Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

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So based on recent leaks, the GTS has been removed. You’ll likely have to pay for it in home.
Lmao Pokemon SwSh gets worse by the fuckin day

MASUDA'S BOOTS TASTE GOOD.



Hello! As a representative of many of the Pokemon fan, I would like to convey the gratitude of the Pokemon game software that everyone is who always developed. Unfortunately, there is a hard fact that not all fans agree with every decision, but anyway, fans love Pokémon game software and what titles will they bring to the world every time? I think that there are many people who are excited just to imagine what new Pokemon and characters can meet. Certainly there are a lot of opposition voices, and I think there are times when it is difficult, but remember that the voice is not the opinion of all fans. Finally, the Pokemon series is still attractive for children around the world. And there are many children who are looking forward to the release of the Pokemon sword shield and many fans who have grown up.
Oh fuck off Joe. I understand that you're the webmaster for the biggest Pokemon fansite (arguably) but nobody, especially you, shouldn't be celebrating Game Freak's outright laziness. Get off your pretentious high horse.

Every big Nintendo franchise has done something big and notable for their flagship entries on the Switch. Zelda, Mario, Smash, Fire Emblem, even Luigi's Mansion. It's not a fucking crime to expect more from the developers of one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world, and to hold the producer, director, and the team of developers of those games to scrutiny for their shitty design choices.
 
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When they announced Pokemon Home, they explicitly said that trading is a part of it. Which makes sense when you can't load every Pokemon into every game anymore. SwSh should have a GTS like service, but I haven't used it since Gen 5 and even that was for injecting hackmons.
 
Unless there is a secret kiddy diddling ring going on in Serebii I would rather have Joe represent the fandom than the Bulbagarden crowd. Not just because of the rumors but because most of staff don’t seem to care about Pokemon anymore and are just there to power trip the forums. BMGF is a diet version of resetera with a Pokemon skin with the insane amount of rules and censorship. Serebii is still a huge lolcow though and watching him dig himself deeper is hilarious.

This more-or-less can go in the Pokemon thread in Community Watch, but Serebii's drama outside of Joe being Joe was always more about power-hungry staff echelons (one tried to delete the Miscellaneous subforum when he had enough) and rogue members abusing the broken forum system. The closest Serebii got to a secret pedo forum is a Pokephilia thread going on for upwards of 100 pages before a mod shut it down. Bulbagarden refugees typically fled to Serebii or Pokebeach when they couldn't handle the crazy staff any longer.

Joe doesn't really care about the forums anyway, and being the cheapskate that he is upgraded it to the oldest edition of XenForo from vBulletin. He's so out of touch that he couldn't replenish the member count with an upgrade in a vain attempt to regain the numbers SPPf got when HeartGold/SoulSilver was announced.

I thought that the bulba forum was basically abandoned after the whole pedo scandal?? I didn't even know they had a forum until the pedo scandal.

Nah, half of it's inaccessible to visitors. I dunno how they've managed to keep the forum going, though, but think newer members aren't aware of the controversy.
 
Look, can we all just agree whether it be Joe Merrick, Distant Kingdom, or whoever tries to act like a big shot in pokemon...

... That they're all dweebs getting legit angry over pokemon games? Even to the point of comparing the Hong Kong protests to this stupid drama?

I mean, I get it, and I agree - The cut freakin sucks, but nitpicking every little detail and acting like smarmy douchebag who can't understand what the word comparison means or being a GF blind defending White Knight who can't be bothered to listen to the other side does nothing but make for fun pop corn eating moments for people on this forum?
 
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Wonder Trade was used by a lot of players to get rid of breeding rejects/extras and I doubt Surprise Trade will be any different,
You also got hacked mon that can contaminate entire boxes with bricking glitches if you used any of the mon from that box. Fun shit.

The one good thing that came out of Wondertrade was a project peopls did on Christmas for X and Y. Players would breed up really good Pokemon like starters and egg moves and Wondertrade them off Christmas day for new players that got the game as gifts.
 
Here's something silly. Apparently in Japan you can get a shiny Necrozma (which is normally unobtainable in the normal game btw) as a bonus for pre-ordering SWSH. They made the pre-order bonus a mon that doesn't even exist in the fucking game.

Did they not think ANY of this through?
 
Here's something silly. Apparently in Japan you can get a shiny Necrozma (which is normally unobtainable in the normal game btw) as a bonus for pre-ordering SWSH. They made the pre-order bonus a mon that doesn't even exist in the fucking game.

Did they not think ANY of this through?

Didn't they do a similar thing with a recent GameStop promotion that offered a Shiny Solgaleo/Lunala, I think, right?
 
Didn't they do a similar thing with a recent GameStop promotion that offered a Shiny Solgaleo/Lunala, I think, right?
Not quite. The GameStop one is the same old go to the place, get the code and whatnot. Has nothing to do with SWSH. The Japanese deal is you get shiny Necrozma for pre-ordering SWSH and it goes to the Alola game, and then it will sit there uselessly because GF made a pre-order incentive that can't even be used in the game you've pre-ordered for it.
 
I've seen more Serebii Joe with a painted mustache photos than you'd think. I was a loyal member from 2004-2009 and saw a lot of weird shit go down.

Joe Merrick is koo-koo, and I think he should have a Kiwi thread.
 
Look, can we all just agree whether it be Joe Merrick, Distant Kingdom, or whoever tries to act like a big shot in pokemon...

... That they're all autistic dweebs getting legit angry over pokemon games? Even to the point of comparing the Hong Kong protests to this stupid drama?

I mean, I get it, and I agree - The cut freakin sucks, but nitpicking every little detail and acting like smarmy douchebag who can't understand what the word comparison means or being a GF blind defending White Knight who can't be bothered to listen to the other side does nothing but make for fun pop corn eating moments for people on this forum?
The thing with DistantKingdom is that he was totally right, then huffed his own fart so hard he lost all his good sense. Started to plain sperg out and then lost touch with all reality. It's a typical internet story really. Joe has basically always been a kook and a shill, but I feel like he used to be more likable.
 
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Look, can we all just agree whether it be Joe Merrick, Distant Kingdom, or whoever tries to act like a big shot in pokemon...

... That they're all autistic dweebs getting legit angry over pokemon games? Even to the point of comparing the Hong Kong protests to this stupid drama?

I mean, I get it, and I agree - The cut freakin sucks, but nitpicking every little detail and acting like smarmy douchebag who can't understand what the word comparison means or being a GF blind defending White Knight who can't be bothered to listen to the other side does nothing but make for fun pop corn eating moments for people on this forum?

Same

Neither side is appealing.
 
There's a lot of strawmanning in the air with the nerd slap-fighting. The people with a beef with the design decisions for the new game aren't all shrieking faggots, and the people who don't have a beef with it aren't all slobbering on the company's cock. Was this really a thing before Ghostbusters 2016? That's the earliest time I can recall people doing a, "If you don't like _______ then YOU'RE A SHITTY PERSON" versus "If you like _________ then YOU'RE A GODDAMNED SHILL".
 
The thing with DistantKingdom is that he was totally right, then huffed his own fart so hard he lost all his good sense. Started to plain sperg out and then lost touch with all reality. It's a typical internet story really. Joe has basically always been a kook and a shill, but I feel like he used to be more likable.
I haven't really followed distant other then some of his videos talking about the models and exp share, is it just sperging out on twitter or is it something else?
 
The thing with DistantKingdom is that he was totally right, then huffed his own fart so hard he lost all his good sense. Started to plain sperg out and then lost touch with all reality. It's a typical internet story really. Joe has basically always been a kook and a shill, but I feel like he used to be more likable.
I haven't really followed distant other then some of his videos talking about the models and exp share, is it just sperging out on twitter or is it something else?

DK may be 'right', but like you said he really huffed his own farts and decided to nitpick to all hell and back on the games, it's gotten to the point where it's extremely sad that he's pandering to the 100th degree in order to maintain the audience he has. Like when he decided to rant about how Galarian Ponyta was a disappointment because it didn't have the fairy typing and how it was now bad.

Recently, a poketuber DuncanCan'tDie/DuncanKneeDeep actually offered to debate DK on a livestream to discuss their points, and DK said no. And I think I know why... It's because DK can't survive without his mindless drones on twitter or his youtube comment section. Seriously, if you so much as disagree with DK on twitter, you will get swarmed by the mindless drones who keep on repeating the same thing again and again, all of it coming out of DK's mouth.

There's no better example of this than when Distant Kingdom compared the Hong Kong protests to BBND a couple weeks back - People got upset that the comparison was made at all, especially when the example use was way to extreme and was seen by people to be really tactless. Especially considering that the conversation was about the EXP share.

DK doubles down on this, even going so far as to say "I didn't compare the two" and "My statement is correct", and his drones ate it up.

From what I saw, while the comparison is legit, that ignores that it's a sensitive topic and not one that should've been used especially in regards to Pokemon. It got so bad that DK and his lapdogs (like a guy named Savij who, like Distant Kingdom, have such an obsession - This obsession is Verlisify, like seriously, almost EVERY video from this guy is about verlisify where it comes off as if he's a stalker, and when you have to say ANYTHING in defense of Verlisify, you know something's wrong) just kept going down.

Look, when it comes to games, you can voice your disagreements with what you want (even though DK likes to parade objective fact as his... 'Opinion' whenever someone criticizes him) - But like ya said @Perspicacity, he got high off of his farts, and the funny thing is, because for the last half year since his content became hyper focused on this one game and how it sucks, even if it does suck when it comes out, he built his kingdom on a single pebble.

Even if he transitions to mostly generalized pokemon content, there's no guarantee he'll last - There's just so much you can talk shit about something without becoming redundant, especially on a game that will probably be obsolete within a year or two of it's release.
 
Even if he transitions to mostly generalized pokemon content, there's no guarantee he'll last - There's just so much you can talk shit about something without becoming redundant, especially on a game that will probably be obsolete within a year or two of it's release.
I mean as you said the game will be obsolete in a year so he can just jump onto ultra sword and shield whenever that comes out. He'll just repeat the same song and dance with those.
I really think the only good videos to come out of this whole thing was Monroe's stuff but that might be due to how his video on Gen 6 and 7 really did help me place a finger on what I feel about the series nowadays, his gen 8 vid doubly so.
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That difference THO it's definitely AstroTurfed somehow
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I mean as you said the game will be obsolete in a year so he can just jump onto ultra sword and shield whenever that comes out. He'll just repeat the same song and dance with those.

Same verse same as the first, if he does, then frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if people started leaving.

I mean, if you look on his channel, he did a Luigi's Mansion 3 video, and it didn't even come close to his PKM vids. The guy's a one trick pony, and he knows it. Frankly, I'll be glad when his channel crashes and burns.
 
I mean as you said the game will be obsolete in a year so he can just jump onto ultra sword and shield whenever that comes out. He'll just repeat the same song and dance with those.
I really think the only good videos to come out of this whole thing was Monroe's stuff but that might be due to how his video on Gen 6 and 7 really did help me place a finger on what I feel about the series nowadays, his gen 8 vid doubly so.
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I get online for the day and this bootlicking hashtag shit-slinging fest is one of the first things I see. Son of a bitch let this pre-release cycle from hell end already. I don't even care how the game will sell anymore (it'll do well no matter what so the franchise is forever doomed to ever increasing mediocrity). I just want the game out, datamined to hell so the guts are on the table for all to see so we can shut up the back and forth arguments once and for all, and move on from this utter circus.

I'm as big a Pokemon fan as one could find. A new generation is always the most exciting time. Seeing the new mons, doing pre-launch teambuilding, discovering new moves, items, features, ect. But not this time... Not anymore... And to see what's become of a franchise I've regarded so dearly; with a split fanbase, shoddy game quality, and overall unpleasantness from even bringing the game up no matter where you go, it's downright heartbreaking. I've heard the stories for years of beloved IPs dying slow painful deaths as fans bemoaned what happened to them, but I never thought it would ever affect my neck of the woods to such a degree as this mess Pokemon's currently in. It's just, fuck man...

I remember when this was the peak of SWSH memes. Before Dexit, before all the vitriol and blind hatred erupting from every side. When we were all waiting in anticipation, as excited for a new Pogeymanz as ever. I miss those days...
 
I've heard the stories for years of beloved IPs dying slow painful deaths as fans bemoaned what happened to them, but I never thought it would ever affect my neck of the woods to such a degree as this mess Pokemon's currently in. It's just, fuck man...
I'm sure game freak is panicking right now, my bet is that the launch event was canned since they are pulling their hair out to try to save the absolute shit show of the fan base right now. If they showed up in public like they planned on it would just of made the situation much worse for them.
Blame is probably flying at every one, all parties are trying to figure out what to do. It really doesn't matter if gen 8 sells, because at this point Gen 9 needs to be good enough (or at least give the appearance of) to make sure Pokemon doesn't have the fan base want to kill each other otherwise it will get to star wars levels of bullshit.
 
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