Not sure if serious, but micro-transactions for those wondering.What do you mean, it'll "sell?" It's "free to play"
Seriously though, I definitely agree that this is TPCi trying to gain a foothold in the Chinese market.
Chinese people probably really like it. Mobile gaming is more of a thing there.
Kind of a flawed logic, don't you think so? I mean my original post never indicated that the DLCs are horrible or hated by fans. Otherwise they would not even have sold. I only pointed out the countless youtube videos/facebook posts regarding how horribly the features are being mocked. As videos can be found, I won't go and list them all but following pokémon like Charizard/Wailord, these stairs, Wailord's trainer-following size, and all the other "funny" results could have been fixed easily with more proper work.
That is also debatable, and not really logical to come to this conclusion after claiming "positive and negative reviews are equal". But that's just me. I would only be happy if my post wasn't taken out of context this badly.
And China has an absolutely massive population. For comparison, the country’s population is greater than the population of both North and South America combined (1.4 billion people vs 964 million people according to Wikipedia). That’s a lot of potential customers.
For a lot of people this is just the straw that broke the camel's back. TPC have made some very poor/longterm-fan-unfriendly decisions these past few years and their frequent missteps have been getting harder and harder to ignore. Telling people they had a big project to announce in a week's time only for it to turn out to be an 11 minute video of incredibly tedious mobile gaming revealing yet another (not necessarily for Pokémon but the gaming market in general) microtransaction-riddled pay-to-win multiplayer-only clone of seemingly every other mobile game ever except with more Gen 1 was a Hitmonlee-level kick in the gut. People are finally starting to face up to the realisation that the franchise they grew up with is dead, replaced by just another mobile gaming company and I can tell you that it hurts.
With the positive reaction to New Pokémon Snap, and the fact that the SwSh expansions are addressing major complaints, especially Dexit, it would be an exaggeration to call this series "dead". Poor marketing is a concern, yes, but note that half of the newly announced games are on the Switch.
I expected DP remakes, and I'm far from disappointed, sweet irony.
I’m not exactly sure what point you are trying to make. No matter how much effort they put in, there would be plenty of vids mocking some aspects of it. It’s just the subjective nature. My point was that despite the jokes and memes and issues, the DLC was still well-received by many people.
I think you’re reading too much into it. All I did was state my opinion. It’s logical to come to that conclusion because...that’s what my opinion is. I never claimed that "positive and negative reviews are equal,” just pointed out that they both exist.
Not sure that's all too comparable. The reveal video of Sw/Sh didn't have that many dislikes, they came for the E3 presentation. If not for that feature (or lack of, technically) there would have been a lot less hate for Sword & Shield because they weren't hated for what they are right when they got announced. (I'd say that's also why they sold pretty well anyway, Dexit bothered people but it's still a mainline game that pretty much offers what you'd reasonably expect out of a mainline Pokémon game.)
