If ANY other company tries to do what Pokémon does they would be crucified on the spot.
Apologies in advance dude.. Not aiming this at you specifically but I gotta vent.
EA? King? Tencent? .. oh, any
company? United Health? Kaiser? Bain? Dupont? Gazprom?
.. Small fry compared to the nefarious practices of TPC right?
This, this right here is my problem with consumer activism in the video game market.. It's not food or rent or travel or healthcare it's a luxury industry.. in no universe do you have to buy any of it. I've yet to hear a convincing argument why a company can't charge whatever the hell they like for a non-essential product .. If Coca Cola could charge $20 a can of Coke and could make more money at that price of course they would but they won't because pricing strategy is a thing... If cans of Coke cost twenty quid I wouldn't buy one and would perhaps scoff at those who did but I wouldn't claim some fundamental rights are being infringed or call people who defend $20 Cokes corporate shills.. They're just mugs.. and that's wholly on them (leaving aside predatory marketing, gambling, targeting kids etc as different issues).
And inb4 "just because those other things are shitty doesn't mean we can't complain about video game prices" .. yes, yes it does. If you're going to use the language of fighting the Corporatist takeover of the West you can't use it on a completely optional leisure item.. It's stupid and petty and dilutes the focus on the real issues of increasing wealth disparity and vulture capitalism..... imo