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 the only GTS that works now is Gen 4 and Gen 5 one.
lol, lmao, guess they outlived the newer games, huh?
I mean, no? The games went down after the same length had gone by. The only reason Gen 4 and 5 are up was because people found a work around. But that took time. There was a period when the DS was down and you could not do anything.

It will be up for the 3DS eventually. As the same people behind Gen IV-V are trying to get the 3DS to work
 
It is an interesting point, I had thought the DS replacement servers were already up by the time those servers closed. Or at least they had a solution for Mario Kart Wii, the most popular online game for the platform. Autistic trans/furries actually need less of a life so they can develop this stuff.
Alright, I'm going over some Pokémon from yesterday's final run with PKSM's hack checks...
  • Shiny Darumaka: Legal
  • Shiny Lugia: Hacked, none of its moves are valid and the met location's wrong.
  • Reshiram: Legal
  • Shiny Arceus: Hacked to Hell and back.
  • Shiny Tapu Lele: Hacked
  • Shiny Yungoos: Legal
  • Shiny Togepi: Legal
  • Shiny Lunala: Hacked
  • Shiny Paras from a known hack site: Surprisingly enough it passes legal checks
  • Shiny Barboach: Hacked, it has an invalid move and its met location is only used for Mystery Gift Pokemon
  • Shiny Dialga: Legal
  • Shiny Jirachi: Legal, I'd say I'm shocked by this one passingdespite having the hallmarks of a blatant hack (hex flawless IVs) but I know people have gotten better in recent years.
  • Uxie: Legal
  • Shiny Dusk Mane Necrozma: This Pokémon is to failing hack checks as Family Guy's Glenn Quagmire is to having every STD known to man. I'm honestly impressed with how bad it is.
  • Shiny Turtwig: Legal
  • Shiny Lopunny: Legal
  • Shiny Swablu: Legal
  • Shiny Uxie: Hacked, PID mismach
  • Shiny Electivire named MA NIGGLING: Legal but it has the hallmarks of an injected Pokémon. I'd send it up to Scarlet but I have a feeling Home's profanity checks wouldn't like it.
  • Shiny Skorupi: Legal
  • Shiny Smeargle from VC Gold: Legal
  • Shiny Meloetta: Hacked
  • Event Delibird: Looks legal but is missing its event Ribbon. I may just edit the Ribbon on to make it legal, I wouldn't be surprised if the person I got it from did the reverse to get it past online's hack checks.
  • Shiny Empoleon: Legal
  • Shiny Ribombee: Legal
All in all, it was pretty nice ending. I'm gonna miss it unless Pretendo brings it back. Then I'll just be depressed about it.
Did you get "OVERPOWERED" the Barboach? Matches the description of one I got when I was wonder trading. I should probably go through and hack check some stuff for fun.
 
Not to be that guy, but how the fuck would they even figure that out if you're just using the servers to trade, and battle?
I misremembered. The people behind the current fanmade DNS don't seem to ban anybody, but there's this other fanmade online service, Wiimmfi, that does and it's quite ban-happy.
It's got a gigantic banlist and their forums even have a dedicated thread for getting people banned. So far most of the people getting banned were caught using cheats, but it does not set a very good precedent. A good chunk of the bans were because the players' Mii's name was gibberish or something innapropriate, there are several Hitlers on the ban list and the last comment on this reddit post mentions being banned for naming their Mii KrackAdick.

What I mean basically is don't name your character/Pokemon/Mii anything that may get you banned while using the fanmade servers.
 
I'm seeing people on /vp/ saying that if you were still somehow online, they yanked the servers for good. Everybody gets an error now.
RIP
 
I misremembered. The people behind the current fanmade DNS don't seem to ban anybody, but there's this other fanmade online service, Wiimmfi, that does and it's quite ban-happy.
It's got a gigantic banlist and their forums even have a dedicated thread for getting people banned. So far most of the people getting banned were caught using cheats, but it does not set a very good precedent. A good chunk of the bans were because the players' Mii's name was gibberish or something innapropriate, there are several Hitlers on the ban list and the last comment on this reddit post mentions being banned for naming their Mii KrackAdick.

What I mean basically is don't name your character/Pokemon/Mii anything that may get you banned while using the fanmade servers.
If that’s the case then we should be fine, most of us should know how to hide our power levels at this point.
I'm seeing people on /vp/ saying that if you were still somehow online, they yanked the servers for good. Everybody gets an error now.
RIP
Considering that we’re ~1 day past the kill time NoA reported on this was expected.

Oh, and don’t forget to pour one out for all of the Pokémon left behind in the GTS. May their deaths not be forgotten.
:semperfidelis:
 
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Welp, looks like fans have a long way to go if this is our best bet at getting the servers operational again
I think I've seen that before
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I found the same template as @Anonitolia and mapped out my Wonder Trade history on Y since I started my save back in 2013. Red represents people I exchanged FCs with, green is acqaintances I interacted with at least once, and blue represents both at the same time.

Obviously this map doesn't account for people whose specific location wasn't listed aside from their country of origin, nor does it account for multiple players of the same region. For places with heavy urban centers like Ontario and California, I encountered around 2-4 players. Among the places I didn't expect to interact with at all however were South Africa and Greece. You'd think I would have picked up some players from Hong Kong or Taiwan, considering every passerby I encountered back in the day somehow managed to rack up 999+ play hours despite the game only being out for three months at the time.

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3DS changed all that, not only was every connection viable like in any other piece of hardware but the games changed everything. PSS, Friend Safari, Street Pass, Wonder Trade, Festival Plaza and online battling that was better than ever. It was not only easily accessible by everyone, but an integral part of an experience as well.
X/Y and its online being accessible as it was with players showing up on the bottom screen was the best online experience I've ever had with a Pokemon game. I loved being able to challenge random niggers to triple battle and wipe shitter ass progression teams with a themed movie Genesect team and using Pokemon nicknames to communicate in random trades for shinies and scamming people by pretending to trade 5 IV mons. As much as I hate X/Y as games its online functionality and its ease of use/convenience was the biggest reason I even dabbled in competitive in the first place. Rest in piss Nintendo Network, you glorious bastard.
 
X/Y and its online being accessible as it was with players showing up on the bottom screen was the best online experience I've ever had with a Pokemon game. I loved being able to challenge random niggers to triple battle and wipe shitter ass progression teams with a themed movie Genesect team and using Pokemon nicknames to communicate in random trades for shinies and scamming people by pretending to trade 5 IV mons. As much as I hate X/Y as games its online functionality and its ease of use/convenience was the biggest reason I even dabbled in competitive in the first place. Rest in piss Nintendo Network, you glorious bastard.
They learned by USUM that shit worked too good to let it be free
 
Seeing everyone try this 'last day of Halo 2' stunt has me feel off, since I rarely did that online stuff in Gen 5 and id not bother Gen 6 and beyond. Even so, I wish that I could give @Archeops the :semperfi:Semper Fidelis rating.

On the Pretendo thing... the moment I saw tha troons are in charge, I knew that we had to make our own server. Doing it yourself in the face o 'tolerance' is The Kiwi Way.

By the by, I could recognise that blue furry. I know that I never talked to that furry, but I recognise that furry all the same...
 
Online used to be free when 3DS came out.

A lot has changed in just a little over a decade.
For me, the first sign of bad things to come was the subscription fees for Bank. This was basically Nintendo testing the waters to see what they could get away with, and they got their answer when the servers blew up from all the people wanting to buy Bank. Incidentally this was also around the time where they were releasing their mobile games that had microtransactions like everything else (Mario Run, Pokemon Shuffle)

Regardless of the fact that it was $5 a year, the excuse they gave for it was fucking lame. You mean to tell me that Nintendo, a company that easily makes bank on their hardware and software to where all the employees can fan their balls with all the money they have in their Scrooge McDuckian vault, can't afford to maintain the servers for Bank? I know the WiiU was a fucking disaster for them, but it didn't leave them flat-out broke. Even if you want to place the blame squarely at GameFreak, Pokemon sells like crack cocaine, not just the games, but whatever merchandise they release, and you're still gong to tell me they can't maintain the servers on their own from that?
 
Do you guys believe pokemon deserves his status as the most profitable franchise in the world?
And is it gonna remain on top?
 
Do you guys believe pokemon deserves his status as the most profitable franchise in the world?
And is it gonna remain on top?
Pokemon used to be good. But that was when we was kids. I'm sure modern kids still think it's good. The same way we used to. Objectively everything pre switch was better. And Sw/sh wouldn't be that bad if they kept nat dex and removed the open world areas (imo) but all kids love pokemon and that fact alone will keep it alive probably until the end of human existence or until it's unprofitable because shitty made games/tranny shit (if parents keep their kids from buying such garbage)
 
Pokemon used to be good. But that was when we was kids. I'm sure modern kids still think it's good. The same way we used to. Objectively everything pre switch was better. And Sw/sh wouldn't be that bad if they kept nat dex and removed the open world areas (imo) but all kids love pokemon and that fact alone will keep it alive probably until the end of human existence or until it's unprofitable because shitty made games/tranny shit (if parents keep their kids from buying such garbage)
I mean, games are clearly getting closer and closer to go full tranny.
The thing is that even if the games sell poorly, there is a ton of side content that's extremely profitable, like cards, plushes and suing furry artists.
 
Pokemon used to be good. But that was when we was kids. I'm sure modern kids still think it's good. The same way we used to. Objectively everything pre switch was better. And Sw/sh wouldn't be that bad if they kept nat dex and removed the open world areas (imo) but all kids love pokemon and that fact alone will keep it alive probably until the end of human existence or until it's unprofitable because shitty made games/tranny shit (if parents keep their kids from buying such garbage)
Do they? I was under the impression that Pokemon was actually dropping off among kids, maybe except for the ones in Japan. I haven't seen a single zoomie that even knew about Pokemon games outside of Pokemon Go if they didn't own a switch, and there are a lot better games on that system than them.
 
Do you guys believe pokemon deserves his status as the most profitable franchise in the world?
And is it gonna remain on top?
I mean yeah.

It’s only really had 2 bad games recently that being Gen 8 and BDSP and . BDSP and SV are disliked mostly for the bugs and not really the content. So really 1 bad game.

One to maybe two misfires in 20 years and mostly because the adult audiance has grown up and noticed Pokemon has bugs and complaining gets more YouTube clicks is an impressive track record.
I haven't seen a single zoomie that even knew about Pokemon games outside of Pokemon Go if they didn't own a switch, and there are a lot better games on that system than them.
Most people didn’t know about Pokemon games outside of Gen 1 if they did not play them. People who don’t iwn the console to play the games on not knowing stuff is not new or surprising.

Fact is the zeitgeist was a late 90s early 2000s thing. The further we get away from growing up around that the less kids will actually know unless consuming actively.

They’ll know of the Popular Pokemon and might have seen a random episode but beyond that? Not much.

And honestly catching it in order on tv has gotten harder. No longer is their endless repeats and reruns and your standard kids channels no longer show it as much.
 
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