higher level ones, so that's not really too big of a concern. Still sucks that the option might be gone, but there are mechanics to help lower level Pokes catch up.
This feature has existed since 2013. The new thing is that the option to turn it off might have been removed.
People are exposing their asses by celebrating a "new" feature when it's actually been a feature for 2 gens now, but with actual options to boot. If they actually played these games, they'd know it's not a new thing.
How am I supposed to read this and not assume the people defending these decisions have the empathy of a shoe
Should go without saying, but vice-versa too. Anyone that is in favor of adding an easy mode to other games should not be okay with removing options.
The only game I haven't played is Let's Go, mever touching it either, and I still have no issue with this. The less grinding the better I say.
But you could have it on while others turn it off, you could do that before, now those who want to turn it off can't.
And you can have that while also giving me the option to grind all I want. That's what I take issue with. We can both have what we want, they just need to give me the option to shut off exp-share, like they did in the last 2 games.
