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Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States
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The singles meta was the punchline. What did Bax do in doubles?
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Sorry, I only play singles
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Was looking through my TCG collection. I think I like that '90s cards layout over later ones.
Although printing HP in red ink was not the best design choice -- especially with Fire types.
Although printing HP in red ink was not the best design choice -- especially with Fire types.
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I never liked this change. Poison before Gen 6 is useless enough as is, letting you take out bugs would at least give it an early game niche.
Edit: Finally making progress in Trainer Hill. I had to go full speedrunning strats to get some good times, using stopwatch and writing notes in a notebook and everything to shave off seconds each run. Oh, and I had to grind all my Pokemon to the same level, which is 69 btw(even after the end of the game repeat trainers only have lv 40s at best). Obviously I had to turn off animations in the menu as well to even qualify.
This is a neat little challenge, altho it does take quite a bit of time to set up properly. Not something I am sure I want to repeat, but it does give you an entirely different mindset rather than just trying to take down a high level opponent, stall and debuffing strats won't work for example when you have to complete the challenge in under 12 minutes. You don't get any money or experience either so this challenge eats up into your medicine supply since you don't heal after a battle either.
There is barely any info on this online so I can only assume absolutely nobody bothered with it. Not surprising, since it never came back after Gen 3 either. Mt Battle and Battle Tower were much better concepts anyways.
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One of (or the) first theme decks I got of the TCG was "Lightning Bug", a Lightning and Grass theme deck, sometime by the year 2000.
(there's a Beedrill and Magnemite in the box art IIRC)
(there's a Beedrill and Magnemite in the box art IIRC)
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Niantic brought back Rayquaza with all the bitching and whining everybody had with the mega raids (which was all justified). They threw him in every gym, so players could get him. I managed to snag a few, but the catches were really low for this event (I went to an actual event near me and also used PokeGenie). The Rayquaza events I went to was a lot better than June's elite bullshit.
The event I attended had 90+ people getting together at a park with lots of gyms, and the crowd was surprisingly decent. There were more "normie-looking" people than lefty sjws who will scream at you for whatever. Some people brought their significant other's phones because they couldn't show up to the event. The guy who ran it was a tranny fag, but he wasn't being a creep or shoving anything in your face. He only dealt with the event, and made sure everybody checked in for the in-game rewards. I talked to a few people about their Zygarde progress while trying to go from gym to gym. I had fun in this event. Hopefully, I can find some people to do Shadow Lugia this coming weekend.
With all that said, raiding flat out died after Rayquaza. I checked Pokegenie to see if I could farm some Mega Aerodactyl stones, and nobody is doing anymore raids.
With all that said, raiding flat out died after Rayquaza. I checked Pokegenie to see if I could farm some Mega Aerodactyl stones, and nobody is doing anymore raids.
And apparently, there were some issues with the Ultra Beast event (something to do with the backgrounds), so Niantic might do a makeup. I'm hoping it lets us get another Cosmog or another Lunala/Solgaleo, but I doubt that will happen (even if it did, it's chances of being a good 3 will probably be low af).
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I don't play Pokemon Go, what does this shit mean?
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I made a post about my experience with the first Rayquaza event, which was an elite raid. Elite raids made you get out of the house to find people to raid with, but the problem is these raids are in special gyms that are in parks or big cities. If you lived in a rural area or didn't have a lot of players and elite gyms near you, you were screwed with getting any kind of elite pokemon. Lot of players had a hard time doing these raids in June, including Pokemon Go Youtubers.
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The newest TCG set, Scarlet & Violet - Shrouded Fable, came out last week and people have mixed opinions on it. People like the promos but the pull rate for Ultra Rares is genuinely awful compared to past special sets and even some regular sets.
There's also been a confirmed QA issue involving the holo cards, some are coming out of the packs with peeling damage of varying intensity.
As to how they're making it up it'll be through Special Research tasks given to those affected by the glitch with the number of encounters equal to the amount of Remote Raids done during GO Fest's first day.
There's also been a confirmed QA issue involving the holo cards, some are coming out of the packs with peeling damage of varying intensity.
The issue with the Ultra Beast raids on Go Fest 2024's Day 1 involved Remote Raid Passes, if you used one to access an Ultra Beast raid it wouldn't apply the Ultra Wormhole background to the caught Ultra Beast it due to a technical error.
As to how they're making it up it'll be through Special Research tasks given to those affected by the glitch with the number of encounters equal to the amount of Remote Raids done during GO Fest's first day.
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Another reason Im glad I never cared about this shitty mobile app. Great concept, but neglecting the core gameplay problems that ironically, LGPE solved back in 2017...
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PGo sucks because Nintendo shafted Niantic every step of the way. They had a cute idea for what would've been a fun side game a few years away. They had two guys develop it in a literal closet while they were doing other things. This was supposed to be Pokemon Sleep tier of success. Not the #1 mobile game in history. So the beta test planning goes on schedule. The Alpha test gets underway for the Beta. Some dumb fuck got confused and released the Alpha wholesale and that's what we got on release. It was never meant to be released.
They expected a shit storm but what they did not expect was to break every mobile game record in existence at that time and break most Pokemon game records. That initial success is and always has been POGOs problem. Why? Because Nintendo fucking SEETHED and frothed at the god damn mouth over this. Imagine working hundreds of hours on Pokemon games and just two guys make more money than anything you've worked on ever has. Yeah, Gamefreak was fucking SALTY.
I want you all to really understand this. Imagine being a Gamefreak dev working at the time. Their jobs got completely invalidated overnight. Why bother keeping you employed when two guys can make hundreds of millions of dollars overnight with minimal effort on a fucking Alpha test? The employees hated Niantic. The execs hated Niantic because they had to split profit with them. Nintendo is fucking seething because their IP is now forever tied to another company, etc. etc. so yeah, they're going to intentionally stifle them.
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You know, this could have been a perfect opportunity for GameFreak/Nintendo to sit down and think about the direction of their company, figure out what's going wrong, how they can fix it, and do their best to give people what they want and to do just as good as, if not better than, the two guys that made a simple but brilliant concept.
But the fact they chose the "stomp your feet and make a tantrum" route really tells me all I need to know about current year Nintendo/GameFreak.
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TIL trans people can be self-aware.
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This was one of my two main issues with GO, you absolutely need to live in a major city to have a decent time with the game. I don't live in a rural area at all, but because it's not a large city I only have around 3 to 4 Pokestops and one gym near me, and "near me" is a 15 minute walk.
The other problem is the sheer excess of Pokemon. I hate to sound like a genwunner but GO was much more manageable when it only had the original 151, it was easier to get duplicates to farm candies and you didn't have as much early game garbage clogging up your inventory. Now that they've got 800+ Pokemon, storing them has become a mess, you fill up your storage way too quickly and expanding it is far too slow and unreliable for new players to keep up with everything they catch. Keeping a living dex in GO is no longer sustainable.
That would certainly explain why they've been trying so hard to compete with and enter the mobile market since then, why every single spinoff since Pokemon GO save for that stray Mystery Dungeon remake has been mobile shovelware. Something in the franchise changed for the worse after GO's success and I don't think it was a coincidence.
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This was common knowledge on POGOs release that the Alpha was mistakenly released public.
They didn't have a choice. Nintendo was stuck with what was likely a large % profit split with Niantic. Maybe as high as 30% or more. The employees have to be interested in self preservation so of course they're not going to have anything good to say. Nintendo never likes having its IPs split. But now they were in a pickle. POGO was never meant to be this successful. So they had to figure how to get more of Nintendo's reins in on it. So that's why it only had the first Gen in it for so long. They were infighting with Nintendo for rights to more Pokemon until they agreed on a stifled release schedule.
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They'd become so wrapped up in believing their IPs are sacred cows that they freak out when anyone and anything makes something that would dare outshine the original company who made them....I mean they always had it but they seem to have this especially after the mid 00s. Might explain all the takedowns of fangames and music extensions/reuploads.
Also are hardcore about making sure their hardware is untamperable because they got a purist "do what I want you to do" attitude. They have become greedy in their own personal ego.
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Anyone know how many players Pokemon Go lost because of the avatar update? I also heard that Niantic made some alterations the the avatars due to the backlash, was it a good fix or just a band-aid on a shotgun wound?