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

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Neurotypical Mantis said:
besides it being literal gambling and scalping?

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Yeah the newer ones do look neat with lots of shiny effects, but I dont care about genwun shit, Paldea pokemon look worse than fakemons on average, and the cards themselves haven't really been interesting since the sun & moon sets. TPC lashing out at Palworld to cope doesn't help either.

I just want a shiny latias card or a reprint like MTG does sometimes to help curb scalping a little. Not whatever the fuck a "radiant" pokemon is supposed to be. No idea when it became unacceptable to have named shiny pokemon cards like what used to be made. Though reprints are not ever likely given how retarded and stubborn for the worse the japanese are.

Since these are the retards who think a glorified picture book counts as a "video game" and do their damndest to avoid player agency whenever possible in their video games. Despite pokemon being at its best when the devs fuck off with the exposition dumps and let players wander around for a bit.
 
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Lance 45 said:
What is so great about Pokémon cards? No one actually plays the game and it seems like its just money launderers pushing a fake economy around it.
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Supposedly, they're how the Yakuza launders money. No one bats an eye at a guy carrying some playing cards, y'know?

But I liked playing the game IRL. I stopped because the only store near me that hosted preview events was weird about me being a chick. I would be playing, and trying to talk to people about the game, and every time the guys who owned the store, and hosted the events would look at my husband, and talk to him. He didn't even play the TCG! He would immediately tell them to talk to me, and they didn't!
 
I really liked that TCG pocket app but then I lost interest and never played again within like 2 weeks
 
To switch back the topic to the games again, I'm nearly done with Revelation Emerald. I had to take breaks, mostly due to playing other games or IRL stuff, but I am only left with a handful of legendaries left to catch. Biggest grind right now is raising Wailmer to a Wailord to unlock the Regi events. Normally it's easier to catch a wild one and give it a few rare candies, but in a typical overachiever mode, I bred mine to have a move I wanted so I have to raise it all the way from level 5. It's over level 20 currently and it evolves at level 40 so more than halfway thru, then I catch the last few legendaries and I think I am done for now and can move on to a Fire Red/Leaf Green romhack. Not sure which this one is going to be since the one I originally wanted to play for Emerald was a lot more ambitious than the one I am playing right now, it also ended up not being compatible with Trigger's PC app so I will have to find a romhack that works again. From Generation 4 onwards I will have to manually trade Pokemon between games or use PKHex for any quality of life features like checking IV/EVs, Hidden Power ect. Too bad nobody made a Pokebank like homebrew app for NDS games.
 
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It's like shitty updates, shitty events, and forcing content nobody likes to do will hurt your profits in the long run. Who knew?

Pandering to tranny faggots with the avatar update was such a bad idea.
 
Trying to complete the Hisui Pokédex in HOME was surprisingly easy, I already had a lot in the game and what I didn't have was easily catchable (except for Poygon and Poygon2 but catching those little bastards was more obnoxious than hard).

But BDSP? That one's going to be annoying, I have to transfer the trade-evo lines to PLA to evolve them without trading and the Legendaries are going to be a pain in the ass to get even with heavily-desired Shiny Pokémon in-hand. And I have to do this with a very low rate of in-game income, farming money in BDSP is notoriously hard.
Punished Brent said:
I really liked that TCG pocket app but then I lost interest and never played again within like 2 weeks
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A lot of people aren't happy with the trading function (it's basically an unholy alliance between Wonder Pick energy and a really annoying version of the flair system) and some players are actually quitting the game over it.
 
Lance 45 said:
What is so great about Pokémon cards? No one actually plays the game and it seems like it’s just money launderers pushing a fake economy around it.
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People do actually play but collectors, sneaker snipers, hypebeasts, cryptobros and investor faggots fleeing from magic are a problem. They’ve driven a majority of the playerbase to playing live or pocket because of things like the shitshow with 151 and prismatic evolutions where you’re basically just stuck buying singles. They’ve also driven a lot of game stores to the point where they’d rather not host organized play because they wind up getting pressed into selling prize packs to collectors and TPCI’s terrible ordering requirements for stores. The collector and scalper midwits like to rag on the game and tell people that no one plays it, but that’s because they’ve ruined it for the players.
 
Completing Home's Sinnoh Pokédex is 100% going to be an annoying venture, I'm already starting to see a couple of cracks in it already. Turtwig/Chimchar/Piplup can thankfully be found in the Grand Underground but the spawn rate stupidly slow while the Legendaries are going to be a pain in the ass to get via the GTS (whenever I ask for 'em in Home's GTS I end up with Pokémon from GO or ORAS). Other version exclusives are easily obtained via breeding.

Also it appears that all graded playtest cards have been removed from both Fanatics and eBay, just another case of FAFO: Pokémon Edition.
Abella said:
People do actually play but collectors, sneaker snipers, hypebeasts, cryptobros and investor faggots fleeing from magic are a problem. They’ve driven a majority of the playerbase to playing live or pocket because of things like the shitshow with 151 and prismatic evolutions where you’re basically just stuck buying singles. They’ve also driven a lot of game stores to the point where they’d rather not host organized play because they wind up getting pressed into selling prize packs to collectors and TPCI’s terrible ordering requirements for stores. The collector and scalper midwits like to rag on the game and tell people that no one plays it, but that’s because they’ve ruined it for the players.
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This part of the reason why we're kind of in a "malformed" version of the Shining Fates/Celebrations days: we have the part about people lining up at Targets, people cleaning to stores for resale purposes, and LGSs charging over MSRP for product but we don't have people getting shot, stabbed, or beaten to near-death over said sins.

Also even those sets weren't the first to be heavily scalped. Generations is, at least to me, the first set I think of when I hear the phrase "the scalpers got to 'em" being uttered.
Gravemind said:
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As soon as I saw this, I had to point it out. They know not what potential horrors they have unleashed with this product.
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>They know not what potential horrors they have unleashed with this product.
I don't know, they did drop a life-sized Lucario plushie back in 2022.
30+GameOvers said:
There is people on /vp/ who both cum and shit on their plushies. At this point, I wonder which group is going to get their hands on it first and post their pictures of this poor abused plushie there.
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If this Gardevoir plushie costs around the same as the Lucario plushie did most /vp/ users will be priced out of it.
 
Something hilarious I’ve noticed is all of a sudden the investoor fags have decided they no longer hate shrouded fable and have taken to buying up both illustration rares of Persian and Houndoom as well as the duskull line. They act the same way my toddler does when asked to eat the vegetables on her plate: they put on a show to make you think they like them, but we both know that’s not the truth.
 
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