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Expecting a bit much from people.
The masses don’t seem to understand that not every piece of media related to a franchise you enjoy is good. More of a thing isn’t always good. They will keep pumping out progressively worse and worse garbage because the fans will slurp up anything with the right branding.
Same reason why movies keep are becoming dumb shallow “spectacles” that can hold the audience’s micro attentions. No substance because it might scare away the box numbers on opening week.
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In this industry, and specifically for pokemon, a huge portion of total purchases are done by parents for their children. Children don’t understand or care, and parents aren’t motivated to deny their children pokemon games based on their quality.
Pokemon, as a product, has very little incentive to improve. This is also an observable effect in the music industry.
Against a massive multimedia empire, supporting a competitor is far likely to induce change anyway. Unfortunately, that requires real action, and not just complaining about it…
The problem is that, with a thing like Pokemon, something that people like specifically, “supporting the competitor” isn’t really a choice to many people. They don’t want a better turn-based monster fighting game, they want a better Pokemon game. They’re much more inclined to just stop playing because playing something else isn’t going to fill the base desire goal here.
I see the same thing in MtG. There are issues in the game I think could be improved on, but the problems I have aren’t going to be solved for me by playing some other tcg because my interest isn’t in tcg’s in general, it’s in MtG specifically. If the problems ever get bad enough, my only real choice will be to stop entirely, not play something else that I’m simply not interested in.
It doesn’t have to be better. Just competitive enough to have some legs. Hearthstone is why WotC finally started transitioning away from Magic Online.
But I get it. I love MtG myself (and as a Limited player, I don’t actually have any real suggestions for improvement with the game itself, we’ve been eating so good for years now), but it’s too expensive. The publisher is scummy. None of that is changing anytime soon.
Tangentially, if fans passionate about properties this old genuinely want to act, they should be actively fighting for copyright reform. Both of the properties we’re discussing here would be public domain by now under a macroeconomically-sound copyright regime.
Just to clarify, my point is that better or not doesn’t matter to a lot of people where preference outweighs anything else. I totally agree that competition is the biggest motivating factor for change in a company, but it gets tricky when we’re talking about products that are as specific as Magic or Pokemon. Like with me, I’ve tried so many other digital and paper tcg’s and none of them interest me. These aren’t like kitchen appliances or something that can just be traded out. They often fill a particular niche that a person is looking to satisfy.
100% with you on copyright (and trademark) reform, though. That shit is a cancer on society.
People still paying for Pokemon games? I just use roms since they are just all copy and paste.
Game freak why the fuck did you turn Pokemon into vehicles? Wtf is wrong with you?
Not that it’ll ever make enough of a dent in their profits to make any difference anyway, but this could also swing the other way. If nobody buys their games because they’re bad, the impression those in control could get is that Pokemon games are no longer profitable rather than there being a need to make them better.
Red and Blue are held together with hope and dreams. They’ve always been like this.
As the top comment said, it’s the same with Ubisoft, Activision, etc etc.
In all honesty, the gaming community is just… rather dumb. These people will spend dozens of hours on twitter bashing these developers to hell and back, but what are the top sellers every year? FIFA. Madden. CoD. Ubisoft games. Activision games.
This community will sit here and curse these developers and gaming companies with their last dying breath, but the fact of the matter is these SAME people continue to buy the games and be content with what’s equivalent to digital slop. It’s frustrating.
And they get really mad when you criticize their AAA games with blatant flaws and corrupt practices.
I really think that normies are psychologically incapable of judging or even noticing quality. video games are just mindless entertainment they buy to not feel bored for a while, and as long as it works for that they don’t care.
An old friend of mine aptly noted that your average idiot will rate practically anything four to five stars, no matter how mediocre, as long as it was distracting enough.
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So it’s not that the games are bad, it’s that the goal of the games is to provide a simple and fun game for kids to be introduced to Pokemon.
Makes sense to me and clearly they are doing a good job of it. Even if it makes the hardcore games angry that their tastes aren’t being catered to.
Just because they are for kids doesn’t mean they have to be garbage. The quality of the games has gone downhill fast and they refuse to do simple things like update the ancient animations or polish any of the 3d assets beyond the ps2 era.
It’s a joke compared to other kids games these days.
I didn’t watch the video but the newer Pokémon games are actually bad by different measures.
The graphics of the newest one (whatever it is called) is at least a whole generation behind other Switch titles and still it suffers from FPS drops and textures that just pop up while already in view.
That is just objectively bad.That they never really innovated very much on the turn based RPG formula or that the newer games are very easy are things that I don’t even mind, especially because the games are supposed to be accessible for children.
That could make for a nice relaxing game after a long day of work.But I am not willing to pay 70 something bucks for a game that is so obviously made without the necessary care for the product.
At this point we don’t even need them, we have indie devs making games like Casette Beasts that are better than pokemon ever was.
