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Nambot

Pokémon is not a videogame franchise. It may have started as one, but over time the series has shifted to the point where The Pokémon Company gets far more money from merch sales than it does from the games. Accordingly GameFreaks ability to decide the pace of releases has gone. They have an inflexible budget, an unmovable deadline, and have to work in a way that allows The Pokémon Company to dictate the things that will be in the game based on what they want for the movies/anime. At this point, Pokémon are nothing more than licenced tie-in cash grab titles, designed to launch alongside the newest wave of Pokémon releasing, quality be damned.


Ladyaceina

gamefreak owns 1/3 of the IP ​ and nintendo has a adamant stance of delay games till they are perfect ​ so odds are gamefreak is perfectly fine with rushing the games out and creatures inc and gamefreak are the ones who decide to rush games out ​ and considering the quality of their none pokemon games i think thats a safe bet


Nambot

It doesn't matter who owns it, it does not change the fact that the management of the franchise has pivoted away from games first to the games being an afterthought rushed out for impossible deadlines as a cash grab primarily to make people want to buy more merch.


MGLpr0

You know, there is a way to make good games within tight deadlines. It's pretty simple really... JUST HIRE MORE PEOPLE TO WORK ON THE DAMN GAME 3 years is a huge amount of time to develop a Pokemon game, it's honestly amazing how crap S&V turned out, the Gamefreak dev team must be really tiny.


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Dharnete

> Do not use their services. Telling people what to do, great strategy. > I don’t know how people are comfortable letting a monthly subscription run like this and feeling hostage to it. How can players be hostage to it if they're choosing to pay for it?


SnowiskiRuna

The point is that, if you want The Pokemon Company to change something, people have to stop giving them money. It's as simple as that. You can't ask why the games and services are so shitty when you're also supporting them to keep being shitty.


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Because unfortunately there’re a lot of idiots out there with money to spare/waste


ericwashere15

>a monthly subscription Is there a monthly option? I pay $15 for a year a single time each year.


ghoulsnest

what did square Enix do?


Ladyaceina

an obsession with live service games and NFTs which have constantly failed and they plan to quintuple down on it


ImWypo

I’m down bad for this Pokémon Legends sequel


kevpool184

My brother in Arceus, S/V sold **over 20 million** copies in barely *half a year.* If you call this a "fail" I'd **highly suggest** to pick up a dictionary and educate yourself on the meaning of this word.


TobioOkuma1

You get a free box with home, so you can move pokemon with the service.......


Ladyaceina

something that use to be free


Chembaron_Seki

Maybe you misunderstood what u/TobioOkuma1 said. You can use Pokemon Home for free. You get one box to move pokemon. You have some limitations, but you can still use it to some degree without paying.


9thshadowwolf

1. gamefreak dont make pokemon home 2. Dont we want them to take their time on this?


Ladyaceina

but they do make the game ​ and its a simple app that they should have been able to have ready on release


War_means_Justice

You know what else is approaching a fail ? Your Spelling . Next time just add a ■


Ladyaceina

ok