Peppermint Phoenix
The one once known as Alphaphlare
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I paid money to store my collection. The collection was given artificial value through the pokemon company's policies throughout decades. Things like timed event excluvise pokemon, pokemon dream world, Pokemon dream radar, having pokemon that are only have the dream world abilities avalible through 10 dollar roms, the jirachi bonus disk, even if there was some overlap each one adds to the investment there was years between pokemon ranch and the pokeball plus so each way was someone's only way of getting something at the time.. To this day Durude is articially more scarce than other pokemon. Allowing people to pour a lot of time, effort and money into their collections, monetizing it in nearly every way possible, only to put them at mercy of never being able to use the whole thing again and tripling the price of storage for dubious reasons is unethical. Just because it's only a video game series doesn't mean there aren't unethical things. Stealing 2 dollars from a classmate is unethical even though it's only two dollars.Someone's gonna' have to refresh me on Dexit controversy lore because AFAIR they only said they were "looking into it" or something along those lines in regards to patching old Pokémon in through updates, which is essentially just a noncommittal, "no comment" sort of response.
Looking at what we have, I definitely don't think these games will "repair" Dexit, and that what they said about a game never again containing every single Pokémon will turn out to be true. There was no lie about that, I think.
But like, for me personally, I'm never going to use even a significant percentage of every Pokémon in a game, let alone using every single one of the 898+ that exist, so I myself don't really see the logic in rejecting a game on this sheer principle. While I understand it being frustrating to not have access to one's particular favorites (though to me that seems like a great opportunity to try out some new ones, but hey everyone has their own play style), the games themselves don't actually hinge on the ability to use every Pokémon, at least not within the single-player campaign (and even competitive tends to boil down to a handful of species have the best performance). Having all the Pokémon available is awesome, but I wouldn't say it's essential for a game to be good.