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

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Imo, Pokemon BrickBronze is the best game because you can "catch em all".
Oh and my favorite Pokemon is Sneasel.
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Wow.

For context, Shovel Knight's Director For A Day - an equivalent or arguably higher value item in terms of context, though maybe more or less in workload - cost 1k. But to be fair, that's only four people. They might see Pokemon's DLC price as perfectly reasonable.

I more lol at them for going to all that effort when another guy made a Fakemon and the Temtem devs paid HIM for it.

Edit: Should we make a new thread for Temtem? It's a small thing, but now's the time, if ever, to make it.

First, the Temtem thread might be a good idea if there's a shitshow today for the game.

Second, let me lay out the other tiers that seem a bit suspect:

At the 60 dollar tier, you get a plushie of one of the Temtem, which is at 30 cm/12 inch. Which if you want an idea of how big that is:
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Seems a little cheap for a plushie that size, and this is the Temtem they chose for this:
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Over 2200 backers for that tier. So, that'd be a costly plush making.

Pledge 100 dollars?

Get a cloth map and get an exclusive emote selection in the game.

Pledge 200 - You get a statue of a tamer and a Temtem,
46 backers

Pledge 350?
You get a Luma Temtem (the shiny variation) as a starter
123 backers

Pledge 700
All three luma starters
22 backers

Like, people have the right to choose what their money goes to, but this seems like the one thing that people were afraid that Gamefreak would do - put monsters behind a paywall. I know that they're 'shiny' mons and it's possible to get them in the game, but at this point we don't know what the rate of encountering Lumas are.

I'd also like to point out that in order to get to the alpha of the game, you had to pay 35 dollars

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Oh, and there's gonna be monetization in the game.

It's a little jarring how they say that there's not a Luma Boost, but you're willing to sell them as Kickstarter bonuses - so yeah.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YaFE07Yyj-I

I want to give it a try, but God do I hate the fucking aesthetic.

Two things about this: I just LOVE how they put the platypus in the thumbnail, yeah, we get it guys, you bought a fake mon line for your game of 161 monsters, I get that they're trying to catch the eyes of players who say that fakemon to get them interested in the game, but it kinda feels like false advertising since most of the other monsters look NOTHING like that line.

And 2, this is just a poor trailer - it's like your generic anime opening. Like, if this was a parody of how generic it is... Then it'd be funny.

And the music... Oh god. You can tell they're trying to catch onto the hype of the music, however, it doesn't work - It doesn't have that catchy theme that pokemon openings had.


Take the english opening of Pokemon Johto, it's got that upbeat sounds with it that gains more power as the song gets to, and the lyrics are pretty catchy and simple to understand.

Now, I'm not saying pokemon's openings are all good, but they have a charm that this opening from Temtem just outright lacks.

Also, the Johto openings are the best in pokemon, fight me.
 
its abit generic, but I think the anime intro looks kinda cute, smooth animation for an indie game

thats implying people will play this beyond it's first week

Ya got a ton of youtubers making vids about it... Even to the point where they talk out of their ass about Pokemon - Like Skill Up.
 
Now watch as this MMO-like created out of criticism towards Gamefreak and Pokemon gets more underhanded monetization shoved inside it than Gamefreak could even DREAM of creating.
Welcome to tem lootbox shop, we got all kinds of tem boxs for ye needs.

Shiny boxs, rare boxs, boxs full of cloths for your trainer, or temtem. Just at a lowlow cost of. Your dignity.
 
Ya got a ton of youtubers making vids about it... Even to the point where they talk out of their ass about Pokemon - Like Skill Up.
yeah but that doesn't mean it will last long, some E-celebs were shilling lawbreakers and that never got off of the ground for it's user base
 
Well damn I thought Temtem was pretty neat at first especially with the unique combat system but turns out it’s slightly disappointing...the Temtem designs really disappoint me because they don’t have any distinct features that make them recognisable-there’s a fucking flying venusaur lookalike too. It’s a shame because these designs oddly motivate me to make my own fakemon designs somewhat appealing to me (at least)

Imo, Pokemon BrickBronze is the best game because you can "catch em all".
Oh and my favorite Pokemon is Sneasel.
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Are you...referring to a...roblox fangame that got taken down and remade into a shitty fakemon game that also uses the same combat system as Temtem?

*cough cough* Bulbasaur is my no. 1 starter but Empoleon and most of the gen 5 Pokemon are my favourite because of their designs *cough cough*
 
Temtems has launched... and is immediately facing issues. To the point that the friggin discord server is crashing, and they’ve had to apply hotfixes to their hotfixes. When it’s up, the chats are overflowing with complaining about the bad queueing, people trying to silence the people complaining, and desperate virtue signalling about trans issues to drown out the other issues. It’s already a glorious clusterfuck. Will post pictures if the discord gets its shit together.
 
Temtems has launched... and is immediately facing issues. To the point that the friggin discord server is crashing, and they’ve had to apply hotfixes to their hotfixes. When it’s up, the chats are overflowing with complaining about the bad queueing, people trying to silence the people complaining, and desperate virtue signalling about trans issues to drown out the other issues. It’s already a glorious clusterfuck. Will post pictures if the discord gets its shit together.
Sounds like water is also wet, It wouldn't be a MMO if it didn't have a clusterfuck of problems.
 
Sounds like water is also wet, It wouldn't be a MMO if it didn't have a clusterfuck of problems.
True, but you’d think that, with the wide media coverage, they’d have realised their expectations with Day 1 were going to be BTFO. Both stress tests clearly had issues, but they didn’t give themselves enough time to make a buffer of server space.

Even with the hotfixes fixing issues in-game, the queue is a killer - quickly reaching several thousand places. That suggests that the dev team really didn’t have any idea how many people would be playing.

In addition, this tweet makes me think Crema is panicking under the pressure:
 
True, but you’d think that, with the wide media coverage, they’d have realised their expectations with Day 1 were going to be BTFO. Both stress tests clearly had issues, but they didn’t give themselves enough time to make a buffer of server space.

Even with the hotfixes fixing issues in-game, the queue is a killer - quickly reaching several thousand places. That suggests that the dev team really didn’t have any idea how many people would be playing.

In addition, this tweet makes me think Crema is panicking under the pressure:

This is also the Alpha version, you'd think they'd wait till they had more.

Kinda feels like they rushed a little bit so they could ride off of the pokemon hate train.

Edit:
Apparently the servers might've been DDOSd. Love how people are instantly assuming it's pokemon fans doing it.
 
Imo, Pokemon BrickBronze is the best game because you can "catch em all".
Oh and my favorite Pokemon is Sneasel.
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Played the game myself, and while it was fun for a while, part of me hates that game for some of what it did.

The main one being that they locked a lot of the pokemon's mechanics, as well as fun and interesting minigames, behind a Robux paywall.

Want to use the Exp. Share? Cough up those Robux.
Want to use the use the oval charm to making breeding easier? Pay up.
Want a more detailed IV chart (Y'know, the one that is used in the actual games)? Where's those robux?
Want to use the move reminder? Gotta to get those heart scales (that are locked behind the mining minigame which is also locked behind a paywall) or 100,000 pokedollars.

They even had some interesting minigames that give some pretty cool prizes (like a Magikarp fishing game that gives you special pattern Magikarps that evolve into special pattern Gyrados & the mining minigame). Unfortunately, those are also locked behind a paywall.

Don't get me wrong, the game's fun in its own right, but fuck it in that regard.
 
This is also the Alpha version, you'd think they'd wait till they had more.

Kinda feels like they rushed a little bit so they could ride off of the pokemon hate train.

Edit:
Apparently the servers might've been DDOSd. Love how people are instantly assuming it's pokemon fans doing it.
Right, because it’s not like the game’s just been hyped beyond the dev teams capacity. It’s not like the stress tests all had issues and they didn’t give themselves enough time to fix them. No, some mystery group is ddosing the servers for no reason.

A taste of the problems: apparently, opening item boxes will freeze the game now.
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Moff might be being sincere but it’s still hilarious.

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People at the box.
 
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Let's be honest, Temtem wouldn't have even been on anybody's radar if it weren't for SWSH's bungling. In fact if gen VIII was like the second coming of HGSS or BW I doubt any of us would even know what Temtem is.
 
Let's be honest, Temtem wouldn't have even been on anybody's radar if it weren't for SWSH's bungling. In fact if gen VIII was like the second coming of HGSS or BW I doubt any of us would even know what Temtem is.
People didn't like bw1 on release tho... Because no muh gen 1.
 
Right, because it’s not like the game’s just been hyped beyond the dev teams capacity. It’s not like the stress tests all had issues and they didn’t give themselves enough time to fix them. No, some mystery group is ddosing the servers for no reason.

A taste of the problems: apparently, opening item boxes will freeze the game now.
Moff might be being sincere but it’s still hilarious.

Edit:
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People at the box.

I love how there are a few people stuck in the ground.
 
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