No, but complaining over being 'spoiled' over information regarding cut content seems absolutely mind boggling to me. If anything is cut from something that I would have expected otherwise, I sure as hell would want to know about it before making a purchase. That's the sort of thing I'm talking about. It helps to be informed when there are those kinds of changes to a product.
Like I'm a pretty big One Piece fan. If I went and complained about people who said that you could only play as Luffy in World Seeker that would seem pretty preposterous, right? Even though in past similar games you could play as a decent selection of the Straw Hat pirates, so one could have, blindly, bought the game thinking they were going to get the same experience. That's the sort of mindless consumption I refer to. It's not healthy at all.
To me, the point is not the number of Pokémon in the game in total. It's wanting to discover the variety of
new Pokémon in the game myself, and not knowing the total number of
new Pokémon is an element that helps in keeping that experience as exciting as possible for me.
As for the "mindless consumerism": that's nonsense. I have watched plenty of gameplay of the game, checked out some of the variety of regions and looked at a sampling of new Pokémon, and I judged it to be to my liking, and therefore I will buy it. I know that the lack of all Pokémon is not a gamechanger in that regard for me, so I can safely go into a media blackout without getting "screwed over" because of the number of Pokémon. I feel I know enough about the game, and want to keep some things unknown that I personally find important to the sense of discovery in a new Pokémon game.
(yes, I know I failed my Media Create exit. I came back due to interest in the discussion surrounding these special editions for BOTW, SMO and Splatoon 2, actually)
